I have a VHS of old Australian Commercials from the 60s and 70. Here are all the Car commercials from it. I do not own any of this. All rights to their owners
@@MachineThatCreates yes they did race at Bathurst. I've seen photos of them racing. They would've raced in the lower class. I'm assuming it was the GT version of the Capri that raced with its potent 3 litre V6 engine. It wouldn't have been just Bathurst they would've raced at. They possibly could've raced at every other venue included in the Australian Touring Car racing calendar. I.e, Amaroo park, Oran park, Sandown raceway, Warwick farm, etc. Not entirely sure and I don't exactly know but someone knows more than I do. Definitely Bathurst.
@@WascallyWabbitt yeah righto that's interesting. Was Laurie Nelson a race winning driver with those Capri's? What was he like to deal with when you were buying those bits off him? I wouldn't doubt that he would've been a nice bloke to deal with and that he would've been a successful driver.
I remember them being 2000$ for a v8 in decent nick back around early- mid 90s .. every p plater wanted a vb commodore or a xd falcon.. Only around early 2000s when 50+ year olds started cashing in their super / taking redundancies / inheriting some money and with kids grown up they started nostalgically buying the cars of their youth again..that's when prices started goi g up and up
Interesting compilation - thanks. Bought a last-of-run HG Monaro GTS brand new (the HQs were already in the showrooms, so a good price tempted me). Oh *Sheiß!* It must have been the very last HG Monaro off the line, and assembled on a drunken Friday afternoon. Truly the greatest automotive disappointment of my early motoring life. At the mandatory 1,000-mile service I handed the dealer a list of 49 bugs / faults. After four services and 8,000 miles I returned it to the dealer with 46 of those faults still not addressed and told them (and General Motors Acceptance Corp finance) just where they could shove their disaster. Much earlier in my life there was a Triumph Herald: a fun, if slightly skittish, little buggy, but their bodies shook themselves to bits on Aussie roads.
6:10 That's a great camera transition edit. I mean sure, it was edited in a studio sure, but to get that timing and framing right and angle between those two shots and angles, and especially for back then and based on a small Australian TV advert company camera crew, that is quite impressive. Well done.
Hoped the “very good year” would be among the selection. Wasn’t disappointed 👍. Believe all the Toyota models of the period were named after headdresses.
All auto manufacturing has long ago left our country. Shame, as we lost the engineering know how! Off to a full service only economy, to keep the capital, happy!
I wonder what it must be like, when - as a singer - you are working on conquering the world, but ending up singing a moronic song about city girls and very good years for a car brand. :-D
Two of the cars in this video: First the Ford Capri, including Capri GT. This was English rubbish - the worst car Ford ever made. One of my work colleagues traded his old reliable Isuzu Bellet for a Capri GT. The overhead cam modification used by Ford (but not made by Ford) to hot up the 4-cyl push-rod engines from the Cortina chewed out the valve guides, and in less than a year the engine smoked very badly. At the end of about a year, hydraulic lock from oil in the cylinders often made the engine impossible to start - he had to unscrew the sparkplugs, turn the engine over to expel the oil, put the plugs back in and start. Oil consumption was huge. Second, the Triumph Herald. I was given one in exchange for digging a swimming pool hole, and had a lot of teenage fun in it. But it really was a shocking car. Cheap English rubbish. Very cheap very rubbishy English rubbish. Dash made of cardboard. Treacherous handling. An engine prone to mysterious rattles and clack-clack noises. I had the soft-top version - the Australian sun ruined that in about a year - I cut the cellophane rear window out with a knife as it went opaque. You used to occasionally see other soft-top Heralds with the rear window cut out. The advert mentions the suspension designed to last the life of the car without greasing. The Poms who engineered it must have decided on a design life of one year - because that's how long the suspension lasted - at most. Fortunately, some local garages developed a conversion kit using parts from another car, to convert the Herald into a normal grease-every-six-months arrangement. The Toyota Corolla mentioned was a VERY good car. Reliable and durable - as good as an American car. It made Toyota's reputation. Much later a friend lent me a Corolla while my Falcon was being repaired. The Corolla was 15 years old, had about 180,000 miles on the clock, and it was still in perfect condition.
Yes the poms made sh*t cars i buy American the best i used to work at a Ford dealer when the Crapi was a new car and your forgetting the Escort what a pile they were
@Keit Hammleter Regarding your diatribe of criticism against the OHC Ford Capri; in reality no aussie-spec Capri had an OHC engine. All of the 4-cyl models used the ‘Kent’ Series which were in fact OHV, as was the 3000 V6 ‘Essex’ variant
@@timx3680 : You are incorrect. Small numbers of Capri and Escort with the overhead cam version were sold in Australia. A dual cam head was bolted onto the Kent-type block in 1600 cc form and rubber belt driven. Similar idea to the later 2 litre overhead cam head bolted on top of a Kent block in Mk 3 Cortinas, except that the Capri/Escort head was sourced from a contractor and not made by Ford itself, and was a dual cam type with the spark plugs between the cam housing bulges, whereas the Contina OHC head was made in house and was only single cam with the plugs at one side. These 2 litre OHC engines proved to be strong willing and durable engines, except that the timing belt usually failed at around 50,000 - 70,000 miles. The V4 and V6 Essex were not used in passenger cars in Australia, only in the Transit van. This was because it was not viable for Ford to make Essex engines here. When Ford decided to put 6-cyl engines in the Cortina, they used the locally made in-line 6, which was a dreadful idea as it was too heavy, requiring suspension changes and ruined handling. Any V6's you find in Ford cars in Australia are private imports or owner conversions.