At 0:23 to think that Zephyr / Zodiac MK11 estate started its life from my home area of Wrecclesham Farnham Surrey where the estate section was grafted onto the car by Abbotts of Farnham all those moons ago.
I remember being about 9 years old and driving past that Dickies sign on the bridge and having a laugh. My parents said what are you laughing at, I said Dickies 😂😂😂
I grew up in Heathmont and when I was around 2yo in 1958, my mum and Nana lost me in a shop on a busy Saturday morning in Ringwood, so they go home to my dad and say "we've lost Gail". The old man immediately goes down to the phone box and rings police. They say "oh yeah, a lady found your daughter and took her home." So they go around to this lady and apparently I had a tantrum because I was having a lovely time with her kids and didn't want to leave. Could have ended differently.
1.53 onwards is about six years after the first .... Because there are XM-XP Falcon and VC Valiant Safari cars in it . The first part of the film is taken from January 1960 to April 1961 because there is an FB Holden Special in the showroom
Super8 was good quality film and the condition of the footage is good for its age. Dixies towels sign on the railway bridge and the Old clock being handled by Whelan the wrecker. Nice memories. Thanks 📽📺
@ 0:27 - check out the turning circle on that old Vanguard! Must be about 16 metres! (I grew up with one; tractor engine (grey Ferguson diesel), tractor brakes, tractor steering ... but indestructible.
@@zaccat693 Indeed there *were* diesel Vanguards. From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Vanguard#Vanguard_Phase_II : In February 1954 Standard became the first British car maker to offer a diesel engine as a factory fitted option. The chassis was stiffened to take the weight of the heavier engine and performance suffered with 65 mph (105 km/h) about the top speed. Like the petrol engines, the diesel was a Standard-built "20C" engine developed for the Ferguson tractor. The diesels fitted to the tractor were restricted to 2200 rpm and developed 25 horsepower (19 kW), but road-going engines in Vanguards had no limiter and so produced 60 horsepower (45 kW) at 3800 rpm. However, they retained the tractor's "Ki-Gass", de-compressor and over-fuelling systems, all of which had to be manually operated when starting the engine from cold. 1,973 diesel Vanguards were made. My dad and uncle each had one. It made sense, living on farms, to have a car that drank from the same bulk on-farm storage as the Fergie tractor. I can't vouch for the reduced speed capabilities, because the old man never exceeded 50 mph (then the national limit in AU).
Wonderful cars: Wonderful days. I saw at least four types of cars that I owned over the years. However, time marches on and I run a 75 Peugeot. I still wish I could get a thruppence of chips wrapped in newspaper or lash out sixpence for a pie. I suppose it is all relative, but a working man used to be able to support his wife and children, pay off a house, run a car and have an annual holiday on his wages. Modern life appears to be a carnival freak 😮show to me.
ringwood was such a lovely place, now after the over-development the western side is now a gostown, the shopping centre is a concrete jungle , ringwood has been ruined
Yes it was so much nicer without the trees we have now, maroondah hwy with no gutters, the local preist could abuse boys without fear, you could go home and beat up the missus, play seriously dangerous pranks on the apprentice. What great times.
@@zoltrix7779 I think my favourite time in Ringwood's history is the 10-20 years it spent as an utter wasteland to drive through, with cruddy rundown shops lining the highway to ensure Ringwood remained the laughing stock of folks living in areas that knew well enough to evolve rather than to dwell on the past. That's gotta be it for me!
@Amplass 333yes almost every large block with a older house, that once a first home owner would buy as a fixer upper, are now bringing one million plus to developers just to bulldoze moonscape for town houses apartments, no backyards for family's kids to play, no trees for local native birds, concrete and no shade trees will only mean higher summer day and night temperatures, money and greed over open space and trees, glad i grew up in the 70s, with all the open space, billy carts, bikes,and fun times, not the high density nanny state of today
@@zoltrix7779 yes we had freedom, we could ride bikes without helmets, not many traffic lights, out of town open speed limits, you were responsible for your own self and own actions, young families could afford a first home and large family up to 6 kids on a low single wage while mum stayed at home and was a mother and looked after the kids, now what, 3k over speed limit=$300 fine, can no longer afford large families less alone a first home with a backyard on a low income, what do you think was a better time to grow and raise a large family on a single low income, 1960-70s or 2020-2022????????????????
Wow, I knew they moved the clock tower but had never seen how they did it. They were only moving it about 100 metres out of the middle of the road, I wondered whether they cut it into sections, but it appears they completely demolished and rebuilt it.
Any time stamp for that? New car Holden showroom at 1:24 shows the FB model from 1960 and I see no newer cars than that. Edit I now see after that they are mixing up clips with a few seconds later a 64 or 65 XM or XP Falcon. Common practice back then to splice lots of footage together to save remounting reels and save storage space an to hell with time continuity.
I ask for your old photos of workers who have worked at GMH sneak cameras in their lunch box s to share with other people to see On utube old cars at GMH
Looked at Bill Patterson’s sign for about 20 seconds, keep left sign for the same, a cement plant and some bloke crossing a road at the start. It was a dump then and not much better now, just one place you went through to get to another. 🇦🇺👎
They were there for a long time. My last Holden I used to get serviced there was a 1991 Statesman. Maccas must have made too good an offer for the site.
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At 0:23 to think that Zephyr / Zodiac MK11 estate started its life from my home area of Wrecclesham Farnham Surrey where the estate section was grafted onto the car by Abbotts of Farnham all those moons ago.
The Australian Ford factory created their own station wagon version of the Zephyr which is different to the UK estate coach built ones.
I remember being about 9 years old and driving past that Dickies sign on the bridge and having a laugh. My parents said what are you laughing at, I said Dickies 😂😂😂
Thanks for uploading this priceless footage of times past. A bit before my time. I grew up near Ringwood 1970's
Me too…
Thank you. Brings back a lot of memories
Brilliant, a brand new FB Holden! I’m a salivating.
I grew up in Heathmont and when I was around 2yo in 1958, my mum and Nana lost me in a shop on a busy Saturday morning in Ringwood, so they go home to my dad and say "we've lost Gail". The old man immediately goes down to the phone box and rings police. They say "oh yeah, a lady found your daughter and took her home." So they go around to this lady and apparently I had a tantrum because I was having a lovely time with her kids and didn't want to leave. Could have ended differently.
1.53 onwards is about six years after the first ....
Because there are XM-XP Falcon and VC Valiant Safari cars in it .
The first part of the film is taken from January 1960 to April 1961 because there is an FB Holden Special in the showroom
Love seeing the 60s ,so many 1950s cars still on road ,pirate radio playing The days of pearly Spencer, David Macwilliams ,magical times
At 1:24 the new car Holden showroom shows the FB model from 1960, and I see no newer cars in this clip.
Wow love this thanks so much for sharing this
A better world then. Australia was a united country. We used to visit Ringwood for ice skating at Iceland. Fond memories.
Super8 was good quality film and the condition of the footage is good for its age. Dixies towels sign on the railway bridge and the Old clock being handled by Whelan the wrecker. Nice memories. Thanks 📽📺
Actually the sign on the railway bridge is Dickies Towels. The letter K is obscured. Dickies made the best towels in Australia also Dri Glo towels.
Wow. Hope you have more to upload👍
@ 0:27 - check out the turning circle on that old Vanguard! Must be about 16 metres! (I grew up with one; tractor engine (grey Ferguson diesel), tractor brakes, tractor steering ... but indestructible.
Don't think there was ever a diesel motor in a Vanguard only petrol, and yes the same motor in the old Ferguson tractors, the later ones had diesels.
@@zaccat693 Indeed there *were* diesel Vanguards.
From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Vanguard#Vanguard_Phase_II :
In February 1954 Standard became the first British car maker to offer a diesel engine as a factory fitted option. The chassis was stiffened to take the weight of the heavier engine and performance suffered with 65 mph (105 km/h) about the top speed. Like the petrol engines, the diesel was a Standard-built "20C" engine developed for the Ferguson tractor. The diesels fitted to the tractor were restricted to 2200 rpm and developed 25 horsepower (19 kW), but road-going engines in Vanguards had no limiter and so produced 60 horsepower (45 kW) at 3800 rpm. However, they retained the tractor's "Ki-Gass", de-compressor and over-fuelling systems, all of which had to be manually operated when starting the engine from cold. 1,973 diesel Vanguards were made.
My dad and uncle each had one. It made sense, living on farms, to have a car that drank from the same bulk on-farm storage as the Fergie tractor. I can't vouch for the reduced speed capabilities, because the old man never exceeded 50 mph (then the national limit in AU).
me too my dad had a49 , 58 and a 62 wagon which he sold for half a dozen bottles of Melbourne bitter
@@zaccat693 I saw one,in 1970. Slow as a wet weekend.
Did anyone else think that guy at the beginning was going to get flattened
we got there in 1970 - it is still in the memory
Fantastic great work✌️
Great memories!! 😃
Wonderful cars: Wonderful days.
I saw at least four types of cars that I owned over the years.
However, time marches on and I run a 75 Peugeot.
I still wish I could get a thruppence of chips wrapped in newspaper or lash out sixpence
for a pie.
I suppose it is all relative, but a working man used to be able to support his wife and children, pay
off a house, run a car and have an annual holiday on his wages.
Modern life appears to be a carnival freak 😮show to me.
I used to go under that bridge on my way to Ringwood tech in the 1960,s
1:40 a time when there were no work safety standards and Whelan has been wrecking Melb for almost 70 years!!!
absolute rippa Champ, thanks!
Remember going there in the family xp falcon.was a day out.
ringwood was such a lovely place, now after the over-development the western side is now a gostown, the shopping centre is a concrete jungle , ringwood has been ruined
Yes it was so much nicer without the trees we have now, maroondah hwy with no gutters, the local preist could abuse boys without fear, you could go home and beat up the missus, play seriously dangerous pranks on the apprentice. What great times.
@@zoltrix7779 I think my favourite time in Ringwood's history is the 10-20 years it spent as an utter wasteland to drive through, with cruddy rundown shops lining the highway to ensure Ringwood remained the laughing stock of folks living in areas that knew well enough to evolve rather than to dwell on the past. That's gotta be it for me!
@@MikeStevens
I went to school there I the 90's but it's been 20 years . I guess I wouldn't recognise it anymore .
@Amplass 333yes almost every large block with a older house, that once a first home owner would buy as a fixer upper, are now bringing one million plus to developers just to bulldoze moonscape for town houses apartments, no backyards for family's kids to play, no trees for local native birds, concrete and no shade trees will only mean higher summer day and night temperatures, money and greed over open space and trees, glad i grew up in the 70s, with all the open space, billy carts, bikes,and fun times, not the high density nanny state of today
@@zoltrix7779 yes we had freedom, we could ride bikes without helmets, not many traffic lights, out of town open speed limits, you were responsible for your own self and own actions, young families could afford a first home and large family up to 6 kids on a low single wage while mum stayed at home and was a mother and looked after the kids, now what, 3k over speed limit=$300 fine, can no longer afford large families less alone a first home with a backyard on a low income, what do you think was a better time to grow and raise a large family on a single low income, 1960-70s or 2020-2022????????????????
Wow, I knew they moved the clock tower but had never seen how they did it. They were only moving it about 100 metres out of the middle of the road, I wondered whether they cut it into sections, but it appears they completely demolished and rebuilt it.
Wowwww this is cool 😎😍❤
Whelan the Wrecker and Noon pies i remember
I love this
I use to work at the Holden dealership but not in the 60's
good to see the whelan the wrecker sign up
Those Barbarians destroyed all the classic buildings in Melbourne. If i had a time machine, i'd kill them just after i killed Hitler and Stalin
Whelan also demolished the Ringwood town hall, in 1970. It was on the corner of the former Melbourne St and Maroondah Hwy (Whitehorse Rd)
Matlock Police country!
I think that Valiant wagon was 65 or 4.
Any time stamp for that?
New car Holden showroom at 1:24 shows the FB model from 1960 and I see no newer cars than that.
Edit I now see after that they are mixing up clips with a few seconds later a 64 or 65 XM or XP Falcon.
Common practice back then to splice lots of footage together to save remounting reels and save storage space an to hell with time continuity.
@@johnd8892 63 Safari Valiant @ 2.12
I ask for your old photos of workers who have worked at GMH sneak cameras in their lunch box s to share with other people to see On utube old cars at GMH
Was that Maroondah highway?
YES
Great film, cars and trucks giving cyclists plenty of room and not trying to run them over, nice to see.
Where is ringwood located?
Outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne about a 40 minute train ride to the city
ps Australia.
its skag town now
The old australia before the infestation
Save the clock tower lol
Looked at Bill Patterson’s sign for about 20 seconds, keep left sign for the same, a cement plant
and some bloke crossing a road at the start. It was a dump then and not much better now, just one place you went through to get to another. 🇦🇺👎
all the gnomes off to work
@Amplass 333 bingo.. still living with his parents, scrounging off welfare.
OMG I bought my first car (FB Holden) from Bill Patterson Motors in 1971 for $250. My Dad was guarantor on my loan through Custom Credit. In
They were there for a long time. My last Holden I used to get serviced there was a 1991 Statesman. Maccas must have made too good an offer for the site.