15 Groovy Vehicle Designs from the 70s (shag carpet not included)

[@fernandopacci]

Brubaker Box Very Nice 😍

[@karlsmith2570]

That Lancia Stratos looks like the car in the movie "Black Moon Rising"

[@subalpradhan6447]

Loved it awesomeness

[@mickm6309]

A few things about the Sandman, 1. The HQ, HJ refer to the years of manufacture, 1971-74 HQ, 74-76 HJ, 76 HX, 77-78 HZ. Equipment levels were Belmont, KIngswood, Premier. Body styles Ute, Panel Van, Station Wagon, Sedan, Coupe. 2 Sandman was a special edition of Panel Van aimed at the younger market to be a leisure vehicle rather than a work car. 3 All Panel Vans here earned the nickname shagging wagon, though it was usually reserved for the younger generations vans either Holden or Ford. 4 The younger generation loved to customise there van, not everyone could afford a Sandman so there were many customised plain Holden and Ford vans. Popular mods were tinted bubble windows in the shape of hearts, teardrops, circles, Plush shag pile carpet in the back with mirror tiles on the roof and walls. Big loud exhaust pipes running down the side of the car and murals painted on the bonnet, sides or tailgates. 5 Production started with the HQ and ended with the HZ, not sure how many were made but it would be closer to 100,000 then 400. 6 There was also a Sandman Ute (Utility)

[@mickm6309]

I think my production number is exaggerated, but I'm sure it is more than 400, still trying to find some figures.

[@vfdpiu14]

10:00. When i see a car like this one, i think seventies was best years to be an engineer. Computers only for distraction. Pure talent.

[@luvr381]

Surprised you didn't mention the Sandman appearing in Mad Max, that's probably where most of us are familiar with it.

[@Douglas_Hamilton]

Wow never heard of these cars except the Lancia and the Brubaker Box.

[@PistonAvatarGuy]

Several of these are basically real-world versions of The Homer.

[@leanmeangreenbeanmachine3347]

PistonAvatarGuy when I was a kid I had no idea what was wrong with The Homer. It seemed to be a fantastic car.

[@1993_Toyota_Camry_V6]

hahaha exactly

[@SelectCircle]

I came of age in the 70s. We all looked forward to the future then. ... But now we only wish we could go back. 8 (

[@millenniumxdtvmediaandarts1679]

There is just something special about vehicles from the 70's

[@RobMacKendrick]

That's not how you spell "unreliable"...

[@Mechknight73]

@@RobMacKendrick Not all 70s cars were unreliable. Some were truly crap, but definitely not all of them

[@RobMacKendrick]

@@Mechknight73 Such as?

[@Mechknight73]

@@RobMacKendrick Any Holden of the 70s. Any Toyota of the 70s. Even the Australian Fords and Chryslers of the 70s were very reliable. Yes, prone to rust and suspension wear, but took something big to stop them. American and British cars of the same era were never built to cope with what Australian cars were. Holden's idea of a prototype test was to abuse a component UNTIL it broke, so they knew where the breaking point was. Then they'd do an "autopsy" on it and make it stronger

[@RobMacKendrick]

@@Mechknight73 Have to take your word for it, mate. UK and North American cars are all I had experience with. And there wasn't much there to write home about.

[@catjudo1]

Number 8, the Safari Car - Well, I wasn't sure it was possible, but I've finally seen doors even more ridiculous and impractical than scissor doors. In truth, the car looks like something out of a Hanna Barbara cartoon too.

[@mightress]

I would drive a brubaker all day long. Looks great.

[@curtisnewton895]

5:00 the homer mobile

[@Wardads1]

Sandman utes were everywhere in the 70s and 80s 100s of thousands of them ,I have travelled through mostof outback NSW and SA in one when I was a shearer.

[@catjudo1]

The HQ is still one of the most sorted and best looking car designs out there... too bad we didn't get them (or the XA-XC Falcons) here in America. As a result, I was possibly conceived in a Chevrolet Vega wagon...

[@barrybr1]

The Sandman, or Shaggin' wagon or root ute, was such an iconic car in Australia. Popular with surfers as they pretty much lived out of them and a good place to 'entertain'. The artworks on the panels were amazing!

[@Gottenhimfella]

They sometimes featured tasteful insignia to ram the point home, such as "If it's rockin, don't bother knockin" and "Don't look too close, might be your daughter in here"

[@shanewright2772]

Guy who lived a couple of houses down from us had a Sandman that was completely lined in Denim. People would come from far and wide to see it.

[@masonsykes2240]

That's not a van, that's a jan

[@Carchaeology]

Fun to see the Brubaker Box in the mix. I just finished restoring one and have been doing further research. Only 28 of these were built and less than 10 remain on the road today.

[@stonebranson3364]

I had a Sandman back in the 80,s

[@chrisantoniou4366]

From the sublime to the ridiculous, you certainly covered both ends of the spectrum...

[@avinashrananaware3464]

Its never gets old..history reappear....

[@johnmcculloch5736]

Thumbs up for the Sandman and Monaro.!!

[@suzettecalleja3122]

Number 2 is my favorite. A car and a boat, I like the idea that they are separate then combined rather then the same as others are.

[@millenniumxdtvmediaandarts1679]

Wouldn't it be interesting to see more of that in future designs?

[@geoffreyjones2000]

I wonder how the engine cools on the road peace

[@tommiedaswammi8008]

I'm confused and stunned. Very cool concept. Although they author doesn't clarify whether the boat is separated or is altogether one machine.

[@nicholaschanda4992]

15 is the best ever since I saw it in MotorTrend

[@Ixapter]

I just love looking at unusual vehicles. :)

[@joeamatosmartscience8757]

Great to see an Aussie icon in the show. Luvin' it.😆😉

[@bunning63]

Wonder how many Aussies or Kiwi's are around today because of the iconic Aussie panelvan ?

[@endrizo]

liked the box

[@BobJohnsonmusic01]

And with the holdens, the actual panelvan started in the late 50's The sandman did not just have 253ci v8s, they also had 308ci v8s the sandman was also made in the utes and a select number were commissioned to a guy in Tasmania who turned them into 4wd,s and called them overlanders, now those I would believe there to only be one hundred of.

[@Tiger351]

Definitely more Sandmans made than mentioned in the video, I read somewhere there were a few early HQ's built with a 186 before the 202 came along in 72 also. Overlanders were also made from wagons, more of them survive now than vans or utes.

[@tankman325]

Holden was my favorite

[@georgemcmillan9172]

The Sandman was featured in the 1979 release Mad Max! Driven by Max Rockitanski, as a family weekend getaway, with an outstanding space themed airbrush in the panels. Always wanted one of those...

[@davidupton9354]

Sandman in Australia, Pinto Wagon in the US.

[@Buses2Bikes]

Who remembers the Sandman from the first Mad Max movie?

[@catjudo1]

Jessie, Jessie, you've not got a sense of humor...

[@kevinpatrick8788]

Sterling Crockett condillini wants his hand back

[@RCMANX]

I thought that was the one!

[@redeyerob2176]

@@kevinpatrick8788 You see he was quite attached to it

[@karlsmith2570]

I definitely do

[@deathfromabove8735]

@ 4:10 why no mention of the 308 which a lot of them had

[@myjunkertravels6897]

My dad found a TAG at a scrap yard. He bought it fer 1500 bucks an restored it. Its now a trailer queen.

[@sihebat1]

I love type 181. That is my dream car

[@HarshJain-it2bg]

The vehicle number 9 is extremely utilitarian because it's not wasting the space in front of the front row if the design would have developed today we would have amazing vehicles

[@STB-jh7od]

I loved #11 in Mad Max

[@craigmartin2092]

7:53 front end & half covered rear wheels REMINDS me of the iconic Citroen.

[@crowman8914]

4:22 very cool looking car

[@MustaffaCuppa]

10:12 I wonder who put the hit on it? Enzo? Things don't just catch fire!

[@bradregelous1879]

John Delorean.

[@Crazystuffyousee]

I like them all because cars are pieces of artwork which we display as we drive around instead of hanging on a wall...

[@eddielung31]

The 70s looked like a fun era

[@brucebaldy]

I like the Brubaker

[@clintonwhite9816]

I LOVED IT

[@karenvickers8165]

These vehicles are sure different, but I like them.

[@darknizz9442]

couldnt find his link but very inspiring ...............................

[@random-person1]

i want one of those TAGs

[@Babyybooyy]

#7 was my fav!!😍😍

[@ledmk2]

Funny cars

[@davidgrisham8949]

Some good fishing trips to be had in that lakester

[@TheBamhulk]

awesome video guys!! one of my fav eras for cars! I looooove that Blackhawk but the price is still very high for one!

[@phalanx3803]

Holden Sandman is defiantly the best.

[@iconicshrubbery]

Defiantly, definitely.

[@hoverlogix5554]

We have a vw powered prototype bought 1968 as a kit car with half top ,seats, side skirts! Not a Manx! 51 years later and still looking Good! One owner one builder! A time Machine 🤯✌️

[@Mad9977]

back then, nothing was impossible

[@HiPetitGateau]

What a Shocker a Porsche caught fire 🔥

[@brodyshamp5731]

I miss the days, before every car looked the same! I wish car manufacturers still had imagination. Now they all just slightly modify someone else's design and call it their own.. smh

[@grigturcescu6190]

it's not that easy. today you have tests and regulations to be safer to pedestrians in case of colission. just imagine that trident hitting a person. but yeah, car makers tend to be safer today with designs, looking to what they think they can sell and not born of passion

[@UmmYeahOk]

Grig Turcescu it’s great that lives are being saved, but I swear that safer cars have resulted in worse drivers and worse pedestrians. Jaywalkers that don’t even turn their head to look at you, and walkers/joggers that travel again oncoming traffic, forcing them to make complete stops because they refuse to walk/jog briefly on flat dry cut grass, and assume that you should simply pass, despite how deadly it most likely is. “No. I just like stopping my car and watching you. That’s all.” But don’t get me started on the drivers...

[@grigturcescu6190]

@@UmmYeahOk i know what you mean. I remember an episode from Dr House, saying that if we would put knives instead of airbags there would be no accidents because nobody would want to activate them. As for pedestrians i totally agree with you. At least with drivers there are just a few idiots, but pedestrians are all so... uncaring. If i don't stop at a crossing I loose my license for a month. If he crosses on red he should loose the right to get out of his house unattented. I mean there should be a departement of people that attend this guys and very beurocratic. You need to get out of house? we have an open spot next week.

[@brucepreston3794]

Ya... engineers used to have "it". Now days they sneak around to get photos of somebody elses design. Then change little. They are so generic.

[@travisleeds2910]

In the 60's and 70's you had a hard time giving away station wagons, they made them a little taller and changed the name to a SUV. Now everyone has one, and they do all look alike, you control what people comsume you control the people,

[@FerSpada]

minute 9:58 that is Mexico City the place is the sports palace "palacio de los deportes" and looks so beautifull, what a times !!!

[@manoman0]

I actually klicked on the link in the video description below to check out the HUD-Thingy.

[@MsJinkerson]

I love tandem axil vehicles

[@joesphbest3120]

#15 & #13, I will take both.

[@danmar007]

My favourite, by a long shot, is number 16. :)

[@oldbaldfatman2766]

Feb. 19, 2019----Thanks for the video. Many of these cars look like they should be in some sci-fi city movie. Getting back into modeling and this year buying a resin 3D printer and learn how to use CAD. Since seeing your video, have downloaded as many photos of the vehicles I liked seeing. Be interesting to print the body of them and put them on a plastic model frame.

[@funkydung.]

#7 looks like a smart car

[@Johnnywhamo]

That # 13 Stutz Blackhawk is straight up pimp mobile if ever there was one. I'm sure one of the oprions was a wide brimmed hat with a 3' feather sweeping off it.

[@catjudo1]

Wakka chikka wakka chikka wakka chikka wakka chikka... Talkin' bout Shaft! Can you dig it?

[@beverlylange4514]

thanks minds eye I REALLY ENJOYED WATCHING THIS VIDEO!!

[@mindseyedesign]

Our pleasure!

[@joelturnip1264]

porche tapiro is the first version of dmc 12

[@CaptRich-bi3gp]

Yay you did the Thing!!!

[@jakedelaymustdie6665]

The box is awesome! Minus those wood bumpers. And I dont care what anybody says the TAG is pretty sweet to.

[@thomasleemullins4372]

Check the BB group on Facebook to see if they actually make a new BB.

[@diekip]

The Brubaker looks amazing

[@eponymousmann5088]

I'm fascinated by the Lakester. How did the linkage work with steering and powertrain?

[@hunterglass1840]

I still wish I had my VW Thing that I owned while stationed in Panama in the 80’s but only because I have other cars to drive now. Blackhawks are amazing cars with the exception that they look like an Edsel mated with a Monte Carlo

[@darringoodbrand6603]

9,23 think it's cool I would buy one

[@chuks051]

Wow!.

[@geoffreyjones2000]

Thanks again, always a pleasure :) peace

[@Mocking69]

ホンダバモス懐かしいです！！ バモス子供の頃はわりかし走っていましたよ=3

[@fortj3]

I'll take one of each.

[@ketoking9435]

That Brewbaker just needs a vintage NASA logo,,,,, Luv the 70s

[@echodelta9]

Brubaker, one shows up in a scene in Soylant Green. It's the only car you see. I wanted one back then.

[@ketoking9435]

echodelta9 ,,,That's great,,You have some great cars over in the States,I used to work in American spares here in England early 80s,,seeing being in them was a dream and I once briefly owned my dream car a 1970 Pontiac GTO,,wishing you a great weekend,,,

[@jimsteele9261]

A modified Brubaker Box was the Ark Roamer in the 70s kids tv show "Ark II"

[@420edu8]

Always wanted a Thing

[@akronymus]

@ 420 edu they are crappy to drive and take a lot of gas for nothing - they just look cool

[@kellingtonlink956]

A very well thought out list. Thanks.

[@franciscosalazarjr.8406]

The Sandman was featured in Mad Max Road Warrior wasn't it? He and his wife was driving it.

[@vladimirkostic9932]

Maybe, i remember similar vehicle in movie.

[@Tiger351]

Yep, HZ model, last model Sandman.

[@adriaandeleeuw8339]

@@Tiger351 Mad Max drove an HX Sandman

[@superbacon3374]

It would be a real head turner if you drove these cars nowadays. That would be fun.

[@bobwalsh3751]

I NEED THAT MOBILE EXECUTIVE SUITE!!!

[@lorrieaustin4997]

Totally awesome

[@dannythetoesmasher]

Like the Briggs car.....would drive one.

[@thomasleemullins4372]

I like the #1 by Porche. I think they should have made another one and put it in production. It is cool looking.

[@tommiedaswammi8008]

In reiteration...building another one would definitely showcase some of Porsche's design realms.

[@struszka]

The Sandman sure would have made a nice hearse :)

[@NemoThorx]

not actually long enough. The Sandman was Holden's limited luxury/sports version of their panelvan - which itself is just a generic commercial vehicle with versions made by several companies. They're only the same length as a station wagon and would need stretching to be a hearse

[@adriaandeleeuw8339]

@@NemoThorx Fords version was a Falcon Panel Van variety they called the Sundowner, it could be optioned with a 302 or 351, Chrysler used the CL Valiant it was called the Drifter.

[@NemoThorx]

@@adriaandeleeuw8339 yup. And don't forget the Surferoo and Surfsider models from Ford, decked out from the factory with camping gear!

[@pablorages1241]

4:00 ...no no ... they were made right up to the end of the 70's they were very common ... so a LOT more than 100 were made ... and 308cu inch (5litre) was the bigger motor

[@chrisantoniou4366]

Correct, but at least they got the other facts right - rare for Americans...

[@Grenade80]

#5 it seems to be built on different platforms- four-door versions seems to base on European Granada (5-bolt wheel hubs, longer wheelbase and independent rear suspension) and coupe is based on Taunus (4-bolt hubs, shorter wheelbase and rear live axle)

[@NemoThorx]

Video implies only 100 Holden Sandman were made. That's not quite right. Only around 100 of the HQ model were made (1974), but the Sandman took off with the HJ model and continued through the HX and HZ models. At the peak, they were selling around 2000 a year. Sandman production ended in 1979

[@georgemaragos2378]

Hi All, the HQ media / prototype as test for dealers may have been 100, but it then became a regular option in the model. HQ even had a series 2 and i am guessing it was in that series. Note also at the same time the first 4 door monaro - HQ SS was tested with 253 V8 and 4speed manual only, that was so successfull they raised another batch, then introduced is a a 4door monaro ( up to this time the monaro only existed as a 2 door coupe ) again in the late HQ run as a permanent model, it ran for 4 model tears HQ-HJ-HX-HZ Sandman was popular as it had all of the performance sports car extras - gills in the guards, sports wheels, sports steering wheel, full instrumentation. HQ/HJ/HX they were available in 6cyl or 253 / 308 V8 , auto or manual HZ was V8 only During late HJ and most of HX , they often missed out of the guard gills as they were used on the monaro 4 door sedan and coupe, and as the sandman began as a base van on the production line, if there were any panel shortages the van missed out. Both 2 sets of neighbors and our bread delivery man had sandmans, why , they were manual and barely cost more than the base delivery van, insurance was cheap ! Plus they got good money as a trade in or selling of in the paper Production of sandman, would be in the 800-1,000 each year - they were everywhere in sydney, every big $$$ tradesman, sports fanatic, surfer The author on this video may be confusing it as well with a similar car - the overlander, which was available as wagon / ute / van - but these were a factory approved aftermarket conversion using 4x4 parts using a Dana m20 transfer case and a Dana m44 front drive made the car into a 4x4 and yes it looks like those crazy card on t-shirts The overlander production over 6 years was about 120, maybe where the 100 comes from in this advertisment

[@420edu8]

The results of engineering while on blotter

[@rich_edwards79]

So I guess I'm the only one who likes the Trident personal luxury land yacht then? Ok. I'm cool with that. Thing looks like a Bonneville (prominent nose) got crossed with a 70s Eldorado (faired-in rear wheels). Could never be made today as I'm sure any pedestrians it hit wouldn't live to tell the tale, but I still want one. Sandman vans are pure Mad Max. The Aussies had some great-looking cars in the 70s.

5:01 #9 is my favourite. TAG Mobile and executive suite. Too bad it failed, would have been great to see some driving around. 4:16 #10 Brubaker Box is second place.

[@arnbo88]

Only 100 Holden Sandman's produced? Are you kidding? Even Chrysler Australia had more Drifter Panel vans than a mere 100. Ford had their own version known as The Sundowner. In America the panel van is based on a truck chassis and is known as a Sedan Delivery. Holden Panel vans were a lot more common back then and the Sandman was only one version.

[@starguard4122]

With all of the Drama that was going on during that era, from the Civil Rights movement to the Vietnam War, its good to see that someone was actually doing something constructive back then

[@bigdog4173]

Thank you,I liked the VW 181,it was a crude,basic sort of car,I replaced the carburettor with a FISH one,and a Lumenition electronic ignition conversion kit, went well...Holden Sandman was a Holden panel van tricked out and aimed at the youth market..Ford also had Sundowner,and Chrysler the Drifter..we made good cars here before the parent companies in USA pulled the plug on us..

[@youdig3691]

i want them Alllllllllll

[@OzrenOsi]

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@millenniumxdtvmediaandarts1679]

woooooooooooooooo, 4 Horseman, baby!!!

[@oldbaldfatman2766]

Jan. 15, 2019---Thanks for the video. More than one of these vehicles would fit perfectly in some sci-fi/future film. Be interesting to design the program for some of these vehicles and then 3D print them for the car modeling buffs.

[@wolfyboy11hitler61]

Black hawk nice cars