Are you a fan of Australian muscle cars?

I just love wee-8 engines. Yep, there's just nothing better than a wee-8 engine. Too bad most of the Waliants never had wee-8 engines.

No, the most powerful Valiant Charger wasn't the E55 ,it was the E49 265 Hemi six at 302 horsepower.

Australia is awesome,awesome people,awesome cars,awesome music. You guys are the best.from Albany,New York

People keep saying sweden is the biggest muscle car country outside of the US, but here in Australia, we actually made muscle cars produced by Ford, GM and and Chrysler and we exported them as well. Our muscle car industry is huge and it has been since the 60s.

They always forget the VF pacer one of the rarest of all now

Seeing these classic Australian muscle cars takes me back - what great cars.

Thanks Aussie for the best cars in the world mate,, proud kiwi owner of a 1998 Holden VT,, series one..5 litre or 304,, 5 speed,,197 kw..18 years later a still humming..

My favorite part is the wee 8 engines.

These Australian muscle cars are so cool! I didnt know they made beasts like this down under.

These Australian muscle cars are fantastic. Their designs are so bold and cool!

I love the unique style of these Australian muscle cars. Very badass!

Im already envisioning white-knuckle acceleration and thundering exhaust notes that will give me goosebumps. So hyped for this!

This is a great video for Australian muscle cars fans like me!

Just the thought of beholding these barnstorming V8 brutes from Down Under has me tingling with excitement. Bring it on!

Nothing sounds better than the rumble of a tuned-up Holden Commodore V8.

Anyone wanting to know the details of Aussie muscle cars - look elsewhere. This video - wrong years, wrong descriptions and wrong pictures. Apart from that it was fine.

I gotta bet me one of thoes we 8s. Great showing of cars. ❤

Wow, those old Australian muscle cars have some serious horsepower! Awesome video.

These old Australian muscle cars have monster V8s! So cool.

What a treat to see these classic Australian muscle cars in action.

These vintage Australian muscle cars still look so powerful and fast!

I love the stories of Aussie home-grown performance coupes that thrived at Bathurst and on the streets.

Us older kiwis and Aussies have definitely seen these Car’s

My dream car 1978 XC Falcon Cobra 5.8L 4 speed Bathurst spec.

The XY GTHO was produced in Phase 3 only. Phase 1 and phase 2 were the XW model. Phase 1 Windsor engine, phase 2 Cleveland engine.

Bring on the madness! Im buzzing with excitement to witness these outrageous Aussie muscle machines for the first time.

I love seeing all the unique graphics and paint schemes on these wild muscle machines.

Theres something immensely thrilling about discovering crazy, powerful machines youve never even heard of before. Im buzzing!

The roaring engines of these Australian muscle cars sound incredible.

Great video thanks so much for sharing. Am old enough to remember all these cars in fact over the years I was lucky enough to work on several and my parents owning cars from Ford, Holden and Valiant and me owning a couple of older Falcons and several SS Commodores . As for the Leyland P76 I had a teacher when I was doing my auto apprenticeship who worked for BMC later British Leyland and not only had photos of the sedans and Force 7 but there was also a very interesting station wagon

Icons like the Holden Torana GTR XU-1 really put Australia on the muscle car map back in the day.

Aussie muscle cars are the best! Always great seeing them cruise around! No XR6 Turbo on the list? or are you saving that one for it's own video :)

Your thumbnail is a bit weird? Quite few errors but still a fairly good video. I own one of the first cars in the video. The XRGT.

I'm just impressed you pronounced Bathurst and Monaro correctly.

Check out the Holden GTSR W1 and FG F6 310 for rare and impressive later model cars before Ford and Holden pulled the plug on production Down Under. HSV and FPV were the Aussie performance models to these cars similar to AMG for Mercedes

mixing up the Holden SLR5000 Torana and the Force 7 Leyland P76 is just wrong

I had one of the Holden Monaros marketed in the US as a Pontiac GTO from 2004 to 2006. I still consider my biggest auto mistake was trading that car in.

In my younger days I had owned two HK 327 Monaros, brought them second-hand, for about $3,000 AUD, the biggest problem was the rust in the back quarter windows and cracking around the steering box mounting, I even had a Holden HG Brougham that I put a 454 big block Chevy in to it, those were the good old days

Youve got to hand it to the Australians for producing their own brand of tail-happy, V8-powered beasts.

The innovations in aerodynamics on later muscle cars like the Plymouth Superbird were really impressive.

i love this video, espesially your naration, job well done, you should do one now on our hot six small cars like the torana 6 xu1 with triple strombergs, there is the cortina with the 250 and 250 2v [supposidly 170hp], leyland marina with the p76 6cly motor, and of course the chrysler centura with it,s with it,s 265 hemi, all real power junkies in their day, all my mates had some version of these, most had cams and such, we used to race at a little industrial estate estate most weekends, those six banger little cars would easily outrun most v8,s, i had a xp falcon 250 2v six it would beat a e49 charger right up till last 20yards they,ed only beat me by a guard, back then that was quick, e49 was fastest animal over quarter mile 14 seconds odd, my favourite was my mates chrysler centura witn a e49 charger 265 triple weber, it was a real weapon, even with big feet heavier springs etc it was very unstable cornering at speed, really got the heart pumping, oh great times

You showed a Holden Torana slr5000 when talking about the Leyland

Even the 4-cylinder 1970s Aussie cars like the Ford Escort GT had impressively tuned performance.

Pushed the limits of speed and sanity. Easy on the juice !

ldnwholesale.....just a point about the Force 7. It is that 11 cars were auctioned off & there were another 2 ,known within car club scene. ALL these 13 cars were sold by Leyland.

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Again, the sandman wasn't known as a ute, ever.They were all panel vans hotted up with v8s to a 6 cylinder delivery van.

Checkout the Australian "Tilley Pacer"... Worlds most awesome race Valiant!

There were 695 XR GT Falcons, 1960 was the first year for Falcons.... Lots and Lots of inaccuracies in this video. I've owned most of these cars....

Mad max was a true story, filmed live. It was part of the muscle car street wars.

Looks you've done some good research. As an Aussie familiar with these cars it been good viewing. Some minor mistakes but good job. E55s were auto only and not used for racing. The upcoming manual was killed off by the Supercar Scare.

I read the title, clicked on the video and then I laughed coz I owned an a 67 XR Falcon with a worked 351 Clevo and a 3K high stall back in the 90's

I like the hot wersion of the waliant charger

As for the Torana XU 2 it was a v8 fitted in the Torana and was sold publicly, just never sold more than 500 to enable it to enter Bathurst racing.

Not happy that a lot of facts were mixed up/wrong. The first Holden Torana LC GTR had a 179 HP six cylinder engine with triple Stromberg carburettors and a stage 2 Yella Terra head, 4 speed B&M gearbox, Salisbury differencal,disc brake front and drum brakes on the back and lastly, a 60 litre fuel tank,

GTR XU1 was the monster killer around the mount ,,,RIP BROCKY 05

too bad we never got the WE-8 in america...who knows what could have been. our V-8s were pretty sweet though

0:00 Lets go 0:33 1 1:57 2 3:26 3 4:41 4 5:50 5 7:13 6 8:23 7 9:41 8 10:47 9 12:07 10 13:23 11 14:27 12 15:41 13 16:48 14 17:55 15 18:59 16 19:58 17 20:58 18 Where did I miss the other two?

The Torana GTR XU1 did only have a straight 6 engine, but, nonetheless, it's lighter weight enabled several Bathurst wins against the bigger heavier V8's of the era. Later versions of the Torana, e.g. Torana SLR 5000 or the Torana A9X came standard with V8s and were also popular winners at Bathurst and other touring car races throughout Australia. (they also happen to be my personal favourites)

We had the 85 Holden Commodore in Germany under the Company of Opel with the Name Opel Rekord. But not with a V8, the biggest Engine was a 2.2l with 115 Horses

Hop in that Wee-8 powered car and Holden tight!

The Dodge Charger Daytona with its huge wing was such an intimidating sight.

for some reason, these Holdens resemble big Euro Opels

Ill never get tired of hearing the roar of a Dodge Challenger or Charger on full throttle.

Good job with alot here mate That maroon te50 isn't a te50 it's a fairlane which all had tickford engines the white and blue ones are All the 80s cars were Holden's Ford had a couple Falcon xd turbo Falcon xd and xe ESP

the toranna was associated with the dingo case In August 1980, Michael and Lindy Chamberlain packed their two young boys and nine-week-old daughter Azaria into their yellow Holden Torana and went on a camping holiday in the Northern Territory.Aug

Holden torana GTR XU1 did come in a V8, it was raced by Peter Brock. The story was it created so much torque to the chassis it rippled the front guards near the flutes.

The comments section is FULL of bot comments.....!!!!

This is the first time I've heard a computer generated voice with a speech impediment.

Very-interesting I wounder if a We-eight is available here , to many of the body styles looked the same no mater who built it

seems ive seen them all and actually owned a few of them

Count me in for a thrilling excursion into an alternate universe of ballistic Australian V8 power machines that will blow my mind.

I had a 1972 GTR Torana. What a little rocket.

Gawd, even your opening blurb about the XR is wrong - the first Aussie 'muscle car' was the '66 VC V8 (Note: it's not labled 'Valiant' or 'Regal') The Pacer variants of the VF and VG predated the Charger as the factory performance six cylinder Muscle Cars. The 'Supercar Scare' was never a government 'ban', it was a media beat up by the headline seeking newspapers and TV of the time. It's why the E55's engine was de-tuned and the 4-speed manual replaced with an Automatic.

Those shifters, dials and vintage interiors are such works of art in these beasts.

I do remember all these cars have not seen a Force 7 but they promat,y brought out to win the annual Bathurst production race because in 1966 a Mini won the race and the 1967 XD GT came third in the first London to Sydney marathon behind and Austin 1800 second and first place went to Hillman Hunter

Valiant E49 was the quickest accelerating car, Sure it wasn't the fastest but who needs the fastest when you already have the quickest. I wonder if a custom Yella Terra DOHC Full HEMI head could be fitted to the 265, It would be a Barra Killer for sure.. But might cost a bit to create.

The SLR 5000 Torana was built in 1974 not 1977 ? I remember because I was 14 in 1974 and worked at a dealership when I was 14 and I used to sit in it in my lunch hour and dream of owning one

The GT wersion with bigger wee 8.

The wenerable waliant wee8 wehicle?Wery waluable wintage wehicle here!👍✌️

I'd love to install the Valiant 265 6 cylinder in my Nissan GQ Patrol, Currently it has the very easy to blow up RB30 engine.. So easy to send the piston through the block to smack the back of the alternator, AustraliaN Way of Life is to HOON IT..

I don’t think anyone watched this before posting it

Hey Charger slow down so the Ford and Holden can catch up..

Yes the XR GT was development of police cars. The engines on all but GTs were 289 2 barrel Vee Eight engines. 289 XRs were quite common. XT GT had standard XT disc brakes. Like the Holdens of the period the brakes were poor. The vented discs on XW XY were a little better. This is ofcourse all in hindsight. And yes I have owned these cars. Ph 2 GTHO was an XW model, an update mid model with the 351C engine instead of the 351 W engine. XY GTs came as a std GT Falcon then the GTHO which still had 300hp,,, officially. Around 380hp would be closer. LC XU1 was the first,, your pic was an LJ. Same basic car but different grille and the original XU1 was a triple 1.5" Stromberg carbs on a 186S. 71 Bathurst LC was a more developed 186, more power and close ratio gearbox. Lj XU1 was 202 with the close ratio box. Bathurst LJs were a nasty little beast. Chargers you have screwed up totally. Charger was released in 71, everything from a 215 3 speed to V8 auto. The RT was 218hp 2bbl 265 engine. Then came the six packs. E37 was about 260hp 265S with triple 45mm Weber carbs. E38 was 285hp well developed engine with Webers and close ratio 3 speed gearbox!! Supply of 4 speeds initially was restricted to Ford. Then the E49 with 302hp, close ratio 4 speed etc etc. Very fast cars. Faster over the 1/4 than a GTHO. E55 Chargers were 2bbl 360ci torque monsters but slow. 250hp. Sandman utes and vans were never muscle, just a nice package on a V8 ute or van. They had 253 and 308 engines with auto or 4 speed Leyland Force 7 so you show a Torana!! LX A9X 4 door. Force 7s were never sold. As far muscle, never, The engines were an ok street engine but had no more power than a Falcon 6! The A9X was a weak wristed pollution motor in a half decent chassis. You missed the 74 L34 Torana that was capable of good power. Not however in showroom form. That was the engine used in the A9X. The L34 had a weak gearbox, weak diff and drum rear brakes. The A9X resolved all of that and with the engine mods allowed for racing was a quick thing and reliable. The Falcon Cobra again was a homolgation special. Same as the Torana. Stock they did not go. Cobras were 77 and you could still buy a new couppe in 79 at the end of the XC model. They ever only raced coupes,, because the big fat arse would fit wider tyres than the 4 door.And they came in white with blue stripes only!

Umm what about the XA falcon and the phase 4 HO homologation. Editing also showed a torana SLR sedan not the A9X hatchback. And all the latest and last of the Holden's and fords had to offer such as the GTSR W1 or the falcon GT335, and the Force 6 turbo Ford Barra models were also insane, all the final evolution of these earlier models after nearly 40 years of production.

64 Holden S4. Was the start. Then the X2 in HD 65 some HRs had X2 as well. Then the 186S in the HR then the V8 history started with holden

Oopsie! You're showing footage of the Torana SLR 5000 when commenting on the Leyland Force 7.

I had to leave when I heard wee 8 😂

A couple of mistakes. Only one picture of the Leyland force 7 when it was shown early in the video. All the rest were Holden Toranas. The tickford te 50 was shown in the still photos but the one shown driving is a TL 50 based on the LTD/ Fairlaine. It was the luxury version.

Buckle up, this is going to be one wild ride through some ludicrously over-the-top Aussie muscle cars. My pulse is racing already!

Terrified the streets? Have you been smoking the wacky weed

You guys need to do your damn research your showing a LX Holden torana 5000 as a chrysler jeez!

Narrator sounds like Bawwy Kwipkee , Big Bang Theory !

The letter V, look into it!

It's not a pickup it's a panelvan. Bowie.

You forgot to mention the GT V6 Capri Coupe

Why are you showing a Torana when talking about the Force 7V?

"Wee Eight".......Would that be equivalent to the sbc?

We all need a "Wee 8", even if we can't pronounce it....