Memories .... Great video! The opening scenes brought back my early car ownership in a rush. I bought my first and second cars from Larke Hoskins. The first was a 2nd hand Mini from Vaughan & Lane Hurstville (later merged into Larke Hoskins), the 2nd a brand new Morris 1500. So many recognisable street scenes, I think the Cortina going shopping at the local store was in Mowbray Rd Lane Cove.. A reasure trove of Sydney in the 1960s! Thanks for posting
Thanks for identifying Mowbray Road, Lane Cove. The background TV broadcasting antenna made the location around Gore Hill / Artarmon. I loved the old Rego Sticker too.
Brilliant! Although the sad part is that many examples of this level of selfishness are exactly what I experience every time I go out in a car here in the US in 2023. I am not sure that society has become more civilized 57 years. That being said, it was a treat watching this documentary that may as well have predicted the future. The only difference is that the vehicles have become larger and more powerful. It's up to each of us to take pride in being the adult in the room no matter how many of the children act up and act out.
As sure as the sun's rising in the east and setting in the west, civilisation HAS become barbarism with Woke, Multi-3rd-World-Culturalism, Black Thug Lives Matter; Obummer, Alzheimer's Biden and, now, that cackling witch 😢
Near the end of this film the guy was outside Custom Credit on New South Head Road Edgecliff. My first job there in 1968. And across the road my uncle was the high class tailor.
I remember a Custom Credit TV ad from 1974. Some guy singing " Custom Credit lends cash ! Any old purpose........ lends cash ! ". And there was some sort of cartoon stage coach, and sporadic whip lashes. I remember that being played incessantly, because Custom Credit was a prime sponsor for some sort of telethon, or, the local TV station was televising a football carnival. I can't remember which.
Wouldn't it be good to be able to have these days back again? Interiors that aren't all grey, no computers and fancy electronics, solid steel. simple, reliable, go almost anywhere, only one parent having to work, sit down Sunday family lunches..... Life was oh so simple then. At 20:01, who taught this fella how to park? lol
Reliable? 😂 Solid steel? Great, impaling you in a crash, crushing your ribs and organs on a good solid dashboard. Break your neck when the unrestrained kid in the back seat king hits you as you crash, crushing their skull as well. Check the fatality rates decade by decade.
@@thesmallerhalf1968 In about 1990, or thereabouts, The Sydney Morning Herald, or, more accurately, The Sydney Morning Communist, gave a death toll on Australian roads, or otherwise anything to do with automobiles, of 96,000 for the combined decades of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The Australian road toll was a bit of a thing until random breath testing was introduced in the early 1980s.
Very rare and expensive. Huge import duties then big costs converting to right hand drive here. A lot more than the assembled Canadian sourced parts kits of US cars sold here by GMH , Ford and Chrysler. Even those locally assembled US type cars were expensive here.
Not many car lots on Auto Alley (Parramatta Road) nowadays. Used to park there and just walk up and down looking at second hand cars. They were one after another especially on the left hand side heading into the city.
Just loved that video, and yes, the "slick & glib" used car salesman still exists on Parramatta Road today...sell his own mother for a sales commission.🤣
It was 1966, as there were brand new HD Holdens for sale! My father bought one in the late 60's, & I learnt to drive it in 1979! (Holden was an auto gearbox, but I bought a manual Mini, then bunny-hopped it a few times until I got the hang of it!)
This is a curious and odd watch, having British production styles but all Australian it marks a unique moment in time just prior to Australia taking a more compete role in its own documentary recording. Kind of making this film the equivalent of an awkward teenager learning the ropes but doing a pretty good job.
The British Had To Help Australia Industrialize Because In WW2 Australia Was Isolated By Japan And The British Could Not Supply Australia With Arms, Ammunition And Aircraft As The Empire Japan Controlled The Sea Lanes In South East Asia
"I have no use for a Ute" said no Australian Man ever. Seriously though you don't really need one cos every Aussie has at least one or two mates who do have a Ute.
Todays version would see him launch his car into the car lot, damaging multiple cars , getting out and handing his Insurance card to the Salesman.....Fade Out
Wonderful Nostalgia! However, a Non-Woke Addendum. The video creators wish to acknowledge and appreciate the hard work of Capt. James Cook RN, for discovering this barbarous continent and bringing civilisation to it 😂
@@stevie-ray2020 Its crazy how family norms have become the sub culture like the hippys were back then. Progressivism is now mainstream. And man, do I have contempt for its selfish egoist ideology of ‘Do as I Say, because I know what’s best for you’ 😑 Its a bad religion.
Lighting up a Cigarette in a Shop! Lighting up a Cigarette in a Newsagent Shop! Mate..... Do a Risk Assessment! WHS Rules. Risk Assessment says, "Vape Mate"
I'm 7th generation Aussie on my Dad's side, 8th generation on my Mum's, & was born here in 1959!, .... but my family still wasn't descended from First Fleeters!
OK, as an Aussie, I’ve so far only viewed the first 10 minutes of this video. Listen to the narrator - so we embraced (as Australians) this BBC-derived British accent as late as 1966 ? Please tell me I’m imagining something here … At this time I was only 13 years old. Little did I know (at the time) how much we were still joined at the hip to British culture. I was was born in England and my family emigrated to Western Australia in 1958 when I was 5 years old. By the time that this film was made ( 8 years later) I was 13 years old and pretty much assimilated into the Australian way of speaking and doing things. Who were the producers of this film catering to ? I have to think they were catering to the older group(s) that imagined they still had the money and influence to dictate Australian culture at the time. At best, those people were a mob of delusional pretenders, to say the least
The Guy At The Traffic Lights Dreaming About Being A Formula Driver Is Driving Like Me When I Was 14, Enjoyed Jerking The Car Until I Had To Pay For The Front Wheel Burnt Out Brake Pads, I Never Jerked The Car About After That, As A Teenager It Gives You A Sense Of Power To Jerk The Car About And See The Panic On Your Parents Face, Especially Your Mother And Other Female Members Of Your Family, Absolutely Hilarious But Cruel And Dangerous
8:33 do you orstrayans have some funny law that you have to get into the car from the curb side? I mean, you drive on the wrong side of the road...I get that... but enter from the curb side is just crazy!
I wasn't born yet; but I suspect the habit was facilitated by the bench seat of the day. Climb in at the kerb and slide across. This wasn't possible with modern seats and a gearstick and handbrake. If you watch Hitchcock's Psycho, you see the same habit, even in the US How much the film director's orders reflected everyday habits of the time I don't know. Before my time.
Memories .... Great video!
The opening scenes brought back my early car ownership in a rush. I bought my first and second cars from Larke Hoskins. The first was a 2nd hand Mini from Vaughan & Lane Hurstville (later merged into Larke Hoskins), the 2nd a brand new Morris 1500.
So many recognisable street scenes, I think the Cortina going shopping at the local store was in Mowbray Rd Lane Cove..
A reasure trove of Sydney in the 1960s! Thanks for posting
Thanks for identifying Mowbray Road, Lane Cove. The background TV broadcasting antenna made the location around Gore Hill / Artarmon. I loved the old Rego Sticker too.
That Cortina would've been near brand new at the time. That's an early four door model.
A great little video í remember those days well.
Brilliant! Although the sad part is that many examples of this level of selfishness are exactly what I experience every time I go out in a car here in the US in 2023. I am not sure that society has become more civilized 57 years. That being said, it was a treat watching this documentary that may as well have predicted the future. The only difference is that the vehicles have become larger and more powerful. It's up to each of us to take pride in being the adult in the room no matter how many of the children act up and act out.
As sure as the sun's rising in the east and setting in the west, civilisation HAS become barbarism with Woke, Multi-3rd-World-Culturalism, Black Thug Lives Matter; Obummer, Alzheimer's Biden and, now, that cackling witch 😢
Excellent film ! Nice to see so many BMC cars not rusty 😊🇬🇧
Very nice. Greetings from Portugal.
Was just waiting for someone to nick his transistor-radio!
Where is the Wire Coat Hanger Aerial for your AM Radio "you're turned to 1270, TWO S M"…
?
The MGBs at the petrol station (~12:00) turn into MGAs when they are driving off (in close-up)!
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh........
Obviously The MGBs Had Drove And The MGAs Drove Into The Station When The Guy Went To Confront Them.
Typo Drove Off
@@rameshbhattacharjee4374 Obviously!
Near the end of this film the guy was outside Custom Credit on New South Head Road Edgecliff. My first job there in 1968. And across the road my uncle was the high class tailor.
I remember a Custom Credit TV ad from 1974. Some guy singing " Custom Credit lends cash ! Any old purpose........ lends cash ! ". And there was some sort of cartoon stage coach, and sporadic whip lashes. I remember that being played incessantly, because Custom Credit was a prime sponsor for some sort of telethon, or, the local TV station was televising a football carnival. I can't remember which.
Wouldn't it be good to be able to have these days back again? Interiors that aren't all grey, no computers and fancy electronics, solid steel. simple, reliable, go almost anywhere, only one parent having to work, sit down Sunday family lunches..... Life was oh so simple then. At 20:01, who taught this fella how to park? lol
Reliable? 😂 Solid steel? Great, impaling you in a crash, crushing your ribs and organs on a good solid dashboard. Break your neck when the unrestrained kid in the back seat king hits you as you crash, crushing their skull as well. Check the fatality rates decade by decade.
Hilarious.
@@thesmallerhalf1968 In about 1990, or thereabouts, The Sydney Morning Herald, or, more accurately, The Sydney Morning Communist, gave a death toll on Australian roads, or otherwise anything to do with automobiles, of 96,000 for the combined decades of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The Australian road toll was a bit of a thing until random breath testing was introduced in the early 1980s.
Kinda surprised to see a RHD 1964 Thunderbird and Impala convertible.
They must have been very expensive.
Very rare and expensive. Huge import duties then big costs converting to right hand drive here.
A lot more than the assembled Canadian sourced parts kits of US cars sold here by GMH , Ford and Chrysler. Even those locally assembled US type cars were expensive here.
Not many car lots on Auto Alley (Parramatta Road) nowadays. Used to park there and just walk up and down looking at second hand cars. They were one after another especially on the left hand side heading into the city.
i just enjoyed all the Aussie cars......
At 3:36 I do believe that’s Lisa Goddard.
Great 1960s footage. Cheers
Just loved that video, and yes, the "slick & glib" used car salesman still exists on Parramatta Road today...sell his own mother for a sales commission.🤣
I've got an idea to sell,it's called the Voice and it'll be great for everybody,can't say much about it until you sign up,but you'll like it !
HA - reminded me of when I was a kid in the 60's and in awe at the cars in the showrooms. HA - the local criminals in their American cars. Thanks.
No Volkswagens were damaged in the making of this film....
Yes owned by a little old lady.
Driven to church and back like she stole it.
Only driven on Sundays, a quarter-mile at a time.
@@nlpnt ....or regularly around Oran Park, Amaroo, or Calder!
So much of the descriptions in this video apply today
This was the peak.
Interesting period in Australian history. Decimal currency would've just been adopted.
Ah, 1965 - the time to be alive!
Indeed, a damn sight better than 2023........
I was, but too young to remember.
1966 wasn't bad either. (The year I was born)
It was 1966, as there were brand new HD Holdens for sale!
My father bought one in the late 60's, & I learnt to drive it in 1979!
(Holden was an auto gearbox, but I bought a manual Mini, then bunny-hopped it a few times until I got the hang of it!)
Kangaroos driving cars??? What has the world come to
I know, cut back on cigarettes!
William St was the CAR STREET.
They also showed parts of Parramatta Road, which was and still has many dealers' yards!
This is a curious and odd watch, having British production styles but all Australian it marks a unique moment in time just prior to Australia taking a more compete role in its own documentary recording. Kind of making this film the equivalent of an awkward teenager learning the ropes but doing a pretty good job.
The British Had To Help Australia Industrialize Because In WW2 Australia Was Isolated By Japan And The British Could Not Supply Australia With Arms, Ammunition And Aircraft As The Empire Japan Controlled The Sea Lanes In South East Asia
German U Boats Controlled The Atlantic So Great Britain Could Not Send Weapons To Australia
Moreover To Increase Australia's Population Immigration From Great Britain Was Encouraged, The Ten Pound Pome Program Of 1948
Uk also sent its convicts to Australia, a few of my older family members live in Brisbane
Give up The Smokes Not The Car!
I love that Thunderbird
Would love to see Caravaning
"The motor car,is here to stay...". No way!.
Those crazy teenagers in their bullnose Morris Cowley!
Great times l used to collect and sell coke and Pepsi bottles for three pennies and buy fish and chips beautiful times.
Lol well unfortunately it’s not 1966 anymore, if it was we might have a nice time, now you Aussies are all prisoners once again…😂
Funny that they're describing the beginnings of road rage. humans get behind the wheel of a vehicle they change.
"I have no use for a Ute" said no Australian Man ever.
Seriously though you don't really need one cos every Aussie has at least one or two mates who do have a Ute.
Except he was married with children!
@@stevie-ray2020 Well there's your problem then. Someone should call Al Bundy.
Bit off more than he could chew, he should have settled for the first car at 75 Dollars or Was It 750 Dollars
It looked like an Austin Hereford Or Somerset From The Early 1950s
Steady Reliable Cars Albeit Shaped Like Peanuts
I worked with a bloke who was an ex junkie. He used to test drive cars and park them when they ran out of fuel. Then take another test drive. Lol
Todays version would see him launch his car into the car lot, damaging multiple cars , getting out and handing his Insurance card to the Salesman.....Fade Out
5D? Is that a new cinematic sensory experience, or does it stand for 5 Dollarydoos?
d = Penny That would be 5 Pence per mile. Yeah, pre decimal currency and metric.
the old Sydney, thanks for nothing Kalergi
Cars had so much more character back then. Modern counterparts are boring and unimaginative by comparison.
These cars are better made than the crap of today.
Better looking yes, but not made.
@jackiron4785 They are, a lot of plastic is used today and engines are only supposed to last 4 years , cars made in the last 15 years are not good.
I had an FB holden then an EH then a Torana and they were all rust bucket cr@p. I've still got my 2004 Subaru and its perfect.
@wesleycardinal8869 The last 15 years are not that good, pre 2005 are good.
I stand corrected! Valid points , all of them.
Wonderful Nostalgia!
However, a Non-Woke Addendum.
The video creators wish to acknowledge and appreciate the hard work of Capt. James Cook RN, for discovering this barbarous continent and bringing civilisation to it 😂
I miss the 1960s, not the mental illness hippy 1960s, but the logical sane middle class 1960s
Being born at the end of 1959, that's the sort of family life I grew up in! Boring half the time, but safe!
@@stevie-ray2020 Its crazy how family norms have become the sub culture like the hippys were back then. Progressivism is now mainstream. And man, do I have contempt for its selfish egoist ideology of ‘Do as I Say, because I know what’s best for you’ 😑 Its a bad religion.
Just Tell Anne To Do Her Chores Or She Will Be Homeless, How Shameful Not Helping Mum With Household Chores
Lighting up a Cigarette in a Shop!
Lighting up a Cigarette in a Newsagent Shop!
Mate..... Do a Risk Assessment! WHS Rules.
Risk Assessment says, "Vape Mate"
Australia existed back then?
Yes, I thought Paul Hogan invented it in the 80s
@@tomdalton4293 bro, get outta my head!
Yes It Did
It really only existed up till then. With the coming of whitlam it started to return to the convict era.
I'm 7th generation Aussie on my Dad's side, 8th generation on my Mum's, & was born here in 1959!, .... but my family still wasn't descended from First Fleeters!
OK, as an Aussie, I’ve so far only viewed the first 10 minutes of this video.
Listen to the narrator - so we embraced (as Australians) this BBC-derived British accent as late as 1966 ? Please tell me I’m imagining something here …
At this time I was only 13 years old.
Little did I know (at the time) how much we were still joined at the hip to British culture.
I was was born in England and my family emigrated to Western Australia in 1958 when I was 5 years old.
By the time that this film was made ( 8 years later) I was 13 years old and pretty much assimilated into the Australian way of speaking and doing things.
Who were the producers of this film catering to ?
I have to think they were catering to the older group(s) that imagined they still had the money and influence to dictate Australian culture at the time.
At best, those people were a mob of delusional pretenders, to say the least
well, delusional might be going a bit far…?
The Guy At The Traffic Lights Dreaming About Being A Formula Driver Is Driving Like Me When I Was 14, Enjoyed Jerking The Car Until I Had To Pay For The Front Wheel Burnt Out Brake Pads, I Never Jerked The Car About After That, As A Teenager It Gives You A Sense Of Power To Jerk The Car About And See The Panic On Your Parents Face, Especially Your Mother And Other Female Members Of Your Family, Absolutely Hilarious But Cruel And Dangerous
8:33 do you orstrayans have some funny law that you have to get into the car from the curb side? I mean, you drive on the wrong side of the road...I get that... but enter from the curb side is just crazy!
I wasn't born yet; but I suspect the habit was facilitated by the bench seat of the day. Climb in at the kerb and slide across. This wasn't possible with modern seats and a gearstick and handbrake. If you watch Hitchcock's Psycho, you see the same habit, even in the US
How much the film director's orders reflected everyday habits of the time I don't know. Before my time.
Saves walking to the other side of the car.
Update your car at kevin denis
NOISE. The single most debilitating side effect of modern life.
I laughed too many overweight businessman should tear up their license