Tasmania’s Road West (1970)

[@ErgonBill]

Lived and worked at Rosebery in the '70s. Nothing better than day trips to Gormanston, Strahan and Ocean Beach on my trusty Bonneville.

[@brucie-of-bangor528]

The road is just the same and in nearly 50 years the only things that have changed are the Renault, the Salmon farms in Macquarie Harbour and the cruise boat. Queenstown and Zeehan are much tidier and there has been some mining rehabilitation. Oh, and the fashion, but I love the boots!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@marknelson5929]

We did the very same trip about a month ago, great to see how it has and not changed. Fantastic part of the world. And yes great to see the Renault 16, as Simon said 6 months ago. They were excellent cars.

[@rsinclair6560]

Yeah Renault 16 TS...Double barrel Weber carby and drag off any Holden Kingwood.

[@75ajw]

This is brilliant! I'm sure that's Sting at 7:17. :)

[@not-pc6937]

Had a wild road trip to Strahan in the late 70s !!! Goodness couldn’t the locals drink- had a great time with a local girl and ended up waking up naked under a bean bag in a complete strangers house 😂😂 had to streak up the road to the house we were staying at 😂😂😂 great times

[@annpeerkat2020]

0:51 I once decided I wanted to get one of those renaults... now I'm glad I didn't!

[@rikeralpha100]

Hey when i drove into Queenstown i didn't have any of that funky music playing😢

[@rsinclair6560]

You can clearly see this was written, directed and produced by stodgy old school men from the Tasmanian public service that never went out much .

[@simonhattrell5321]

Ah the Renault 16 - a great car.

[@rsinclair6560]

Yeah we caught keep up along side Foker Friendship turbo jet taking off at 100 mph and drag off any Holden Kingswood.

[@corngrohlio]

I'm only 4 minutes in and I'm laughing out loud! The way they describe they "beauty" of the Queenstown and surrounds landscape is priceless. Don't get me wrong though, that area has its own charm and beauty that I appreciate, but this seems like a whitewash of why the place looks the way it does.

[@rsinclair6560]

Yep almost as exciting as a Uranium mine.

[@annpeerkat2020]

a lot of folks think that the moon's surface looks beautiful! If you can't get your hands on a telescope, there's always queenstown! Lizzy must have been so proud! Or was it Vicky?

[@saggo1712]

Renault 16, a perfect car for Tasmania or almost anywhere really.

[@rsinclair6560]

Why!?

[@alanwalker359]

I wouldn't drive that fast down Gormy hill..

[@hownowbrowntrouttasmania7389]

WOW.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@leannestubbs4723]

‘You could spend a week here and still only see a fraction of what could be seen’.. 🤣😂🤣

[@rsinclair6560]

What about Ouse? Stoner? Bagdad?

[@haydenwittig8877]

70s women were sexy in a certain way, just that look and and attitude.

[@oreganopotatohead8901]

whats the name of the song at 3:59 it has no right sounding as good as it dose

[@LibrariesTasmania]

Hi The Welder, the music is Home Of The Brave by Peter Reno.

[@stevewiles7132]

Not a highway for the feint of heart

[@stevewiles7132]

@Creamapera lots of winding and up and down, thought I would never get out of it hahaha

[@ErgonBill]

Was a very good road when I lived in the area '76-'79. Well maintained and very much suited motorcycles.

[@J0n0tanII]

3:46 lol

[@prophetoftruthgwenda]

The pioneers had a hard time.. 😮 shall we include what the pioneers did to the people they came across when they moved onto the land! Probably not wouldn't want that history to be known would they!

[@Antechynus]

Virtue signal much?... get over it.

[@pollybird7827]

The women would be in their 70s now 😊🍎

[@chrish3030]

Like a lot of places around the world, the image portrayed is not the reality, describing Queenstown as gorgeous is a bit far fetched considering the ecological damage. It’s the same today with our fisheries, supposedly world class while they dam and pollute all the remaining free flowing rivers.

[@prophetoftruthgwenda]

"Flourishing mining centre" 😂😂😂 destruction and greed

[@Antechynus]

Who are the presenters?... women you say?... according to the ABC and modern women, they were never allowed on Australian tv before 20 years ago...