That Torana even has the good ol’ tennis ball towball cover! 🤣

The first Ford in the video isn't a Falcon, it's a 1974-76 ZG Fairlane, came out with a 250 inline 6, 302 Cleveland (exclusive to Australia) and a 351 Cleveland.

Ford Fairlane not Falcon at .4;34

If you ever make it to Australia, you must put the Birdwood Motor Museum in South Australia on your must visit list. When you walk in the front entrance, the first thing that greets you is a Bugatti Veyron. Then there is the Holden exhibition. Including a one off, built from ground up concept car which pays homage to the classic lines of early 1950s designs. Only lowered, and has an HSV v-8 engine, and is a muscle car. The guys at the Elizabeth plant shipped it to Detroit to show off what Aussies could do. The GM senior management went ape $hit mad, but the factory guys who saw it wanted one so bad. Also on display is every millionth Holden that rolled off the assembly line. And the very last car made by General Motors Holden. Brings a tear to the eye.

G'day, I got my license in the mid 70's. I'm pretty sure we thought of 'muscle cars' as American and did not use the term for Aussie cars. If I saw a XY GT that's what I called it and a XU-1 was a type of Torana. A Monaro was a Monaro. and my z900 would eat them all for breakfast.

ZG Fairlaine 1974, not a Falcon, came out with 302cu Cleveland and auto tranny, mine had a C6SB. Mine was burnt orange in colour with an ivory vinyl roof and interior. Also came with factory air con, the under dash type. Boot was big enough to house a small country.

Thanks so much mate, so cool to have you review my video!

The black marks on the front doors of Mark Drew's Torana is a bit of a hint.

That’s a real nice HSV at the end and a good look at the famous injected Holden V8 one of the last models to have it before the introduction of the Chevrolet LS1 which replaced the Holden V8’s (which had their roots back to the later 1960’s introduction in the HT Holdens)midway thru the next Holden series in the VT Commodores in the later 90’s, ironically the first V8’s that were available in Holdens the HK series were Chevrolet engines gradually being replaced by the then new Aussie Holden V8’s in later models then to go full circle again with the LS series Chevs replacing Holdens!

Hearing one rev at the ford show took my breath away. Old falcon, fairlane wow

I would take a look at the Chrysler Valiant Charger R/T with the big Hemi Six, it sounds awesome and it made V8 drivers nervous at the race track too.🙂

If you saw a Torana in the flesh you would be shocked at how small they are when compared to American cars. That black Ford is a ZH Fairlane, basically a long wheel based luxury version of the Falcon

I had a couple of old American v8 cars a monte Carlo and a charger lovely cars but we can only use those kind of cars in the summer time because the weather in Denmark sucks

Its easy to recognise a quality paint job when you see a reflection transition from one panel to the next and the image doesn't change one iota across the shut lines.

I love Aussie muscle cars. Phenomenal mixing of Euro bodies and US engines 💪

Kids of the future will be talking about their lithium guzzlers, changing sound tracks of engines of the past.😜

Fun fact Holden is practically Opel

... so it's been a bout a year since I've watched a video of yours mate and I see you have developed some Aussie accent slang in that time ... sweet brother.... and your appreciation and taste in the cars is also more noticeable 👍🙏

Much of them sounds very thirsty and looks like Opel Manta/Monza (Yellow Twin Cars) and Opel Senator (Darkgreen) We in Europe only had the 4 or 6 cylindred engines. Great show

They look like old Opels from the 70'.

Love the poo brown and beige HG Kingswood, also the HK premier that crossed in front of it.

HQ 4 Door Monaro any Day

You need to watch the Muscle Cars from Argentina, most of them Are 6cyl but they sound insane,

I watch this kind of thing with lumpy tuff sounding V8s & immediately miss my old 68 Impala, i had swapped out the clapped out 250bhp 327 only making 160whp at the time for a cammed 350/350 that made 295whp & got rid of the horrible 2 into 1 factory exhaust & stock manifolds for a nice twin 2.5" system & then ditched the sluggy powerglide for a T5 manual that was geared the same as what were in the 5.0ltr VR SS Commodore but paired with the standard Impala 3.55:1 diff. Economical when cruising with the 0.72:1 5th gear, but plenty of power and torque through the gear range when needed

You should check out a Holden HQ called Kranky.

I am a biggest GM fan in Australia i absolutely loved Holden's Chevrolet gmc gto pontiacs and Buick cars ford's are all bunch of lemons cars at all times

Sounds like there aren't enough hours in the day to make all these videos, Ian..nor enough time for fans like me to watch them all. But they sure are appreciated as a daily respite from this messed up world we live in. 👍

Take a look at this one in south Wales i think you will enjoy. American Hot Rods race on a Welsh beach! Vintage Hot Rod Association at Pendine Sands

damn bro you've grown HEAPS last time i was here, you were at 38k subs

The Kingswood is a family sedan , that thing has just had some good running gear put in . I personally would not put it in the category of a “ muscle car “ .

Aussie Holden V8's sounds the best

Ian, general rule: 4dr = Belmore/Kingswood/Premier. 2dr = Monaro. _PS: Yep, a vinyl roof on the Fairlane. Lastly, Toranas are all just Toranas!_

8:45 - id take that ute in the background over a cruddy VS commodore anyday. A lot of us would say HSV stands for Heapa Shit Vehicle.

I miss my 76 4door LX so much!

If you want the best angles and videography of Aussie road trains, that actually have longer trailers like 3 then the other ones you reviewed in VIC and NSW, watch 'Aussie Truck Action". It's a South Australian channel they have less restrictions on trailer combos there. The video 255 in Clinton is probably the best and best scenery blue sky and blue ocean.

best sounds for me = Ford Fairlane ZC 302 with split system , not the standard share pipe in the original, and 351 Cleveland in a ZD Fairlane.

90' all rear wheel Holdens are 80' rear wheels Opel Omegas ❤️

I have a Ford Falcon XR6 50th Anniversary 2010 with only 83000 on the clock

You really have to love your car to keep it in tip top shape and sounding that good. After all, it becomes a family member, right?

Great program.

Gimme that black ZG Fairlane anyday.

Need some more skids videos

I think you mean a hardtop. That's what we say in 🇩🇪

the VR-VS commodore is such a timeless design, even today it looks perfect from every angle also if you like sound, you'll like this one with a 355 stroker: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gJudlbyUt7HZZmg.htmlsi=UpzFY6VYH38bc9C3

Toranas are like the F-16 of muscle cars.

That roof @5:58 looks like bed liner or under coat

Hey Ian, you may have noticed that typical Australian GM products basically are of European GM heritage. I mean the dark green car looks very similar to "our" European Opel Senator and the Monaro's look very much like Opel Record's, Opel Commodore's, Opel Ascona's and Opel Kadett's and slightly like USA Chevrolet Vega's. So gettin' one of these and build them to left hand drive should be no problem based upon Opel Dashboards. Basically it seems like GM Europe and GM Australian had tight connections, car body wise spoken and GM USA Engine divisions and GM Australian Engine divisions obviously had tight connections as well and so they tend to spoon USA GM engines in European GM style car bodies... fabulous! But, wait....that means we Europeans had the smaller European style car Bodies in combination with the small engines...🤔😕😠Dang it ! How come The Australians an USAmericans could have it all.....And we Europeans did not have American Muscle in our cars, but hang on....ehmm well we did actually: The Opel Diplomat 327, the Jensen Interceptor 440, the De Tomaso Mangusta, 351, the De Tomaso Panthera 351, The Iso Grifo 327 and 454, the Monteverdi 426 and the Facel Vega 383, just to name you a few. All of these cars basically were in the top-segment sold for top money and so they were not available for the common people, and they usually still arn't. And of course a Gray- Imported True American classic like a Chevrolet Camaro, a Chevrolet Corvette, a Chevrolet Chevelle, Ford Mustang, Ford Torino, Dodge Charger, Dodge Challenger and so on. My personal favorite was my 1969 Chevrolet Impala Kingswood Wagon 350, I crossed the Entire European continent with and I drove it as a daily driver also as our holiday car in summer- holidays and in the winter to go on winter-sport with with my family and Malanois dogs. Nowadays I have a 1987 Chevrolet Camaro Iroc Z28 Convertible (only 744 made in 1987) equipped with a 305 TPI V8 and a Borg-Warner manual 5 speed homo-legation drive train for the International Race Of Champions (IROC) Circuit Race Camaro's. (Yes; that kind of Camaro you do not like... ;-)

The monaro coupe and fairlane win for me

Funny I have XB falcon coupe just sitting in my work yard with a 351 XA replica look and no one owns it

See if you stuff can find videos on 2 and 4 door valiant pacers and valiant chargers from Australia

Didnt care about Australain cars until watching Mad Max..XB falcon with 351yummy just..like butter.

For an epic sounding 'modern' version, check out this Top Gear video of the Holden Monaro VXR8 Bathurst ---> /watch?v=KWcKfwf1aYw

Turbo will suck a lot of the sound of exhaust at low revs

8:21 Opel Omega/Senator is European version on this Commodore

And the toranas are about the same size as a Chevy vega ian,

Mr Drew's torana is a killer, mrs Drew HK HT goes like f#ck and JR Drew's commodore not to bad at all. Geelong cars

Ian iunderstand everyone loves 60s70s cars because of their sound unlike today's sound is crap nothing like a car that shakes the shit out of our eyeballs

You could do a video on the Australian Fairlane v the Crown Vic from the US or A video looking at the 1978 Cobra, Australia v USA or Australian Ford Landau Coupe kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abBim8mG0ba0qX0.html

First cars HJ Kingswood

When a car look all dull and dirty and so on and with a hipper motor they are called Sleepers.

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VYNAL ROOF👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

The monaro gts is only worth 250 to 300 k

You think a nissan cedric can be considered a muscle car?

Not a Charger or Pacer in sight! Or an XU1 for that matter. When I started riding bikes in 1972 the rule was to stay away from Volvos, anything driven by someone in a Lawn Bowls outfit, and purple Valiants!

never heard of a 1990 through 1995 5.0 fox body mustang never heard of a 1991 through 1994 5.0 Mercury cougar all you had to do to them retuen them from factory detouening they have a high-powered muscle car I've had several relatives on them then and now factory detune them on purpose because your insurance prices and government regulations

It was 12 minutes, but way to short :p

Les go

Such a shame the ozzie,s stopped making real cars

🇪🇺🇬🇧 The final car was marketed in the UK as the Vauxhall Omega and in Europe as Opel Omega with 4,6 & 8 cyl. options FYI. You should also check out the Lotus Vauxhall Carlton from the 1990s. A beast limited to 177mph 3.6 litre with 375bhp.