Awesome.. the noise the falcon makes around 21 minutes as it pulls away down the road is unbelievable...😮

They weren't perfect but they were ours and there was a pride in our automotive industry, part of many a childhood😅.

I've been told many times that "Mopar" never won a Bathurst. But I reckon they got more prime time screentime that any other make at the time.

And not a single grey/silver SUV to be seen! The '70s really were the best time to be growing up.

Love the body roll & the Leylands! Childhood memories - thanks!

Bluey was a classic one, and SO funny again spoofed on the Late Show in the 90s as Bargearse 🤣

Love the car chasers but also all the cars in the background are just fantastic.

Now that was a cool blast from the past, it's sad to think that most of the cars featured are more than likely long gone now at least their memory is immortalized on film. Thanks Fletch and especially Crawfords for the trip down memory lane.

Great episode Fletch! I have been watching Division 4 from the Crawford Productions DVD library, off and on over the past two years and actually just watched 2 more episodes tonight, which makes me currently up to episode 216 (of 301). I too was a kid of the 70’s and I think that when it comes to outright car action, this era seems to be the pinnacle for Australian TV imho. A true time capsule!

Loved it Fletch, watched all those shows and forgot just how many Aussie classics were driven so irreverently 😂, including the Leyland P76 … thanks for a great episode and good memories

23:47 45.7c per gallon for Super. That works out to be just over 10c per litre. Wow!

I love it Fletch. Best episode to date!

Some brilliant opening theme scores for those shows.

I've got the box set of homicide it's fantastic to pick out the locations, great video Fletch. Love blueys Val. Aussie Graham.

Truly magnificent.

Well done Fletch great episode 👏 ❤

Absolutely brilliant episode mate, it evoked so many wonderful memories of those halcyon times in our history! Loved it! 👍😎

Great footage Fletch. Lots of gems in there and I even noticed an XL Falcon Squire wagon parked in the street.

What do you get on regular tv now? Australia's got talent, Love Island or MasterChef. If only we knew what we've really lost.

Fantastic episode Fletch! Many childhood memories came flooding back. How lucky I was to be a kid in the 1970s entertained by so many great Aussie cop shows when I was growing up. Thanks for the memories Crawford Productions - may your legacy live on with these wonderful DVD box sets. I have my Xmas presents sorted!

Gill Tucker also did an Ad for the Torana hatchback with the factory tent option attachment. Shown here on KZfaq.

We had some really wonderful shows back in the days

Great compilations from really good shows, they were really giving it to many of those cars. Matlock Police was/is my favourite, I stayed up late to watch it in the 70's.

Brilliant drive down memory lane. Thanks Fletch.

What a great era. Fantastic footage of a slice of Australia from classic cars most made right here through to the pearls people and Australia of yesterday. Great driving. Must have given the actors sweaty palms

Thanks Fletch brilliant episode full of great memories of Australian cars and iconic cop shows 👌

Good stuff Fletch. Maybe rose-coloured glasses, but I don't remember these cars handling THAT badly 😂. How did we survive 🤔

Good to see some Barge - sorry - Bluey footage. Well done to Crawfords for sharing these.

Thanks Fletch, what a trip down memory lane

Great viewing better than the crap reality shows on tv today

The heyday of the Australian car industry. This is what makes these shows so popular today for petrol-heads. Sadly today it's believed that Australia no longer has a car industry.

Thank you. The Bolwell Nagari looked great.

Loved it. Great memories

Matlock Police was a staple in our household growing up, as my half brother, Colin Gersch, was the set designer for a very long period of the show's production, and my dad would never miss an episode. incidentally, he was also the person responsible for the interior design of Molly Meldrums home, having become friends with him when he was also the designer for the set of 'Countdown'.

Ahhh the Chrysler 265 I didn’t know until recently that it was developed in Australia! We were the only ones who got the 265 … Wow did the yanks miss out ! I actually had a white XC falcon back in the day ! The shows did encourage some ‘enthoustiastic’ driving back in the day ! We has some awesome cars back in the day Brought back some great memories

Wow that was just simply wow!!! there Fletch as some top filming was done back in the day with car chases, fantastic Fletch.

Oh no. Fletch, you just reminded me I always wanted a Bolwell Nagari.. ..

Some brilliant clips and memories. I have recently purchased several box sets of Div 4, Matlock and Homicide from the Crawford store. So many great shows were made back in the day. Cheers.

Hey Fletch. Another awesome *"Classic Restos"* episode. I've always enjoyed watching cop shows. And to watch an Aussie cop show, what a treat! 🙂

Talk about memories!!! Alwyn Kurts was saying to Norman Yem: " Get rid of that bloody suit!!"

Brought back some memorys

This is fantastic. It's such a shame we do have Australian cars these days and show's like these because they look fantastic.

Fun to watch, l remembered some of the streets where the filming was done.

Aside from better television shows (no "reality" TV), no traffic congestion, parking spaces everywhere, no hospital waiting lists, cheap houses, cheap rent, pubs on just about every corner, bands playing in the pubs Thursday to Sunday, cheap groceries, no speed cameras, no redlight cameras, no mobile phones going off every five minutes, no emails to check, no Sunday trading, no parking fees in beach car parks, short waits at the boat ramp, quiet beaches, no home invasions, no car jackings, full time jobs, only one toll road (the Westgate), a peak hour that lasted 15 minutes, sitting room on the train and often the tram, cheap gas, cheap electricity, cheap beer... aside from those things, the 70's weren't that good.

Great to see all the classic Aussie cars on the road and used in anger !

Great stuff

The XC patrol cars in Cop Shop were my favourite. Wish we got to see CL and CM Vals getting chucked around. It would have been nice to see a compilation of the XEs used in Special Squad. That was a great series.

Great episode, thanks Fletch.

I owned a red CM 265 sedan as shown in the early clips,and that had some grunt.

Great clips - well done Fletch and Team! I was a kid in the 70's and we always talked about what cars were in the latest episode of these shows. A lot of the stunts were inch perfect and the majority were filmed and screened in 1:1 time. Sorry actors, you were secondary to the cars and stunts! Our local Police team were also fans of these shows, but as one Sergeant pointed out, in real life, the bad guys could always find reverse gear and were not afraid to use it.

Thank the good lord that Crawfords kept the Aussie motor industry alive long after it disappeared.😭😭Chargers, Monaro,s and hardtops.

Hell yeah memories loved all of the shows growing up thankyou to crawford production for teaching me right from wrong ..good guys always win..

Car at 12:04 is a Bowell Nagari. Made by the Australian owned Bolwell company at Seaford Vic in the early seventies. So more Australian than any of the cars made here by overseas companies. More detail from Shannon's Club TV ep 35 : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hrqqZquXvpiwpZ8.htmlsi=-SInlpUHooB6XB3Q The Nagari cars were rocket ships with Ford 302 or 351 power. If people here havent seen the 160 episodes of Shannons Club TV then they should do themselves a favour and watch them.

Born in 60. Grew up with all that... thanks for the memories mate.

Awesome!

Love the sound of the XR GT from 20:11 to 21:16! Those ol' 289's sounded so sweet!

As a teenager visiting Melbourne I remember finding the on location set of Cop Shop and the brown falcon briefly glimpsed in the footage which was the Detectives car.

That red Charger sounded like it was probably an E55 340.

That's a change of pace FLETCH but a good one 👍 all the old cars

Oh wow! Real car chases, as cars back then handled, none of the Hollywood crap where vehicles defy the laws of physics. Seeing those beautiful classic cars, a reminder of era in Australia sadly gone.

Interesting. Very different, yet very much the same as U.S. TV, Streets Of San Francisco, Baretta, MANNIX, C.H.iP.s, Adam 12, Hawaii Five-0, ……. Cool video. 🚗🙂

I am a fan of series and australian movies. I remember well BLUEY in the argentine tv in laters 70's . Sorry about my poor english. Greetings from Buenos Aires.

That was MAD fun thanks 😁

That was the best, truly was. Very enjoyable from start to finish.....more please? One thing I have noticed, Homicide decided to use the up spec Valiant Ranger XL in the early episodes before using basic Rangers for some reason. I loved seeing those Valiant's smoking the tyres and getting after the bad guys. Equally enjoyable was seeing the HK to HG Kingswood's and sometimes HQ's. I can remember as a kid waiting all week to see the next episode after seeing the preview for it. Thanks again.

We haven't watched commercial tv for ten years now because you wont find awesome shows like these nowadays.

Holeee god.. Imagine throwing a valiant around like that!!!!

Great Aussie car industry RIP.

What a brilliant episode Fletch. I found myself reminiscing. When I saw the green Leyland P76 and saw the Aftermarket Rear Demister I went OMG I remember those unsightly things in the 70's and 80's. They were ugly.

All i can think about watching the bluey segment was bargearse & the chase to track down his stolen dimsims.😂

Great stuff, you have to admire the skill of the stunt drivers handling those old whales. Well, new whales then.

That was awesome but geez I feel a bit old now.

10:45....Best orchestral/big band music Ever! Johnny Pearson.

Fuel, 45 cents! (edited) 45 cents per gallon, which is 4 litres!

Here I am standing next to my CL Charger watching this. Yeeeeah it's the hemi 265 👍

Yes I think Canberra Road in Toorak might have seen its fair share of Crawfords car chases with the upper and lower duel road, very popular with the stunt drivers!

Brings back great memories watching these shows. Don't make em like this anymore.

Gold

I remember all of it, probably never will sink in that we dont make cars anymore

seeing all the o;d cars and how they handles and all the screeching on those skinny tyres some of those cars be worth a fortune nowadays

All great shows in their day, but Div4 had the best theme.

Good one, Fletch! You just don’t get that today with Hyundais and Kias…

Another great Classic Restos episode, Mr. Fletch. I watched a lot of “Adam-12” when I was a young lad. The series aired from 21 September 1968-20 May 1975. I still get to watch the reruns nowadays. Did y’all get to watch it “Down Yonder”? One of the best car chase scenes from the show was Officer Malloy driving the Plymouth Satellite police car chasing a Pontiac GTO Judge through a neighborhood. I have work Law Enforcement for almost twenty years here in Alabama and some of it with the Army as Military Police. I think “Adam-12” is the still the best cop show. Compared to the other idiotic “cop shows” Hollywood has put out. “Barney Miller” being excluded. I want to look up the series “Cop Shop” that Crawford Productions developed. It appears to be a spittin’ image of “Adam-12”.

Always a stack of cardboard boxes to cause an accident 😅😅 A lot of Smiths aftermarket rear demisters on show too 😀

Wondering how Ryan managed to get the hood opened from the outside 24:00. 😊

And not a scratch to any of the cars in chases......brilliant. The cost of fuel back then @23.53 was 45.7 cents p/gal for Super and 42.4 cents p/gal for Regular, the good old days.

Thanx Fletch, great stuff. How bad did those 70s cars handle? We thought they were cutting edge too.

Random reflections from a near 60-year-old, Bluey: I'm glad Valiant gave the Bluey production team mostly red cars, because as we all know, they go faster. Cop Shop: I was a little surprised. I have either owned, driven, or ridden in almost every one of the model of car shown in those clips, including a Hot Pink GTR XU1 Torana Bathurst Special. a '67 VE Val, and a VG, and a CM and a Chrysler by Chrysler an XC a P76 All the Toranas etc etc. Division 4. I remember there always being arguments at school over which was better, Division 4 or Homicide. Div 4 had better cars but I liked Homicide because they had better car chases. 14:30 Trivia: I owned one of those Gold 289 Fairmonts (I think the one in the clip is a Fairlane) for a while. Apparently, the GTs were rare. 14:55 I owned a 1974 Charger in the same colour as that one. I rolled it out bush and nearly died because I got thrown out as the car rolled and my legs got hooked in the door. Matlock Police was a mainstay in our place, Dad loved the show. In this clip (more boring trivia), I used to drive one of those Dodge/International trucks at a job I had in the 80s. And that P76 looks like the Targa Florio version of which I have/had many photos of after seeing one at The Caves pub, just North of Rockhampton back in the early 2000s. 19:25 to 20:10 We built them tough back in the day. Dangerous, but tough. 21:01 I think the GT might just have had a big lose there somehow. "Cut! Let's clean that up and go to the next shot!" Ryan. I never did see this series. We lived in Perth at the time, so either it wasn't shown there, or maybe it was because I had more adventurous things to do as a ten-year-old than watch TV. Great bunch of clips, Fletch. I'm kinda glad you didn't play the Solo One theme track because I would have gotten an earworm. Bloody song gets stuck in my head every time I hear r think of it for too long.

My god. You'd pull over just so you didn't have to put up with that siren any longer 😂😂 My ears!! I hate cops and cop shows, but to be fair, these shows look amazing. Australian cars and setting. Seeing what towns and cities looked like back then. The chases. I might have to dive into these

Anyone know what is the little blue car at 12:04 ?

I remember that blue Bolwell!!!!!! Btw, you can't go past a white skivvy under a sports jacket driving a Charga...Well, at least the sheilas can't... Not to mention those Melbun night cart alleyways.

I notice that the VJ Valiant Rangers had no engine size badges. Were they all 215 powered I wonder?

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That fake little blower looks hilarious, like a big exhaust pipe on a tesla. Edit that's the siren ok. hit me.

Funny how there were no six cylinder Ford Cortinas. My dad had one, lots of plough understeer, The only good thing about it was straight line performance.

Don't know how the cops expected to catch the 390.😅

Disappointed that the 'Bluey' voices weren't dubbed as 'Bargearse'.

There's no need for those Valiants to dive when cornering, my VH Ranger handles like a sports car ,and all it took was heavy duty gas pressurised shocks on the front. 🙂

The charger burnout

How bad were the roads in the 70s

46.7cpl for petrol!