Old Australia // Used Car Dealers from days Gone By
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- Welcome to our first CZcams video for our new channel, "Old Australia". This time we take a look at some old clips of Australian car yards, from the early 1900's right up to the 1980's. Many of the models featured in this video are also based on vehicles from America from the time such as Oldsmobile and General Motors.
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When everyone had a real job, a locally made car and a home.
Well said mate, look at the mess that our fat overpaid leaders have got us into. Glad you called it a home as it should be called, now it is viewed as a investment, its all about money now and how quick you can accumulate wealth, not my kind of world.
And could afford and Australian and didn’t have to be rich to own one like bow
As in General Motors Holden (USA owned) or Ford (USA owned) of Nissan (Japanese owed) etc. Nissan were later 50% owned by Renault (French) and Mazda (48+ % owned by Ford).
@@mikebennett3812 So? Locally designed and made. Provided thousands of meaningful jobs and careers for locals who worked there and the thousands of others who worked with the suppliers.
What a total flog!!! The loss of manufacturing in this country is what’s been lost! The jobs that sustained the people & country. You are a waste of time. You obviously were not born here and know how much this contributed to this country.
Australia WAS once great, we manufactured almost everything here, cars, TV's, radios, clothing, chemicals, industrial products, etc...
Then we got Tony Abbott.
@@allandaly2573 started well before Abbott.
I was going through an old box of my clothes a few years back that were from the eighties looking for retro stuff for my daughter and every item i pulled out was made in Australia. It is impossible to find any made in Australia now.
@@grantreid8583 yes and we now receive free imports like viruses.
@@allandaly2573 John button you mean
I well remember my Dad picking up his new company car from Bill Patterson in Ringwood at this time (1959). Dad and I (aged 7) went up on a Saturday morning to pick up the new Holden. Massive excitement at the time. Dad is now nearly 101, but can still remember most of the cars he's had since arriving in Australia in 1949 from England.
Being brought up in England decades ago, I believe it only cost ten pounds sterling to immigrate from England to Australia way back when! Greetings from a Brit
residing in the USA. Sadly, the UK lost it's way with motor vehicle manufacturing starting in the 70's.
Congrats to your dad for his long life. My dad is 91, so still has a while to go as well.
Australia really got the worst of the cars in that late 50's era compared to what was happening in USA at that time. No doubt the US cars with huge fins, fabulous auto sculpture styling, auto trans, air-con and power everything else would have been very expensive if they were available here. English cars were so underpowered.
I bought my 1st car at a yard in Mitcham only a few kms from Pattos. best wishes to your dad
@@michaeledwards8058 Thanks so much for the best wishes. Unfortunately we lost dad just after his 101st on Dec 11 2021. It was sudden and peaceful, just the way he wanted, with mum holding his hand.
@@davidfmelbourne3473 mate I'm so sorry for your loss. I lost my dad 22 years ago and think about him everyday. good luck and best wishes to your mum too
Australia is so far away from these amazing days ..I’m just thankful to have been of age through this period
We lived through the best times!
Spot on mate,,,good old days,
@@michealtom5453 The irony is that teens today will look back their lives in the 2020's then tell their kids that it was an amazing time to grow up.
If I could build a time machine, I would go back to the 70's and never return. Thx for the vid, Cheers.
Make sure you guys are vaccinated and quarantined before you go. Last thing we want is an outbreak that no one is prepared to handle.
No thanks, being bashed by fat angry female teachers at school and Dad at home f that shit.
At least my parents weren't religious
I'd return with an E38 RT Charger or a 4 Barrel Valiant Pacer...I don't want to be greedy!
@@gohjohan there’s always 1 lurking isn’t there? Give yourself a nice big 🤦♂️
We used to eat dirt, drink from a hose, ride bikes without helmets & treasure hunt at the local landfill tips Covid 19 wouldn’t have lasted 5 minutes back then because we were RUGGED & ROBUST, take a couple of spoonfuls of cement & HTFU.
Stop being a filthy drug pusher!
I wonder if the flickering was everywhere as you walked around. 🙂
I remember when we moved to Australia in the early 1960's, everything we purchased was made here, from the Speedie electric jug to the FJ Holden and one of the relatives is still using the Hallstrom fridge to this day. Things lasted back then and could be easily repaired, now just about everything is throw away, noticed a Vauxhall Viva at the beginning, we had one of those also, but not sure if they were made here. Used to love going around the car yards with my dad on the weekend, some of the used car salesman were to put it politely real characters, dad was never satisfied with his latest used car purchase it was regular updates every year or so to my mums annoyance, it was a good time to grow up in.
@@BeardedMasonBiker. I remember the Pope fridges, my dad had a Pope petrol mower before he bought a 2nd hand Victa. I reckon the fridges from that era did keep things cooler, built like tanks and more reliable, you could not hear the old Hallstrom running. The new hi tech fridge we have now cant keep the beer at a good temp, have to put it in the freezer for 1/2 hour before drinking.
I have a speedie Jug. Every now and then I plug it in to frighten the youngsters!. I doubt any company would be keen to make a thing like that today..😁😁
@@Mercmad Believe it or not the small local hardware store which closed down about 10 years ago had a few of the elements still in stock, I think they were around $3.00. The jug we had was really hi tech, it had a auto cut out when the water boiled, the little button on the lid would pop up when boiling, you pushed it back down to reset it.
Brings a tear to your eyes.
Such a lovely simple life back in those days.
Absolutely…i miss the respect courtesy and the manners…and houses were in reach for just about anybody with a nine to five job
Number of car models in those photos I've owned over the years. Brought back some nice memories. The 60's and 70's, a much more peaceful time. Plenty of employment, money and good times.miss those times. We never locked our home, most of the time never locked the car, just drop the keys on the floor.
My house has no keys. In fact I haven't lived in a lockable house since about 1988. Keys live in my cars when at home. The only house I've had burgled and the only car (out of 72!) I've had stolen were both locked.
Affirmative
I can leave the key in the ignition of my car while it's in my driveway and I don't have to lock my house
@slatibaadfast "We never locked our home"
It was like that for us here in Perth. Car in the driveway (with keys in) Front and back door unlocked overnight, and even left open on those hot summer nights. Then in the early 60's Eric Edgar Cooke changed all of that!!
NB: 42
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yep them days are gone thats for shore glad i was a teen in the eightys and not now
Makes me sad to watch this reminds me of when Australia was great and when we manufactured things here.Not much of that now.
Well we in England think like this too...but today we still admire German industry..
We are to blame on the day when we started to stab each other's backs. We had our locally made car industries, Holden, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Volkswagen, Nssan, etc., all made here offering jobs, pays and a future economy, but then some left the country and... long story.
So, instead of being connected like brothers and supported the 'Made in Australia' industry, you continued buying imported cars from the same companies that have left the country and s3nding your hard earned cash out, thus increasing import/export that required more ships and containers, polluting sea and air as they came and went.
And not only that, but we've had times when unemployment fluctuated from low to high, and yet you still purchased fully imported cars with which had an only employment of servicing and detailing new cars.
Meanwhile, it's true, very true that while the 'backstabbers' ignored the fact that import to a country that had plenty of vehicle manufacturers in it, you still ignored the fact that this is going to spiral the local car manufacturers into losses and profits, as each imported car you buy is one car less bought from the big 4.
And so, this then started the dog eat dog situation where locals companies reduced the employment numbers while the effed up Union kept making threats of strikes if demands for better wages and condition (EBA-9, the last I remember in the 90s), forced car companies under considerable pressure of continuing in this country or shut the doors. The worst affected was our beloved Chrysler who struggled for at least 10 years before they shut their door in 80, passing the production to the already popular Mitsubishi who had shared production of the Sigma and the Magna and the already popular Lancer that resembled a mini Mustang.
So, because of all these sales drops, Union pressure and loss of profit problems the companies had to save their own skins to survive in this dog eat dog world while more and more Japanese cars were imported into the country because you people were the ones who made the decisions of killing our industry by buying imports more than buying locally as if our cars made here were shit and the imported tinnies where better when a million farmers, construction workers and racing drivers swore that our cars were way better designed for Australian condition.
So, now that Holden, the much loved Australian born company and Ford that followed to make their presence here for quite a number of years and was accepted as one of our job and wage provider, both must have felt abandoned by two faced traitors, must have felt like abandoned ships because nobody wanted to eat their foods. In that case, food is the companies' own production, cars.
It was you who destroyed the economy by choosing Japanese imports and nothing much was exported out of the country because of the attitude that locally made cars were shit and would not be accepted by other countries, when in fact they were already proven to be absolutely reliable, brilliant and beautiful too.
Young guns loved Holden cars for their simplicity in repairs, modification, show cars, etc., and so did the Ford and Chrysler fans.
Back then it was a more connected world where guys used to do things with cars together, learning how to fix them, alter and tweak their engines, learn penel beatinf, adding beautiful wide mag wheels and then show their work. Do you remember the... 'Get, go and show, from Brian Speed Shop!' in the early 70s. Do you also remember Carac of Dandenong who was a serious shop that also supported drag racing? These have faded into obscurity today because of the Japanese cars presence.
The only one I remember next was Dynamic Auto Accessories that was changed to Autobarn and is still surviving. But with today's new imported cars that are totally unrepairable or unmodifiable, I ponder the future of Autobarn.
And to this day I haven't seen anyone who has modified a 2015 to 2020 model cars. The hobby is all but dead.
So, all the changes that the country is facing today and the collapse of what Australia was once, I can't help saying the blame is entirely yours, bleeding hearts, because your attitude towards yourselves has changed so badly that I don't even know who is my next door neighbours. Certainly they're not Australian, so, regrettably I have to say that, we, but not me, have put our necks on the chopping blocks and allowed the normally ignorant sheep to chop our heads off. I also said: 'we but not me, meaning that as a true Aussie I still have my beloved 1965 Valiant 4PV V8 with a black vinyl roof in my garage. It was dad's car since 1965 that still runs like new, one of the most beautiful Chrysler cars ever made in Australia.
Wish Australia was still like that
@Amplass 333 OMG 😁😁😁😂
Wherés Ruxton und Caséy when u need 'em 😂😂😂😁😀
@Amplass 333 He Likés his Chéêsē
@Amplass 333 some lefties saying that RACIST name ,,,
White bread Australia, hey?
AH ! The good old days of Australia - It was just serene watching this. It's gone, but you can't take the memories away. I was born in 1965 and obsessed by cars. Matchbox cars as the first influence and then just obsessed up until today - Thanks for putting this together.
Thanks for a great walk down memory lane.The good old days and the good old cars.I remember well going with my Dad to pick up an Austin a90 Westminster from Larke Hoskins. It was his first brand new car he had ever owned.I can still remember that new car smell inside.
Great times. Cheers
Love the stuff, shame about the fake flickering. It became quite annoying
I was just saying the same thing about the fake flickering. Can we have an edited version without it please. Other than that it’s great.
Flickering was the reality of film back in the day, it added a little authenticity to this nostalgic clip!
Particularly flickering on stills. Like.......hello!!
Definitely remove the contrived flickering. Unnecessary distraction from an otherwise enjoyable slideshow.
with you 100% who are these people?
Some very good photos but is totally ruined by the inserted flickering which makes it very disconcerting while watching.
Thanks for the feedback Fred59fc, we'll keep it in mind!
Stop complaining, We are lucky this is online for all to see !
@UCp3UpBMGGXAb-NIi0mebsEA Better than being a miserable, judgemental troll jumping on anyone who dares to make a constructive criticism of what is otherwise a very good video.
@@TheOldDays I enjoyed it, even the flickering. Thanks for sharing.
Craig
Would have been a great video, if someone hadn’t added al that flickering to the photos!
God forbid, they are old enough with out your need to enhance them!!
That's what I was thinking.
made it unwatchable for me... stopped after about 2 minutes of 'leaves' flashing across the screen. What a waste.
@Amplass 333 they are just pointing out a fact. It's pretty stupid to put faux old film effects on what is actual old film. Pointless.
Must agree.. It actually distracts you from the beautiful photos
@Amplass 333 It's called constructive criticism
Look it up
A trip down memory lane . Awesome guys
Would have been much better without the fake ageing and scratches effect, otherwise super video.
Got a thumbs down from me for that reason.
Man, those looked like good times! I can just imagine how fun it would have been to be in your 20s or 30s back then and buying these cars new, or even as used cars. Cool cars, cool country.
... but why would you spoil such nice pictures with that bogus 'old-film-reel' patina ?
The pics are super cool. The fake film aging is bloody annoying and not needed.
Hear hear.
Ahh go have ya cup of cocoa!
Well said
They the sort of motor vehicle that you can love .they bring back old memories. .😂
"When I was a lad
I served my term
winding back the clocks
for a used car firm.
I covered up the rust with a coat of grey
I fiddled with the steering of a Chevrolet"
Chorus: "He fiddled with the steering of a Chevrolet"
"I fiddled with the steering so very hard
I soon became the owner of a used car yard"
Loved this old ad sung by Harry Secomb for a Sth Aust car firm. My dad used to crack up at this one.
"...But now my yard is empty all day,
people come but they all go away
they go where used cars are the best
with seven days to prove and test
(with seven days to prove and test)
At Ron Hodgson motors..."
The Ron Hodgson Motors (Sydney) version... can't remember the rest, but it's amazing that buyers apparently got a week to "prove and test" their used car purchases.
@@ladleo2989 In South Australia it was John H Ellers who was the 'man'.
That's not too bad.
@@AntifoulAwl . Yep, that's the one I remember
Bloody hell! This reminds me of us. Dad had a similar car yard on a corner block and a large mechanic workshop and panel beating behind it in Port Melbourne, long before Westgate bridge and freeway was built. I am flabbergasted at seeing this piece of history. Thanks mate.👍
All very good what about valiants??
I just want australia back
Loved the old pics but seriously, it would have been far more watchable without the "Old film" special effect. Still clicked like though!
Annoying effect , would be so good if the pictures were left alone
I thought they were flies
The Morris Elite was grinning at me from the thumbnail...couldn't resist - glad I came.
I owned three of them. Bloody heavy, under powered death traps. My pride and joy was a ‘63 Elite, grey with a white flash and white walls. I used to start it with the crank handle outside Chasers night club in the eighties for a giggle and even drove her up to Buller. It was a one owner, little old lady’s car.
@@jamesdavis5517 I had a blue one like that. I think the little old lady drove it to church on Sundays and then went straight to Warwick Farm where she ran it in improved production.
Bought my wife a '62 Elite in 1980 for $250 as we were newly married and needed a second car for short trips. This photo must be after Feb 1966 as the vehicles are advertised in dollars rather that pounds.
@@jamesdavis5517 I own three right now...and as entertaining as your anecdotes are, I must disagree with your assessment of the design. ☺
I did a tune on one for a young bloke here in Brisbane. He bought his from the kransky sisters. Quite a snappy performer with it's Austin 1800 carb etc,as long as you don't want to stop.
The bill Patterson Holden site in Ringwood Victoria is now a McDonald’s. My dad bought a car from that Holden
Dealership. Memories.
A great bit of our history and the PHOTOS must be preserved at all cost. I dont like the imitation film damage of a moving picture placed over stills for the sake of showmanship so it does not get a like from me.
ditto
Yeah why make it harder to see ffs.
Me too. Just a nuisance
Worth a bit more now, (if we only knew))
Back in the days when we produced cars in this country and damn good ones at that. But that's gone along with a lot of other manufacturing we once had. Bloody sad indeed.
,,, ✨... AND WON RALLY RACES IN YOUR CARS... INTERNATIONAL TOO... I'M A POM AND WOKELESS... G'DAY & CHEERS ALOT YOU BEAUT... 🤩✨ ,,,
We made very ordinary rust buckets. Second hand American at that.
Shortly after Ford started producing cars the annular road death toll jumped dramatically.
The flicker is a plug they have used to give a film look. The idea is fine but they scale is too large. Nice video though, thanks.
Those were the days l remember when I was 15 l walked in to clems smiths look for my first car but I didn't have a license.
@Amplass 333 That's not a complaint from @propagandize...
It's called 'constructive criticism' 👍
@Amplass 333
What Planet are you on, mate?? 😄
Criticism, complaining, complaints etc etc are a HUGE part of the human condition!!
"Things" would NEVER improve/progress if we weren't a bunch of whiners.
Not that hard to work out, mate. 👍🏻
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@Amplass 333
Did you actually read and comprehend that which I wrote?
Or are you trolling, mate?!?!
ps: What brand of amp do you use??
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@@klyvemurray Well said..
Simple and easier times. Great cars.thanks!
1:17 can't be 1981 because the JB Camira didn't come out until 1982. Also at 8:57 the prices are in dollars which makes this 1966 at the earliest.
Ron you beat me to it. The fourteenth of February nineteen sixty-six was when the coins began to mix, if my memory serves me well...
Some great old shots in there though...
I know that corner at Gore Hill and recognised it almost immediately
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And at 2:29:- can't be 1965. The HR Holden at the top was released in 1966.
Who can remember BEFORE Car Dealership Security Fences? I worked at a major Flinders Street Wollongong car dealership from 1973. At that time there was an extraordinary number of car dealerships in the street. I can remember there were NO fences to protect the cars from vandalism and the like, because the cars by-and-large did not need protecting. It was common to go looking at cars at night, often as a 'family outing' visiting yard-after-yard in a row. Dealerships were well aware of this and no doubt glad of any resultant sales inquiries the following morning. The first case of vandalism to the cars that we heard about was around 1976 and just a few doors up from us? We were gob-smacked as this was major news back then, now it would be just an everyday occurrence and not even worth reporting. The incidences of vandalism increased and so the fences started to go up - probably at the insistence of the insurance companies? Dealership-after-dealership followed suit and soon all the yards were fenced-off. This was a sad occurrence and to me a turning-point in our local history. What we had back then was a better mindset (an established set of attitudes) that is now lost to us. I would not fault any young person nowadays being incredulous upon hearing those early days described to them and how cars were effectively left open to the public (so to speak) but back then it was a public simply looking for a used car with no thought of mindless vandalism.
The Flickering is terrible,
Well Mister Hall, these are probably old damaged film stock... or aged to look like it. Get with programme, it's just for curiosity and FUN!
Beautiful old cars from simpler times. Love the Pontiac! Thanks for the memories :)
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching.
That was awesome I just lovely anything at the old cars
I often think it would be great to own a veteran car. Then I make a cup of tea, sit down and wait until the urge passes.
Yes, sadly we will never see cars like this again. Except in CZcams videos and car shows.
Awesome historical photos!
This is so cool from Tasmania Australia Awesome job mate 🇦🇺🤝🇦🇺😎👍
What a journey in the 'good ol' times' !
When a handshake meant a 'deal' was done, and we could call a 'spade a spade' without political correctness..
Have we gone forward?? ..I got my doubts about it.
Thanks for the memories!
Lose the flickering. Absolutely love this stuff, more please
The unknown car yard in Smith Street Darwin is Wayne Britton Motors, formally Continental Motors.
Thank you 🙏 this just made me happy and sad I wish there was a time machine available I’m be going back in a flash.
And here I was thinking the HR Holden was released in April 1966. Izod Motors must have pulled a few strings to get one in '65. Enjoyed the clip. Thanks.
I said the same thing. Image must have been taken in 1966.
@@mikevale3620 Your right , its 66 , the sign up top says 1966 , replaced the failed HD pretty quickly , lasted barely 12 months .
The picture of the Holdens in Darwin says 1965 but has to be 1966. It shows a HR Holden on the roof and they were produced from April 1966 onward.
i'm a big boy, don't need silly baby flickers... does nothing except annoy and distract from the great photos. give it the big A
I remember Frank Delandro in Crows Nest, just around the corner from my Grandparents house, thanks for the great trip down memory lane.
Fatbudgie, I'm from Chatswood - early '50's. I remember the name "Frank Delandro" quite well. I can't recognise the photo of the building on the highway for some reason.
@@pintificate That photo I'm guessing was taken early 40s, not sure of its location. The building I remember was on the corner of Oxley st and Pacific hwy opposite what is now a car wash.
Would be interesting to seek out a relative of Frank to find out more.
Thank You, they were the good old days 👍nsw
What about some of the old brothels in Australia. Would be great memorial lane
Love it
I love it ... old memories
We need to get the old Australia back again
The good old day's. No mobile phones and computer's.
lose the 'film effects' they are just feckin annoying
Poor little thing Just don't watch it precious
@@user-kw5qv6zl5e I didnt. you ok hun?
Never see good old days like that again in this PC stuffed up world.
My uncles bought Pontiacs and Chevrolets in the 1960’s because they used to drive long distances and loved the v8’s. This was before the Broughams and the first Holden v8’s.
In rural Queensland in the 50’s and 60’s there was no speed limits outside the towns. They would drive them hard. Often doing 80 or 90 miles per hour on those long stretches of road.
And this was before seat belts and crumple zones.
They were the good old days but the road accidents back then were horrific.
Interesting brings back the old days, I used to own a 65 Falcon had a Dalgety badge on the dashboard
All those cars certainly bring back memories
Just found this . Wow very awesome. I love this. Thank you
Thank you, I really enjoyed that waltz down memory lane.
I was car crazy as a kid, I can still recall my father buying his first (used) car, an Austin A50 in 1964. I was 4 years old and so excited. I still remember the car yard on Botany Road, still drive past occasionally and reminisce.
He bought an AP6 Valiant 3 years later from Ron Hodgson Motors in Parramatta, and I was impressed that Ron himself (former race car driver) shook my father's hand.
Impressed because Ron was on TV advertising his yard, which in my eyes made him "somebody"
Sadly, Ron took his own life after financial troubles.
Would you consider putting together some old car commercials ?
There's a few that I have searched for without success.
What a great collection of old photos. It brought back a lot of memories. Like some others I found the old film effect became annoying but it still gets a like from me. If you do more of this type of thing, perhaps fade out the effect after the intro? Thanks
I remember as a kid in 1960,s, Zephyrs, Austins and vangards with plywood caravans were often seen flat chat trying to get up Bulli pass on 100f days. Boiled cars were pulled over as far as the eye could see on the pacific highway at Christmas heading into Gosford and i remember my old mans HD holden boiled 3 or 4 times in one summer. The engines today are destroyed after 1 boil. Them old cars had no radiator shrouds,, the fans were tiny and useless. In these videos i see pleanty of Pontiacs and Studebakers, these were good on Aussie roads and had shrouds, big fans and would pull a horse float. Imagine pulling a horse float with horses in a HD holden with a powerglide,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, my god,, they tried it. thats why these cars are all gone.
All the holden Ford and Valiants were 1/2 baked under powered minature versions of American models. The Eh should have came with a 283 or 327 chev, the 65 valiants had 273,s and could pull anything. Ford 62 to 68 Falcons were the same cars they had in America but they had 260 and 289,s and 302,s
@1:34 OMG a Fiat Bianchina in an outback Queensland town!
I noticed that to, would have been quite rare. I was given one as a teenager in 1970
Rest In Peace Australian manufacturing. Welcome to Australia the banana republic.
👍 thanks for the memories.
I remember the old facade of the GMH building in Birkenhead. It was there for many years but eventually someone burnt it down and it was then demolished. I thought it was a great shame nothing could be done with it. There have been many suspicious fires around Adelaide of old historic buildings that had sadly fallen into disrepair.
Yes, everytime I pass there to see my Aunty I remember the old building.
Australia doesn't value it's history
Just Fabulous
Very annoying effect on this video
Arthur Brown Katoomba Holden would have been 1984/85 as i can see a VK Commodore in the yard and also a camira that commenced selling from 1982.
Nostalgic for sure. Unlikely that a 1965 photo would have $$ signs on the cars (at 8.56)
Would love to have a car yard like that
Oh that fake film damage is so distracting. Spoils great pictures.
Thanks for putting this together. Great
The good old days loved this👍👍
Any of the cars in this very interesting video would be worth good money today, in the same condition as in the photos.
Beautiful days will never come again.
Thank god! Sickening nostalgia for dodgy, death traps. Go back and compare the road fatality numbers for the 70's (for example) with today's.
@@giovannimorrisone483 You don’t know what you talking about,you started drive yesterday.
@@giovannimorrisone483 that had more to do with drink driving, something that was normalised. I was a passenger approximately 12 yo, in a car driven by an off duty DRUNK policeman who was still drinking a longneck traveller! That was early 80’s
Fantastic pictures
Oooh, thank you. I enjoyed that to the max. Is there any photos of Zupps car yard, or Pickles used cars from Brisbane. We used to drive past them all going from Redcliffe to Cooparoo on the south side. The Fiat rooms in the 60's struck a real memory in this lot. Thank you again.
Very nice post but I can't believe there was nouthing from Parramatta road or church St Parramatta
The imitation film "damage" has ruined what would otherwise have been a great video. Pity.
I think it’s imitation bugs
Great old days the CV Holland @1:45 is a block of units that backs on to the train line
Ringwood, my hometown 👍
Thanks for video, but agree with others here that found the fake flickering effect super annoying. Why? We all know it's old.
Love the old pics but can't watch any longer (3mins in). The fake "old film effect" is killing me!
Ahhh, memories are made of this-----------lol
…..umm…. And the point of all the fake, pretend, old film flicker overlay is ? …. a big pity and pointless .
I have that pic before in a car mag about of the car yard in Darwin with the hq monaro and other holdens and they were definatly cylone proof muscle cars as the article in the magazine stated, they look as though they didn't get touched.
Id pay a lot of money to travel back through time and visit these dealerships!
Gee bit short Melbourne caryards we had plenty suprisingly nothing ,some great ones Fleetwood Perth yeah unreal great stuff
I have noticed the picture of Darwin Cyclone Tracy the building is badly damaged but the Holden car's are not, made strong
the best car dealers was steve bisely and frankie j holden
I brought a 1958 star modal Ford from bedrock motors in 1969 for 200 my first on road car wish I had it now
I remember buying a car at Melford Motors in the early 70s.
Yep' remember Melfords very well. When I was a lad back in those days we would go into Melford's & sit in the new Falcon GT's in the show room & dream only if. Well in 1991 my dream finally came true & I finally brought a second hand XW GT. Those we great days.
I saw an old car magazine the other day and it was from the 80s and had a hg monaro for $7500.That was big money in the 80s.
Least it running drives or roadworthy and good if it was a dealer car. Today a rusted example
second hand goes for 10k
Luv the cars of my childhood
Great vid 👍
That's good stuff mate,,
Later years Frank Delandro Ford was at North Sydney at the approach to the Sydney Harbor Bridge .
my first car was a 1960 falcon I paid $350 from a second hand car yard in Mitcham . his dearest cars were $999 cause in those days anything over$1000 you had to put warranty on
Gotta be pounds in 1960...
@@graemecrawley7331 na I bought it in 1980
Missed Tasie only fault i could find great work.
Damn ,Dodgy Brothers Motors didn’t get a gong 😂
Blowfly plague?
More American cars for sale than I would've thought, particularly pre-WWII, but even into the early 1960s.