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Nice upload,and great to see so many HQ's being looked after. Has anyone in Monaro land seen a standard HQ Monaro of late? There was one parked outside the parade grounds at the Monaro Nationals back in 2014. Dark chocolate exterior, light brown interior. Standard Monaro's sure are rare. 👍😁

Did NZ assemble the GT model?

Wonder if they got their 2 beers at lunchtime...used.to happen in some places even till the early 80s

Sid i see cross.ply tyres being fitted!!!!???😂

Ahh the ANALOG DAYS❤

So they were dipped. That's good. The Holdens weren't. I looked inside one all over but saw the rust break out everywhere. They had no paint where it counted.

6:57 Peter and Yvonne look concerned about how long before that shinny new Falcon will have huge rust issues!

Wow this brings back memories! I worked at that plant in Wiri 1980 till close down in 1997. We were building XDs and Escorts at first then XE/XF/EA etc Fords and Mazdas/Lasers/Utes after the partnership between Ford and Mazda in the mid 80s when the factory became VANZ. Great outfit in those days.

Pity the poor punters that bought NZ assembled Fords

why not let the kids sit in the car as it goes down the line? They can get even closer

Priceless footage

That is how a car is made, almost by hand. I know it doesn't have million and one safety features of todays cars. But has has soul...

''Real Cars ''

The documentary music was much better then too

I'd like one when I grow up.

Before our political parties sold out to globalism

Xa's look cooler than xb's. And no-one likes the xc.

Ford opened their Assembly plant, 1936, in Seaview Wellington, They opened another Plant Wiri Aukland 1973, Head office moved to Aukland, Seaview closed 1988, Vehicle Assembly at Wiri came to a end 1997. "Dawn raids" began about then.

Before all the left wing nutjobs and woke bullshit

Awesome video, we made trim down at Brugger Industries for the XE when I started there in 1983

Sad isn't it? The Australian and New Zealand car markets were big enough to support several manufacturers in Australia, assembly plants in several cities in Aus and NZ, employing thousands in skilled jobs. And now our much bigger market can't support a single manufacturer. Not one.

Horrible cars really. But at least we were capable of making our own, unlike now.

Choice bro

Plenum chambers rusting before they left the factory

i'm restoring an XA Fairmont and it has the optional insulation on the roof interior (behind the hood-lining) and under the dash around the firewall& heater area. Yeah, it's yellow asbestos. Not joking.

Our politicians are destroying our once beloved great countries. I wish people would wake up soon we will have nothing and be owned by foreign countries

Wiiih holden mobil impianku 😙😙

Those guys doing the lead wiping would have left planet earth ages ago. Old school personal responsibility. As a young and naive apprentice I worked with a fitter in his eighties who would clean his overalls in a bucket of kerosene to get the hydraulic oil out of them, and then wear them when they'd dried. I asked him if it wasn't going to be bad for his health- his reply (with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth) "good for ya".

Wow....this should be on country calendar

How proud that organ player must be, given the opportunity to ply his skills for this doco.

XA i prefer the the name Falcon 500

No health and safety here mate! Wait till they get their grubby hands on all of the industry, what did it do to the New Zealand automotive industry?

wow. its the acc building now in puhinui

4:21 Is that a Ricky Hatton double?

The Ford Wiri factory would've been brand new at the time of XA assembly, any idea what year and last falcon model built was?

That HQ Holden @ 9:00 looks pretty Mint !!!

This is the result of monopolies that rule in New Zealand. Imported cars had their spark plugs removed and dumped, replaced with locally made.

We have two old Holdens, a one tonnes we rebuilt an a Statesman that has not been tampered with that still has the Origanal black an white Qld Plates from the 70*s

Good to see Holdens will Live on a long time forever

4:27 Well before the Health and Safety onslaught.

Make some more of these cars

I feel bad for the guy doing lead on the roof seams.

Where's the GT vid

3:50 - initial salt water application to give the rust a good start

Back when NZ was an industrialized country and not a Chinese outpost.

My Dad had one of those - that truck should have taken them straight to the tip

Is 1300 weight the same as 13 cwt

Those were the days when the job got done with no dramas like all the safety shit we got nowadays with all the highviz dressing up like an esxemo to do the job

4:26 yep ..those spray painters had the best job in the world ...

Dad has a nasty beard.