Time Machine - Aussie Car Memories 2

[@markbehr88]

Here is Part 2 in my Time Machine Series - Aussie Car Memories. See if you can spot the Gullwing Mercedes and the very early Mazda plus a whole lot more Fords, Holdens, Chryslers etc. Please Like and Subscribe so you don’t miss an episode. Thanks for watching. 👍👍

[@michaelgiglio1571]

@markbehr88 we aren't all outcast convict decent ozzies, they are Australian cars.

[@markbehr88]

@@michaelgiglio1571 Ahh, ok? 🤔

[@robertaquilina3848]

This era shown is a masterpiece of aussie history which I got to witness from the early sixties onwards nothing complicated about cars then easy to fix for most, well I can't say the same about today's vehicle's whilst they have all the mod cons, they don't have any character to me they are sterile thanks for showing us a real Australia one that is sorely missed by me and I guess many others cheers

[@arnbo88]

There were fewer regulations on car design back then (i.e. mandatory 5 mph bumpers). This allowed car makers to style their makes differently. Now most cars look generic and clones of each other.

[@markbehr88]

@@robertaquilina3848 Totally agree. 👍

[@markbehr88]

@@arnbo88 Yes. Mainly boring blobs. 🫣

[@robalexander7348]

Thank You, that's when Australia was a better Australia 👍 Au nsw

[@markbehr88]

For sure. 👍

[@chriskiwi2601]

Absolutely brilliant!!

[@markbehr88]

@@chriskiwi2601 Thanks 👍

[@arunta5]

Thanks Mark some great memories there. Interesting to see the double decker buses crossing the Iron Cove Bridge going to Gladesville and Ryde. I lived in Gladesville for a few years in my early childhood. A lot of people today are unaware Sydney had one of the world's biggest urban tramway networks. They were ripped out from 1961 with the transition to buses seen as a better option. The site where the "Iconic Opera House" is now, was a major tram depot with a big shed there. My mother used to get the tram to work from Gladesville to White Bay in Sydney.

[@markbehr88]

@@arunta5 Thanks. Very different today but hardly better. 🤔

[@arunta5]

@@markbehr88 Yes Mark its a bit "Off Topic" but seeing that photo of the bus on the bridge brought back many memories. Removal of the tram network was a mistake, it could and should have been upgraded like Melbourne. Sydney now has "Light Rail" but it does not service anything like the tram network did in its heyday!

[@markbehr88]

@ Yes. Agree. 👍

[@sambonnici5070]

These Cars wer our life in Australia

[@markbehr88]

For sure. 👍

[@louiskats5116]

G'day Mark, What a time when life was way more simple & affordable. Cheers Louis Kats 👍

[@markbehr88]

For sure. 👍

[@louiskats5116]

@@markbehr88 👍👍👍

[@markbehr88]

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[@robertristinge4385]

Beautiful

[@markbehr88]

@@robertristinge4385 Thanks 👍

[@greenacres2319]

Perfect way to end a great weekend. Cheers

[@markbehr88]

@@greenacres2319 Thanks 👍

[@petersnell6677]

Thank you,I loved this but I wish it went a bit slower so I could try and date each phhoto😂

[@markbehr88]

I slowed the second one down. It is a fine line. 👍

[@Flaming-Hedgehog]

I remember some of these scenes and shops. Geez, now I feel old. 😳

[@markbehr88]

@@Flaming-Hedgehog Great days. 👍

[@area51isreal71]

Hearing you there mate.

[@Flaming-Hedgehog]

@@area51isreal71 Let me turn up my hearing aid so I can hear you. 😆

[@markbehr88]

@ 👍😄

[@jagarg6573]

Awsome ... but it really shows what a mess the place is now .. we had it so good .

[@markbehr88]

@@jagarg6573 Yep. 🫣

[@davidcoote4831]

I could watch these all day! Fantastic collection. 👍

[@markbehr88]

Cheers! More to come. 👍

[@ozmick126]

Riding in the back of a Ute ,kids today will never know the feeling.

[@markbehr88]

No they won’t for sure. Too busy vaping. 🤮

[@philipreiffel5077]

I was born in 1961, i remember some of the old street scenes, and slowly watched the old holdens and Ford's slowly being replaced by newer cars, there was even a lot of big american cars getting around, like galaxy, impala,s and the lovely looking parisians. Not to mention a lot of pommie cars too!

[@markbehr88]

Good times. 👍

[@UncleJoeLITE]

That was fun. Yep, I wish I was 25 again, but tbh I wouldn't trade my time for growing up now. Lots of early memories poured out today, too many to catch in 9ne watch. Esp I thought of riding punts as a kid - my brain is a rubbish dump of trivia. Cheers Mark.

[@markbehr88]

@@UncleJoeLITE Thanks. I reckon if this elicits great memories then job done, because they are great feelings. 👍

[@GrantCarter-m4d]

Thank you, brother Mark, very nice.

[@markbehr88]

@@GrantCarter-m4d Cheers. 🥂👍

[@frankpalermo3882]

This is excellent piece of Australian history watch all your videos must spent lot time and effort collating these clips well done

[@markbehr88]

@@frankpalermo3882 Thank you very much. Glad you enjoy them. 👍

[@gazzamacca9813]

I bought my first car in 1969 a 1962 V Dub that had 4 owners before me. It did 72 mph in third gear and 70 in fourth. 😂

[@markbehr88]

@@gazzamacca9813 I bet you loved it though. 🤔👍

[@farnthboy]

Quite a few old American classics running around in those days.

[@markbehr88]

@@farnthboy Yes, they were sold here as new cars. The good old days. 👍

[@peterriggall8409]

Great thanks Mark. Missed the Gullwing. Geez, they are priceless. There was a minute sports car there, think it was a NSU Prinz. Good to see a Landcrab with trendy shadow tone paint job. Yeah, I’m weird. Also a Kimberley or Tasman and a P76. Centura in the showroom. You never see one now. They were called arrows with the big 6 cyl. Great in a straight line. 😆

[@markbehr88]

@@peterriggall8409 I think it was a Goggomobile Dart? 👍

[@jamesgovett3225]

I remember seeing the Holden GTR-X on display back in the day (@.32) and was I was stunned at what I thought was just fantastic! It was at the time supposed to go in production and was touted as “Australia’s Corvette” with its fibreglass body and its that nice triple cd stromberged 186! But it was sadly not to be and all we got ( still good though) was the LC XU-1, geez I love all these pictures and admit that I have to pause all the time to scrutinise every poofteenth of them, I love it! Great work you’ve done there 👍

[@markbehr88]

@@jamesgovett3225 Yes. I wish they made it. I would own one. Apparently a guy in Vic has the moulds. We should be a special commemorative series of 10. Phil Zmood designed it. His best work I reckon. I slowed the pics down based on feedback. Always a fine line. 👍

[@Luke-PlanesTrainsDogsnCars]

@@markbehr88 I believe this GTR-X has been fully rebuilt and restored to as new.

[@markbehr88]

@ Yes. 👍

[@grantlee2975]

Fantastic Mark , love the old photo's of Cronulla area, and Taren Point still floods today. My dad bought a VJ Regal from Newmans of Kogarah, its apartments now.

[@markbehr88]

Thanks. When I was working at Mitsubishi Newmans were one of my dealers. They were vying for N01 with Purnells. They were very demanding. 🧐

[@grantlee2975]

@@markbehr88 Your job would have been interesting and frustrating if you worked supplying dealer stock.

[@markbehr88]

@ It was. If is was hot they wanted all of it! 😄

[@mikevale3620]

Thanks Mark. So many images of Sydney trams. I bet they rue the day they thought it was a great idea to replace trams with buses.

[@markbehr88]

I am sure they did. 👍

[@KevinLee-s6s]

Fabulous video Mark . Invokes great memories cheers

[@markbehr88]

Thanks. Another one coming soon. 👍

[@australiantrains8988]

Good old days when you could ride in the back of a ute or on the tray of a truck (0:55 mark), these days you would be booked. Leyland P76 at 5:41, collectors item today. Typical Aussie pub owned by Tooths (9:04 mark), in those days no carpet, no pokies, just a lino or tiled floor and tiles up to the bar, publican would just hose the joint out in the early morning!🤣

[@markbehr88]

@@australiantrains8988 😄👍

[@jasoncarpp7742]

G'day Mark. Another awesome video. It's fun to look back at cars and trucks people drove years ago.

[@markbehr88]

@@jasoncarpp7742 For sure. An American version of this would be great too 👍

[@jasoncarpp7742]

@@markbehr88 I agree. 🙂

[@markbehr88]

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[@johnston9051]

Great video as usual. My pick the awesome Chrysler Centura in the showroom

[@markbehr88]

Thanks. Thought you would like that one. 👍

[@JimmyShields-z2h]

Another awsome vid, old BIGW which i remember, inside they had canteen n orange cordial machines, 40 cents get cup of different flavours. I had stop at Chrysler Centuras as this was car just before my time, interesting history before been replace by Mitsubishi Sigma.

[@markbehr88]

@@JimmyShields-z2h 👍

[@volvor730]

@3:05 '67/8 Dodge Phoenix Hardtop and @9:47 '59 Ranch Wagon plus various Customline's and of course Holdens and Falcons galore. Good post Mark.

[@markbehr88]

@@volvor730 Yes. Cool. 👍

[@johngibson3837]

Great video mark beautiful photos thanks for slowing this one down a touch was loads better

[@markbehr88]

@@johngibson3837 Thanks. I slowed the third one down too. 👍

[@johngibson3837]

@markbehr88 good man, was the right thing to do judging by the comments on this one

[@markbehr88]

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[@davegeros9314]

Back when cars were exciting. Remember seeing a tv ad for the mark4 Cortina (NZ, 1977), touted as the European formula, was love at first sight.

[@markbehr88]

Yes. Agree. 👍

[@shaun30-3-mg9zs]

Hi Mark, Wow!! A great variation of cars from American cars to Holden's, Chrysler's, Ford's to a Morris 1300 a country of many cars some that look familiar on Welsh roads and a lot that don't but works well in Australia. Looks a country that love's VW Beatles and Japanese cars. Once again thanks for showing these scenes of the old days in Australia, take care

[@markbehr88]

Thanks Shaun. We even made Beetles here in Victoria at one stage, along with Mercedes, Renault, Studebaker and more. Sad we don’t have a car industry any more. 😢

[@shaun30-3-mg9zs]

@@markbehr88 Hi Mark, Didn't know you made Beatles, Studebaker, Mercedes in Australia, I Knew that some Austin and Morris cars in Australia. It's sad there's no cars being made in Australia, saying that Cars built in the UK are foreign owned, Vauxhall don't make cars in the UK they are made in Europe in Opel factories and slap on a Vauxhall badge on it, same with MG shipped in from China in Kit and assembled in the UK

[@johnd8892]

​@@shaun30-3-mg9zsNot only were Volkswagens assembled here , later moving to manufacturing, but I have seen it claimed that in 1960 VW outsold Ford here for number two sales spot. Likely helped by Ford in 1960 not making as many cars while converting to Falcon production with difficulties. The type 2 VW microbuses, utes and panel vans would also have less competition from Ford in that year too. No Falcon utes or panel vans until 1961. Not just the type 1 Beetles, but the type 2 commercial vans and type 3 sedans, station wagons, fastbacks and the very rare type 3 panel Van version of the station wagon. Made the Australia only Country Buggy before VW head office did the similar idea Thing buggy. Sales helped by VW Beetles winning and dominating so many round Australia trials that those rally trials stopped as they became so predicable as a win for VW beating all other cars large and small.

[@shaun30-3-mg9zs]

@@johnd8892 Thank's John

[@markbehr88]

@ Yes. Remember when the UK made many, many vehicles. It is a great loss for any country. 🤔👍

[@marklittle3551]

Nice photos

[@markbehr88]

@@marklittle3551 Thanks 👍

[@MelodyMan69]

Hey Mark. The thumbnail image remided me of the Williamstown Road Ferry. Used before the Westgate Bridge was built. Williamstown Road Port Melbourne becomes Williamstown Road Spotswood. Story on its own really when you consider a long chain sat on the bottom of the River/Harbour so that it would not interfer with Shipping coming into Port Melbourne and the Ferry had to pull on the chain to get across. Day after day.

[@markbehr88]

@@MelodyMan69 I think someone said where it is in the comments as his Dad had one of the businesses there. 👍

[@bobking9150]

Hi Mark, the opening photo of the blue XK Falcon on the ferry was taken at Tumbulgum on the Tweed River, Northern NSW. 1n the mid 1970’s my father purchased the Flacks store and the green building on the right. Later on he established a marine centre there selling boats and outboard motors. The ferry is no longer there, being replaced by a bridge downstream, a little to the left of the photo. Cheers Bob.

[@markbehr88]

Thanks Bob. Wow, that is very interesting to get that context. Yesterday a chap identified himself as a kid in the Woy Woy photo and coincidently the photo was taken on Jan 26 1960. I posted the video on Jan 26 2025, so that little boy is now in his 70’s. 😀👍

[@davidbarnsley8486]

Gtrx what a missed opportunity for Holden 😢😢 That was so many great pictures of what we once had Can we have another Mark 👍👍🇦🇺straylia

[@markbehr88]

Agree. Sure. I will do more of these in amongst my Auto History Series. 👍

[@sambonnici5070]

Such Great Times when I was so Great

[@markbehr88]

Yes. 👍

[@chrisschofield5310]

Another great video keep them coming cheers cs nsw

[@markbehr88]

@@chrisschofield5310 Cheers 👍

[@Flaming-Hedgehog]

3:59 That Dyson Landliner Bus is an entire episode unto itself. What a thing!

[@markbehr88]

@@Flaming-Hedgehog Yes pretty cool and I actually have a 1/43rd scale replica of the Ford V8 Greyhound bus. 👍

[@RoyS-ld7xu]

Yes, this is a great video - hey Mark, saw Randy's video yesterday, can we expect some new cars - very cool.

[@markbehr88]

Coming soon! Thanks 👍👍

[@ashleytidd-w9i]

Brilliant, just reminds me of how many Holden's used to be on the road ! The music, well that was like H R Puffenstuff I'm afraid.

[@markbehr88]

@@ashleytidd-w9i I loved that show Witchy Poo. 😄👍

[@barrycuda3769]

​@@markbehr88I was really keen on that show , and I wanted a talking flute like Jack Wilde had .I got his autograph in Auckland about 1972 .Jack's autograph that is , not the flute.

[@markbehr88]

@ Very cool. Great show. 👍

[@barrycuda3769]

@@markbehr88 Thinking back , there were almost countless really good tv shows for kids in those days , we were lucky.

[@markbehr88]

@ For sure. My favourite cartoon was Jonny Quest. You can watch it online. I have all the episodes. 👍

[@AlecJohn-c5o]

Awesome stuff. If I had to give an award to a model that aged the best in terms of looking classic but without looking dated I'd have to give it to the XB/XC Falcon 2 Door hard tops. 3:10 I saw a new imported American Mustang on my walk this morning and I think those Falcon Hard Tops from the 70's still hold their own next to the modern yank Mustangs. The XC Cobras in particular are one of the best looking things to hit the road in Australia IMO. The other thing uncar related is how different it was taking a trip interstate before everything became standardized. Each State had it's own unique brand of Supermarkets, Department Stores and food chains. As a kid in the 70's going interstate almost felt like going to another country....that horse has well and truly galloped. (As a South Aussie living in Victoria about the only differences these days are Vics saying Kassle instead of Castle and Mowl instead of Mall. 🙄 )

[@UncleJoeLITE]

@@AlecJohn-c5o Yep, an XB hardtop is the most stylish way to visit the shrubbery in the wet!

[@AlecJohn-c5o]

@@UncleJoeLITE No shrubbery in Mad Max Country. 🙂

[@markbehr88]

@@AlecJohn-c5o 😄👍

[@graemeeamens9891]

Loved the Ford dealership with 4 1967 GT Falcons for sale. Quite a few pics showed Morris Majors - a car that was the top prize on BP Pick-A-Box with Bob and Dolly Dyer. This was just above the caravan prize it was supposed to pull. Our family had lots of Holdens from 1956 on, followed by many Valiants after 1966.

[@markbehr88]

Very cool. I went to Bob Dyers house when I worked at Holden. It was owned by Laurie Sutton. 👍

[@mrozboss]

Love it mate oh the memories of the cars and towns you need to ask Richard if he has any of Keith's old photos he had heaps I remember one he showed me were he fixed the southern cross that when it landed in deni he had to fix the landing gear on it very important photo in Australian history in my opinion he used have it hanging up on his office wall at the dealership he told me the story when I was younger in 90s he had other photos from that job he did hope they haven't been lost Keith was such an awesome boss he gave me parts nos to restore my xu1 Torana from the old horse stables at the back of Akubra house the stuff he had stashed in there I even seen him give away a brand new vs wagon one time to an old family friend that was truly down on his luck old Keith needs to be remember he was a real gentleman ❤

[@markbehr88]

@@mrozboss He was. I did meet him a couple of times at launches. I will ask Richard. 👍

[@mrozboss]

@markbehr88 I'm lumpy he will remember me I was the kid that worked with K hall in the paint shop his another guy that needs to be remember too and also s Rowe he was and is a serious car me aster still doing things

[@mrozboss]

You should do an interview with Kevin the stuff he knows about Holden's and the fact he delivered so many to customers over his years is second to none he is a treasure

[@markbehr88]

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[@markbehr88]

@ I’ll definitely mention it. 👍

[@Luke-PlanesTrainsDogsnCars]

Well Mark.. the photo @ 4:59 caught my eye and really tested me in the naming the badges. I stand to be corrected but from the bottom right: Mazda R360 coupe...first Mazda sold in Australia. Peugeot 403 station wagon. Prince Skyline from around 1960 (rare) Triumph Herald station wagon. 1962 EJ Holden Special..... Probably Brisbane or further north judging from the surroundings.

[@markbehr88]

@@Luke-PlanesTrainsDogsnCars Yes. That is the Mazda. Very cool isn’t it. 👍

[@johnd8892]

The R360 was the first Mazda car sold here , but in 1959 the first Mazda 3 wheel tiny truck was sold here. There is a glimpse of one used by Qantas at Sydney airport in an NFSA transport vid. A bit popular at the Queen Victoria wholesale market in Melbourne. A nearby wreckers yard in Abbotsford St North Melbourne later seemed to be the go to parts supply place for them.

[@markbehr88]

@ Imagine having one now. 🤔👍

[@อาสา-ฒ9ฤ]

Hey there I come from randy auto auction rebuilt

[@markbehr88]

@@อาสา-ฒ9ฤ Welcome. Good to have you. There’s plenty of content to watch on Australian and US cars plus some old Euro and more. 👍

[@briancritchley5295]

Hi Mark, were did you find the Woy Woy station clip at 1.43 that was 26 Jan 1960 thats me looking at the boy scout, I am 73 now.. Could you please let me know, Thanks, Brian.

[@markbehr88]

@@briancritchley5295 I’ll have a look. Generally I look on the internet or use some of my own pics. 👍

[@Flaming-Hedgehog]

That's pretty amazing odds. 65 years later, almost to the day, to find yourself on a random YT channel. How cool. Is it too late to pop out and get a lotto ticket for tonight?

[@markbehr88]

I think this one was posted on a Shannons Club streetscapes forum topic that I started years ago. Just google Shannons Club streetscapes and you will see who posted it.

[@briancritchley5295]

@@markbehr88 Thanks Mark.

[@markbehr88]

Send me an email to [e-mail] and I will send you a copy. 👍

[@brianandglendaharkin9457]

67 Dodge Phoenix across the road pillares. Had two in the next model pilliares 383 . The rear end had a better look . Actually I worked for Homecarfs for a while . In delivering goods and setting up TVs and airials on roofs .

[@markbehr88]

@@brianandglendaharkin9457 Very cool. 👍

[@bossdog1480]

Line up of 4 XR Falcon GT's looked good. Also good is all the Pommy cars no longer exist. lol

[@markbehr88]

Yes. 👍

[@barrycuda3769]

Great stuff. I spotted a sign advertising TOOTH's beer , I remember Tooth's KB was sold for a while in NZ early eighties, and Dad would sometimes pick some up after a days fishing, and we'd slake our thirst with it , it came in a gold can with artificial condensation on it . Dad got to know about Tooth's beer in the Pacific islands in WW2 , having come into contact with Aussie's , and he thought it was a good drop. Are Tooth's still going ?

[@markbehr88]

@@barrycuda3769 I remember them Tooth. I mean Too. 😄

[@barrycuda3769]

@markbehr88 Strewth .

[@barrycuda3769]

@markbehr88 That reminds of an old joke which was something about a doctor's office, and a sixteen year old girl being asked to take big breaths.

[@Flaming-Hedgehog]

Sadly not. Tooth and Co was acquired by AdSteam, a corporate raider and asset stripper in 1981. AdSteam sold it to Carlton & United Breweries. Tooth and Co was delisted from the Australian Securities Exchange in 2010.

[@barrycuda3769]

@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt 🙂👍

[@chriscarey3625]

Awesome collection of Aussie classics, but gee can you do something about the backing music please

[@markbehr88]

I like it. 👍

[@jamesgovett3225]

The Landliner bus @ 3.58 is quite an interesting vehicle, Australian designed and built although not really successful but technically ahead of it’s time, the driver operated from the centre and the Bus’s steerable “Bogie” was operated by Hydraulic rams or along those lines, I am pretty sure it was powered by Cadillac V8’s one driving the rear front axle and another driving the rear axle both simultaneously or individually depending whether a full load or going up hills, I think they were operated down on Victoria’s peninsula area and they were later sold to the Western Australian Railways or WAGR but were problematic and their power units and front bogie were removed and then turned into a trailer pulled by a prime mover as a “Semi-Bus”in Perth for a number of years

[@markbehr88]

@@jamesgovett3225 Yes. I have heard of those. What a contraption. 😄👍

[@drifterdrifter9558]

Haha driving in the back of the Ute was normal. 😊

[@markbehr88]

@@drifterdrifter9558 Absolutely or in a trailer. 😄👍

[@Flaming-Hedgehog]

Still is in the US but must be over 16yo.

[@markbehr88]

@ More Freedom there than here. 👍

[@Low760]

9:12 a 59' impala and 58' Plymouth. Wow.

[@markbehr88]

@@Low760 Yes. How good was it back then. Australian tastes were very American and go back to the 1920’s- 1940’s and it was very American with all makes sold here. 👍

[@petermallow]

59 belaire. My dad had one the same as this. Went for my licence test in it at Parramatta in March 1975. He traded it in on a new HJ holden .

[@markbehr88]

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[@PlumbBob-FGX]

GMH. Holden use to employ a lot lot lot of people in the old days. When most cars had Armstrong steering and 4 X 60 air conditioning 😂 and a jam tin behind each wheel as brakes. 😂

[@markbehr88]

Yes and all the support businesses too from the milk deliveries to Holden to the tyre suppliers. Good for Australia. 👍

[@Low760]

10:32 and a 244 and 264 in the one place. Interesting.

[@markbehr88]

@@Low760 Yes. I could not believe it re the Gullwing. At the beach too! All that salt air 🫣

[@cherylstollery3444]

So sad we have lost our car industry

[@markbehr88]

I agree. Look at everything it delivered. 👍

[@Luke-PlanesTrainsDogsnCars]

MB 300 SL gullwing @ 5:26 ...Burleigh Heads in background.

[@markbehr88]

@@Luke-PlanesTrainsDogsnCars Very amazing sight. 😳

[@yasi4877]

I can smell the suntan lotion? Remember the mutton bird oil man? A 3BR unit on the headland at Burleigh was £16k then. The apt my dad was looking at is still there and worth a million or two. Flashy 2-door XM's were on the road at that time. Got my license at Burleigh in the policeman's EK. A handbrake start, then up the hill and round the block with a parallel park to finish. Then off to Lakeside for the ATC with Beechey, Jane, McKeon, Manton, Foley, Geoghegan. Great days!

[@Luke-PlanesTrainsDogsnCars]

@@yasi4877 As a child I visited the GC much the same time as the pic....the tallest building on the Coast was the Broadbeach International Hotel .🏢😎😂

[@markbehr88]

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[@yasi4877]

@@Luke-PlanesTrainsDogsnCars I remember it as Lennons. In 1963 my parents picked up my sister and fiance at the airport and went straight there for breakfast. "We're closed" the waitress said. He put a ten pound note on the desk and demanded "Is that enough for you?". Do you remember the hypnotist Ron Ricco at Greenmount Beach, Coolangatta? And Mama Luigi's at the foot of Mt Cootha? Best spaghetti in Brisbane.

[@sambonnici5070]

My Uncle was Foreman for BMC Plant Rose Berry for 15 years

[@markbehr88]

Very cool. I used to drive past the old building every day when I worked at Holden. 👍

[@wimdelang9675]

I had a 1963 Ford Falcon with 3 gears on the steering colom that thing could do 120 km per hour in second gear, yes we dont have cars like that anymore

[@petergraves2085]

At 5.17, is a photo of what was then the ACT section of the Australian Federal Police - still with a number plate beginning "Z". That's the National Library over the policeman's right shoulder.

[@markbehr88]

Yes, I used to see A plate cars around. I thought they were just Federal Gov’t plates? 👍🤔

[@petergraves2085]

@@markbehr88 Thanks - if you mean "Z" plates ? At one stage, before self-government the "ACT" police were a part of the AFP, who drove "Z" registrations. Which were all the cars owned by the Commonwealth Government. The cars for the pollices were also "Z" plated, as were cars for APS general use. For some reason, those cars are now standard "ACT" usuallly starting "Y". If you do see a "Z" registration on Canberra's roads, it means that it belongs to the AFP (Canberra's police drive ordinary "Y" series).

[@markbehr88]

@ Yes. My Dad bought a 1972 Galaxie off the Premier’s Dept. I believe they also had Z plates but I could be wrong? 🤔

[@petergraves2085]

@@markbehr88 Thanks for reading. "Z" plaes were exclusively for vehicles owned by the Commonwealth. Not by the state - if you Dad did buy off a Premier's Department.

[@markbehr88]

@ Right. Probably had a different plate as it was Sir Robert Askin’s car. There is an episode of it on the channel. “The Car I’ll Never Sell”. 👍

[@peterselten500]

I remember the ampol an esso an in the 70s the tiger toys

[@markbehr88]

@@peterselten500 😄👍

[@OzCrusader]

Were those photos of the “Silvalite” service station taken on the Sturt Highway near the outskirts of west Wagga Wagga NSW?

[@markbehr88]

@@OzCrusader I don’t know sorry 🤔

[@Flaming-Hedgehog]

Yes , That is the Silvalite Service Station at Wagga. The photo is around 1960 when owned by Doug & Sylvia Lawson, the parents of cricketer Geoff Lawson. It's still there as the Liberty Silvalite Fuel Stop.

[@markbehr88]

Very cool. This is why I put music to the pics, because the subscribers will have info like this. 👍

[@OzCrusader]

@@Flaming-Hedgehog Born 1959 and raised in Wagga, that information sounds right to me. Thank you 👍

[@markbehr88]

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[@johndunstan3875]

0:20 the Ford factory Geelong Victoria.

[@bossdog1480]

I remember Boan's, what happened to them? Mark, are you going to do one about P76 at some stage?

[@markbehr88]

Yes I will. I did a video on the Leyland Force 7V. It’s on the channel. 👍

[@drifterdrifter9558]

Gullwing at the beach?

[@markbehr88]

@@drifterdrifter9558 Have a look for it and it isn’t a seagull! 👍

[@drifterdrifter9558]

@markbehr88 left hand side 1/3 in. Can't find the mazda though

[@markbehr88]

@@drifterdrifter9558 Mazda in different pic. 👍

[@stevemcintyre4398]

The fuel price cracked me up, 43c?. Presumably a gallon too.

[@markbehr88]

@@stevemcintyre4398 Probably a litre. 👍

[@johnd8892]

In the sixties it was around that per gallon or less.

[@markbehr88]

@ This had an 80’s Rover in it. 👍

[@arnbo88]

I like all the British and American variants that you would see back then. Now they've been replaced by cheaper Asian imports.

[@markbehr88]

@@arnbo88 Yes that was reflected in the Australian Government’s limitations on the US$ and imports in favour of British. Personally, despite being a Commonwealth country, if it were not for the USA we would have been overrun by the Japanese, so my trade policy would have been the exact opposite. 🤔

[@arnbo88]

@ Happy Australia day mate! Ed's auto reviews did a video on Australian tariffs on auto imports. It's interesting that some of the "American" cars assembled in Australia were actually knockdown kits from Canada (Impala, Parisienne and Dodge Phoenix).

[@markbehr88]

@ Happy Australia Day. We say that proudly on this channel. Yes a lot of Canadian CKD due to favourable tariffs. 👍

[@SteveSkrobot]

Wow at 8:47 thats when Sydney used to have Trams right?

[@markbehr88]

@@SteveSkrobot Sydney had trams. Many were later used as Hunter accommodation on the farm next to ours. 👍

[@johnd8892]

Those earlier Sydney trams lasted until February 1961. There are also Ballarat and Brisbane trams as well as the obvious Melbourne trams. Slight chance of some being Bendigo or Geelong ones.

[@markbehr88]

@ 👍

[@gregharvie3896]

Yep back when Sydney had the BIGGEST TRAM NETWORK IN THE WORLD. NO other city had the depth , spread and sheer mileage of tram network. Plus there were Newcastle & Woolongong trams TOO. Let alone the Tram Punt at the "Spit" in Sydney prior & after the first bridge was built, the trams squiggled their way down through what had been bush, on the Manly side, but is now prime real estate homes. I remember as a little kid going for the last tram ride in Sydney in 1961 and the to a kindergarten kid the frightening squash and surge of people, but Pa had a vice like grip of my hand then he put me on his shoulders so I had an "aerial" view, it was worth the ride however, I'm glad I went. Seems still so vivid in mind however now six and a half decades ago, amazing. AND Sydney sold a lot, I think near all of its new trams to Melbourne, and a few years later when on holidays in Melbourne with my parents, the lazy Melbournians had not changed the paper adverts glued on in frames in the trams cabin, STILLL HAD ADVERTS GLUED UP FOR "STUFF" LOCATED IN SYDNEY !!! what a bunch of winners !!

[@markbehr88]

😂

[@Flaming-Hedgehog]

😀

[@markbehr88]

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[@jamesgovett3225]

One last comment I think the early Mazda is at 4.59

[@markbehr88]

@@jamesgovett3225 I’ll have to check but it is in the foreground parked diagonal to the curb. 👍

[@markmccann5711]

Just gets better and better not one Volvo 😂😂😂

[@markbehr88]

Ha. There is at least one Volvo (164) in one of the later episodes. 😀👍

[@davidbarnsley8486]

Gtrx what a missed opportunity for Holden 😢😢

[@markbehr88]

@@davidbarnsley8486 Very much so 🫣

[@Bazilhatz3773]

Is that a go go mobile at 4:58 ?

[@markbehr88]

Yes. 👍

[@mikevale3620]

That's one way of spelling Goggomobil.

[@markbehr88]

@mikevale3620 Go to the top of the class 👍😀

[@Bazilhatz3773]

@@mikevale3620 gee oooh gee gee oooh not the dart

[@markbehr88]

I used to work with Tommy when we made the Shannons Googo TV ad. 👍

[@aussietaipan8700]

I tried to wait to like 199 so I could be 200 but I had to settle for 182

[@markbehr88]

@@aussietaipan8700 👍😄

[@Flaming-Hedgehog]

Ironic, a lot of Aussies in this clip settled for a 182. 😁

[@markbehr88]

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[@michaelgiglio1571]

Rrr Correcting, Australian cars thankyou, Ozzie's are only convict decent. 😮

[@markbehr88]

Its descent thanks Guv 👍

[@306champion]

0:01 Apart from this lovely looking Falcon, look at the Australian Chamberlain 9G tractor in the background. 3:49 This would be Harry Firths workshop just off Auburn Rd Hawthorn. This is a great collection of memorabilia for me and thank you. But why pray tell do you play such horrible music thats completely inappropriate for the era on a loop?

[@markbehr88]

Thanks. I like the music. There is a small number who don’t. That’s why they invented a mute button, so you can watch it and play what you think is appropriate. Cheers Mark.

[@waynegrunert7791]

I think, maybe a shame, we were influenced more by pommy than American

[@markbehr88]

@@waynegrunert7791 Once we hit the 1060’s the American influence took over. 👍

[@Flaming-Hedgehog]

I noticed that too. At least many of those pommie cars were assembled here then.

[@markbehr88]

True. 👍

[@darrylcampbell4411]

Sorry mark comentry is way better than annoying music..

[@markbehr88]

A lot more time consuming to put together on top of the Auto History series. I suggest for those who don’t like the music to hit the mute button. 👍

[@rabidsminions2079]

The "music" is annoying.

[@markbehr88]

@@rabidsminions2079 Snap! So is this comment! 😄👍

[@doctormengele961]

Jesus i spoted an elusive Austin Tasman 😂

[@markbehr88]

I remember those. I am probably one of the few people who like the Kimberley. 😀👍