Tales from the Tailgate - The Many Cars Of Scotty!
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Over the years I've had many cars, some have been memorable for their awesomeness, some have been memorable for the pain they've caused me. But they've all had an impact on my life.
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I would love to sit down and listen to you talk all night Scotty you the man
Scotty sounds like we both had a very similar start in life. In 1975 I was 10 and we moved onto 10 acres in the country. Like you I experience all the joys that went with a dry dunny. Like you we had no electricity or water for several years. Mum cooked and boiled water on a wood stove outside. Getting washed for school was typically a lick and a promise in a metal basin, which was a real joy in winter. Our first "house" was about the size of yours which six of us slept in at first. My first bedroom (another shack) was built out of corrugated iron and only just big enough for my brother and my bunk beds, which we shared it with a kero fridge. Quensland summers are real pleasant in a tin shack. But despite some challenges we survived. Like you I got to buy some cheap bikes and cars and thrashed them around the back paddock. We might have started off dirt poor, but eventually through some seasonal work mum and dad got enough money together to start buying some Besser blocks. Took a few years but dad eventually built us a proper house with electricity and everything.
Wow, very similar upbringing by the sounds of things. I didn't think there were many of us in that era
@@blownhemi I had to laugh when you mentioned emptying the dunny can. The look on your face said it all. I think you have to had to have done it to truly appreciate that look. We might not have had much, but we had freedom in abundance. I even laughed when you talked about riding motorbikes without a license. I drew the short straw when a country cop from about 30 klms away nabbed me on my Honda XL 100 when I was about 14. Got the third degree and told never to do it again. So I didn't, I stuck to the back paddock till I got my learners at 17. How's this for ironic, the same cop gave me my open bike license. I had to ride down a dirt road till I passed a house, hitting 100kph, do a u turn and be back in one minute on a Suzuki GSX400. I did it in 54 seconds. Parked the bike and went inside and wrote out the license. Like you we shot guns and spent most of our time under the bonnet, building engines, and generally fixing cars. Cars were cheap back then. Many bought just to be stripped.
While I love all of your videos. This is by far the best. No BS no fanfare. Just good old fashioned yarns, Plus you've owned some bloody cool cars! Keep it going! I would like to see more of these type of videos!
@@martyburgess341 thanks mate
Mate, you tell a bloody good yarn. What a great lineup. Could listen to you for hours 👍
Great Video. Wonderful memories. I'm 73, and I remember all those cars when they were new.
Great memories Scotty !!! 😜👍🇦🇺
Shes all good Scotty , its like we are sitting there with you . The best part is you have done what a lot of would like to do.
You're not a rambler you're a raconteur. And a good one to boot!
You're AP6 story reminds me of a guy I used to work with at Superformance. He had a HQ Statesman with a big block / 8-71. Had ridiculously massive treaded tyres on the back and a spool in the rear so if he tried to turn a corner you could hear it screaming in protest. Had the 80's / 90's blower hunt going on. It was one of those cars as well. It couldn't drive by without you turning your head and your jaw dropping. Fiberglass front end. It was basically a drag car he was driving around the street. From memory he had Vic rego on it. Think it was featured in Street Machine way back when.
So cool Scotty! Love it I could also listen to your car stories for a while day
Loved hearing your story Scotty. Helped me reminisce my own similar story of cars and life. Very cool.
I like the hour a day idea gives me motivation to finish off a couple of my own projects
@@Simo-bx2qm it works really well during daylight savings
Once again Scotty what a true Aussie bloke you have had some nice cars an done well with them keep good work up
My husband used to work for Brad’s speed shop in the 80’s/ 90’s. He saw a lot of cars come into brads shop.
@@CatVMango I bet, it was supposed to be THE workshop in the 90s
So many good tales and moments, QLD, racing & Bon Jovi in the rain was probably my pick, loved it start to finish
@@ufi123 Bon Jovi in the rain in Brisbane was an experience. Then we drove out to Ipswich in the V8 Pacer soaking wet and raced the next day at Willowbank. I went a few rounds but didn't win.
Scotty, you should get another diesel gemini for a project but do a 4JJ1 motor!
Im 40, ive had about 30 cars over the years, mainly falcons and a few v8 holdens, first car was a ke70 corolla with the flat nose, bought it off a teacher at school for $50 cash and $50 worth of kmart vouchers haha, had 6 months rego was a 5 speed, fitted XF front seats , tacho, stereo, resprayed in monza red with my grandfather, didnt really appreciate it enough at the time as i was always more of a ford boy, i end up giving it away. Wish i still had it but thats life. Poor little 4k had its neck rung but kept on going.
We enjoying tales from the tailgate.
Cheers mate.
Scottie, really enjoyed this episode mate, loving the back story
Great stories Scotty. Makes me miss my old cars. Oh well can’t keep em all. Always have the memories. 👍
Absolutely loved this video! Also enjoyed all the old photos of the cars. My favourite has to be the supercharged V8 Charger, what an awesome car! Glad to hear it has survived in one piece. I just discovered recently my neighbour across the road has a V8 manual VE Valiant ute that has been sitting outside for several decades, i feel like i need to go save it after seeing all your old Vals.
That was fantastic to listen to mate. I would love to sit with you for a day a listen to it all.
Great episode, reminds me of the 50+ cars i've had and similar stories of regrets when things were bought, wrecked, sold, etc. VG coupe i had i sold for $3500 (bought a few months earlier on ebay for $3000 and spent some money fixing a few things). i guess it's better than never doing it, the memories live on. that car i drove home on an unreg permit and opened the "vent" for cool air and got a bunch of gumleaves and a redback nest on my bare legs at 100kmh haha.. exhilarating experience!
@@deankdx ahh yes, that's always a favourite. Those bloody vents
Hahaha that was a great yarn, I was just telling my young bloke about the Heathcote coppers you talked about last week and how I'd try and creep though in 89-90 at 1 or 2 in the morning with straight cut timing gears on my way to Bendigo
I always wished that i had kept my old cars too.
Good to hear your story Scotty.
As mostly a bike person myself. Yes family and priority takes presidents. I crashed my dream car at 19 and luckily survived, a week later my mates dad let me ride his pride and joy (916 ducati), dumb? Bunt? But now in my middle age I miss all the goodness, and rottenness too.
I was honestly sceptical after initially seeing it was over an hour long, however I ended up watching every second. Absolutely fantastic!
@westaircompressors thanks mate, yeah I'm also hesitant about longer videos, but I'm glad you stuck with it.
Awsome storys mate, reminds me of my up bringing. My first paddock basher was a datsun 240k, man it went hard. Keep up the content, really enjoying it.
Great story. It was very interesting scotty. My old man was also a massive valiant and ford fan and was disappointed I was into commodores. Well being a true bushy from white cliffs, he finally came around to a vs wagon until his death in 2017. He said to me, why he never considered them as a bush rig, easy to drive, service and parts everywhere. Losing your dad is the hardest time and to have a car is a great memory.
Sorry for your loss, mate. The real bushy blokes are an endangered breed
We all make decisions that we feel right at the time. Love the campfire yarns Scotty. Keep up the great work
Great video mate.... loved it.
Great watch and stories! Cheers Scotty
It has been interesting.
I used to listen to the stories an uncle of mine told about the adventures he had.
I was fortunate to to travel with him (from Perth) to the Lake Goldsmith Steam rally in 1996
V6 Vengeance was my favourite magazine project to follow when I was a young fella. Have recently started following you Scotty, and never realised that was your car! Awesome
Yeah the old SC commodore days. Eddie tassones VH being on top of the drag cars leader board for years. rajab, bresciani, maatouks rb/vl workshop wars. When 600hp was a rocket, not a daily.
Awesome video scotty
Great story Scotty - I've had about 250 cars over the years, it's an addiction. I was always first at the newsagent on Trading Post day and on the weekend
Can relate to regretting some of the things we didn't keep or take care of back in the day. Be good to have them now...
Despite watching all your stuff over the years I've never really been into drags - only done it a couple of times - but it's great to see another bloke who learned the hard way that the best way to do things is to do them yourself.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. :)
@@mahcooharper9577 250! Wow!
@@blownhemi haha like I say it's a bit of a sickness. No drinking, no smoking, no drugs, no kids, no life - just playing with cars all my life.
No regrets ;)
Love your stories mate 👍.
Awesome stories, love this stuff. Would never have picked that you owned a Datsun at one point! My first car was a poo-brown 200B - like your 180B but with 20 more problems as they like to say.
But honestly, it got me from Sale to Churchill 5 days a week for a couple of years and other than doing a fuel pump once it never let me down. Oh and there was the time that the entire drivers side wiper decided to eject itself from the vehicle around Traralgon during a massive storm, that was fun.
Thanks for the stories Scotty. Brought back some great memories here also. :)
I love the video. You certainly have had an interesting history. It's great to hear and to learn more about you. Keep up the great work.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Yes bin back the day.
Loving the background story episodes
Scotty, I really enjoyed that episode. I’m not a V8 guy, but you had me hooked. I was surprised that you had a 180B, had a job in Dapto, and mentioned a name from the past, Chris Hillman. I met him at a Summernats in the early 90’s, and he ended up sourcing me an engine transplant and setting up a Haltech for me (when you needed two computers). If your ever back up north, would love to talk cars with you over a few beers, maybe at Dapto Leagues Club! Cheers Phil
Great story scotty A mate had a centura at trade school,same colour with a poo brown interior ,That thing went like a cut cat.The silly things we did LOL🇦🇺👍👍
I had a mild VK 308 Calais in the 90s and this Centura was giving me a bit of a hard time so at the next set of lights we both went for it and I thought holy shit wtf? I was relatively quick but this thing just got me 😂😂
Fuck yeah Scotty. Have been looking forward to this story! Thanks for sharing it big dog🤘
Great episode ,really enjoyed it👍👍
Always interesting Scotty!!
Good stuff mate great content 👌
Love ya work Scotty. I got that Aus Study too back in the day, and one of my good mates first car was a good ole deisal Gemini.
Scotty, loved the chat! Listened whist working on a project in the shed. 🎉🎉
@@GRUMPYOLDSURVEYOR awesome
Great memories and well told . As someone else mentioned, I think you should seriously think about a podcast .
Great watch mate 👍
Like most others here...... Great listening to your life in cars.. Feels like we are around a campfire with a few cans having a boys night.
Regrets?? Paddock bashing a HT Monaro out Kurnell sandhils n boat harbour beach back in 83 and then torching it once it wouldnt go anymore.
@brucebird133 oh wow! Yeah, Kurnell holds some memories for me as well. Took my Brumby out there a couple times, but the most memorable moment was when my mate took a few of us out there late one night in his FJ45 Shorty and said "Let's have some fun!" And 5sec later we were on our side. That was a long night!
Great yarn Scotty. My fist car was a standard Vanguard, bristling with power & petrol was around $ 1.00 a gallon. (NZ)
Wow, $1 per Gallon
There's quite a few cars that i should never have let go. It would have cost the marriage and ultimately they would have gone along with everything else I had. Every car bloke needs a chook shed and 400 acres to store their shit.
Another great yarn mate. Same as me, can talk cars for ages.
@@paulrutley366 haha, thanks. There's so much more I could have talked about, but I figure an hour was long enough.
Great stuff Scotty! Would have been worth a few cold ones & a BBQ over listening to it all. I used to live in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs & my dad at the time had a '74 Ford Escort MkI XL1300 & that was what got me started as a 5 yr old into cars. Dad also had a '51 HRD Vincent Black Shadow & a '63 Triumph Bonneville T120 so that got me into motorbikes as well. Every weekend was tinkering with cars & bikes. The Escort got written off & dad bought a '77 Datsun 180B brand new & he had that for 10 years. Only rust from living next to a beach killed it. I learnt to drive that 180B when my feet could touch the peddles. In 1980 we got new neighbours & he was into Holdens & Chryslers. About every 2nd month he'd have different cars & of course dad & him got on like a house on fire mucking around with cars on the weekends. That was when I got started learning how to fix cars. We used to go to a wreckers in Matraville & buy Holden engines, strip them down, rebuild them & sell them. When I officially got my licence, I bought a '72 Holden HQ wagon with 3 on the tree. Every panel on it had more hits than Elvis, It was olive green with tan bench seats. It was used to carry mine & my mates surfboards. We used to travel up near Forster on surfing trips. I drove that HQ wagon to work in Pitt St where world square was still being built. One day a foreman came into work & asked if anyone owned a green Kingswood wagon. I said it was mine & he said, I've got some bad news. I thought a truck might have backed into it but it turned out that a section of prefab wall came loose off a crane & squashed the front end of the wagon flat as a pancake. The foreman wanted to keep it quiet & asked me how much I paid for it. I lied & said I bought it for $1000 (actually $500) & they paid me the money. I bought mum's Datsun 200B with it & she went & bought a Suzuki Vitara Hardtop with it. The car stories could go on & on & it's been great listening to yours & reading comments.
@1969Risky thanks mate, they were the good old days
@@1969Risky getting your car flattened is a bummer
@@blownhemi I was trying to stop laughing at the time when I saw it. As soon as they gave me the cash, they disposed the wagon quick smart. The World Square site at the time was having major problems & they didn't want this added.
That was a great video mate!
@@EnviXR81 thank you
Great video mate
That was great! More of this!! I’m pretty sure I remember your purple Charger in Street Machine!
Thanks mate, my Charger was Silver though
@@blownhemi it had a purple stripe then? I remember that page in Street Machine though!
@@blownhemiok, scratch that! I have no idea why I thought it had purple on it! Lol
Great video mate 👍
As a young fella thanks for the advice, I'm building a HQ 1 tonner aka [HQ1TN] and I've already learnt that cool cars only impress blokes🤣
@@HQ1TN yep, that's very true
Bit of a long video but my favourite part was hearing you hunting WRX's with a V8 wagon. I don't think there is any V8 owner that hasn't done that myself including. Dam that was fun.
@@1toonhead yep, but how many were successful? Those WRXs were pretty quick in the late 90s
Very cool the valiant life there s only two i have not owned R series panel van
Kelly chargers ! Haven't heard that in many years. Great content mate 👌
Right up there with the B.F Goodrich that were all the go.
I reckon you should get into podcasts Scotty. You’d know heaps of interesting people. Better still carnage and MPW should be picked up by a local network. Would make a fantastic show on 7mate
Great fun to hear about. What do you currently daily? Have a good week. Marc
@marcduthie4327 Currently, I drive an AU Falcon every day.
@@blownhemi cool and nearly unkillable.
Hey Scotty, Great video. I love these stories about different cars and such. In the future would you ever consider buliding a "Modern" commodore such as vt-vy
@Clarkey1477 it's possible. Those cars are getting older now, and I was driving them as Press cars when they were brand new so I have fond memories of thrashing the latest HSV, and SS Commodores from those times.
Sounds like an Old Car bloke life well lived thus far Scott :-)
What a great story Scotty. Could relate to a lot of it.
Enjoy a coffee on me.
Dan V
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Awesome story bro.... You never told me you owed a brumby 👍
Yep, I really liked that car, but it had way more kilometres on it than I thought. Had lots of fun with it
Lol... Awesome.. took mine to subi-nats on Saturday... Awesome day
I know what you mean about too many projects, recently bought a pair of VE/VF utes for $500 just so I had a couple of slant 6s to play around with for an Essex/Hudson/Terraplane hotrod project. One of them has gone to scrap, because she folded in half when I finally got both doors open, but the other has decent bones, so I'm not so sure she deserves to head that way, and then my brother in law has suggested a big road trip where we all buy cheapish cars and have a crack at a big trek with a bit of off roading so now I'm bench building a lifted XF Ute with a winch on the front, and that's not even considering the V8 XP falcon in my shed that hasn't had a wiring harness in it for 2 years...
That rt was bueatifull 😍
@@snapped4433 yep, I still miss it
@blownhemi yeah typically I'm not a fan of that body style but the grey with the black stripe and the red grill surround looked mint. My dads had a phew regretful sales. He had a numbers matching xd esp v8. All original with reasonably low kms and sold it for nexto nothing. But he still has his first car ever his xd fairmont originally a 6 cylinder auto but its now a v8 stroker fully built cant remember the trans, 9 inch rear and its practically now a drag car. It's not registered currently and it just sits in the back of the shop with a dead holly sniper efi system ☹️
@@snapped4433 sounds like it's time to get it fired up again
I really love your channel mate. I can appreciate your hard work and determination to get in your current position. Your a true Aussie.
Maybe at some point you could do a build that guys a gals with very limited funds could build. I’m on a tight budget and the stuff I see on RUclips is simply not possible. Keep living the dream.
Love your show.
Steve. (Bendigo)
@@gfam2023 stay tuned for 12s for $2k
That Charger was sweet Scotty! Classic fatness, grey with black R/T stripes, mmmmm, sexual. I once owned a "White Knight" Charger in the late 80`s it was Amarante Red with Centrelines. I was a second year Apprentice Fitter & Turner and loved proudly driving her to Tafe one day a week and mingling amongst other Apprentice Mechanics, Fitters etc in the carpark, smoking her Eagers leaving at the end of the day. I still remember the smell of the interior. 2 of my mates also had them at the same time. I ended up swapping mine for a 4 door HJ Monaro running a 350, other mate traded his for a 308 Premier and last mate wrote his off pissed. What a time in history that was. Wish I could go back.....
Good stuff🎉
Great Vid Scotty it was entertaining. All i can say is your wife is a dam good woman with a lot of patience( hard to find these days). Keep it up Scotty
@@71honky she is
Top work Scotty. If you'd kept all those cars you'd be a millionaire! But you probably didn't want to hear that, haha. Great story though!
Very familiar stuff Scotty, and interesting ✌
was good
I know ya pain, Scotty. I drove a (at the time) 20-30 year old small tray truck on my learners over Hotham and Mt Beauty, with timber sticking out the back. Was not as fun a learning experience I expected it to be. Good stories though
@dmax9946 yeah, it's a good road but not one for old trucks or pick ups
Still a brilliant road for a good sports car. Unfortunately there is a fair bit of roadworks and upgrades along the way now
@dmax9946 Yeah, I went through there in a HSV GTS coupe back in 2003, just a few months after massive bushfire, the road was melted to shit. I'll have to tell that story on the channel one day. It's a beauty.
No power / reception on 450 acres, yes fkn please 👌🤠👍
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Wow
The old diesel gemini , good for 51hp / 31kw . Yip would have been quite slow mate 🤣
Dinking, you're in Victoria now
I remember having one of those micro sleep moments when I was young and dumb. Only I snapped to just as I was beginning to swing into the oncoming lane. I luckily lived in the sticks and not much traffic around in them days 😂
Fuck knows how I survived my youth. So many blokes I know got straight into worked cars from high school and so many of them got wrapped around trees and if anyone goes to the kooralbyn drags you’ll see a car hanging from a tree to remind people not to go nuts 😂
@honestpat7789 yeah, I don't know how we survived our youth sometimes
54:43 Chris Simpson had a tuff 56 chev
That's the guy!
Come on Scotty fess up, the Wayne and Vicky cartoon strip that was in Street Machine was really based on your life.
@@DodgyBrothersEngineering haha
I'm subscribe. Mick the gong
Car trailers can be total sht. Back in the late eighties borrowed one off then family member. VH Valiant with a 265 towing an XM wagon on the trailer. That was an evil handling combo with the trailer it turned out had four different tires and no equaliser on the springs. After experiencing it's interesting handling characteristics, I returned it.
There's definitely a bit of science in it, used one a few years back and it was an unbeatable combo, then used the other trailer they had just bought secondhand, it was horrendous. I told the owner you can't let this one loose on the public and he tells me one of his mechanics had just told him much the same. They ended up doing a big rebuild on it with new suspension etc.
Car trailers mate, they need doing properly.
@bunning63 they sure di, thankfully my years of hard earned experience has taught me the right way and I've towed all over with cars trailers now. It used to be lucky if it was once every two years when I was younger, now it's like once every month or so
im young, i turned 48 today
Hey Scotty love your story and I made a few wrong turns in life so never had anything special as in cars but my 1st car it was to me special, because it was my own car I paid for that I worked my ass off to have on my Ps. I didn't live on mum or dads pay cheque if I wanted something I had to get it myself...so please don't laugh but it was a 1985 Toyota Corolla Spirit 1.6ltr high cam sedan it was red with the sticker kit and little spoiler on the boot...why was it special other then being my 1st car and I paid for it was because it was last of the rear wheel drives before they went to front wheel and 1st that had the 5 speed manual after the 4 speeds...I absolutely loved it only having a job packing shelves in 1996 I couldn't be any more proud I managed to put on a set of kidney rims and chubby tyres and that thing would rally dirt like it was ment to be and I even gave NO joke 4ltr falcons a run for there money 😂😂😂 for the 1st 100m then got smashed..but only in a straight line the corners were all mine.😂....I ended up writing it off on the Hume highway near the mccanos set of lights approaching a set of lights and a 5ltr EL Fairline female driver punched it from my right lane to jump in front of me with her ABS to be 1st of the line shortening my stopping distance so I hit her the damage wasn't that bad but it was my fault being on my Ps after cops throwing me the book I continued my trip to my girlfriends house absolutely devastated with the damage and getting fukd by a rich bitch but not long after as I hit 70km/ph my bonnet let go and slung up smashing my windscreen buckling my bonnet so it was a write off 😢....wow the memories of $30 of super i could drive to Katoomba were i grew up from Petersham take my mates for a flog the whole weekend drive back to Sydney and get to work for the week running on fumes and do it all over again the next weekend....the good ol days...
I would never laugh at that. It's something to be proud of. Our first cars are always special
@ScottysGarage
The VH/VJ Val Hardtop, what's the story on that one?
@bizly05 it's a sad story. A guy that I worked with owned it. The car was a VJ 770 Hardtop and he accidentally ran into a tow truck. I bought it off him and put a CL/CM front on it and used it as a daily. It had a 265 and a 4-speed. It was good fun. Every man and his dog used to knock on my door wanting to buy it. Eventually, I relented and sold it to a guy with a VH hardtop who swore to me he intended to restore it. Fast forward a few years, and I went to check out a hardtop with a mate, who was interested in buying one. Low and behold it was the same guy, but he was selling his VH Hardtop but the VJ wasn't there. Then I started noticing parts laying around, so I asked about it and he said, "Ah that thing was rusty so I stripped it for parts and took the shell to SIMS." The VH he was trying to sell us was a total rust bucket. The VJ I sold him had a 10th of the rust. I was devastated.
@@blownhemi That is sad+++ Picked up a VH Hardtop couple years ago, already stripped, media blasted and in epoxy primer, supposedly complete but really its a shell and a jigsaw puzzle. Soon to be off to panel beaters to make it right, going to require more skill than i have, hope to have it done in the next 3-5yrs. I'm finding that parts for the VH Hardtop are hard to come by.
I promise you with girls if you rock up in something worth $250,000 plus then all of a sudden they do care what car you have 😂😂
@knight2425 yeah, I guess that's true. But they're not the girls you want
Good story Scotty, you're clearly not a greedy man when it comes to selling your babies but can't help but think how they would've "enhanced" your retirement funds....I guess a lot of us are in that boat.. Cheers mate..F*#KIN RAIN!!
@gregm959 yeah, that's true enough. I'm one of those guys who believes in reasonable prices.
Ran a 12.06 in na mini in 80 no ls road tyers upset alot of alot of big dicks
Oy oy oy )
What school did you go to was it kandos
@@robupson4373 nah, Coolah Central
@@blownhemi ahhhh nice brother…. Best way to grow up out the bush on a farm
LMAO a 245 Centura against a 173 LJ. Yeah thanks for coming, try again when you feed it some Wheeties. What made you think you had a hope in hell of beating that?
It was a 192 at that stage with a cam and triple SU's
@@blownhemi yeah still a big ask even with the 192. Maybe a turbo might have gotten you there. Although turbos were limited to about 7 pounds back then.
@@DodgyBrothersEngineering turbos were black magic in those days
@@blownhemi lol yep and as expensive as can be. Mate was running one in his 186 HG Monaro, when we were all running small blocks. Back then there was no such thing as going to eBay and ordering a cheap turbo. Anything you got was off some European car that was around the same size. You would then pay through the nose to have Mike Vine recondition it for you. You had to build your own log manifold because there was no such thing as an aftermarket one. Then you made absolutely sure that it wouldn't over boost, or the impeller flew to pieces and your engine would eat metal.