Car Commmercials Australia 1960s and 1970s
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2016
- I have a VHS of old Australian Commercials from the 60s and 70. Here are all the Car commercials from it.
I do not own any of this. All rights to their owners 
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Geez... I hate to say it, but I remember a couple of those ads. When did I get so flipping old? 😁
That Toyota ad was so powerful. I was about 10yo when it aired and it made me buy a Crown 12 years later. It was a very good year.
Amen.
Hardly anyone buys the halo model when they're merely 35🤨😉
It was a really good add i remember it well.
When I bought my XY Futura I felt like the King of the Road! Two speed wipers no less. So quaint to see these old ads now.
I was surprised that they were so proud of the power of the top of the line Monaro: "50 horsepower!"
The only one of these I remember is the Toyota "It was a very good year". I was expecting "Hey, Charger!" That was an iconic ad.
Mum bought a new ek Holden 1961. Loved that car. So yep remember all those ads........
We had an EK too, i used to sleep on the parcel shelf.
The Capri still looks good today.
Capri was a good little car,,used to scoot around Bathurst I think.
Capri was a good little car,,used to scoot around Bathurst I think.
@@MachineThatCreates yes they did race at Bathurst. I've seen photos of them racing. They would've raced in the lower class. I'm assuming it was the GT version of the Capri that raced with its potent 3 litre V6 engine. It wouldn't have been just Bathurst they would've raced at. They possibly could've raced at every other venue included in the Australian Touring Car racing calendar. I.e, Amaroo park, Oran park, Sandown raceway, Warwick farm, etc. Not entirely sure and I don't exactly know but someone knows more than I do. Definitely Bathurst.
@@BlairSauer Yep. Laurie Nelson raced them at Bathurst from 1975 to the mid 80's. Used to buy bits and pieces from him.
@@WascallyWabbitt yeah righto that's interesting. Was Laurie Nelson a race winning driver with those Capri's? What was he like to deal with when you were buying those bits off him? I wouldn't doubt that he would've been a nice bloke to deal with and that he would've been a successful driver.
I do not miss vinyl seats and metal seat belt buckles.
Im gunna put my order in for one of those Triumph Herald !
Turns on a window sill!
A different world.... Makes me feel very old :-(
We just bought my uncles 1982 Ford Cortina and she still runs and will be fully restored. Love these old adds and love the old cars.
Lovin' that full perimeter chassis and one-piece front assembly.
MONARO!! YES
I am loving this. Have an XM.
The Herald was my first car and I loved it
Was my first paper too.
@@perpetualgrin5804 The Triumph Herald, not the Melbourne or Sydney rag posing as a newspaper
All auto manufacturing has long ago left our country. Shame, as we lost the engineering know how! Off to a full service only economy, to keep the capital, happy!
It is so depressing.
Yeah, the 'very good year' ad rang bells for me. How ancient! But then, I'm now cruising along in a 65 year old model.
The guy in the "Very good year" ad changed his car often.
The Celica still looks great.
6:10 That's a great camera transition edit. I mean sure, it was edited in a studio sure, but to get that timing and framing right and angle between those two shots and angles, and especially for back then and based on a small Australian TV advert company camera crew, that is quite impressive. Well done.
Wish I could go back in time and buy that Monaro. Worth a fortune today!
I had a HK Monaro back in the early 80,s, my first car, dam I wish I had never sold it...lol
I remember them being 2000$ for a v8 in decent nick back around early- mid 90s .. every p plater wanted a vb commodore or a xd falcon..
Only around early 2000s when 50+ year olds started cashing in their super / taking redundancies / inheriting some money and with kids grown up they started nostalgically buying the cars of their youth again..that's when prices started goi g up and up
@@OzSkunkworks I bought a brand new VB Sports Pack Commodore, 253 4 speed. I hated it! I traded back to a HQ after 6 months.
Interesting compilation - thanks.
Bought a last-of-run HG Monaro GTS brand new (the HQs were already in the showrooms, so a good price tempted me).
Oh *Sheiß!*
It must have been the very last HG Monaro off the line, and assembled on a drunken Friday afternoon. Truly the greatest automotive disappointment of my early motoring life.
At the mandatory 1,000-mile service I handed the dealer a list of 49 bugs / faults. After four services and 8,000 miles I returned it to the dealer with 46 of those faults still not addressed and told them (and General Motors Acceptance Corp finance) just where they could shove their disaster.
Much earlier in my life there was a Triumph Herald: a fun, if slightly skittish, little buggy, but their bodies shook themselves to bits on Aussie roads.
I’ve always been a Ford man but geez that Monaro sure looked great.
They go for over 100 grand now.
@@_Opal_Miner_ Couldn’t afford one as a kid still can’t as an adult : (
Ive always been a Holden woman but damn those XP Fords looked good.
Hoped the “very good year” would be among the selection. Wasn’t disappointed 👍. Believe all the Toyota models of the period were named after headdresses.
I'm guessing that Corolla dude was born in about 1953. He has ten years on me. We always drove Holdens. My first cat was an EH.
All the same, I'm glad it was such a 'very good year' for him. And his lady was hot.
The Toyota "very good year" ad seemed nostalgic even back in that time, and I was still only a kid.
Sounds like Doug Parkinson
@@charris939 No way, he had a much huskier voice.
Great video mate i remember the Toyota add well and the XY add i ended up owning an XY GT thank's
I must admit...the Toyota Celica was ahead of it’s time.
the XA falcon 2 door hardtop was ahead of its time in rust
My second boyfriend had a 69 HK Monaro. I stayed with him w-a-y longer than I should have. I still think of that car.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
lol I've actually owned a few those cars in the past.
you can buy A house now with the value of the monaro and falcon gt in these ads these days
That Toyota song ad makes a 35 year old man sound old as fuck
crown a powerful six ! never was such a thing, comfy car, almost indestructible but wouldn't pull the skin off custard
Oh how things have changed...
The luxury of 2 radio speakers
I hope u make another of all the from 2000 - 2010,
Some in those years I wanna find
OMG Our car friends would be like us these days. Driving our cars on dirt roads and over rocks. A mortal sin
thankyou :)
See 3:24 . . . "Trim, taught and terrific". I used to be trim, taught and terrific way back then.
Now . . . , I'm just terrific. 🥴
id love that HK327 😍
Pretty sure there was another version of the very good year ad ?
Yea has the cressida at a tennis club if i remember rightly
Yes, and different images to the story. I remember "blue blooded girls of independent means", wasn't always his little girl!
0:43 "It was a very good year" - rare version ?
I wonder how much those four Fords and the Monaro's would be worth now....
Jesus you wouldn’t want to have a crash in the Triumph Herald
I did and survived because they have a kick arse X chassis like the Toyota Crown, when you hit something, it stays hit.
I wonder what it must be like, when - as a singer - you are working on conquering the world, but ending up singing a moronic song about city girls and very good years for a car brand. :-D
Long Livé the W.A.P.
So is that xygt still around today
Interestingly, most Aussie commercials seem to be one minute long. Even then most American Commercials are 30 seconds
These commercials were for cinema or drive in's. They very frequently used black and white to save money.
Os that kamahl singing it's a very good year?
Nope, Frank Sinatra
Two of the cars in this video: First the Ford Capri, including Capri GT. This was English rubbish - the worst car Ford ever made. One of my work colleagues traded his old reliable Isuzu Bellet for a Capri GT. The overhead cam modification used by Ford (but not made by Ford) to hot up the 4-cyl push-rod engines from the Cortina chewed out the valve guides, and in less than a year the engine smoked very badly. At the end of about a year, hydraulic lock from oil in the cylinders often made the engine impossible to start - he had to unscrew the sparkplugs, turn the engine over to expel the oil, put the plugs back in and start. Oil consumption was huge.
Second, the Triumph Herald. I was given one in exchange for digging a swimming pool hole, and had a lot of teenage fun in it. But it really was a shocking car. Cheap English rubbish. Very cheap very rubbishy English rubbish. Dash made of cardboard. Treacherous handling. An engine prone to mysterious rattles and clack-clack noises. I had the soft-top version - the Australian sun ruined that in about a year - I cut the cellophane rear window out with a knife as it went opaque. You used to occasionally see other soft-top Heralds with the rear window cut out. The advert mentions the suspension designed to last the life of the car without greasing. The Poms who engineered it must have decided on a design life of one year - because that's how long the suspension lasted - at most. Fortunately, some local garages developed a conversion kit using parts from another car, to convert the Herald into a normal grease-every-six-months arrangement.
The Toyota Corolla mentioned was a VERY good car. Reliable and durable - as good as an American car. It made Toyota's reputation. Much later a friend lent me a Corolla while my Falcon was being repaired. The Corolla was 15 years old, had about 180,000 miles on the clock, and it was still in perfect condition.
Yes the poms made sh*t cars i buy American the best i used to work at a Ford dealer when the Crapi was a new car and your forgetting the Escort what a pile they were
@Keit
@Keit Hammleter
Regarding your diatribe of criticism against the OHC Ford Capri; in reality no aussie-spec Capri had an OHC engine. All of the 4-cyl models used the ‘Kent’ Series which were in fact OHV, as was the 3000 V6 ‘Essex’ variant
@@timx3680 : You are incorrect. Small numbers of Capri and Escort with the overhead cam version were sold in Australia. A dual cam head was bolted onto the Kent-type block in 1600 cc form and rubber belt driven. Similar idea to the later 2 litre overhead cam head bolted on top of a Kent block in Mk 3 Cortinas, except that the Capri/Escort head was sourced from a contractor and not made by Ford itself, and was a dual cam type with the spark plugs between the cam housing bulges, whereas the Contina OHC head was made in house and was only single cam with the plugs at one side. These 2 litre OHC engines proved to be strong willing and durable engines, except that the timing belt usually failed at around 50,000 - 70,000 miles.
The V4 and V6 Essex were not used in passenger cars in Australia, only in the Transit van. This was because it was not viable for Ford to make Essex engines here. When Ford decided to put 6-cyl engines in the Cortina, they used the locally made in-line 6, which was a dreadful idea as it was too heavy, requiring suspension changes and ruined handling. Any V6's you find in Ford cars in Australia are private imports or owner conversions.
Toyota Corolla voted the worlds most boring car. I’m sure Corona would be close too