Hi Will great job mate what a wonderful history of Australian motoring. Back in the 80s I had a HJ Statesman Deville, around the same time Prime minister Malcom Frazer had a white HX Statesman Caprice. My brother owned Elizabeth West Crash Repairs at the time and I had decided to put a white vinyl roof on the car and paint the car white. I bought some mag wheels that had a bolt on spoke section so they looked like chrome spoke wheels. One day I was driving past the Woman's and Children's hospital and I had stopped at the lights literally out the front. This drunk bloke saw the car and must have thought I was Malcom Frazer because he started swearing at me and threw a beer stubby at me.😂😂 Luckily he missed and the light went green so I buggered off before he had time to re load.🤣🤣😂😂 That Statesman was my most favourite Holden that I've owned a great car and I still have dreams of driving it to this day. Over the years I've been lucky enough to own my HJ Statesman 5Lt, a 1969 HT Brougham 5Lt, a HJ 4 door Monaro 4.2Lt, a HX Sandman 4.2Lt. All worth a bloody fortune now if I had only kept them.☹☹😭😭😫😫Yet another fantastic episode mate thanks for all the hard work you put into these videos and the wonderful memories.👍🏻
Why is the start and end cut out? The video goes further out of sync with the audio. Video is blurry and 25 frames per second leaving out one entire field. RUclips supports aspect ratios other than 16:9, adding pillar boxes is not needed. I have uploaded the full video.
Hi Will thanks again. I sent a message, but in case you missed it. Do you have anything on Adelaide Juvenuts soccer team? We lived in Elizabeth, my dad played for Elizabeth and then Juve in the treble winning years, between 1972-1975 I think? All the best.
That's a great question, what will the a Holden look like in 50 years time? Well in 2048, Holden will be a long distance memory. Only 22 years from when that video aired, Holden was finished in 2020.
😊😊 had no idea that GM and holding involvement together it back so far. What we call the GTO was a Holden car and it wasn't very widely accepted car. Talkin about when the GTO was reintroduced in 2000's. Sorry about autocorrect I went I personally still like the nearest generations of GTOs.
@@paulsz6194 I'm not sure what happened there. I really like the newest generation of GTOs. I've seen plenty of them that were properly equipped and they were very quick. I like to body style overall but it was lacking a little something. Any case I went ahead and added my original comment. The only thing I can think of to GTO not being nice to is the other guy racing it in the quarter mile 😳🤣🤣🤣.
@@CAROLDDISCOVER-2025 my fiend knows some line in Georgia, outdid of Atlanta who has one with an twin turbo setup. But unfortunately it overheated & needs a head rebuild / head gasket replacement.
Holden was and always was built marginally better than Ford and quadruple quality of valiant Chrysler, Holden's engines and mechanical were no match to fords up till 1988, then Holden introduced Buick v6 to the commodore, it was a very energetic v6 too , a little harsh and had vibrations to match but it was constantly refined an smoother as years went by , Holden started to slow down before the billion dollar baby model VE even was released , then it stayed pointing down hill till it announced its death day in 2020, for us Holden workers that paid close attention to sales figures we knew it was coming to a end ten plus years before Holden fussed up and announced it was finished, , GM usa is totally to blame for Holden failing, GM told Holden we had to sell only GM made cars and GM cars are like dodge cars ,, yeah garbage once you owned one never again you buy another GM car
Very annoying music in the video I would have rather seen more about the actual cars than the promotional type of video that's in the video I would have really liked to see more technical information on the various different models
Holden's priority for their first car was ruggedness and cheap motoring. Holden didn't expect the first models to be so popular and the main reason that it was because they were cheaper than their American counterpart and were more rugged than what was offered from Britain at the time. We were lucky that the first Holden had a 6 cylinder engine, a car that size would normally only have a 4 cylinder.
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Hi Will great job mate what a wonderful history of Australian motoring. Back in the 80s I had a HJ Statesman Deville, around the same time Prime minister Malcom Frazer had a white HX Statesman Caprice. My brother owned Elizabeth West Crash Repairs at the time and I had decided to put a white vinyl roof on the car and paint the car white. I bought some mag wheels that had a bolt on spoke section so they looked like chrome spoke wheels. One day I was driving past the Woman's and Children's hospital and I had stopped at the lights literally out the front. This drunk bloke saw the car and must have thought I was Malcom Frazer because he started swearing at me and threw a beer stubby at me.😂😂 Luckily he missed and the light went green so I buggered off before he had time to re load.🤣🤣😂😂 That Statesman was my most favourite Holden that I've owned a great car and I still have dreams of driving it to this day. Over the years I've been lucky enough to own my HJ Statesman 5Lt, a 1969 HT Brougham 5Lt, a HJ 4 door Monaro 4.2Lt, a HX Sandman 4.2Lt. All worth a bloody fortune now if I had only kept them.☹☹😭😭😫😫Yet another fantastic episode mate thanks for all the hard work you put into these videos and the wonderful memories.👍🏻
My pleasure Geoff. And thank you for another great share mate
Why is the start and end cut out? The video goes further out of sync with the audio. Video is blurry and 25 frames per second leaving out one entire field. RUclips supports aspect ratios other than 16:9, adding pillar boxes is not needed.
I have uploaded the full video.
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The 1964. Holden EH is still an amazing car there's a lot of them back in South Africa 🇿🇦👍
Thank you, love all your work! Thought the kid's answer to Peter Brock's question in 1998? at 1:23:59 was pretty interesting. Thanks again.
Hi Will thanks again. I sent a message, but in case you missed it. Do you have anything on Adelaide Juvenuts soccer team? We lived in Elizabeth, my dad played for Elizabeth and then Juve in the treble winning years, between 1972-1975 I think? All the best.
Hey mate. Sorry, no I didn't see that. I don't have anything off hand. But I will see if I can find anything
Kids literally predicted the future towards the end 😮
That's a great question, what will the a Holden look like in 50 years time? Well in 2048, Holden will be a long distance memory. Only 22 years from when that video aired, Holden was finished in 2020.
😊😊 had no idea that GM and holding involvement together it back so far. What we call the GTO was a Holden car and it wasn't very widely accepted car. Talkin about when the GTO was reintroduced in 2000's. Sorry about autocorrect I went I personally still like the nearest generations of GTOs.
Why wasn’t it a nice car for you??
@@paulsz6194 I'm not sure what happened there. I really like the newest generation of GTOs. I've seen plenty of them that were properly equipped and they were very quick. I like to body style overall but it was lacking a little something. Any case I went ahead and added my original comment. The only thing I can think of to GTO not being nice to is the other guy racing it in the quarter mile 😳🤣🤣🤣.
@@CAROLDDISCOVER-2025 my fiend knows some line in Georgia, outdid of Atlanta who has one with an twin turbo setup. But unfortunately it overheated & needs a head rebuild / head gasket replacement.
@@paulsz6194 what's pretty interesting. Sorry to hear that the engine needs work on heads
Greg, where the hell is Ostraya...?
Australia tool
The 1969 Holden Torana was a Vauxhall Viva GT🇿🇦
Holden won't make its 100th anniversary because its now dead and has been for a number of years now
What I want to know is whether that unconscious girl in the surf got home safely after those two blokes in the HT's picked her up.
Holden was and always was built marginally better than Ford and quadruple quality of valiant Chrysler, Holden's engines and mechanical were no match to fords up till 1988, then Holden introduced Buick v6 to the commodore, it was a very energetic v6 too , a little harsh and had vibrations to match but it was constantly refined an smoother as years went by , Holden started to slow down before the billion dollar baby model VE even was released , then it stayed pointing down hill till it announced its death day in 2020, for us Holden workers that paid close attention to sales figures we knew it was coming to a end ten plus years before Holden fussed up and announced it was finished, , GM usa is totally to blame for Holden failing, GM told Holden we had to sell only GM made cars and GM cars are like dodge cars ,, yeah garbage once you owned one never again you buy another GM car
oi oi oi
Very annoying music in the video
I would have rather seen more about the actual cars than the promotional type of video that's in the video
I would have really liked to see more technical information on the various different models
why the cluck is the algorithm giving me this garbage, Holden's are utter krap and a dead car brand
wrong sully
Why did we get a car from the thirties where chev had hi horse powered six’s ford had v8s with air con power steering power brakes
Holden's priority for their first car was ruggedness and cheap motoring. Holden didn't expect the first models to be so popular and the main reason that it was because they were cheaper than their American counterpart and were more rugged than what was offered from Britain at the time. We were lucky that the first Holden had a 6 cylinder engine, a car that size would normally only have a 4 cylinder.
Disposable Bits of metal with wheels get over yourselves
go hug a tree and charge your tesla DS
Go and Date Greta Thunberg, she’s your type…😂