I acknowledge that Peter Wherrett isn’t without his flaws, or critics. However, he makes the job of television presenter look easy. He’s got a confident style and a passion for the subject. What a shame that the researchers at the ABC let a few inaccuracies slip through I’ve known a few people who have attempted to present motoring shows on Australian tv since the Wherrett era. Two of the four have expressed admiration for how easy he made this tricky job look.
What a fantastic way to escape for half an hour . He and his production crew , combined to produce a television series unparalleled , in the annals human endeavour . Thanks to Auntie also .
@@markmark5269 Who gives a shit what he did at home ??? for all we know, you might be licking your mothers piles after work. We will judge you by what you put out in public. Peter was an exceptionally smart and wise, interesting man. I/We, should mind our businesses and not bother about peoples off screen lives.
@@caratcranker5874 Good on yer. Seems people pick on others to hide their own skeletons in the closet no doubt. Yes, what he did at home was up to him, doesn't make him any less of a great man.
its interesting to note how 40 years ago Peter was complaining that driving conditions, and traffic just isn't enjoyable anymore and 40 years later people reminisce about just how good driving in the 80's and 90's was
You're right but every year it gets worse. There used to be no red light cameras, no speed cameras, no "safety cameras" and the speed limit in metropolitan areas was 60km/h almost EVERYWHERE. If you didn't know the area you always knew the speed limit. Driving has become such a hassle I now sometimes choose to stay home; not good for the economy.
Thank you for uploading these shows. I enjoyed watching them, and I learned a lot about the history of the automotive industry outside the USA. The presenter did a terrific job throughout these shows, and I am indebted to you for bringing it to us.
i dont mean to be off topic but does anybody know a way to get back into an instagram account..? I was dumb forgot the password. I appreciate any assistance you can offer me.
I learnt to drive in a 68 Corona, when I was teenager in the early 80s. When Mum bought a 76 Corolla, I took it for a quick drive, came to a corner, planted my foot hard on the brakes, as was normal for the Corona, and nearly went through the windscreen... The wonder of disc brakes....
🤦♂️ Here we go again.... Yet another gronk, @@davidjohnston7512, making yet another gronk comment, about the same totally irrelevant aspect of the bloke. If he was a bastard to his tv crew, or a criminal in some way - he's fair game. Have a go at one harmless element of his private life - that's bigotry.
This is very interesting, but really only gives a 1979 perspective of things. Honestly, he is right on the money in terms of the sex appeal and really not being able to afford it, but at the same time, who said human beings are rational? That malaise era became the "anything is possible" and upbeat 1980s, and the domestically-made production convertible returned to the US market in 1982. Though rational fuel economy regulations played a major role in returning the car to sensible tool from a sexy status symbol or guilty-pleasure device, that merely shifted the capitalism of car manufacturers in business to make a profit to push trucks where there was not a fuel economy requirement (because they are work related), and set the stage for the rise in SUVs and pickup trucks in the USA to the point of market domination, for better or worse. People still are willing to pay big money for that pleasure=gratifying status symbol, as is evidenced by the current average transaction price of a new vehicle: $47,000! That is entry-level luxury car territory. As long as there is money to be made in the auto industry, people will ante up the dollars (pounds, Euros, yen) and the manufacturers will gladly supply them with what they want (but don't necessarily need).
I was wondering how huge expensive luxury suv trucks from Cadillac and Lincoln somehow became desirable to some. Thankyou. At least in Australia we only have the gross European monster marques to contend with on the road.
Peter Wherrett was very much a hipster . Check sportsjackets, Tweed caps, slacks.... It's his speech that really impresses. Very well spoken and highly intelligent.
my uncle had the Mazda RX4 coup rotary he bought it new and said the bloody thing could fly but would reach a point of no return in other words the breaks would give out and couldn't stop it it just would wind its self up and go
Now he’s knocking my MGB that I first drove brand new in 1964, and found it brilliant, subsequently owning two more over the next twenty years,” bugger”!😤😤
@Brian Kay - in 1964, an MGB was quite acceptable as a sportscar. Obviously not in E-Type or Big Healey territory, but quicker and sportier than the saloon cars and non-exotic coupes of the day. Fast forward to the late 70s, and the MGB, with the same 1.8 B-series engine, now laden with ADR-27A smog gear, was well past its best. How many significant upgrades of the MX5 did Mazda produce over the same time span? It's very sad, given the history and inventiveness, but the British car industry, just like the British aero industry and motorcycle industry, were their own worst enemies (actually, the British Govt was a contender for worst enemy to the aero industry, but never mind that now).
Brilliant - but compared to what? REAL sports cars, humdrum family sedans, a Malvern Star dragster, or something else? Context - if you don't get it, you'll never get it. :-/
Don't ya just love it. Speeding around the race track or bush bashin in one of the unsafest 4WDs ever built, with no roll cage, wearin a beret. Brilliant...
@@mattede8744- are you always triggered, when caught out making silly and/or uninformed comments. (This is when Matthew does a Google Image search, for 'beret', to belatedly learn where he fucked up. :-D )
At 5:10 when Peter is talking about protecting occupants I could not stop looking at the flares covering his shoes and thinking we should protect 'his pants' for a museum
Geez l remember when l dressed like that! Flaired trousers that strangled your gonads, body shirts and platform heeled patent leather shoes! Struth! Why did we reckon it looked good??!!
I just had a look under the title you suggested and they have all been removed. Even though there isn't much on these great shows here it was fabulous to get to watch them again. Thanks for posting them. I hope you are able to get more and even the Torque series, Cheers.
RR 152 now is a 2015 NISSAN NAVARA (white) - The registration will expire on JUNE 15 2019 - Currently insured with ALIANZ. I cannot offer you more information than that for legal reasons.
This man was right in every aspect.In the early seventies America was only making big cars,then came the oil crisis and what did they learn? Nothing. They are still making big SUV's and other gas guslers, General motors had to be saved with taxpayers money and is now realy A.L = American Lada. Ford is now on the way to suicide by ditching the small cars. A decent hybrid or full electric car has to come from new manufacturers like Tesla. In the sixties the Japanese came, in the nineties the Koreans and soon the Chinese will come and end the old American car industry who keeps making dinosaurs.
I wonder what Peter would have thought of my 2018 10speed Auto’ Ford Mustang 5.0 Lt V8. After all he didn’t seem to like my Ford XT GT 302, my XA 351 GT or my Ford Cobra 351 and my Ford Capri V6 that is a potion pair to my Mustang?🤔
I'm sure back when I was a kid he reviewed the 120Y and 180B. Just sayin'. I'm a motering or motoring MOFO type old person, close to being pensioned of if anybody actually liked me more than a dead mouse. Nothing.
Would be good if you managed to write that in proper English. There are students age 7 in my English classless that are more articulate than you -- Whatever you are smoking . stop it it has dumbed you down. I could rewrite it in correct English even my students could but it is unlikely they would have any success in teaching an old dog that is incapable of learning.
@@andrew_koala2974 I'll give you that one for sure!!! Apologies, but I did laugh my head off when I read what I'd written, obviously very drunk when this was written/inflicted on the post. Can't even remember it. I'm still laughing about the dead mouse, whatever that was about, figure it must have been quite poignant at the time. I'll leave the original post as a reminder to our youth, of the dangers of drunken RUclips commentary. I'm so glad you replied to this, otherwise I'd probably never have known. Thank you.
unclean, unuseable, too powerful, out of touch. What does all this mean? - They must've been good! I watched this and found Peter tedious, lecturous, smug and worst of all boring.
i just looked this guy up and found out he his brother and his dad were all cross dressers and he lived his last few years as a woman ! ..no wonder he hated cars with power lol :)
Yea, Pete never liked the V8 power concept, but then I was never interested in wearing a dress, so each to their own I guess. Very good and knowledgeable presenter but a bit of an old woman, now we know why.
Oh, lawdy..... 🤦♂️ Almost all the music in each episode, is cheesy - but this ep. could take the cake. 😬 24:30 - To accompany the vision of an old-skool* Morgan on a jaunt through some forested country roads, _someone specifically chose the worst music imaginable...!_ 🤯 * A tautology, I know. 😅
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Wow. I’d forgotten how excellent these shows were. Intelligent commentary for an intelligent audience.
I acknowledge that Peter Wherrett isn’t without his flaws, or critics.
However, he makes the job of television presenter look easy. He’s got a confident style and a passion for the subject. What a shame that the researchers at the ABC let a few inaccuracies slip through
I’ve known a few people who have attempted to present motoring shows on Australian tv since the Wherrett era. Two of the four have expressed admiration for how easy he made this tricky job look.
What a fantastic way to escape for half an hour . He and his production crew , combined to produce a television series unparalleled , in the annals human endeavour . Thanks to Auntie also .
this guy is way ahead of his time.
was
Elegantly spoken stylish dressed hipster
Plaid cap, wool sports jackets and trousers.
Peter Wherrett was an inspiration.
1936-2009
and when he got home, he cross dressed, and got caught out.
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@@markmark5269 Who gives a shit what he did at home ??? for all we know, you might be licking your mothers piles after work. We will judge you by what you put out in public. Peter was an exceptionally smart and wise, interesting man. I/We, should mind our businesses and not bother about peoples off screen lives.
@@caratcranker5874 Good on yer. Seems people pick on others to hide their own skeletons in the closet no doubt. Yes, what he did at home was up to him, doesn't make him any less of a great man.
He was a great motoring expert. End of story.
i wish i could show him back then what i drive today in NSW,, he would have a heart attttttack.
and there both American Crude and smoke tyres
Love the flairs Pete, so 70's, R.I.P. Peter..................
its interesting to note how 40 years ago Peter was complaining that driving conditions, and traffic just isn't enjoyable anymore and 40 years later people reminisce about just how good driving in the 80's and 90's was
Every year gets worse as they add more laws and find new ways to raise revenue.
These days I look to the early 2000's when I got my P's fondly.
You're right but every year it gets worse. There used to be no red light cameras, no speed cameras, no "safety cameras" and the speed limit in metropolitan areas was 60km/h almost EVERYWHERE. If you didn't know the area you always knew the speed limit. Driving has become such a hassle I now sometimes choose to stay home; not good for the economy.
Rose tinted glasses.
Thank you for uploading these shows. I enjoyed watching them, and I learned a lot about the history of the automotive industry outside the USA. The presenter did a terrific job throughout these shows, and I am indebted to you for bringing it to us.
I've uploaded Torque 1980 - Episode 1. Nine more episodes will follow soon. Hope they are not taken down.
Best Motoring television to date, thank you for the uploaded episodes.
watched them all have you got any more its an awesome show
Cheers Adoz and thank you. These are great.
i dont mean to be off topic but does anybody know a way to get back into an instagram account..?
I was dumb forgot the password. I appreciate any assistance you can offer me.
@Messiah Jordy instablaster ;)
A remarkable program, so glad to see them again.
I learnt to drive in a 68 Corona, when I was teenager in the early 80s. When Mum bought a 76 Corolla, I took it for a quick drive, came to a corner, planted my foot hard on the brakes, as was normal for the Corona, and nearly went through the windscreen...
The wonder of disc brakes....
Thank you so much. Brilliant show.
No one could imagine back in 1980 the phenomena of car death by mobile phone distraction.
Peter was years ahead of his time. He was a very intelligent man.
Or woman.
@@davidjohnston7512 Yes,I wrote that before knowing about Ms Pip.
🤦♂️ Here we go again.... Yet another gronk, @@davidjohnston7512, making yet another gronk comment, about the same totally irrelevant aspect of the bloke.
If he was a bastard to his tv crew, or a criminal in some way - he's fair game.
Have a go at one harmless element of his private life - that's bigotry.
When having a really intelligent and knowledgeable presenter was considered cool.
It’s a real pity that the late Peter Wherrett isn’t still with us. It’d be good to hear his thoughts on All Electric Cars.
Wherrett would've been all for the EV revolution. He was quite an environmentalist, as this program and his other one, Torgue, showed.
Really in Hindsight way ahead of his time with all the comments...way more thoroughly presented than today comparatively speaking
"Poution"- 7:30 and again at 8:00
I really like these retro car reviews, just had to have a small chuckle at Peter's pronunciation of pollution
Poll loo tion
Love it beautiful
That’s hard work chucking on of those V8s around Amaroo Park…
Many thanks for this and all the best:-)
Was that an Austin or a Datsun -- whatever it was, it was cute! 😀👍👍👍👍 And the Crazy Frog music for the Morgan 😅😅😅😅😅
Oh, how wrong he was to doubt that Morgan could stay in production, still going strong
A man before his time.
"i wonder how long the morgan can last out against the rest of the world."
well, 40 years so far, and probably many more to come.
4x4 with Ron Burgandy Jazz flute, living the dream..
This is very interesting, but really only gives a 1979 perspective of things. Honestly, he is right on the money in terms of the sex appeal and really not being able to afford it, but at the same time, who said human beings are rational? That malaise era became the "anything is possible" and upbeat 1980s, and the domestically-made production convertible returned to the US market in 1982. Though rational fuel economy regulations played a major role in returning the car to sensible tool from a sexy status symbol or guilty-pleasure device, that merely shifted the capitalism of car manufacturers in business to make a profit to push trucks where there was not a fuel economy requirement (because they are work related), and set the stage for the rise in SUVs and pickup trucks in the USA to the point of market domination, for better or worse. People still are willing to pay big money for that pleasure=gratifying status symbol, as is evidenced by the current average transaction price of a new vehicle: $47,000! That is entry-level luxury car territory. As long as there is money to be made in the auto industry, people will ante up the dollars (pounds, Euros, yen) and the manufacturers will gladly supply them with what they want (but don't necessarily need).
I was wondering how huge expensive luxury suv trucks from Cadillac and Lincoln somehow became desirable to some. Thankyou. At least in Australia we only have the gross European monster marques to contend with on the road.
The monster ute / baby 'truck' trend, @@adoz56? I'm pretty certain that's almost entirely down to _conspicuous consumption._ 😒
he wears some funky threads in this one
Peter Wherrett was very much a hipster .
Check sportsjackets, Tweed caps, slacks....
It's his speech that really impresses.
Very well spoken and highly intelligent.
He had problems with an unhappy childhood and cross dressing as a result. He is wearing overt displays of hiss illness here.
I read he spent the last 2 years of his life "as a woman"...........
@@markbojanjac6805 yeah so?
my uncle had the Mazda RX4 coup rotary
he bought it new and said the bloody thing could fly
but would reach a point of no return in other words the breaks would give out
and couldn't stop it it just would wind its self up and go
@H HOUR HOTEL mate it was quick i was in the car with him once it was that quick no exaggerating
Now he’s knocking my MGB that I first drove brand new in 1964, and found it brilliant, subsequently owning two more over the next twenty years,” bugger”!😤😤
@Brian Kay - in 1964, an MGB was quite acceptable as a sportscar. Obviously not in E-Type or Big Healey territory, but quicker and sportier than the saloon cars and non-exotic coupes of the day. Fast forward to the late 70s, and the MGB, with the same 1.8 B-series engine, now laden with ADR-27A smog gear, was well past its best. How many significant upgrades of the MX5 did Mazda produce over the same time span?
It's very sad, given the history and inventiveness, but the British car industry, just like the British aero industry and motorcycle industry, were their own worst enemies (actually, the British Govt was a contender for worst enemy to the aero industry, but never mind that now).
Brilliant - but compared to what? REAL sports cars, humdrum family sedans, a Malvern Star dragster, or something else? Context - if you don't get it, you'll never get it. :-/
1979 and Airbags. How slow were we here!!
My first car was an rt40 corona first time i've seen one years.
The sporting and fun side of motoring died in the mid to late 70's. At least the easily affordable aspects of it did.
First car ever was a Toyota carona. Great little car. Then I went to a Holden hr... Those were the days.. luved it..
Love the way he makes out bush bashing , as he puts it ,is bad for the envirorment whilst telling us as hes bashing the bush in a suzuki 4x4 , legend
Wasn't bush-bashing.
Don't ya just love it. Speeding around the race track or bush bashin in one of the unsafest 4WDs ever built, with no roll cage, wearin a beret. Brilliant...
He's not wearing a beret. He wasn't bush-bashin'. You have no way of determining that this Suzuki model is "one of the unsafest 4WDs ever built".
@@assininecomment4934 My apologies. You obviously have a firm grasp of everything. Or of something. Blowhard.
@@mattede8744- are you always triggered, when caught out making silly and/or uninformed comments. (This is when Matthew does a Google Image search, for 'beret', to belatedly learn where he fucked up. :-D )
It was a steel re-enforced driving cap
Daaaaaaammmnnn those bell bottoms 4:58!!!
At 5:10 when Peter is talking about protecting occupants I could not stop looking at the flares covering his shoes and thinking we should protect 'his pants' for a museum
& his skirts
I'll upload them next weekend kiddybeer
The Bellett was made by Isuzu not Mitsubishi.
Peter was a bit of an old lecturer.
Geez l remember when l dressed like that! Flaired trousers that strangled your gonads, body shirts and platform heeled patent leather shoes! Struth! Why did we reckon it looked good??!!
That's why Pete switched to frocks & skirts, for the comfort.
Dem 70's clothes... lol
9:22 Mitsubishi with their Bellett? I think not. It was of course Isuzu.
Yes he should of known better.... A number of bellets still on the road in 1980... I remember.
@@adoz56 Bellet was a tough as & good looking car, & u could crank start it at the front with a crank lever
sorry no Emma, I notice the entire last series of torque is on youtube under the title 'aussie automotive program 1980'.
I just had a look under the title you suggested and they have all been removed. Even though there isn't much on these great shows here it was fabulous to get to watch them again. Thanks for posting them. I hope you are able to get more and even the Torque series, Cheers.
I have a copy of all those deleted RUclips episodes. I could send them to you on DVD if you want
I want to have your children! That would be awesome. I will send you a message with my email and we'll correspond that way, Thank you.
+GlensGraphix no problem Glen. I wonder if the abc kept the earlier episodes, they may have wiped them.
I was trying to find out the producer, editor.. anyone connected to the production.. someone kept a copy.. theres always a copy
at the 6:34 mark , RED LJ XU1 Rego RR 152 i wonder if that car is still around ?
RR 152 now is a 2015 NISSAN NAVARA (white) - The registration will expire on JUNE 15 2019 - Currently insured with ALIANZ.
I cannot offer you more information than that for legal reasons.
When you mention “ Lotus” ,what happened to the Lotus Super 7, in which a mate of mine, Bill March became Australian Clubman Champion?
Back when you could have fun driving Sydney roads without some sly revenue collector hiding in the bushes.
I had a rt40 couldn't kill it , it was tough
Crazy Frog style music for the Morgan 😂
Love that little 1935 Austin 7
youre my new god. Got any Torque episodes??
This man was right in every aspect.In the early seventies America was only making big cars,then came the oil crisis and what did they learn? Nothing. They are still making big SUV's and other gas guslers, General motors had to be saved with taxpayers money and is now realy A.L = American Lada. Ford is now on the way to suicide by ditching the small cars. A decent hybrid or full electric car has to come from new manufacturers like Tesla. In the sixties the Japanese came, in the nineties the Koreans and soon the Chinese will come and end the old American car industry who keeps making dinosaurs.
Ferret's dress sense was more of a danger to my safety than anything else.
when he was wearing dresses you mean?
Must be pretty sensitive if someone's private life is a danger to you....
You must be pretty fkn sad if you couldn't see the joke 🤦♂️
Is there an episode 10 of Peter Wherrett’s Marque: 100 Years Of Motoring cause i like to see it as a final show of Marque: 100 Years Of Motoring
No sorry only 9 episodes were made. 3 VHS tapes... 3 episodes per tape.
Later model Falcon 6cyl turbo just kills the wonderful old GTHO Falcon just so silly now to consider the political driven rubbish of the 70's .
I wonder what Peter would have thought of my 2018 10speed Auto’ Ford Mustang 5.0 Lt V8. After all he didn’t seem to like my Ford XT GT 302, my XA 351 GT or my Ford Cobra 351 and my Ford Capri V6 that is a potion pair to my Mustang?🤔
Compared to your Mustang, all four of those were ill handling, underbraked lead tipped arrows. Fun, maybe, safe, anything but.
This guy was prescient
I had a lot of respect for Peter Wherrett, until he put his name to a turbo Sigma. Oh well. He's still the most impartial presenter i've ever seen.
The PW Sigma wasn't a turbo. It was a standard 2.6L model. Common misconception.
You definitely don't hear anyone double clutching a racing car these days
Motorcraft heated rear window?
What is the title of the music?
Who gives a shit?!
I ALWAYSE WONDERD WHICH ENGINE WAS BETTER THE 327 V8 OF 350 V8 IN MONAROS
Go the Super Roo!
19:00 did they not get the v8?!
"Massive 327 V8" LOL....
When the average engine at the time was around 170-200ci, it was. Remember, late 60s Australia where most road cars were 6 cylinders
Interesting - all these people complaining about how lefty ABC Peter Wherrett was - complete tosh. Listen at about 22'38" - he's obviously anti-Elite.
hahaha...yeah not funny
@@chrisjames5406 - c'mon, it was a little funny...
Cross dressing sigma lover?
@@lukeskywalker2481 just the way you love it?
The 327 large? Cadillac brought out the 500 in 1970. That's large.
Maybe in the US, but such lard-arsed land-yachts were not as much a thing here.
excellent ...but I'd take the MGB over any of that lot especially a LOTUS... Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious !
I'm sure back when I was a kid he reviewed the 120Y and 180B.
Just sayin'. I'm a motering or motoring MOFO type old person, close to being pensioned of if anybody actually liked me more than a dead mouse. Nothing.
Would be good if you managed to write that in proper English.
There are students age 7 in my English classless that are more
articulate than you -- Whatever you are smoking . stop it it has dumbed you down.
I could rewrite it in correct English even my students could but it is unlikely
they would have any success in teaching an old dog that is incapable of learning.
@@andrew_koala2974 I'll give you that one for sure!!!
Apologies, but I did laugh my head off when I read what I'd written, obviously very drunk when this was written/inflicted on the post.
Can't even remember it.
I'm still laughing about the dead mouse, whatever that was about, figure it must have been quite poignant at the time.
I'll leave the original post as a reminder to our youth, of the dangers of drunken RUclips commentary.
I'm so glad you replied to this, otherwise I'd probably never have known.
Thank you.
"Poyution"
The big 2 ?????? 3 buddy.
unclean, unuseable, too powerful, out of touch.
What does all this mean? - They must've been good!
I watched this and found Peter tedious, lecturous, smug and worst of all boring.
This guy is way too sensible for a motoring show
i just looked this guy up and found out he his brother and his dad were all cross dressers and he lived his last few years as a woman ! ..no wonder he hated cars with power lol :)
Yea, Pete never liked the V8 power concept, but then I was never interested in wearing a dress, so each to their own I guess. Very good and knowledgeable presenter but a bit of an old woman, now we know why.
Never liked the lecturing, but at least he was honest if a car was a s-box, unlike all the shills of today.
correction Peter, you cross-dressing weirdo...The original Lotus Elite is a phenomenal car.
Oh, lawdy..... 🤦♂️ Almost all the music in each episode, is cheesy - but this ep. could take the cake. 😬
24:30 - To accompany the vision of an old-skool* Morgan on a jaunt through some forested country roads, _someone specifically chose the worst music imaginable...!_ 🤯
* A tautology, I know. 😅