Searching an old cattle station for abandoned vehicles 

Mainland is a kiwi brand from the mainland (south island)

COLEY brought me here 😁🐥🌎👍

@@MAG3K7 aah g'day mag great to see you here it's a cool channel hey some good content 👍😀

Cheers mate, some beautiful cars out there still.

correct its a commer coupe ute correct only assembled here and only released in aus .i think it was only something like 190 odd made (dont quote me on that though ). the rootes group car club only know of 3 left drivable so i was told when i rang them a few years ago when i got mine , one is fully restored in tassie dark blue the other 2 i think he said were in qld , so mine is 4th in nsw this one in the vid is the 5th i know of

Still a few more gems to come.

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Yep.. ford mercury Ute? Extremely rare

Yep i agree Ford but a 1947 or 1948 Model Ford by the look of it. 47' 48's had the lil marker lights under the headlights as the earlier Fords had lil square lights up higher on the fender. From what i remember.

We had a couple of commers 1952 ,1was ex cattle truck that had gone rotten in chassis behind the cab had a hoist next.was a Karrier ,same as just Karrier badge ,flat head 6 super snipe engine ,Dads M8 had a later fifties model with overhead engine ,finally Dad bought a 1949 Commer with the older shape like a Bedford cab ,same flathead ,which I got my Heavy vehicle license in about 1975 ,not bad trucks.but you couldn't push them too hard.or you'd blow head gaskets, I'd never seen 1 with a diesel engine in New Zealand

No wasn’t a Flower car thing it was a 46 Ford or Ford deluxe coupe utility these were only built in Australia and as a matter of fact the coupe utility was invented by an Australian car designer by the name of Lewis Bandt in the early 1930’s he worked for Ford Australia and Ford Australia always built Utes right up to the end of production the last Falcon ute the FGx in 2016, you are right saying the Chevy ‘s first engine was the 265 ci small block these were not offered in Australia even though we had the 55 Chevy but General Motors -Holden only offered the Blue Flame stove bolts in our 55, 56, 57 and up to the early 60’s when the 283 was offered and in the same year Pontiacs also, I owned a 56 4 Door pillarless Chev Belair 210 that had a 265 with 3 on the tree back in 1970 it was an imported fisher body car but think it was a Canadian build

@@jamesgovett2501 great bit of information . Wasn't 100% about the flower car . But have seen similar cars listed as flower cars . Maybe they were miss informed . I'm no expert on Australian cars by any means. In fact I didn't even know how cool they were till I watched Madmax . And the holden based GTO/ PontiacG8 / Impala police interceptor/ were introduced in the US . Thank you for the information I'm always willing to learn more about any vehicle. I've been involved with cars for years but American cars . Nothing as cool as a Falcon XB or a classic Holden . I've watched videos of power skids/ rolling burn out's you guys know how to have a good time. I think I was born in the wrong country 😆..

And the 2 seperate handles is bc I was a Colem shift and it has 2 inputs into the trans and they have hooked levers up directly

Hope this all helped

Yes. That is what it is.

Correct. Ford.

Ford mercury Ute?… very very rare

Absolutely dude.

Well all the frames rusted in England and other parts

@@AydanD69 well it doesn't matter where you about in England you live, too close to the coast even in the middle!

@@craigdawson1749 not evan in England but I know they rusted bad up there

We may of got some cool utes, but boy did you get spoiled for cool coupes.

A station is a large lease on crown land used for farming. Out here it is typically used for cattle.

@@AutomotiveKarnage ah ok cool

@@AutomotiveKarnage the cattle are fed a delicious choice of sand or sand!

The lessees are called squatters, farmers are called cockies, cow cocky, wheat cocky or whatever they farm, workers are farmhands, those who walk cattle long distances are drovers, ringers work horses, jackaroos muster cattle on horses.

Theres werent no 'hi lux-es' in the 50s and 60s when they were opening the country up ... there wasnt even a paved road going across, it was dirt road after norseman. The only thing that was available and could handle rough terrain was the Landy.. the toyota 4wds didnt even come until the 60s when they were doing the snowy mountain hydroelectric scheme

@@shoominati23 ok thanks for the info was it an Irish ground workers that used the land rovers and built the roads do you know..🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😣

@@shoominati23 I thought Theiss Bros brought Toyota into , Australia late 50s early 60s ,for a earth moving project They were doing ,cannot remember what it was . I believe Theiss Bros then became Australian distributor for Toyota .I may be incorrect if so please pardon Me.

Fair enough i only mention it at the end of the video. We are located in the W.A goldfields.

Haha facepalm moment 🤣. I didnt know chev never made a flathead. The more you know aye.

commer coupe ute ..but yes hillman platform

yeah, whoops

If you are building a 60 year old car, these are like gold

@@vintagetintrader1062 true that like my dad is restoring a vanguard and the small bits are the hardest to find

Didn’t your mother ever tell you… if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it at all.

@david husband Your comment says way more about the type of person YOU are, than any mispronunciation that DJ might make.