Several of these are basically real-world versions of The Homer.

@leanmeangreenbeanmachine3347

4 жыл бұрын

PistonAvatarGuy when I was a kid I had no idea what was wrong with The Homer. It seemed to be a fantastic car.

@juancaballoposting9706

4 жыл бұрын

hahaha exactly

Guy who lived a couple of houses down from us had a Sandman that was completely lined in Denim. People would come from far and wide to see it.

@masonsykes2240

4 жыл бұрын

That's not a van, that's a jan

There were 100 Sandmans in the town I grew up in. The idea that "No more than 100 were produced" is insane.

@pureambiance69

4 жыл бұрын

More like 100,000 packed down at Bells beach on a sunny day in the early 80's 😆

@barrybr1

4 жыл бұрын

yeh, they must've got the numbers wrong, a very popular car. They were the dread of parents of teenage girls all over our great land!

@adriaandeleeuw8339

3 жыл бұрын

@@barrybr1 When I was in my late teens I went to pick up a young lady to take her out, I was driving the previous years HG Panel van, and whilst I was talking to the young ladies Mother, her father disappeared, He went downstairs and checked out my panel van..... came up smiling and said to his wife its all right....... He had gone down and checked out the back of the panel van Looked in the window and found out it contained a very comprehensive Caterpillar Tool box system. My panel van was a Work type vehicle. Whilst the front was fairly well appointed Nice Radio Cassette, Air Conditioning. Bucket seats. the back was pure commercial and carried my tools as an Automotive Diesel Mechanic! The young ladies father was also a Federal Cop. As for the idea that there were 100 made I can remember seeing a picture of more than 100 of them at one time at a GMH factory.

@paulennis2165

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, I worked at GMH on the Arvo shift and helped build thousands in my time there.

Feb. 19, 2019----Thanks for the video. Many of these cars look like they should be in some sci-fi city movie. Getting back into modeling and this year buying a resin 3D printer and learn how to use CAD. Since seeing your video, have downloaded as many photos of the vehicles I liked seeing. Be interesting to print the body of them and put them on a plastic model frame.

I just love looking at unusual vehicles. :)

There is just something special about vehicles from the 70's

@RobMacKendrick

4 жыл бұрын

That's not how you spell "unreliable"...

@Mechknight73

4 жыл бұрын

@@RobMacKendrick Not all 70s cars were unreliable. Some were truly crap, but definitely not all of them

@RobMacKendrick

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mechknight73 Such as?

@Mechknight73

4 жыл бұрын

@@RobMacKendrick Any Holden of the 70s. Any Toyota of the 70s. Even the Australian Fords and Chryslers of the 70s were very reliable. Yes, prone to rust and suspension wear, but took something big to stop them. American and British cars of the same era were never built to cope with what Australian cars were. Holden's idea of a prototype test was to abuse a component UNTIL it broke, so they knew where the breaking point was. Then they'd do an "autopsy" on it and make it stronger

@RobMacKendrick

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mechknight73 Have to take your word for it, mate. UK and North American cars are all I had experience with. And there wasn't much there to write home about.

I came of age in the 70s. We all looked forward to the future then. ... But now we only wish we could go back. 8 (

Wow never heard of these cars except the Lancia and the Brubaker Box.

Number 2 is my favorite. A car and a boat, I like the idea that they are separate then combined rather then the same as others are.

@millenniumxdtvmediaandarts1679

5 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't it be interesting to see more of that in future designs?

@geoffreyjones2000

5 жыл бұрын

I wonder how the engine cools on the road peace

@tommiedaswammi8008

5 жыл бұрын

I'm confused and stunned. Very cool concept. Although they author doesn't clarify whether the boat is separated or is altogether one machine.

10:00. When i see a car like this one, i think seventies was best years to be an engineer. Computers only for distraction. Pure talent.

My dad found a TAG at a scrap yard. He bought it fer 1500 bucks an restored it. Its now a trailer queen.

I like them all because cars are pieces of artwork which we display as we drive around instead of hanging on a wall...

Thumbs up for the Sandman and Monaro.!!

Its never gets old..history reappear....

Wonder how many Aussies or Kiwi's are around today because of the iconic Aussie panelvan ?

And with the holdens, the actual panelvan started in the late 50's The sandman did not just have 253ci v8s, they also had 308ci v8s the sandman was also made in the utes and a select number were commissioned to a guy in Tasmania who turned them into 4wd,s and called them overlanders, now those I would believe there to only be one hundred of.

@Tiger351

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely more Sandmans made than mentioned in the video, I read somewhere there were a few early HQ's built with a 186 before the 202 came along in 72 also. Overlanders were also made from wagons, more of them survive now than vans or utes.

I miss the days, before every car looked the same! I wish car manufacturers still had imagination. Now they all just slightly modify someone else's design and call it their own.. smh

@grigturcescu6190

5 жыл бұрын

it's not that easy. today you have tests and regulations to be safer to pedestrians in case of colission. just imagine that trident hitting a person. but yeah, car makers tend to be safer today with designs, looking to what they think they can sell and not born of passion

@UmmYeahOk

4 жыл бұрын

Grig Turcescu it’s great that lives are being saved, but I swear that safer cars have resulted in worse drivers and worse pedestrians. Jaywalkers that don’t even turn their head to look at you, and walkers/joggers that travel again oncoming traffic, forcing them to make complete stops because they refuse to walk/jog briefly on flat dry cut grass, and assume that you should simply pass, despite how deadly it most likely is. “No. I just like stopping my car and watching you. That’s all.” But don’t get me started on the drivers...

@grigturcescu6190

4 жыл бұрын

@@UmmYeahOk i know what you mean. I remember an episode from Dr House, saying that if we would put knives instead of airbags there would be no accidents because nobody would want to activate them. As for pedestrians i totally agree with you. At least with drivers there are just a few idiots, but pedestrians are all so... uncaring. If i don't stop at a crossing I loose my license for a month. If he crosses on red he should loose the right to get out of his house unattented. I mean there should be a departement of people that attend this guys and very beurocratic. You need to get out of house? we have an open spot next week.

@brucepreston3794

4 жыл бұрын

Ya... engineers used to have "it". Now days they sneak around to get photos of somebody elses design. Then change little. They are so generic.

@travisleeds2910

4 жыл бұрын

In the 60's and 70's you had a hard time giving away station wagons, they made them a little taller and changed the name to a SUV. Now everyone has one, and they do all look alike, you control what people comsume you control the people,

Great to see an Aussie icon in the show. Luvin' it.😆😉

I had a Sandman back in the 80,s

#7 was my fav!!😍😍

Sandman utes were everywhere in the 70s and 80s 100s of thousands of them ,I have travelled through mostof outback NSW and SA in one when I was a shearer.

@catjudo1

5 жыл бұрын

The HQ is still one of the most sorted and best looking car designs out there... too bad we didn't get them (or the XA-XC Falcons) here in America. As a result, I was possibly conceived in a Chevrolet Vega wagon...

Some good fishing trips to be had in that lakester

The Sandman was featured in the 1979 release Mad Max! Driven by Max Rockitanski, as a family weekend getaway, with an outstanding space themed airbrush in the panels. Always wanted one of those...

Who remembers the Sandman from the first Mad Max movie?

@catjudo1

5 жыл бұрын

Jessie, Jessie, you've not got a sense of humor...

@kevinpatrick8788

4 жыл бұрын

Sterling Crockett condillini wants his hand back

@RCMANX

4 жыл бұрын

I thought that was the one!

@redeyerob2176

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevinpatrick8788 You see he was quite attached to it

@karlsmith2570

4 жыл бұрын

I definitely do

The Sandman, or Shaggin' wagon or root ute, was such an iconic car in Australia. Popular with surfers as they pretty much lived out of them and a good place to 'entertain'. The artworks on the panels were amazing!

@Gottenhimfella

2 жыл бұрын

They sometimes featured tasteful insignia to ram the point home, such as "If it's rockin, don't bother knockin" and "Don't look too close, might be your daughter in here"

We have a vw powered prototype bought 1968 as a kit car with half top ,seats, side skirts! Not a Manx! 51 years later and still looking Good! One owner one builder! A time Machine 🤯✌️

ホンダバモス懐かしいです！！ バモス子供の頃はわりかし走っていましたよ=3

From the sublime to the ridiculous, you certainly covered both ends of the spectrum...

These vehicles are sure different, but I like them.

The vehicle number 9 is extremely utilitarian because it's not wasting the space in front of the front row if the design would have developed today we would have amazing vehicles

Brubaker Box Very Nice 😍

I would drive a brubaker all day long. Looks great.

15 is the best ever since I saw it in MotorTrend

I'd love to have one of those Beetle based Boxes. That would be a fun daily driver. I had a matchbox car of it when I was a kid. Of course, they added a giant spoiler to the rear roof, but this is the vehicle. Funny... I always envisioned it larger... as a medium sized van. It's why I was momentarily enamored with the GM APV line of minivans they came out with in the 90's. (The Pontiac TransPort, the Olds Silhouette, and the Chevy LuminaAPV. The Pontiac woulda looked cool in the dorky sort of way that my toy car did if it had that big dumb spoiler on it too..

Fun to see the Brubaker Box in the mix. I just finished restoring one and have been doing further research. Only 28 of these were built and less than 10 remain on the road today.

Like the Briggs car.....would drive one.

you notice on number 14 that bad ass wedge looking car they don't tell you it's got a lawn mower motor in it😂😂👍

awesome video guys!! one of my fav eras for cars! I looooove that Blackhawk but the price is still very high for one!

Holden was my favorite

That Brewbaker just needs a vintage NASA logo,,,,, Luv the 70s

@echodelta9

5 жыл бұрын

Brubaker, one shows up in a scene in Soylant Green. It's the only car you see. I wanted one back then.

@ketoking9435

5 жыл бұрын

echodelta9 ,,,That's great,,You have some great cars over in the States,I used to work in American spares here in England early 80s,,seeing being in them was a dream and I once briefly owned my dream car a 1970 Pontiac GTO,,wishing you a great weekend,,,

@jimsteele9261

4 жыл бұрын

A modified Brubaker Box was the Ark Roamer in the 70s kids tv show "Ark II"

I still wish I had my VW Thing that I owned while stationed in Panama in the 80’s but only because I have other cars to drive now. Blackhawks are amazing cars with the exception that they look like an Edsel mated with a Monte Carlo

i want them Alllllllllll

Instantly recognized # 14 from MJ's "Moonwalker" by the front clip alone.

#15 & #13, I will take both.

7:53 front end & half covered rear wheels REMINDS me of the iconic Citroen.

Holden Sandman is defiantly the best.

@JonasRosenven

4 жыл бұрын

The car is definitely not defiant.

@phalanx3803

4 жыл бұрын

@@JonasRosenven ?

@JonasRosenven

4 жыл бұрын

@@phalanx3803 Do you think the car is being disobedient?

Number 8, the Safari Car - Well, I wasn't sure it was possible, but I've finally seen doors even more ridiculous and impractical than scissor doors. In truth, the car looks like something out of a Hanna Barbara cartoon too.

What a Shocker a Porsche caught fire 🔥

I loved #11 in Mad Max

Black hawk nice cars

A very well thought out list. Thanks.

back then, nothing was impossible

I love type 181. That is my dream car

Yay you did the Thing!!!

I NEED THAT MOBILE EXECUTIVE SUITE!!!

Only 100 Holden Sandman's produced? Are you kidding? Even Chrysler Australia had more Drifter Panel vans than a mere 100. Ford had their own version known as The Sundowner. In America the panel van is based on a truck chassis and is known as a Sedan Delivery. Holden Panel vans were a lot more common back then and the Sandman was only one version.

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

@millenniumxdtvmediaandarts1679

5 жыл бұрын

woooooooooooooooo, 4 Horseman, baby!!!

My favourite, by a long shot, is number 16. :)

It would be a real head turner if you drove these cars nowadays. That would be fun.

The Hustler cars, especially the Highlander needed to be on this list.

That Lancia Stratos looks like the car in the movie "Black Moon Rising"

I'm fascinated by the Lakester. How did the linkage work with steering and powertrain?

#5 it seems to be built on different platforms- four-door versions seems to base on European Granada (5-bolt wheel hubs, longer wheelbase and independent rear suspension) and coupe is based on Taunus (4-bolt hubs, shorter wheelbase and rear live axle)

That sabato is P reg 1975/76 here in UK,,

The box is awesome! Minus those wood bumpers. And I dont care what anybody says the TAG is pretty sweet to.

@thomasleemullins4372

5 жыл бұрын

Check the BB group on Facebook to see if they actually make a new BB.

Wow!.

Just saw Stutz in the summer, one dude in Finland has that, must be expensive car.

The Brubaker looks amazing

minute 9:58 that is Mexico City the place is the sports palace "palacio de los deportes" and looks so beautifull, what a times !!!

9,23 think it's cool I would buy one

#7 looks like a smart car

The 70s looked like a fun era

Thank you,I liked the VW 181,it was a crude,basic sort of car,I replaced the carburettor with a FISH one,and a Lumenition electronic ignition conversion kit, went well...Holden Sandman was a Holden panel van tricked out and aimed at the youth market..Ford also had Sundowner,and Chrysler the Drifter..we made good cars here before the parent companies in USA pulled the plug on us..

The results of engineering while on blotter

I like the Brubaker

Thanks again, always a pleasure :) peace

I love tandem axil vehicles

Always wanted a Thing

@akronymus

4 жыл бұрын

@ 420 edu they are crappy to drive and take a lot of gas for nothing - they just look cool

The 6th looks like a special versión of the AE86 Levin

Video implies only 100 Holden Sandman were made. That's not quite right. Only around 100 of the HQ model were made (1974), but the Sandman took off with the HJ model and continued through the HX and HZ models. At the peak, they were selling around 2000 a year. Sandman production ended in 1979

@georgemaragos2378

4 жыл бұрын

Hi All, the HQ media / prototype as test for dealers may have been 100, but it then became a regular option in the model. HQ even had a series 2 and i am guessing it was in that series. Note also at the same time the first 4 door monaro - HQ SS was tested with 253 V8 and 4speed manual only, that was so successfull they raised another batch, then introduced is a a 4door monaro ( up to this time the monaro only existed as a 2 door coupe ) again in the late HQ run as a permanent model, it ran for 4 model tears HQ-HJ-HX-HZ Sandman was popular as it had all of the performance sports car extras - gills in the guards, sports wheels, sports steering wheel, full instrumentation. HQ/HJ/HX they were available in 6cyl or 253 / 308 V8 , auto or manual HZ was V8 only During late HJ and most of HX , they often missed out of the guard gills as they were used on the monaro 4 door sedan and coupe, and as the sandman began as a base van on the production line, if there were any panel shortages the van missed out. Both 2 sets of neighbors and our bread delivery man had sandmans, why , they were manual and barely cost more than the base delivery van, insurance was cheap ! Plus they got good money as a trade in or selling of in the paper Production of sandman, would be in the 800-1,000 each year - they were everywhere in sydney, every big $$$ tradesman, sports fanatic, surfer The author on this video may be confusing it as well with a similar car - the overlander, which was available as wagon / ute / van - but these were a factory approved aftermarket conversion using 4x4 parts using a Dana m20 transfer case and a Dana m44 front drive made the car into a 4x4 and yes it looks like those crazy card on t-shirts The overlander production over 6 years was about 120, maybe where the 100 comes from in this advertisment

So I guess I'm the only one who likes the Trident personal luxury land yacht then? Ok. I'm cool with that. Thing looks like a Bonneville (prominent nose) got crossed with a 70s Eldorado (faired-in rear wheels). Could never be made today as I'm sure any pedestrians it hit wouldn't live to tell the tale, but I still want one. Sandman vans are pure Mad Max. The Aussies had some great-looking cars in the 70s.

With all of the Drama that was going on during that era, from the Civil Rights movement to the Vietnam War, its good to see that someone was actually doing something constructive back then

That # 13 Stutz Blackhawk is straight up pimp mobile if ever there was one. I'm sure one of the oprions was a wide brimmed hat with a 3' feather sweeping off it.

@catjudo1

5 жыл бұрын

Wakka chikka wakka chikka wakka chikka wakka chikka... Talkin' bout Shaft! Can you dig it?

They created a vehicle with just one wheel and can carry 4 people !

I want to say the Volkswagen Thing has an Hot Wheels or Matchbox replica , mainly cause it looks so familiar . I may have had the toy car version or one of those DIY glue together models when I was a kid .

Love to own that Briggs & Stratton car

I want that evinrude! 😍

Nr-13 is a really nice car , i take nr-8 when i go to Russia 🧐

Surprised you didn't mention the Sandman appearing in Mad Max, that's probably where most of us are familiar with it.

I actually klicked on the link in the video description below to check out the HUD-Thingy.

Some of these look like vehicles used by Dr. Evil or similar organizations from James Bond films or spoofs of the era :)

10:12 I wonder who put the hit on it? Enzo? Things don't just catch fire!

@bradregelous1879

5 жыл бұрын

John Delorean.

Funny cars

i want one of those TAGs

4:22 very cool looking car

Number 3 looks like the 6000 SUX featured in Robocop 1

I like the #1 by Porche. I think they should have made another one and put it in production. It is cool looking.

@tommiedaswammi8008

5 жыл бұрын

In reiteration...building another one would definitely showcase some of Porsche's design realms.

The Honda golf cart was cool

23 out of 25 isn't a failure were I come from.

@7cougar0

4 жыл бұрын

And where is that?