@@dragonslayer9671 in 2017, Holden shut down Australian manufacturing, and those cars were the cars that were still being built on that day. The Holden brand shut down in 2020.
That mystery electric nugget at 7:00 was the Sinclair C5. Yes, the Sinclair computing company made what was effectively a recumbent bike with an electric motor. They flopped hard, were super dangerous to use, and your mouth and nose were at the optimum height to breathe in everyone else's exhaust fumes. Britain have made some great cars, some terrible cars, and we also made that.
@@tristanraineyeah, Lotus was the bomb. Everything else is either “ya tried,” “if you actually invested it would’ve been perfectly crumulant” and “why? Just, why?”
I remember chatting with the people at the museum, and the Veyron is owned by some super rich guy who bought it as an investment, but couldn’t be fully bothered looking after it so is keeping it at the Motor Museum because that way people can enjoy it and because the museum will take care of it
Most of the cars there are privately owned and they're doing the same thing. Before the Veyron they had a Delorean there. I was a little upset the Delorean was replaced, but being a Veyron it was a good consolation.
Those 2 red Indian motorcycles at 6:41 were from my grandpa's collection!!! He passed away in 2019 and the vast majority of his collection of over 220 motorcycles were bought and sent to Australia! I have pictures of me sitting on that 1927 Scout. There is also a Douglas in the background of the shot that looks like it was from my grandpa's collection too!
I was devastated when our car manufacturing ended. A huge part of our national identity taken away from us. We always had at least one Aussie car in the fleet.
I love your unbridled excitement. Don't understand any of it, but seeing someone sharing something they're passionate about it just wonderful. Everyone everywhere deserves to be able to share their raw joy and enthusiasm for their favorite things.
The Magna at 5:50 my dad and his engineering department developed the seating for at Tonsley in the early 90's. Developed it here in SA and allowed the Japanese designers to take the full credit otherwise they'd have never approved it. It was awesome bringing him to the museum and having him relive all that He then went on to work in accounting at Aston Martin and Holden in the 2000's before leaving the car industry
My biggest wish is that Holden will become one of those "phoenix companies", several of which we saw being brought back brom the dead. Hummer, Fisker, Polaroid managed to come back better than ever. Why not Holden? I think the rest of the world could also use some of that Australian spirit!
Hey man, if I win Lotto my first purchase will be Holden's old Lang Lang Proving Grounds. (I only need like 35 Million) Then I gotta hire a bunch of engineers and shit but I definitely know step one 😂
Because I think GM just had a personal vendetta against Holden. Like any time they'd bring a design over it'd be through gritted teeth and pained sighing. Never forget they decided to bring the Commadore over, in a single trim. And the name of the whole shebang was the SS. They absolutely DID NOT WANT IT HERE. And later on they only sold the last run of the Commadore as a Cop Car. I'd have loved to have owned a Caprice.
@@NEEDbacon Yeah of course. This is just what happens when our government lets foreign companies (or any company really) walk all over them. We should have demanded GM import a number of cars that would actually be an economic advantage for Australia, and if they refused, just take the company off their hands. If they don't want it, we'll take it.
I study in Wolfsburg, and there's a huge automuseum located near the VW factory that I visited. All kinds of cars are there: the early Beetle prototype and the last "old" Beetle ever built standing next to each other, classic American sedans and muscle cars, various European sports/supercars, a replica of Bugatti 57 Atlantic (considering there were only 4 of these built and only 3 exist currently costing gazillion dollars each, it is understandable why the museum piece is a replica), a Trabant (an East German nugget that has a bit of a cult following here), a VW Golf concept with a mid-mounted Bentley W12 engine (it appeared in one Top Gear episode if I remember correctly), full-chrome (!) Bugatti Veyron with the W16 quad-turbo engine in a glass casing next to it and so on and so forth. One of the best experiences I've ever had. If you lads happen to be near Wolfsburg I highly recommend visiting it
Staying in Germany, I can also recommend the PS.Speicher in Einbeck. The main exhibits are mostly motorbikes, but they have all kinds of stuff in depots around town.
@@MrCharlieBros God we do not talk about how weird the Mexican car market is, like you can be car shopping there and you can either get a Dodge Ramcharger which was a regular Ram with a minivan taped to it's bed, or VW Beetle a car that is from the 1930s being sold as a new car in 2003.
Hey man not sure if your going to see this or if anyone will. My step grandfather's dad and his best mate did restore the old ford hills hoist truck that is in there and its cool seeing a bit of family history in there. I am unsure when it was sold by my step grandfather's dad. from what I remember the truck was found in Coober Pedy. I will post an update when I find a little bit more about the truck if anyone is interested.
7:01 That's a Sinclair C5. Made by the same company that made the ZX Spectrum. I encountered one at a computer museum in the Netherlands. It's mental that Clive Sinclair thought this would work.
The electric nugget thing at 07:00 is the Sinclair C5, essentially an electrically boosted trike. Envisioned by Sir Clive Sinclair, a pioneer of the home computing industry (notable for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and its lineage), but ended more of a curiosity than a useful thing.
This makes me simultaneously so happy and so sad to be an Aussie. It's amazing to see all these Aussie motorsport icons, and for a car girl like me it's like Aussie vehicle heaven. Then when you look up to see the last ever production Holdens' that never got to see the road, even the one covered in signatures.. just.. wow. It seems so silly to many, but it genuinely makes me shed a tear because in my eyes Holden is a true icon in our Aussie history, and for it to just go like that.. it's such a shame. Whether you were team Ford or team Holden, I think it's safe to say we all shed a tear when they announced their closure.. miss you Holden, it's not the same without you.. you really were one of the last true Aussie vehicle icons. As a more positive side note, 5:30 I have one of those! She's my daily driver, and she's actually a Grand Tourer model with the white body, gold pinstriping and mags! She may not have an AC other than the wound down windows, but she's a lovely little car and it makes me proud to own an (albeit minor) Aussie icon.
@@TVCHLORDBold of you to automatically assume I'm trans without any information proving so and congratulations for liking your own comment. Also, science disagrees with you.
@@TVCHLORDSo what you're saying is you're misogynistic and therefor can't understand that women can appreciate things men typically do? Gotcha. Again, gotta love how you like your own comments, only posted 25 seconds ago and one like? You ain't fooling no one lmao
As a Canadian I haven’t experienced any first hand accounts of aussie nuggets. I knew that you guys had your own cars and everything but I didn’t realize that it ran this deep and the surprising variety of automobiles that you have. Very very cool!!!
@@nickrustyson8124 Let's not hold Cadillac's Chris Gains album against the australians. Though god I wish they sold the Caprice Normally, instead of only to cops.
@@NEEDbacon But it's also the most successful Australian car in this country, they sold well, and are still being made as the CTS/CT5. CTS stands for Catera Touring Sedan by the way
As an American it really threw me for a loop seeing the caprice ppv on the half built on the assembly line especially since i have one siting in my driveway. Its such a shame that holden is no more..
I love the quirky Australian cars so much and quirky nuggets like these are amazing 😍 Also seeing the unfinished holdens especially the Caprice is sad we loved it here in Saudi Arabia shame on you GM
Your love for Australian cars is in line with my love for American motorcycles. Recently the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa Iowa closed and it was a serious blow to publicly accessible historical bikes in America.
The Hurricane is the most beautiful car I have ever seen in my life. It's this slick, perfect wedge with big jazzy headlights on huuuuge fenders.... And that COLOR!! I love it so much
learning Aussie culture while listening to Wade tear up in a nostalgia trip. You really are growing old when you see cars you've seen everyday years ago on a museum display
As an owner of a vehicle with one, they had actually figured out how to smooth the 3800's by the time they came out with the 3800 series II which, if I'm not mistaken, is the one that really has a cult following. And yes it's been very reliable and served me very well. And yes the vehicle is a complete "The car" car
If you ever make it out to Southern California, you'll have to hit up the Petersen Automotive Museum in LA, the Marconi Automotive museum in Orange County (Tustin), and the San Diego Automotive Museum.
Weird how I spent the first 8 years of my life in Adelaide but haven't been (from memory at least). Planned to go whenever I went back, but this has just increased my want. A big draw is still Andy Caldecott's (RIP) bikes and the tribute, which admittedly could be emotional.
The GM EV1 was also in development for over a decade as the BBC did a segment on a fully functional EV1 concept car in the year 1990 in their show Tomorrow’s World! :)
The first car with a backup camera was the Buick Centurion concept. And yes, the CRT is as small you would think. You can see it at the Sloan Museum in Flint. If you are so inclined.
I'm glad you guys kept a good amount of your concept cars. The auto companies in the states usually crush prototypes and concepts. And I'm surprised a GM ev made it over there
The university I went to actually had an EV1, it was hanging out in the basement of the electrical engineering building when I was there. The original drivetrain had been taken out before the school got it, but some of the EE students put a new one in as their senior design project. It’s a shame it’s not in a better spot, most people never knew it was there.
@@the48thronin97 And a trade school I went to had a EV S10, it was in a worse spot than that EV1 and basically it's impossible to fix, not only because there is like 12 of them existing, but also because New York Rust unsurprisingly will eat up anything
I love big american vans!!! I swear they’re made for gigs, smaller bands do coast tours out of a single van all the time! and they get awesome graphics with unicorns and things
Funny thing is, big classic American vans are tiny when compared to modern Euro vans, like if you ever see a old Dodge Ram Van next to a Merc Sprint, it makes the Dodge look like a compact
That’s why hubby and I own one! (Dodge caravan) I work the Renfaire scene as a vendor (so, huge popup tent, many boxes and bins of stuff, folding chairs, tables and etc. to fit in), and he’s a musician who plays cello and bass, and we also do medieval re-enactment which means you need a car long enough for your tent poles and medieval weaponry and occasionally weirder things like floor looms and thrones. It’s actually a running joke in my re-enactor group that you’ll know you’ve arrived when you see the entire parking area full of Dodge Caravans. 😂 It has fold-away seats that go right into compartments on the floor to let all but the front two seats stow away for storage, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT. We can even car-camp in it!
Really is a shame about some of those Holden concepts, those are SO cool!! And the unfinished cars from the closure... man. At least nice to see them in a museum where they can still be appreciated in some way.
My grandmother had a Zeta. It had no rear door. The only way into the boot space was via the passenger door on the sides. It had removable seats to aid access to the boot space
Wow rear camera and a freaking CRT for it in 1969, that actually blew my mind, that was so ahead of its time, maybe other had that too but it's the first time i see that
You say you lived in the middle of nowhere and then show a drive under an hour to the CBD. Thems rookie numbers mate! As a Sydneysider, that's how long it takes me to drive to my friends' place for dinner on a weekday night 😂
I really really appreciate the effort and enthusiasm you put into the voice over. I'm actually not even sure if you were recording on the go because the audio quality is amazing but it made me feel like I was touring the museum with you. Keep it going!
Respect for the excitement in the voice over as if it is the first time you are seeing these vehicle even though it was obviously recorded in post. I don't think I could get that excited for after the fact; I would likely to do it vlog style where I am just telling the story of the trip. I really like your style; makes it feel like we are there right next to you when you experience these things for the first time.
Seeing an aussie drool over Australian engineering just puts a smile on my fafe. Tbh I really like the cars that Australia got. They look so unique and cool
As someone who lives like half a kilometer away from the Harley-Davidson headquarters, I do kinda echo other people groaning but I do enjoy that you're a fellow motorcycle enthusiast!
I am just so fascinated how different so many of the cars you show look like to the ones I am used to in Germany. The minis are the first ones I really recognize, but maybe it's just me not knowing a lot of cars 😅
6:59 Great to see the NMM still has one of their Sinclair C5s kicking around (I'm pretty sure they had two for a while there). I'd love to import one of those from the UK one day, as they're almost impossible to find over here.
Not only that, they are showing they are more reliable than same year Toyotas, here in the states and in Arizona so I can't say Rust is eating up all of the Toyotas (Like literally unless it's a Tundra used Toyotas do not exist in Upstate New York)
Would of loved it if this video was like an hour long or a series, I love hearing about car history from you. From the scrapheap videos to this one. Please make more
In my home village in Belgium, we have a Motorbike museum called "Forgotten Times museum." (Yes it's in English!) It's in Zandvliet and I LOVED that place. Went there with my mechanic dad one time and it was amazing.
The little electric car is a Sinclair C5 and I'm amazed you've never heard of it. British, weird, ahead of its time but mega dangerous on the road. In the eighties the guy who ran the Sinclair computer company was getting pasted comercially after the Spectrum had run its course, so he decided to pivot. To electric cars. It did not go well for him. In the nineties and early 2000s all of our robot wars competitors used the batteries or motors from them.
People don't realise but ironically both Holden and Ford suffered roughly the same death by the hands of their US parent companies - stripping their independence and pushing out the local vehicles for overseas models. Combined with the GFC, high AUD, and no locally unique models to export, there was no reason to continue local manufacturing. Holden was doing well under Hanenberger who ran it independently from GM and had many projects in the pipeline for his 10 year plan - Coupe 60, El Camino ute, and Commodore-based Nullarbor SUV (to rival Ford's Territory). When GM bought out Daewoo in 2002 they pushed Daewoo designs globally to homogenise their range and subsequently tore up the aforementioned local projects. Unfortunately, the Daewoos were very poor quality (as were all Korean brands at the time) and permanently tarnished Holden's reputation including the infamous Cruze and Captiva. Ford was similar, they had the locally made and designed Falcon and Territory which was Wheels Car of the Year in 2005 and Australia's Top-Selling SUV at the time. Ford had plans to made derivatives of both vehicles however these were pushed aside when Ford USA introduced their "One Ford" strategy to homogenise Ford worldwide. Falcons became Mondeos, and Territory became Endura (Edge).
I’m actually currently looking for inspiration for a car in this post-apocalyptic solar punk type thing I’m writing and then you come and release a video that’s basically “look at all these weird cars”. Thank you I’ll be stealing all of this
being me and knowing nothing about cars this is so entertaining. your passion for cars and Australian nationalism is so admirable. It's just so much fun listening and watching you gush about cars, and especially aussie cars. keep up the work man I've been watching forever love you
Always a massive fan of the motor museum, even tho it doesn’t change much love to visit every couple of years :) Glad I found your channel! Love seeing a large following channel for cars from little old SA
7:00 This was when in 1985 the Sinclair computer company tried making an electric scooter and it failed miserably at the time! Pretty much they should have just stuck with making great computers which were also quite affordable for home users! :)
7:40 That’s an F56 Mini Cooper GP3, absolutely mad car. 300+ horsepower to the front wheels, insane aero, and stupid quick around a track. Sounds good too
There's 2 of the funky electric trikes at 7:00 in my local museum (Waterfront Museum, Swansea). Both of which you can climb into and turn the handlebars (at least as of the last time I went). The concept of a recumbent electric motorcycle is fantastic and I can imagine a whole lotta fun to ride in! Not such a fan of the trike design as they're less stable in turns than bikes. But I reckon there's a market for something like this nowadays, with climate concerns, better battery & motor tech, and congestion issues. I certainly want one!
I'd love to see you do a series on the history of individual cars. Weird ones, awesome ones, perfectly cromulent but controversial ones (cough, Prius, cough.) It'd be great!
I was there on the weekend, what an amazing place. Dragged the family along, everyone enjoyed it. For me the Benz at the start was incredibly interesting, great back story. I am no into motorcycles but the motorcycle hall was impressive. I got the feels seeing the first and last Holden (the red VF 2:23) and the cars partly through production. The The fact that they had a copy of my first car was the icing on the cake!
Holden: "Look at these cool concepts we have, do you want them?"
Aussies: "YEES MATE!"
Holden: "Well, fuck you, here are some rebadged Opels!"
Basically Saab, down to the rebading of Opels (and occasionally Alfa Romeos)
Greedy pricks…
ZB Commodore moment (Opel Insignia can suck me)
@@JeanMarceaux Opel to Alfa Romeo is quite the jump in prestige
The unfinished Holdens actually make me so sad. Poor guys never got to see the light of day, and their wheels never got to roll on the ground
Imnot14andthisisdeep.
When did holden go out of business?
@@dragonslayer9671 in 2017, Holden shut down Australian manufacturing, and those cars were the cars that were still being built on that day. The Holden brand shut down in 2020.
@@skylovescars69420 that sucks
I hate gm for that, and for pontiac.
That mystery electric nugget at 7:00 was the Sinclair C5. Yes, the Sinclair computing company made what was effectively a recumbent bike with an electric motor. They flopped hard, were super dangerous to use, and your mouth and nose were at the optimum height to breathe in everyone else's exhaust fumes.
Britain have made some great cars, some terrible cars, and we also made that.
Exhaust fumes that would have contained _lead_, I should add. It was the 80s, after all.
If there's one thing I've learnt from top gear, it's that british cars are... often questionable
@@DEADMEM3we peaked with Lotus tbh
Ironically Lotus Engineering were involved in the C5…
@@tristanraineyeah, Lotus was the bomb. Everything else is either “ya tried,” “if you actually invested it would’ve been perfectly crumulant” and “why? Just, why?”
I remember chatting with the people at the museum, and the Veyron is owned by some super rich guy who bought it as an investment, but couldn’t be fully bothered looking after it so is keeping it at the Motor Museum because that way people can enjoy it and because the museum will take care of it
Most of the cars there are privately owned and they're doing the same thing. Before the Veyron they had a Delorean there. I was a little upset the Delorean was replaced, but being a Veyron it was a good consolation.
Seems like that Veyron is an NA spec based on the orange side markers and LHD
@@matthewl5434yep, they’re called retroreflectors, and are required on all US spec cars since 1968.
Last time I went there was a Murcielago SV next to the Veyron, guess the owner actually wanted to drive it!
Thats funny cause when I went there yeeears ago there was a Diablo SV in the same spot lmao@@carnivorebear6582
Those 2 red Indian motorcycles at 6:41 were from my grandpa's collection!!! He passed away in 2019 and the vast majority of his collection of over 220 motorcycles were bought and sent to Australia! I have pictures of me sitting on that 1927 Scout. There is also a Douglas in the background of the shot that looks like it was from my grandpa's collection too!
Your grandpa would be honored that his beautiful bikes are in a museum
The cycle has been complete.
I was devastated when our car manufacturing ended. A huge part of our national identity taken away from us. We always had at least one Aussie car in the fleet.
Yes
I'm an _American_ and yet I think GM killing off Holden was such a disgusting move.
I love your unbridled excitement.
Don't understand any of it, but seeing someone sharing something they're passionate about it just wonderful. Everyone everywhere deserves to be able to share their raw joy and enthusiasm for their favorite things.
Same
This may or may not be one of the saddest but proudest videos I've ever watched. Rest in peace you bloody bastard Holden.
The Magna at 5:50 my dad and his engineering department developed the seating for at Tonsley in the early 90's. Developed it here in SA and allowed the Japanese designers to take the full credit otherwise they'd have never approved it. It was awesome bringing him to the museum and having him relive all that
He then went on to work in accounting at Aston Martin and Holden in the 2000's before leaving the car industry
My biggest wish is that Holden will become one of those "phoenix companies", several of which we saw being brought back brom the dead. Hummer, Fisker, Polaroid managed to come back better than ever. Why not Holden? I think the rest of the world could also use some of that Australian spirit!
Hey man, if I win Lotto my first purchase will be Holden's old Lang Lang Proving Grounds. (I only need like 35 Million)
Then I gotta hire a bunch of engineers and shit but I definitely know step one 😂
Government could step in and resurrect it no worries. Well it could have, when the plant was closing down. Dunno about now.
Because I think GM just had a personal vendetta against Holden. Like any time they'd bring a design over it'd be through gritted teeth and pained sighing. Never forget they decided to bring the Commadore over, in a single trim. And the name of the whole shebang was the SS. They absolutely DID NOT WANT IT HERE. And later on they only sold the last run of the Commadore as a Cop Car. I'd have loved to have owned a Caprice.
@@NEEDbacon Yeah of course. This is just what happens when our government lets foreign companies (or any company really) walk all over them. We should have demanded GM import a number of cars that would actually be an economic advantage for Australia, and if they refused, just take the company off their hands. If they don't want it, we'll take it.
Polaroid was revived by its fans, the rest are junk, revivals rarely go well unfortunately.
Hey wayde, been watching for many years now and I got married recently, got the wife into your content and we love watching it together!
OH MY GOD. So you're saying I've ran into you by chance??? I can see myself in the background HAHAHAHA. This is hilarious, i love this so much.
I study in Wolfsburg, and there's a huge automuseum located near the VW factory that I visited. All kinds of cars are there: the early Beetle prototype and the last "old" Beetle ever built standing next to each other, classic American sedans and muscle cars, various European sports/supercars, a replica of Bugatti 57 Atlantic (considering there were only 4 of these built and only 3 exist currently costing gazillion dollars each, it is understandable why the museum piece is a replica), a Trabant (an East German nugget that has a bit of a cult following here), a VW Golf concept with a mid-mounted Bentley W12 engine (it appeared in one Top Gear episode if I remember correctly), full-chrome (!) Bugatti Veyron with the W16 quad-turbo engine in a glass casing next to it and so on and so forth. One of the best experiences I've ever had. If you lads happen to be near Wolfsburg I highly recommend visiting it
Staying in Germany, I can also recommend the PS.Speicher in Einbeck. The main exhibits are mostly motorbikes, but they have all kinds of stuff in depots around town.
The last Beetle ever built? MEXICO MENTIONED 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
@@MrCharlieBros God we do not talk about how weird the Mexican car market is, like you can be car shopping there and you can either get a Dodge Ramcharger which was a regular Ram with a minivan taped to it's bed, or VW Beetle a car that is from the 1930s being sold as a new car in 2003.
@@nickrustyson8124 hey that beetle was never used so it’s “new”
Hey man not sure if your going to see this or if anyone will. My step grandfather's dad and his best mate did restore the old ford hills hoist truck that is in there and its cool seeing a bit of family history in there. I am unsure when it was sold by my step grandfather's dad. from what I remember the truck was found in Coober Pedy. I will post an update when I find a little bit more about the truck if anyone is interested.
Who dare you do the Sincalir C5 dirty like that, 'what ever this electric nugget this is.' pish posh hurrumph
7:01 That's a Sinclair C5. Made by the same company that made the ZX Spectrum. I encountered one at a computer museum in the Netherlands. It's mental that Clive Sinclair thought this would work.
Honestly never knew Australia had such cool and interesting cars, thanks for showing us piece's of history.
We've had a few more than this - especially in the concept stage.
So that Benz Velocipede was made in 1989 according to 0:50. Man they've come a long way in 34 years!
The electric nugget thing at 07:00 is the Sinclair C5, essentially an electrically boosted trike. Envisioned by Sir Clive Sinclair, a pioneer of the home computing industry (notable for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and its lineage), but ended more of a curiosity than a useful thing.
This makes me simultaneously so happy and so sad to be an Aussie.
It's amazing to see all these Aussie motorsport icons, and for a car girl like me it's like Aussie vehicle heaven.
Then when you look up to see the last ever production Holdens' that never got to see the road, even the one covered in signatures.. just.. wow.
It seems so silly to many, but it genuinely makes me shed a tear because in my eyes Holden is a true icon in our Aussie history, and for it to just go like that.. it's such a shame.
Whether you were team Ford or team Holden, I think it's safe to say we all shed a tear when they announced their closure.. miss you Holden, it's not the same without you.. you really were one of the last true Aussie vehicle icons.
As a more positive side note, 5:30 I have one of those!
She's my daily driver, and she's actually a Grand Tourer model with the white body, gold pinstriping and mags!
She may not have an AC other than the wound down windows, but she's a lovely little car and it makes me proud to own an (albeit minor) Aussie icon.
Trans girls aren’t real
@@TVCHLORDBold of you to automatically assume I'm trans without any information proving so and congratulations for liking your own comment.
Also, science disagrees with you.
@@clockwork3494 I can tell by the “as a car girl” and anime pfp
@@TVCHLORDSo what you're saying is you're misogynistic and therefor can't understand that women can appreciate things men typically do?
Gotcha.
Again, gotta love how you like your own comments, only posted 25 seconds ago and one like?
You ain't fooling no one lmao
@@TVCHLORD that's what the kids would call an "L take"
that lego camry looks good to eat
aw man seeing that line of unfinished holdens got me more than i was expecting
As a Canadian I haven’t experienced any first hand accounts of aussie nuggets. I knew that you guys had your own cars and everything but I didn’t realize that it ran this deep and the surprising variety of automobiles that you have. Very very cool!!!
Well kinda, the Cadillac Catera is just a old Holden, same goes to the GTO, G8, and Caprice
@@nickrustyson8124 Let's not hold Cadillac's Chris Gains album against the australians. Though god I wish they sold the Caprice Normally, instead of only to cops.
@@nickrustyson8124 true
@@NEEDbacon But it's also the most successful Australian car in this country, they sold well, and are still being made as the CTS/CT5. CTS stands for Catera Touring Sedan by the way
As an American it really threw me for a loop seeing the caprice ppv on the half built on the assembly line especially since i have one siting in my driveway. Its such a shame that holden is no more..
I love the quirky Australian cars so much and quirky nuggets like these are amazing 😍
Also seeing the unfinished holdens especially the Caprice is sad we loved it here in Saudi Arabia shame on you GM
the voiceover is clearly recorded after the fact, but the reactions still feel so genuine, i love it
YWN.
@@Chumpal UwU
Your love for Australian cars is in line with my love for American motorcycles. Recently the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa Iowa closed and it was a serious blow to publicly accessible historical bikes in America.
I know nothing about cars or Australian auto history but watching you geek out at all of this put a huge smile on my face, glad you had fun Wade! :)
8:00 Something about that "Vroomvroom" was phonetically interesting in a similar way to "nano"
The Hurricane is the most beautiful car I have ever seen in my life. It's this slick, perfect wedge with big jazzy headlights on huuuuge fenders.... And that COLOR!! I love it so much
learning Aussie culture while listening to Wade tear up in a nostalgia trip.
You really are growing old when you see cars you've seen everyday years ago on a museum display
7:00 Because every single stinkin' motor museum HAS TO HAVE A SINCLAIR C5!
Also RIP to the unfinished Holdens... 😢
As an owner of a vehicle with one, they had actually figured out how to smooth the 3800's by the time they came out with the 3800 series II which, if I'm not mistaken, is the one that really has a cult following. And yes it's been very reliable and served me very well. And yes the vehicle is a complete "The car" car
that would be the Ecotec v6 , Introduced with the VS Commodore. BRILLIANT engine
The Series II and especially the Series III (Post 2003)
Seeing those unfinished Holdens and that partially assembled Chevrolet Caprice PPV, genuinely made me cry a bit.
GM's proud tradition of making a great concept, and then not making it (but bringing other concepts that no one asked for to production)
If you ever make it out to Southern California, you'll have to hit up the Petersen Automotive Museum in LA, the Marconi Automotive museum in Orange County (Tustin), and the San Diego Automotive Museum.
I just like to imagine Wade running around the National Motor Museum SCREAMING into a camera about Commodores
i love car museums so much, especially when they have such "normal" looking cars that never got preserved
Weird how I spent the first 8 years of my life in Adelaide but haven't been (from memory at least). Planned to go whenever I went back, but this has just increased my want. A big draw is still Andy Caldecott's (RIP) bikes and the tribute, which admittedly could be emotional.
The GM EV1 was also in development for over a decade as the BBC did a segment on a fully functional EV1 concept car in the year 1990 in their show Tomorrow’s World! :)
I wondered where Efijy was these days. Best looking car Australia ever made.
Nothing makes me more happy than hearing that an Australian man loves the motorcycle brand that started in my hometown.
The first car with a backup camera was the Buick Centurion concept. And yes, the CRT is as small you would think. You can see it at the Sloan Museum in Flint. If you are so inclined.
That Efijy is a stunner. Like something from the golden age of sci fi.
I'm glad you guys kept a good amount of your concept cars. The auto companies in the states usually crush prototypes and concepts. And I'm surprised a GM ev made it over there
The university I went to actually had an EV1, it was hanging out in the basement of the electrical engineering building when I was there. The original drivetrain had been taken out before the school got it, but some of the EE students put a new one in as their senior design project. It’s a shame it’s not in a better spot, most people never knew it was there.
@@the48thronin97 And a trade school I went to had a EV S10, it was in a worse spot than that EV1 and basically it's impossible to fix, not only because there is like 12 of them existing, but also because New York Rust unsurprisingly will eat up anything
This video was pure joy. I’m not even a car person (I’m an aviation person) and you made me feel like a car person with how passionate you were
I love big american vans!!! I swear they’re made for gigs, smaller bands do coast tours out of a single van all the time! and they get awesome graphics with unicorns and things
Funny thing is, big classic American vans are tiny when compared to modern Euro vans, like if you ever see a old Dodge Ram Van next to a Merc Sprint, it makes the Dodge look like a compact
That’s why hubby and I own one! (Dodge caravan)
I work the Renfaire scene as a vendor (so, huge popup tent, many boxes and bins of stuff, folding chairs, tables and etc. to fit in), and he’s a musician who plays cello and bass, and we also do medieval re-enactment which means you need a car long enough for your tent poles and medieval weaponry and occasionally weirder things like floor looms and thrones. It’s actually a running joke in my re-enactor group that you’ll know you’ve arrived when you see the entire parking area full of Dodge Caravans. 😂
It has fold-away seats that go right into compartments on the floor to let all but the front two seats stow away for storage, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT. We can even car-camp in it!
Really is a shame about some of those Holden concepts, those are SO cool!! And the unfinished cars from the closure... man. At least nice to see them in a museum where they can still be appreciated in some way.
not gonna lie, I wasn't expecting to see so many interesting cars there. If I ever visit Australia I'm absolutely gonna plan to visit there
My grandmother had a Zeta. It had no rear door. The only way into the boot space was via the passenger door on the sides. It had removable seats to aid access to the boot space
If this video was 3 hours long id be here the whole way. The sheer joy is contagious
Wow rear camera and a freaking CRT for it in 1969, that actually blew my mind, that was so ahead of its time, maybe other had that too but it's the first time i see that
Holden gone but never forgotten...
This is like a compilation of every time you sat in the passenger seat with your dad and drove past a cool car
You say you lived in the middle of nowhere and then show a drive under an hour to the CBD. Thems rookie numbers mate! As a Sydneysider, that's how long it takes me to drive to my friends' place for dinner on a weekday night 😂
Lived. _past tense_
I would say that Tony deserves a place on the museum, but he deserves its very own museum
I really really appreciate the effort and enthusiasm you put into the voice over. I'm actually not even sure if you were recording on the go because the audio quality is amazing but it made me feel like I was touring the museum with you. Keep it going!
Can tell he's excited when the 'mate quotient starts at the ceiling lol. Love to see it!
First ever production car was 1989? Damn, Henry Ford took his sweet time
Respect for the excitement in the voice over as if it is the first time you are seeing these vehicle even though it was obviously recorded in post. I don't think I could get that excited for after the fact; I would likely to do it vlog style where I am just telling the story of the trip. I really like your style; makes it feel like we are there right next to you when you experience these things for the first time.
1:22 please everyone leave, I'm about to cry
1:20 Simultaneously so beautiful and so sad, I'm just glad the unfinished work didn't go to waste
“1989” and “first production car” sure do go hand-in-hand, eh?
Seeing an aussie drool over Australian engineering just puts a smile on my fafe. Tbh I really like the cars that Australia got. They look so unique and cool
Us Mopar Maniacs love seeing stuff like the Super ROO!! 😎👍
As someone who lives like half a kilometer away from the Harley-Davidson headquarters, I do kinda echo other people groaning but I do enjoy that you're a fellow motorcycle enthusiast!
I am just so fascinated how different so many of the cars you show look like to the ones I am used to in Germany. The minis are the first ones I really recognize, but maybe it's just me not knowing a lot of cars 😅
There's not much quite better than listening to someone geeking the hell out on a topic you know absolutely nothing about.
6:59 Great to see the NMM still has one of their Sinclair C5s kicking around (I'm pretty sure they had two for a while there). I'd love to import one of those from the UK one day, as they're almost impossible to find over here.
The 8bit Guy tried to import one to Texas. It came in bits courtesy of UPS.
@@Metal_Maxine Dave Jones managed to get a C5 over here in one piece, so there's some hope!
0:25 "freedoms per hour" 🤣
The 3800 (Holden/buick 3.8) is like the peak for GM longevity in passenger vehicles. The bodies would rust away WAY before the engines failed
Mang it up!
Not only that, they are showing they are more reliable than same year Toyotas, here in the states and in Arizona so I can't say Rust is eating up all of the Toyotas (Like literally unless it's a Tundra used Toyotas do not exist in Upstate New York)
Man this video is an absolute treat to any Holden fans. And the most ever "mate" that I will probably ever hear my entire life lol
0:51 You Aussies got that in 1989, they really waited to start importing huh?
I hope he doesn’t fix it lol
I'm having an excellent time imagining that the voiceover here was actually recorded live in the museum.
The Super Roo 😂 I love it
Would of loved it if this video was like an hour long or a series, I love hearing about car history from you.
From the scrapheap videos to this one. Please make more
preeeetty carr
In my home village in Belgium, we have a Motorbike museum called "Forgotten Times museum." (Yes it's in English!) It's in Zandvliet and I LOVED that place. Went there with my mechanic dad one time and it was amazing.
The little electric car is a Sinclair C5 and I'm amazed you've never heard of it. British, weird, ahead of its time but mega dangerous on the road.
In the eighties the guy who ran the Sinclair computer company was getting pasted comercially after the Spectrum had run its course, so he decided to pivot. To electric cars. It did not go well for him.
In the nineties and early 2000s all of our robot wars competitors used the batteries or motors from them.
The car pen unlocked a very old memory in my brain. I needed a minute to process what I experienced in my youth.
7:52 that's a really weird looking trabant
Believe it's a Riley Elf
It's a riley elf. Basically a more luxury mini
All them Minis are stinkin' beautiful, and so are those Holdens! Those poor unfinished ones are a sad sight to see...
People don't realise but ironically both Holden and Ford suffered roughly the same death by the hands of their US parent companies - stripping their independence and pushing out the local vehicles for overseas models. Combined with the GFC, high AUD, and no locally unique models to export, there was no reason to continue local manufacturing.
Holden was doing well under Hanenberger who ran it independently from GM and had many projects in the pipeline for his 10 year plan - Coupe 60, El Camino ute, and Commodore-based Nullarbor SUV (to rival Ford's Territory). When GM bought out Daewoo in 2002 they pushed Daewoo designs globally to homogenise their range and subsequently tore up the aforementioned local projects. Unfortunately, the Daewoos were very poor quality (as were all Korean brands at the time) and permanently tarnished Holden's reputation including the infamous Cruze and Captiva.
Ford was similar, they had the locally made and designed Falcon and Territory which was Wheels Car of the Year in 2005 and Australia's Top-Selling SUV at the time. Ford had plans to made derivatives of both vehicles however these were pushed aside when Ford USA introduced their "One Ford" strategy to homogenise Ford worldwide. Falcons became Mondeos, and Territory became Endura (Edge).
Oh man, the Efijy, one lf my favorite concept cars ever, such a gorgeous car!
I’m actually currently looking for inspiration for a car in this post-apocalyptic solar punk type thing I’m writing and then you come and release a video that’s basically “look at all these weird cars”. Thank you I’ll be stealing all of this
2:44 the mother of all nugget novelty phones
Standing in the sheer presence of the Hurricane is enough to make a normal person cry.
being me and knowing nothing about cars this is so entertaining. your passion for cars and Australian nationalism is so admirable. It's just so much fun listening and watching you gush about cars, and especially aussie cars. keep up the work man I've been watching forever love you
Thank you for the brief history lesson on Australian cars.
Always a massive fan of the motor museum, even tho it doesn’t change much love to visit every couple of years :)
Glad I found your channel! Love seeing a large following channel for cars from little old SA
4:44 The Hurricane looks like it has Spritle and Chimchim hiding in the trunk...er, boot.
I love the passion in your voice. Normally I look at cars I don't get to drive with disappointment lol
7:00
This was when in 1985 the Sinclair computer company tried making an electric scooter and it failed miserably at the time! Pretty much they should have just stuck with making great computers which were also quite affordable for home users! :)
7:40 That’s an F56 Mini Cooper GP3, absolutely mad car. 300+ horsepower to the front wheels, insane aero, and stupid quick around a track. Sounds good too
Yes!! Absolutely loved when I visited the museum too - proper awesome displays there, glad to see you showcasing them too!
There's 2 of the funky electric trikes at 7:00 in my local museum (Waterfront Museum, Swansea). Both of which you can climb into and turn the handlebars (at least as of the last time I went).
The concept of a recumbent electric motorcycle is fantastic and I can imagine a whole lotta fun to ride in! Not such a fan of the trike design as they're less stable in turns than bikes. But I reckon there's a market for something like this nowadays, with climate concerns, better battery & motor tech, and congestion issues. I certainly want one!
I hate cars but Wade's enthusiasm makes me smile
You have unequivocally blessed my Tuesday morning Wade!!!
I'd love to see you do a series on the history of individual cars. Weird ones, awesome ones, perfectly cromulent but controversial ones (cough, Prius, cough.) It'd be great!
I was there on the weekend, what an amazing place. Dragged the family along, everyone enjoyed it. For me the Benz at the start was incredibly interesting, great back story. I am no into motorcycles but the motorcycle hall was impressive. I got the feels seeing the first and last Holden (the red VF 2:23) and the cars partly through production. The The fact that they had a copy of my first car was the icing on the cake!