hi ian! i lived just up the road from the giocattolo factory [ large shed really] and was so happy a world class sports car was being produced in my suburb , was so proud! very sad they shut down , reasons i heard was bad deals in race horses stripped the company of ready funds to expand/continue, huge pity.....and we pronounced it gio, catt, oh, low, one more reason they call caloundra "clown town" [nickname] by us kawana waters dwellers
there was a guy racing at the old Eastern Creek Raceway track in this car that was modded. they decided to run the track backwards this time during an event. the final straight is different and shorter at one end because of a bend if done back to front. he was travelling at speeds that when he applied the breaks, they melted. the poor fella ended up into a concrete barrier at 170km/h and passed away
Yeah Todd Wilkes, remember seeing it on the news as a 23 yr old ,was devastating man, my brother and I saw it and him at summernats the previous yr ,it was twin turbo 355 stroker making 850bhp ,he was also the first person to crack 500bhp in a Holden v8 in his previous vs ute which is where the engine came from for his giocatolla. Last I heard the organizers of that event at eastern creek were facing charges, never was confirmed what happened about it. Such a tragedy though he was awesome dude 👌😔
@@5lcalais1 500hp plastic strokers were common even then. A local had one with 530hp without trying with Perfectune heads. On a single 4 bbl and an Edelbrock Torker. This in a Sports Sedan. The modified Holden heads could not keep a headgasket in them!
Oh my god bro!! You finally came across the mighty Giocattolo!! This thing has such an amazing story from it's creator to engine swaps, body swaps, mid engine, rear engine, v6,v8. Awesome stuff!!
Todd Wilkes, Feb 2001, died in his modified twin turbo one of these called "The Judge". Grew up near him and was one of many great car builders in my country area I Iooked up to.
@@benockers9081 yeah, was so sad. He was a lovely guy, never minded chatting cars and when the car club heard (around 200+) we met down the street as usual but was very quiet that night.
The guy who designed the suspension on the Giocattolo, Ex McLaren F1 engineer Barry Lock, also built a very famous Aussie sportscar known initially as the "Kaditcha K583" and later the Romano WE84. It was a DFV F1 powered Group A sportscar driven by an old family friend of ours named Bap Romano. Give that a search Ian. Best sports car we have had out of Australia, well alongside K&A engineerings VESkanda which was also very fast
Having been around K&A when the Kanda was built it was a far better car than the Kaditcha. And was built in mind to be road registerable. There is three, the original, Al Gallaher has/had a race version and a third was built for a road car with a [for emmissions] 308 Holden and all the other items for road compliance inc crimped brakelines etc. Has it been finished?? Dont know but it was well on the way 20+ years ago
@@ldnwholesale8552 I would have to agree at least for the fact that it was more successful in reality than the WE84. I think the Kaditcha was more technologically advanced though, whereas the KandA basically lifted its suspension off a T400 LOLA F5000 and the Romano car was utilising period F1 components and technology, granted the engine was older generation F1 but still effective
The area with the bald hills where he went sideways is Queenstown and 99 bends where I have a house. When I first went down there in my Renaultsport Clio I did the same thing twice! Downhill! Luckily I didn't have to travel too far for my change of underwear.
IWrocker, if you like that VL Commodore, and also love Targa Tasmania, You should check out 'Targa Tasmania 2013: Hunter Holden VL Walkinshaw Highlights'. One of the best videos of Targa. The guy is there to have fun, not be fast. Sideways and drifting everywhere! Also gotta love a 750hp Holden V8 Screaming and sideways. Great viewing, and awesome sound.
Iwrocker - Anyone. I have just watched it, Targa Tasmania 2013: Hunter Holden VL Walkinshaw Highlights, WOW ! Must see: car, driver, scenery. "th-cam.com/video/N1h5B6v6EsU/w-d-xo.html" Good one astroboy308
G'day Ian, starting at 9.17 that is 99 bend road in Queenstown. Yes I have driven it all 99 bends. I've traveled a lot of Tassie. I was lucky my late brother lived in Devonport on the central north coast.. HooRoo mate..
I have sat in one and always remember the story that came with them well.. Many years ago I lived in North Sydney, and there was a place called the "Toy Shop" where they sold exotic cars and other expensive Boy Toys. I somehow got to know the people that worked there well and at one stage they had a red Giocalattolo in there show room.. That's where I managed to get to sit in it.. They were actually Australian compliance plated so were regarded as a production car so despite there being so few actually made they were not classed as a Kit car. The Toy shop staff said they would be selling them and people could order them from them. Plan was there were to be many more made but the car builer ended up going broke before he got the chance to make more..
the 2001 crash was a drag race & was fatal, it was the incident that banned a type of racing where they go down the dragstrip the opposite direction to usual.
Great cars. have come across a few over the years including that 3rd prototype, between having our business at Lakeside and being involved in the tarmac rally /street sprint deal. They were pretty simple yet very effective, although i am fairly sure Barry Lock (ex McLaren F1 engineer) may have had a bit to do with the suspension design, Barry was also initially responsible for the famous DFV Powered "Kaditcha K583" Group A sports car ran by Bap Romano, search for videos on that one and give it a look Ian if you want to see the fastest Aussie sportscar ever.... Giocattolo roughly translated to "Childs Toy" as a play on words as Paul Halstead owned a joint called the Toy Shop.
When I lived in Wagga Wagga in 1988. l was at a friends farm one day when a spaceship screamed past us on the road. It was a car but it may as well been a spaceship as it was like nothing else I'd ever seen. A month later l was in a newsagents when l spotted the spaceship on the cover of 'Street machine' magizine. It was the new 'Walkinshaw commodore'.
I bought the magazine with the Walkinshaw on the cover. And vaguely recall reading that it knocked the poor old GTHO Phase lll off its perch as the fastest ever Australian built 4 door sedan.
Nice one Ian , the car was amazing . I helped patch up one back up in the early 90's at my job in a small fibreglass factory . The boss even had the moulds to make all the panels . Such a shame it went pear shaped . You pronounce it like Ja cat olo . Stay cool mate !!
WoW! Thats a blast from the past! I live in Calounda & was very fortunate to not only see the cars first hand but up close. The rear suspension was certainly unique! Defiantly NOT a Holden! They where their own design & a rocket ship ! When the yellow one was built, he past me one day on the main road (I was in my V8 Holden Panel Van) & he rounded me up like I was standing still, it was fast! There was a rumour getting around that it was actually the Government that killed the production off because of the tariffs they put on the fully imported transverse rear end. It was certainly exciting at the time, we all "thought" there was going to be a locally made sports car (with a Holden V8) with true European design, big boots & something that went like a cut cat!! Such a shame. Thanks for posting
Legendary cars. Paul Halstead, the man responsible for these, also built the first five litre Lamborghini Countach in the world, yes before the Lamborghini factory. It was also converted to a spyder as Paul raced it, because he’s well north of 6 feet tall and with a helmet on its the only way he could fit! Also regulations pretty much required that in case of a rollover crash because of the doors. He also had a Detomaso Pantera GT at one time, which Kevin Bartlett drove. Alfa Romeo did have a connection with Holden much later, as variants of the Alloytec V6 were built by Holden for Alfa. Others were built for Saab (the LP9 turbo 2.8l) and some even went to Cadillac.
Todd Wilkes was a great guy, I only met him three times (friend of a friend type thing) but his passion for making this thing as fast as possible after winning hp heroes was obvious.
Such a tragedy aye, he was an awesome dude 👌 Never met him myself but my brother and I were at the nats the year prior where it made 850bhp (I was only like 22 my brother 16)
@@5lcalais1 Yeah mate, I was only 19 at the time, crazy to think 850 was thereabouts, today it's 1000+ or go home. I think the LS platform and the Barra changed everything, I actually got to tour Nizpro when they were switching from SR/RB to the Fords ands holy crap, seeing that on a dyno.
Wow - blast from the past. I was in the Queensland Government department responsible for industry development back in the 80's. Their job was to attract businesses to Qld and support business growth with loans and industrial land etc. I remember seeing the proposal from Giocattolo Mottori when it came through (funding or industral land in Caloundra - can't remember what they wanted after all these years). The concept was all Alfa Romeo from their factory (mid-engined Alfa V6 in the Alfa Sprint body) - the other engines got slapped in later after the company went belly up I think ... I think there was a good write up in Sports Car World or Wheels at the time.
Sure its already been stated below. But its on youtube Todd Wilkes i think who was a Brisbane local who had one of the first twin turbo commodore utes 'judge' took the motor out of that and stuck it in the Giacottolo and well...thats the end of both of them sadly...you can see them on youtube 'Todd Wilkes Giacattolo'
The ute lives on though, I believe it's even got the judge plates on it again now, back to a vortec blown 355 last I saw (was about 5 yrs ago though so who knows what it's like now)
Very nice little thing. The Toy Shop was also involved with Lamborghini in Sydney and raced a couple. I believe they earlier were involved with De Tomaso and sourced Australian built Ford V8s over to Italy for DeT Pantera and Longchamps cars. Maybe you could search for that story Ian ?
I was a teenager when the Holden Commodore Group A HSV came out, and it was not well received by the motoring press and public. The problem was all the added on fiberglass boddy kit, on the hood, the side skirts, and lower door moldings and the large air dam that raised the rear of the boot height to at least one foot, and hat accompanying rear passenger window fibre glass moldings. The wheels looked cool though, but I remember that they stood in the car dealership and nobody wanted them for a long time. One car dealership had 2 of them and they must have been at the dealership for at least two years. If it wasn't for the silver paint work that seemed to hide the undulations in the fibre glass panels, but if you put car polish on it, it would emphasize the terrible panels. Even the Aussie V8 bogans hated the elaborate fibre glass body kit, which must have added a lot of weight. But today these cars are worth a lot. Had the panels been coach built and formed from sheet metal, it would have been better received. That model of Holden commodore in its basic trim sold strongly, and was just another boring family sedan. They're more or less extinct on the roads today. The following Commodore received the same plastic fantastic body kit treatment called the VN commodore HDT Aero and was even more ugly than the first. The undulations of the fibre glass body kit made the beholders stomach grind with imminent Diarrhea. The Lotus Carlton in the UK was based on the same GM chassis as the commodore, but ran a straight 6 twin turbo had a more sedate and more appealing body kit. Yet it broke a record at the time for being the fastest production 4 door sedan in Europe ahead of slightly heavier and less powered BMW B10 Biturbo Alpina.
Hi mate. So I'm friends with Paul Halstead the creator of the Giocattolo program. I currently look after and maintain his car which is the black car you referred to in the video. Of the 15 made its a 1/1 motor sport special which has been tricked up with an Ian tate engine and AP brakes and a bunch of other things. It now run on a Haltech Elite ECU and the body work is custom to this car including a louvered perspex rear window and 1/4 windows which shows off the beautiful engine and exhaust manifold along with its custom tool kit complete with custom bundy flask specifically made by Bundaberg for Paul and the car as a gift. I can tell you more about these things than most and have full access to the information on these including the build sheets and specs. If anyone wants to see the Black special, We've got it at this years Melbourne F1 GP and it'll be out there doing laps. First things first, let me put some information out there 1) It's pronounced gi-cot-olo. Paul made the car and thats how its pronounced 2) It was the first ever production car IN THE WORLD to use a carbon fibre bulk head as a structural member of the car 3) Barry lock (Mclaren F1 engineer) Did alot of the design work for all of the suspension and mechanical so the damn things handle and drive 4) They run a twin rear shocker setup with a ZF tansaxle gearbox with the brakes mounted in board 5) The engine is a Holden 304 not 308 engine, theyre EFI and run they're own camshaft specs and have a slightly different more advanced engine setup than the VL Walkinshaws. In fact back in the day HSV tried to obtain the cam specs for their own cars as these cars produced more power and were still drive able as an everyday car. 6) There was a lot of politics with the production of the cars. It is true that the cars had to be sourced overseas from New Zealand then stripped apart to allow the project to happen. The Queensland government supported the project but local councils and government later were againt it. 7) Alan Jones (former F1 driver) even took the car for a spin and rated it highly back in the day. Paul is currently working on a Giocattolo mark 2 which again has been designed with the help of Barry Lock, this car is completely different and will be an open top with NA 14 litre W16 consisting of 2 motorsport built LS7's put together with a gear mechanism to synchronise them. as I write this we are currently still working on smaller details on the car such as figuring out the dry sumps made for us by Daily engineering and fitment of pipes and lines etc. If you tube allowed it i could upload photos but feel free to google Hyper Rod to see renderings and some engine pics.
Makes a lot of sense really. At the time, the quickest Sports Sedan in the country was Tony Edmondsons Alfetta GT powered by a Chev. It was an absolute work of art. Tony almost burned to death in a terrible accident at Lakeside on the Gold Coast but his patron, a Hobart car dealer had another one built and it was unbeatable. In fact, if you watch current Sports Sedan Racing in Oz, the current champion car is almost identical. Small, well balanced, an aerodynamically slippery body with a stonking beast of a motor. It makes perfect sense that someone would develop a road going version.
@@timjohnun4297 Ricciardello's is the same one that was driven by Brian Smith for his father in the '90s. The car Edmonson had before the Alfa was John McCormack's Chrysler Valiant Charger with Repco-Holden V8, which was an F5000 engine. Seems Edmonson's Alfa also had a Repco-Holden initially, before switching to a Chev V8 later on.
What is a more interesting Australian adaptation and also was manufactured in Queensland, Australia was the “ BULLET” based on the Mazda MX-5 roadster that was initially powered by. Mazda rotary but later powered by a V8 and is quite a weapon and worthwhile you checking out
The only reason I ever heard of the Giocattolo was because I watched the Judge slam into the wall ( RIP ), since then I've been interested in these little rocket ships lol
@@41956 it was unfortunate as they were running downhill. Typically the drag strip was uphill before wsid was built and had a run off. From memory it was a stuck throttle that caused the fatality.
@@Greg.... Don't think it was a stuck throttle - the event was a high speed run down the straight a the then Oran Park (now Sydney Motorsport Park). The event organisers wanted to have the cars come down the straight and around the first corner to slow down but CAMS did not want unlicensed drivers (CAMS license not regular driver's license) taking corners at high speed so they had to just stop in a straight line, none of the drivers had any practice runs so did not know their braking points. Todd's car was just too fast and could not stop in time, the brakes locked and unfortunately that was that. Todd was unconscious and could not be retrieved from the car due to the flames. The worst part was seeing his brother run out from the pit area and have to be held back by security. RIP Todd.
I worked with Paul Halstead back in 1965 when he shoehorned a Holden grey motor into a Triumph Herald convertible.This was prior to his entry into the computer field.
If you like cool/weird cars with an Aussie connection, check out the De Tomaso Pantera. An Argentinian bought the Ghia factory in Italy and created the Pantera which ran a Ford V8 from a Lincoln. When Ford stopped the production, a Sydney company got involved to supply the Aussie-built version. They are a very cool looking car, I’ve seen one in the flesh.
I may have a magazine about this car from when I was kid.. The Car press in Australia was behind it.. I had no Idea that this car was such a mystery. Teenage dreams of this car :)
I love the blue Giocattolo in the first video.....I want it!! BTW Ian, I have never heard of this until now, thanks again for a great informative video.
As the video said, the man behind the project was Aussie millionaire, Paul Halstead. I have photos of a blue one I saw in Brissie in 1988. Just a small production run of a mental vehicle. There was a lot of publicity on it's launch in 1988 but as the internet wasn't around then, not much has made it online.
Internet is strange in that some things that were quite well documented before the internet have become lost since, now we have the websites of car magazines that straight up copy paste wikipedia article that are less detailed & contradictory to their own well researched print articles from the 80s & 90s. I can remember seeing Giocattolos for sale in Unique Cars for $10-15grand in the early 90s.
That Walkinshaw VL is one of the most pricey classic Aussie muscle cars - my favourite model of the Commodores, so biased - but I would also take the Commodore if I had a choice.
Those Walkinshaw commodores were the epitome of bad taste with plastic panels simply stuck on everywhere they could find a space, great example of less is more sometimes. PS, just watched Ross reviews headed Modified F6 V Modified GT The battle of the Aussie fords. Both beautiful cars that go like cut cats and sound even better.
I'm lucky enough to live in Tasmania. In my opinion, the best part is it's natural beauty. As a car lover, massive Holden fan and a bloke that loves going fast and cornering hard on all sorts of surfaces, the more challenging the better, the second best thing about Tassie is that nearly every roads a ribbon. If ya not going left or right, ya going up or down and mostly a combination of the above.
I remember watching back in the day Tod.. rip... (the Judge) at the Summernats Horse Power hero's he was number 1 for a few years Im pretty sure and was was one of the 1st to turbo the ole v8 and get pretty crazy hp for its time
I remember seeing one at World Expo 88 when I was a kid and took photos of it. I still have the photos too. There's another idea for a video, check out World Expo 88 in Brisbane,
I actually had this one come into the workshop where I started my apprenticeship in the 90's when it was owned by the older ower, I remember having a laugh when we looked for a spare tyre and all that was there was wine and glasses to have a drink instead. th-cam.com/video/7r_9a0Z8XSs/w-d-xo.html
There were originally 100 planned, but Alfa Romeo reneged on the deal about sending Alfasud Sprint cars sans powertrain, then sending complete cars and Alfa Romeo Australia buying the unused parts but that didn't work out either. The project just ended up making the vehicles too expensive for the market to handle at the time. First Vehicle to have the Holden 'Iron Lion' fuel injected engine installed though, beating HSV!
Ian, the Elfin MS8 Clubman & Streamliner also had a bit of a Holden connection. Elfin was an old racing car manufacturer that was revived in the early 2000s with these cars. Powered by the GM 5.7 V8 same as the Commodore, Monaro/GTO and I think I remember that the guy that styled the Monaro styled this little sports cars. Not 100% sure but I think that was the story. BTW these things are pretty tiny for a 5.7 V8 th-cam.com/video/yi_XudG2X0A/w-d-xo.html
I remember reading about these in the Aussie car mags at the time. If anyone had a collection of them, they might be able to give more info on them. I did have them all from the time they 1st came out until the late 90s but dumped them because they just took up too much space
The Giocattolo was originally based on a heavily modified Alfa Romeo Sprint body shell with a mid-mounted Alfa V6 engine. By the fourth prototype, the V6 engine had proved to be too difficult and expensive to import and install in the car, so the company replaced the projected V6 by a Holden V8 engine built by Holden Special Vehicles. As well as being cheaper, these engines had more power than the Alfa engines they had originally intended to use; the reported top speed of the V8-powered Giocattolo was 160 mph (257 km/h). Power was 190 kW (255 hp). It is unknown what happened to the factory Sprint engines and gearboxes that were taken from the cars. Including the Alfa-powered third prototype (which was rebuilt and re-fitted with the Holden V8 after an accident with a police car almost destroyed the vehicle), just fifteen Giocattolos were built before the company folded in 1989. Thirteen of the fifteen cars are believed to still be in existence and one is unaccounted for. The other - Build No. 007 - was infamously destroyed in a fiery high-speed crash at Eastern Creek Raceway in February 2001, killing the driver, 29-year-old Todd Wilkes
I've never heard of this either. Cool car. Many different makes of car in Oz had Holden engines in them back then. They were cheap, reliable and easy to fix. Seen a few Toyota Crown swap overs for a 186. The 253 V8 was another one, drop one of those into the front of and old Mercedes, or squeeze a 350 into the front end of a Holden/Isuzu Gemini Coupe with the obligatory Ford 9 inch differential.🤣
Hey mate, Paul Halstead is my uncle, if you have any questions please feel free to msg me I can fill you in and while you're at it check out the new one he is building at the moment called the Giocattolo Marcella! (Pronounced gee-oh-cat-oloh)
They were built in my adopted home of Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast QLD Theres still a few around here, the story of the guy who built them is INSANE These were the Death Knel for the Auto Salon shows too as a twin turbo one (JUDGE) hit the wall going DOWNHILL at Eastern creek at 300kph and ended the life of the driver/builder and of AutoSalon as well Why they chose to do a High Speed run DOWN the front straight at Eastern Creek (when everything inc Top Fuelers) ran UP the hill is still beyond me This was waaaaaayy before the dragway was built for those about to comment
Just got a notification that they will be closing our road for a stage of Targa next month. Coming right past our house. Cant wait. I'll be sitting out front with a few beers. Greetings from Tassie.
Modern Motor magazine did 7 or 8 articles years ago when the creator (Paul Giocattolo I think?) first had the brainwave while out cruising with his mates. Pretty sure he was an Italian / Aussie millionaire that wanted to be the Aussie "Tucker". Heaps of dreams and ideas but with very little to none engineering or motor car manufacturing experience. Would have been an awesome machine if he'd been able to get the Italians to come to the party. I love the look of it. I reckon If you look close it has hallmarks of XUI or A9X lines but with Italian x-factor. Once he'd got the engine to fit, it had no power, found a better engine, made it fit, couldn't get the bodies cheap enough. Tried designing one then found out what's involved. Ran out of money and desire. Went back to buying and selling big boys toys instead of trying to make them. Should have been a better ending for such a cool down-under concept car
You may enjoy West Aussie driver, Tony Ricciardello and his Chevy V8-powered 19 year old Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV winning the Sports Sedan title against many later cars which saw him on the podium 15 times and winning 10 times.
Lake side is a great track to watch historic racing torana,s and Mazda rx,s suit the track . It was going to get ripped apart because of noise complaints from people who moved to the area luckily it was listed as historical significance and protected.
6 min in and I'm liking that car a whole lot more... Holden did release the Italian Piazza in '86, not sure they sold too many..... now watch The Castle (1997)
G'Day Richard, I love old Holdens too, I'm nearly 60 and saw the release, Deadly accident at Eastern Creek, and Trials by the Qld Police of the Ciocattolo. But I never knew that there was a Holden involvement. Gotta love the oldies, Cheers.
Being such a small car with a group a motor would be a rocket if you could get the power down looked like the guy was taking it pretty easy as you would for such a rare vehicle
Please somebody correct me if I'm wrong. But I vaguely remember a story about the QLD govt pre ordering 90 to be built as highway pursuit cars. But then backing out of the deal because they were only 2 seaters and another car would need to be called to transport someone. Not sure how or if this played into their downfall financially. But hey... I'm old and so is my failing memory. lol
A mates Dad had a yellow one. Drove it a few times. It could beat all the European sports cars no worries, and you could launch it over and over. Unlike the Euro's. Cheers
DID U SEE the CAR in the ditch surrounded by YELLOW TAPE as the blue geocolado (phonetic spelling) raced past it? Some poor bugger ran off the road the night before possibly.
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These would have Been a perfect use of the the UC Holden coupe's and that base would have had the longer proportions ,, as the UC was looked down on over the lh and lx toranas of previous years tho now even a UC four banger pull the coin now lol
hi ian! i lived just up the road from the giocattolo factory [ large shed really] and was so happy a world class sports car was being produced in my suburb , was so proud! very sad they shut down , reasons i heard was bad deals in race horses stripped the company of ready funds to expand/continue, huge pity.....and we pronounced it gio, catt, oh, low, one more reason they call caloundra "clown town" [nickname] by us kawana waters dwellers
there was a guy racing at the old Eastern Creek Raceway track in this car that was modded. they decided to run the track backwards this time during an event. the final straight is different and shorter at one end because of a bend if done back to front. he was travelling at speeds that when he applied the breaks, they melted. the poor fella ended up into a concrete barrier at 170km/h and passed away
Todd wilkes was his name.
I was looking for this comment & I also remember when this happened. RIP
Yeah Todd Wilkes, remember seeing it on the news as a 23 yr old ,was devastating man, my brother and I saw it and him at summernats the previous yr ,it was twin turbo 355 stroker making 850bhp ,he was also the first person to crack 500bhp in a Holden v8 in his previous vs ute which is where the engine came from for his giocatolla.
Last I heard the organizers of that event at eastern creek were facing charges, never was confirmed what happened about it. Such a tragedy though he was awesome dude 👌😔
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@@5lcalais1 500hp plastic strokers were common even then. A local had one with 530hp without trying with Perfectune heads. On a single 4 bbl and an Edelbrock Torker. This in a Sports Sedan. The modified Holden heads could not keep a headgasket in them!
Oh my god bro!! You finally came across the mighty Giocattolo!! This thing has such an amazing story from it's creator to engine swaps, body swaps, mid engine, rear engine, v6,v8. Awesome stuff!!
Todd Wilkes, Feb 2001, died in his modified twin turbo one of these called "The Judge". Grew up near him and was one of many great car builders in my country area I Iooked up to.
I was going to mention that guy too. I still remember that crash.
@@benockers9081 yeah, was so sad. He was a lovely guy, never minded chatting cars and when the car club heard (around 200+) we met down the street as usual but was very quiet that night.
The guy who designed the suspension on the Giocattolo, Ex McLaren F1 engineer Barry Lock, also built a very famous Aussie sportscar known initially as the "Kaditcha K583" and later the Romano WE84. It was a DFV F1 powered Group A sportscar driven by an old family friend of ours named Bap Romano. Give that a search Ian. Best sports car we have had out of Australia, well alongside K&A engineerings VESkanda which was also very fast
Having been around K&A when the Kanda was built it was a far better car than the Kaditcha. And was built in mind to be road registerable.
There is three, the original, Al Gallaher has/had a race version and a third was built for a road car with a [for emmissions] 308 Holden and all the other items for road compliance inc crimped brakelines etc. Has it been finished?? Dont know but it was well on the way 20+ years ago
@@ldnwholesale8552 I would have to agree at least for the fact that it was more successful in reality than the WE84. I think the Kaditcha was more technologically advanced though, whereas the KandA basically lifted its suspension off a T400 LOLA F5000 and the Romano car was utilising period F1 components and technology, granted the engine was older generation F1 but still effective
The area with the bald hills where he went sideways is Queenstown and 99 bends where I have a house. When I first went down there in my Renaultsport Clio I did the same thing twice! Downhill! Luckily I didn't have to travel too far for my change of underwear.
IWrocker, if you like that VL Commodore, and also love Targa Tasmania, You should check out 'Targa Tasmania 2013: Hunter Holden VL Walkinshaw Highlights'. One of the best videos of Targa. The guy is there to have fun, not be fast. Sideways and drifting everywhere! Also gotta love a 750hp Holden V8 Screaming and sideways. Great viewing, and awesome sound.
Iwrocker - Anyone. I have just watched it, Targa Tasmania 2013: Hunter Holden VL Walkinshaw Highlights, WOW !
Must see: car, driver, scenery.
"th-cam.com/video/N1h5B6v6EsU/w-d-xo.html"
Good one
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G'day Ian, starting at 9.17 that is 99 bend road in Queenstown. Yes I have driven it all 99 bends. I've traveled a lot of Tassie. I was lucky my late brother lived in Devonport on the central north coast.. HooRoo mate..
I have sat in one and always remember the story that came with them well.. Many years ago I lived in North Sydney, and there was a place called the "Toy Shop" where they sold exotic cars and other expensive Boy Toys. I somehow got to know the people that worked there well and at one stage they had a red Giocalattolo in there show room.. That's where I managed to get to sit in it.. They were actually Australian compliance plated so were regarded as a production car so despite there being so few actually made they were not classed as a Kit car. The Toy shop staff said they would be selling them and people could order them from them. Plan was there were to be many more made but the car builer ended up going broke before he got the chance to make more..
RIP to the ‘The Judge’, Todd Wilkes.
the 2001 crash was a drag race & was fatal, it was the incident that banned a type of racing where they go down the dragstrip the opposite direction to usual.
Great cars. have come across a few over the years including that 3rd prototype, between having our business at Lakeside and being involved in the tarmac rally /street sprint deal. They were pretty simple yet very effective, although i am fairly sure Barry Lock (ex McLaren F1 engineer) may have had a bit to do with the suspension design, Barry was also initially responsible for the famous DFV Powered "Kaditcha K583" Group A sports car ran by Bap Romano, search for videos on that one and give it a look Ian if you want to see the fastest Aussie sportscar ever.... Giocattolo roughly translated to "Childs Toy" as a play on words as Paul Halstead owned a joint called the Toy Shop.
When I lived in Wagga Wagga in 1988. l was at a friends farm one day when a spaceship screamed past us on the road. It was a car but it may as well been a spaceship as it was like nothing else I'd ever seen. A month later l was in a newsagents when l spotted the spaceship on the cover of 'Street machine' magizine. It was the new 'Walkinshaw commodore'.
I bought the magazine with the Walkinshaw on the cover. And vaguely recall reading that it knocked the poor old GTHO Phase lll off its perch as the fastest ever Australian built 4 door sedan.
Nice one Ian , the car was amazing . I helped patch up one back up in the early 90's at my job in a small fibreglass factory . The boss even had the moulds to make all the panels . Such a shame it went pear shaped . You pronounce it like Ja cat olo . Stay cool mate !!
WoW! Thats a blast from the past! I live in Calounda & was very fortunate to not only see the cars first hand but up close. The rear suspension was certainly unique! Defiantly NOT a Holden! They where their own design & a rocket ship ! When the yellow one was built, he past me one day on the main road (I was in my V8 Holden Panel Van) & he rounded me up like I was standing still, it was fast! There was a rumour getting around that it was actually the Government that killed the production off because of the tariffs they put on the fully imported transverse rear end. It was certainly exciting at the time, we all "thought" there was going to be a locally made sports car (with a Holden V8) with true European design, big boots & something that went like a cut cat!! Such a shame. Thanks for posting
that commodore had the nickname the "plastic pig" because of all the add on's
Foulcans vs. Dunnydores!
Legendary cars. Paul Halstead, the man responsible for these, also built the first five litre Lamborghini Countach in the world, yes before the Lamborghini factory. It was also converted to a spyder as Paul raced it, because he’s well north of 6 feet tall and with a helmet on its the only way he could fit! Also regulations pretty much required that in case of a rollover crash because of the doors. He also had a Detomaso Pantera GT at one time, which Kevin Bartlett drove.
Alfa Romeo did have a connection with Holden much later, as variants of the Alloytec V6 were built by Holden for Alfa. Others were built for Saab (the LP9 turbo 2.8l) and some even went to Cadillac.
Todd Wilkes was a great guy, I only met him three times (friend of a friend type thing) but his passion for making this thing as fast as possible after winning hp heroes was obvious.
Such a tragedy aye, he was an awesome dude 👌
Never met him myself but my brother and I were at the nats the year prior where it made 850bhp (I was only like 22 my brother 16)
@@5lcalais1 Yeah mate, I was only 19 at the time, crazy to think 850 was thereabouts, today it's 1000+ or go home.
I think the LS platform and the Barra changed everything, I actually got to tour Nizpro when they were switching from SR/RB to the Fords ands holy crap, seeing that on a dyno.
Wow - blast from the past. I was in the Queensland Government department responsible for industry development back in the 80's. Their job was to attract businesses to Qld and support business growth with loans and industrial land etc. I remember seeing the proposal from Giocattolo Mottori when it came through (funding or industral land in Caloundra - can't remember what they wanted after all these years). The concept was all Alfa Romeo from their factory (mid-engined Alfa V6 in the Alfa Sprint body) - the other engines got slapped in later after the company went belly up I think ... I think there was a good write up in Sports Car World or Wheels at the time.
Exactly. Holden ?? Yeah right !!
Sure its already been stated below. But its on youtube Todd Wilkes i think who was a Brisbane local who had one of the first twin turbo commodore utes 'judge' took the motor out of that and stuck it in the Giacottolo and well...thats the end of both of them sadly...you can see them on youtube 'Todd Wilkes Giacattolo'
The ute lives on though, I believe it's even got the judge plates on it again now, back to a vortec blown 355 last I saw (was about 5 yrs ago though so who knows what it's like now)
Paul Halstead in Sydney who owned the Toy Shop in Nth Sydney started it all off with the V6.
Very nice little thing. The Toy Shop was also involved with Lamborghini in Sydney and raced a couple. I believe they earlier were involved with De Tomaso and sourced Australian built Ford V8s over to Italy for DeT Pantera and Longchamps cars. Maybe you could search for that story Ian ?
I was a teenager when the Holden Commodore Group A HSV came out, and it was not well received by the motoring press and public. The problem was all the added on fiberglass boddy kit, on the hood, the side skirts, and lower door moldings and the large air dam that raised the rear of the boot height to at least one foot, and hat accompanying rear passenger window fibre glass moldings. The wheels looked cool though, but I remember that they stood in the car dealership and nobody wanted them for a long time. One car dealership had 2 of them and they must have been at the dealership for at least two years. If it wasn't for the silver paint work that seemed to hide the undulations in the fibre glass panels, but if you put car polish on it, it would emphasize the terrible panels.
Even the Aussie V8 bogans hated the elaborate fibre glass body kit, which must have added a lot of weight. But today these cars are worth a lot.
Had the panels been coach built and formed from sheet metal, it would have been better received.
That model of Holden commodore in its basic trim sold strongly, and was just another boring family sedan. They're more or less extinct on the roads today.
The following Commodore received the same plastic fantastic body kit treatment called the VN commodore HDT Aero and was even more ugly than the first. The undulations of the fibre glass body kit made the beholders stomach grind with imminent Diarrhea.
The Lotus Carlton in the UK was based on the same GM chassis as the commodore, but ran a straight 6 twin turbo had a more sedate and more appealing body kit. Yet it broke a record at the time for being the fastest production 4 door sedan in Europe ahead of slightly heavier and less powered BMW B10 Biturbo Alpina.
Hi mate. So I'm friends with Paul Halstead the creator of the Giocattolo program. I currently look after and maintain his car which is the black car you referred to in the video. Of the 15 made its a 1/1 motor sport special which has been tricked up with an Ian tate engine and AP brakes and a bunch of other things. It now run on a Haltech Elite ECU and the body work is custom to this car including a louvered perspex rear window and 1/4 windows which shows off the beautiful engine and exhaust manifold along with its custom tool kit complete with custom bundy flask specifically made by Bundaberg for Paul and the car as a gift. I can tell you more about these things than most and have full access to the information on these including the build sheets and specs. If anyone wants to see the Black special, We've got it at this years Melbourne F1 GP and it'll be out there doing laps. First things first, let me put some information out there
1) It's pronounced gi-cot-olo. Paul made the car and thats how its pronounced
2) It was the first ever production car IN THE WORLD to use a carbon fibre bulk head as a structural member of the car
3) Barry lock (Mclaren F1 engineer) Did alot of the design work for all of the suspension and mechanical so the damn things handle and drive
4) They run a twin rear shocker setup with a ZF tansaxle gearbox with the brakes mounted in board
5) The engine is a Holden 304 not 308 engine, theyre EFI and run they're own camshaft specs and have a slightly different more advanced engine setup than the VL Walkinshaws. In fact back in the day HSV tried to obtain the cam specs for their own cars as these cars produced more power and were still drive able as an everyday car.
6) There was a lot of politics with the production of the cars. It is true that the cars had to be sourced overseas from New Zealand then stripped apart to allow the project to happen. The Queensland government supported the project but local councils and government later were againt it.
7) Alan Jones (former F1 driver) even took the car for a spin and rated it highly back in the day.
Paul is currently working on a Giocattolo mark 2 which again has been designed with the help of Barry Lock, this car is completely different and will be an open top with NA 14 litre W16 consisting of 2 motorsport built LS7's put together with a gear mechanism to synchronise them.
as I write this we are currently still working on smaller details on the car such as figuring out the dry sumps made for us by Daily engineering and fitment of pipes and lines etc.
If you tube allowed it i could upload photos but feel free to google Hyper Rod to see renderings and some engine pics.
Makes a lot of sense really. At the time, the quickest Sports Sedan in the country was Tony Edmondsons Alfetta GT powered by a Chev. It was an absolute work of art. Tony almost burned to death in a terrible accident at Lakeside on the Gold Coast but his patron, a Hobart car dealer had another one built and it was unbeatable. In fact, if you watch current Sports Sedan Racing in Oz, the current champion car is almost identical. Small, well balanced, an aerodynamically slippery body with a stonking beast of a motor. It makes perfect sense that someone would develop a road going version.
Is that the Ricciardello one? I remember Edmondson's well, I often wondered if it was the same car
@@timjohnun4297 I have also been wondering. If so, it must be at least 40 years old, and still winning.
@@mikechandler229 Apparently built in 1992 by K&A Engineering, the same people who built the Edmonson car. I tried to post a link, but it disappeared
@@timjohnun4297 Ricciardello's is the same one that was driven by Brian Smith for his father in the '90s.
The car Edmonson had before the Alfa was John McCormack's Chrysler Valiant Charger with Repco-Holden V8, which was an F5000 engine.
Seems Edmonson's Alfa also had a Repco-Holden initially, before switching to a Chev V8 later on.
@@timjohnun4297 thanks for that. I still find that Alfa body beautiful. It really hasn't dated to my mind. Ricciardellos goes like a cut snake.
What is a more interesting Australian adaptation and also was manufactured in Queensland, Australia was the “ BULLET” based on the Mazda MX-5 roadster that was initially powered by. Mazda rotary but later powered by a V8 and is quite a weapon and worthwhile you checking out
The only reason I ever heard of the Giocattolo was because I watched the Judge slam into the wall ( RIP ), since then I've been interested in these little rocket ships lol
Twin turbo v8
todd wilkes?
@@Greg.... yes, the name escaped me. He was the first one to do a tein turbo set up on a v8.
@@41956 it was unfortunate as they were running downhill. Typically the drag strip was uphill before wsid was built and had a run off. From memory it was a stuck throttle that caused the fatality.
@@Greg.... Don't think it was a stuck throttle - the event was a high speed run down the straight a the then Oran Park (now Sydney Motorsport Park). The event organisers wanted to have the cars come down the straight and around the first corner to slow down but CAMS did not want unlicensed drivers (CAMS license not regular driver's license) taking corners at high speed so they had to just stop in a straight line, none of the drivers had any practice runs so did not know their braking points. Todd's car was just too fast and could not stop in time, the brakes locked and unfortunately that was that. Todd was unconscious and could not be retrieved from the car due to the flames. The worst part was seeing his brother run out from the pit area and have to be held back by security. RIP Todd.
I worked with Paul Halstead back in 1965 when he shoehorned a Holden grey motor into a Triumph Herald convertible.This was prior to his entry into the computer field.
If you like cool/weird cars with an Aussie connection, check out the De Tomaso Pantera. An Argentinian bought the Ghia factory in Italy and created the Pantera which ran a Ford V8 from a Lincoln. When Ford stopped the production, a Sydney company got involved to supply the Aussie-built version. They are a very cool looking car, I’ve seen one in the flesh.
I may have a magazine about this car from when I was kid.. The Car press in Australia was behind it.. I had no Idea that this car was such a mystery. Teenage dreams of this car :)
I love the blue Giocattolo in the first video.....I want it!! BTW Ian, I have never heard of this until now, thanks again for a great informative video.
As the video said, the man behind the project was Aussie millionaire, Paul Halstead. I have photos of a blue one I saw in Brissie in 1988. Just a small production run of a mental vehicle. There was a lot of publicity on it's launch in 1988 but as the internet wasn't around then, not much has made it online.
Check out the story of the Holden Overlanders built in Tassie.
I'm a Ford man, but that small body, big V8 in the Giocattolo, that's a winner there.
Internet is strange in that some things that were quite well documented before the internet have become lost since, now we have the websites of car magazines that straight up copy paste wikipedia article that are less detailed & contradictory to their own well researched print articles from the 80s & 90s. I can remember seeing Giocattolos for sale in Unique Cars for $10-15grand in the early 90s.
There was a pair at expo 88 in Brisbane, just inside the entrance.
Being 1988 they were cool AF to me.
That Walkinshaw VL is one of the most pricey classic Aussie muscle cars - my favourite model of the Commodores, so biased - but I would also take the Commodore if I had a choice.
Those Walkinshaw commodores were the epitome of bad taste with plastic panels simply stuck on everywhere they could find a space, great example of less is more sometimes.
PS, just watched Ross reviews headed
Modified F6 V Modified GT
The battle of the Aussie fords. Both beautiful cars that go like cut cats and sound even better.
I know a bloke that had a Bolwell Nagari. Check that one out too.
I'm lucky enough to live in Tasmania. In my opinion, the best part is it's natural beauty.
As a car lover, massive Holden fan and a bloke that loves going fast and cornering hard on all sorts of surfaces, the more challenging the better, the second best thing about Tassie is that nearly every roads a ribbon.
If ya not going left or right, ya going up or down and mostly a combination of the above.
That thing sounded like it had a super charger on it, when it took off there was a definite whine to it...
I remember watching back in the day Tod.. rip... (the Judge) at the Summernats Horse Power hero's he was number 1 for a few years Im pretty sure and was was one of the 1st to turbo the ole v8 and get pretty crazy hp for its time
It was something like 870 hp at the wheels which was unbelievable in the day. Twin turbo and i believe 355 cubes.
I remember seeing one at World Expo 88 when I was a kid and took photos of it. I still have the photos too. There's another idea for a video, check out World Expo 88 in Brisbane,
I actually had this one come into the workshop where I started my apprenticeship in the 90's when it was owned by the older ower, I remember having a laugh when we looked for a spare tyre and all that was there was wine and glasses to have a drink instead. th-cam.com/video/7r_9a0Z8XSs/w-d-xo.html
There were originally 100 planned, but Alfa Romeo reneged on the deal about sending Alfasud Sprint cars sans powertrain, then sending complete cars and Alfa Romeo Australia buying the unused parts but that didn't work out either. The project just ended up making the vehicles too expensive for the market to handle at the time. First Vehicle to have the Holden 'Iron Lion' fuel injected engine installed though, beating HSV!
Ian, the Elfin MS8 Clubman & Streamliner also had a bit of a Holden connection. Elfin was an old racing car manufacturer that was revived in the early 2000s with these cars. Powered by the GM 5.7 V8 same as the Commodore, Monaro/GTO and I think I remember that the guy that styled the Monaro styled this little sports cars. Not 100% sure but I think that was the story. BTW these things are pretty tiny for a 5.7 V8
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I remember reading about these in the Aussie car mags at the time. If anyone had a collection of them, they might be able to give more info on them. I did have them all from the time they 1st came out until the late 90s but dumped them because they just took up too much space
The Giocattolo was originally based on a heavily modified Alfa Romeo Sprint body shell with a mid-mounted Alfa V6 engine. By the fourth prototype, the V6 engine had proved to be too difficult and expensive to import and install in the car, so the company replaced the projected V6 by a Holden V8 engine built by Holden Special Vehicles. As well as being cheaper, these engines had more power than the Alfa engines they had originally intended to use; the reported top speed of the V8-powered Giocattolo was 160 mph (257 km/h). Power was 190 kW (255 hp). It is unknown what happened to the factory Sprint engines and gearboxes that were taken from the cars.
Including the Alfa-powered third prototype (which was rebuilt and re-fitted with the Holden V8 after an accident with a police car almost destroyed the vehicle), just fifteen Giocattolos were built before the company folded in 1989. Thirteen of the fifteen cars are believed to still be in existence and one is unaccounted for. The other - Build No. 007 - was infamously destroyed in a fiery high-speed crash at Eastern Creek Raceway in February 2001, killing the driver, 29-year-old Todd Wilkes
I've never heard of this either. Cool car. Many different makes of car in Oz had Holden engines in them back then. They were cheap, reliable and easy to fix. Seen a few Toyota Crown swap overs for a 186. The 253 V8 was another one, drop one of those into the front of and old Mercedes, or squeeze a 350 into the front end of a Holden/Isuzu Gemini Coupe with the obligatory Ford 9 inch differential.🤣
Hi Ian. You need to check out Blend Line TV video of a 67 XT Falcon around Bathurst running a NASCAR engine. Cheers and keep up the good work.
Hey mate, Paul Halstead is my uncle, if you have any questions please feel free to msg me I can fill you in and while you're at it check out the new one he is building at the moment called the Giocattolo Marcella!
(Pronounced gee-oh-cat-oloh)
They were built in my adopted home of Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast QLD
Theres still a few around here, the story of the guy who built them is INSANE
These were the Death Knel for the Auto Salon shows too as a twin turbo one (JUDGE) hit the wall going DOWNHILL at Eastern creek at 300kph and ended the life of the driver/builder and of AutoSalon as well
Why they chose to do a High Speed run DOWN the front straight at Eastern Creek (when everything inc Top Fuelers) ran UP the hill is still beyond me
This was waaaaaayy before the dragway was built for those about to comment
wasn't a holden, was a limited edition based on holden running gear with modded alfa body
Pretty sure a red one was on display at Expo 88. It looked good in person, but my memory maybe wrong.
Just got a notification that they will be closing our road for a stage of Targa next month. Coming right past our house. Cant wait. I'll be sitting out front with a few beers. Greetings from Tassie.
9:48 Did they mention it was supercharged? Sounds like it here.
Look up the Purvis eureka
They're a lovely-looking and sounding motorcar. I'd have one. They'd be a ton of fun.
Have a look at todd wilkes giocattolo
Modern Motor magazine did 7 or 8 articles years ago when the creator (Paul Giocattolo I think?) first had the brainwave while out cruising with his mates. Pretty sure he was an Italian / Aussie millionaire that wanted to be the Aussie "Tucker". Heaps of dreams and ideas but with very little to none engineering or motor car manufacturing experience. Would have been an awesome machine if he'd been able to get the Italians to come to the party. I love the look of it. I reckon If you look close it has hallmarks of XUI or A9X lines but with Italian x-factor. Once he'd got the engine to fit, it had no power, found a better engine, made it fit, couldn't get the bodies cheap enough. Tried designing one then found out what's involved. Ran out of money and desire. Went back to buying and selling big boys toys instead of trying to make them. Should have been a better ending for such a cool down-under concept car
Not Paul Giocattolo it was Paul Halstead..
@@borismcfinnigan3430 That's him, cheers, Was trying to rack my brain after 40 years!!
Amanda Keller went to university in Bathurst by the way.
You may enjoy West Aussie driver, Tony Ricciardello and his Chevy V8-powered 19 year old Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV winning the Sports Sedan title against many later cars which saw him on the podium 15 times and winning 10 times.
Always loved these, only ever seen one at a show years ago. Bonkers but weirdly good looking lol.
No 7 belonged to a legend named Todd Wilkes a Aussie horsepower hero with his twin turbo stroker easily making 850rwhp, what a way to go! rip todd
It's a bit like a smaller version of the Ford Pantera. Italian body but with US Ford running gear.
Lake side is a great track to watch historic racing torana,s and Mazda rx,s suit the track . It was going to get ripped apart because of noise complaints from people who moved to the area luckily it was listed as historical significance and protected.
I do remember the Toy Shop in North Sydney
Wheels are Simmons, I believe because that's what they look like.
That pronunciation of Giocattolo 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@iwrocker you should check out the Holden (Isuzu) Piazza - a Turbo Hot Hatch from the man who designed the DeLorean built between 1981 - 90.
Proper pronunciation is Jia cat alow (like bungalow).
6 min in and I'm liking that car a whole lot more... Holden did release the Italian Piazza in '86, not sure they sold too many..... now watch The Castle (1997)
The back of it reminds me of those old v8 rovers even the boot lid
As an Australian who loves old Holdens I have never heard of this thing!
G'Day Richard, I love old Holdens too, I'm nearly 60 and saw the release, Deadly accident at Eastern Creek, and Trials by the Qld Police of the Ciocattolo. But I never knew that there was a Holden involvement. Gotta love the oldies, Cheers.
Check out Bathurst 2003 Brocky wins in Holden Monaro (tuned Garry Rogers 7tr corvette motor lol)
R.I.P Todd Wilkes & The Judge
Being such a small car with a group a motor would be a rocket if you could get the power down looked like the guy was taking it pretty easy as you would for such a rare vehicle
G'day, 👍I'm sure you know of the Bolwell's, Lightburn Zeta😂 and not to forget the Holden Hurricane.
New to me to Ian, cheers Mate.
That blue one looks a bit like the car version of Jabberjaws
You can tell that the LS7 is way over powered for such a small car, someone was on amphetamines when they built that beasts.
😅😃 👊🤠
I remembered one these going into the wall at eastern creek at 280 kms
Hi speed Comp that went wrong
It started as a Alfa-Sud Sprint.
Hello Ian and the Family.❤
"Gee cot ollo"
Please somebody correct me if I'm wrong. But I vaguely remember a story about the QLD govt pre ordering 90 to be built as highway pursuit cars. But then backing out of the deal because they were only 2 seaters and another car would need to be called to transport someone. Not sure how or if this played into their downfall financially. But hey... I'm old and so is my failing memory. lol
A mates Dad had a yellow one. Drove it a few times. It could beat all the European sports cars no worries, and you could launch it over and over. Unlike the Euro's. Cheers
DID U SEE the CAR in the ditch surrounded by YELLOW TAPE as the blue geocolado (phonetic spelling) raced past it? Some poor bugger ran off the road the night before possibly.
He said build no1 was black but 1 for sale in an old unique cars magazine was was red & was billed as build no1
I love Wasabi Cars!
Giocattolo, Gio-cart-olo is simply Italian for toy.
Ian built at Caloundra QLD I no a Bloke that painted the Bodies David Nothing I still se Him from time to time swift little Cars
As you are interested in Australia.....watch free tonight worldwide, tribute to Shane Warne, Aussie legend 7.30pm our time, broadcast free by 10 Australia ....they have a TH-cam channel cheers love your work
I wanted one of these when I was a teen lol
You should have a look at the Algin sports car produced by Holden
Aww yiis 😂👍
Holden Hurricane concept car, go check that one out. Way before its time.
Kia ora hello Ian hay bro please check out John Clarke (Fred Dagg) have a crack at.... The front fell off. it's short and funny as hell
Giocattolo means Toy in Italian
to me it's like a hybrid torana style
These would have Been a perfect use of the the UC Holden coupe's and that base would have had the longer proportions ,, as the UC was looked down on over the lh and lx toranas of previous years tho now even a UC four banger pull the coin now lol
Thanks brother ,, have you seen this 69 hurricane Holden concept car they also made a torana concept
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This torana the torana concept/prototype
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