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Ah people died here and there, but it was fun, heaps of fun, I’m 65 now and have a genuine xw GT Falcon and a 1969 Boss 302 Mustang. Great cars, great fun. Put your skirt back on Pete. 😂😂

Who knew Petr Wherrett was such a lefty communist.

Pete always sounds like his undies are bunched...then we found out they were!!

In 1968 a 327 Monaro won and in 1969 the 350 Monaro won then the Ford in 1970.

When l was at high school one of the students doing matriculation was given a brand new HK 327 GTS Monaro as his first car by his old man who was the council mayor at the time. He used to drive it to school. Often remember him laying a little bit of de rubber on de road to entertain us mere mortals at the time whilst waiting for the bus to go home. We all thought he was an absolute ledge. As a footnote when l finally got to 6th form l arrived to school in my first car - an EJ Holden Station wagon - bummer.

My age and I missed hearing your comments. Good on you Peter.

King of cross dressing, strange cat

In the late 80s in my 20s 350hp wasn't enough for me....450 was....worked 351 XYGS 4SPD 9inch...great memories

I loved Peter and any car journalism when I was a little kid but he was like a Headmaster. A no nonsense buzz-harshener but a brilliant dude and a great driver too. Legend.

Grew up with Fords but the sound of that 327 is sublime. And from inside the car it was even better.

Oh well, i suppose we should be thankful that Peter was at least wearing mens clothes for once.

More fun than any EV for sure!

Even then, the gAyBC was crying puddles over natural resources. Nothings changed.

"We die as real men- with no airbags"

he should be wearing a racing helmet not english felt cap

Purchased a brand new Monaro 327 (grey - without the stripe) in October 68 from Dustings of Burwood. In its day what a motor car! I clocked up over 100,000 miles in that car over about 4 years and the memories of its performance are still with me today. Back in the late 60’s early 70’s the highways had open speed limits (so long as you could prove you were driving safely!) l remember sitting behind a police car doing about 85 mph between Benalla and Wangaratta and passing him at 100 mph - no problem. I was doing a lot of interstate driving particularly between Melbourne and Sydney on both the Hume and Princess Highways and the roads tended to be pretty demanding especially if you tended to go a bit hard - that car was nothing short of brilliant for the conditions that existed at the time. The Fords of the day were every bit as good, l am truly thankful for having had that motoring experience in my lifetime - not many have!

They still are incredible cars, and the sound and presence of them cannot be beaten.

Amaroo Park hardly the best venue for showcasing that old iron. Slow corners and less than 2 clicks long, it was the very essence of UK short circuits and nothing like most of the other Aussie circuits around at the time. Been in both cars at speed and much as it was fun, they were pretty much an engine with a bare bones body fitted, and little sophistication. I wouldn’t go back…

Peter Wherrett being a Karen.

I had a bronze HT308 with ROH wheels. Crappy handling, but it felt great, especially wren cruising up at the Gold Ciast with all windows down and no B pillar

Well, they certainly managed to take the fun side out of motoring now

My storeman at TAFE owned the HO. I remember him telling us (around '88-'89) about this comparison. He said the Falcon ran better on the day than the Monaro...

And holden/general motors with "Australia's own car" brought in yank running gear😅😅

The 327 GTS Monaro was 69 but not in the model pictured.

Nostalgia is a strange thing. 😊 Those old muscle cars handled like a wet sponge, guzzled fuel, cubic inch power ratio was horrible, and they were terrible rust buckets, especially any built on a Friday. Anyone buying them nowadays as collectors definitely has more bucks than brains.

2024 and EVs are using much more natural resources than any 350 Monaro of Falcon GT could ever use. Always appreciated Peter's professional opinion even if it was on the boring side.

Bought a 1969 HT gts Monaro in 1979 for $2300. It went OK I guess. Apart from the shit brakes, shit handling, shit fuel consumption, shit drive train ( diff/ gearbox). But it was cooler than ice cream!

The Monaro registered KNK 777 is the ex HDT Monaro 57D which was entered in the Sandown Datsun 3 hour race which Spencer Martin while driving unfortunately ran out of brakes, crashed and it caught fire! The car lived to see its life put as a restored car again in full race livery!!

And this vid is so old, the track in use is where? Anyone know? It's Amaroo Park, one of the best tracks in Sydney, famous for the Castrol 6 hour!

GO THE HOEYS

Shit brakes, shit steering deathtraps. Love ‘em.

XW GT had a wopping 290 HP ... I owned an XA GT with 300 HP ... Yet today there are over 30 cars with 600 HP + that you can buy ...

Funny thing is the 0 to 100 times of these beasts are the same you get in a stock XR6 FG non turbo, but they sound heaps better.

It is very hard to believe that he had such a fall from grace

Remember the TV show "Matlock Police" with Michael Pate driving the Monaro police car? Then the NSW police used Valiant Chargers as Highway Patrol cars, those were the days.

Muscle cars spoken about by a ‘cross dresser’ ?

lefty gallah.

Sadly not so much of a review of these two great Aussie icons, but rather a critique based around his fears about excessive power (suitable only for the racetrack!! ha ha) and waste of precious resources. Well, here we are 55 years later and cars are faster, on roads massively more congested, and fuel available in abundance. Oh, and for those promoting EV's (which today, are quite good cars), they are the fastest of all, with rocket like acceleration (albeit for relatively short times) and big doubts re envrionmental impact with battery manufacture and short lifespan.

I think the real problem back then was safety it was wasn't compulsory by law to wear a seat belt and Aussie cars had shit breaking systems

Just your average daily drive in those days. I don’t know how we all survived. But christ they were great cars. 18 year old and had a 351. Unbelievable!

I owned a HK Monaro, give me a modern car any day.

Ah the good old 351 the most detonated engine at Bathurst by FAR. Just ask Moffat and Johnson and Carter. Those die hards spent a fool’s ransom trying to get those boat anchors to hand together only to be REPEATEDLY thrashed by the 308s of grice brock Bobby Morris and a tribe of others. The XW XYs were a wallowing overrated boat with rubbish brakes and horse and cart suspension from the 50s. All noise no substance a legend in its own lunchbox

I was very fortunate to been given my fathers white & black 1968 HK Monaro 327 manual when he passed away He went all out and had fitted all options from GMH Power windows/ aircon and power steering This car has only 65000 on clock and it’s in pristine condition with not 1 paint chip or dent Every except tyres , battery etc are original It’s been in storage for over 20 years and I’m seriously thinking of selling it for a premium price

"only on a racetrack"...ha, ha, ha lol!

Give me power!!! I want to know that every time I start up my car, a species goes extinct. 😅😅😅😅

And that's why you only got a sigma named after you These cars don't belong on the road Silly old man

The Holden sounds better and I'm a Ford man.

what a cross dressing wihnger

Hey Charger ✌️

I remember watching him on the ABC in the late '70s as there were no other car shows on TV. Now after watching a few of his videos recently such as this I realise he was just a dress wearing flog! Nasty words but true. He seemed to hate Aussie cars but loved Euro trash.