As an American I really like the Ranchero and El Camino but you just can't beat the visual appeal of an Aussie Ute 😎👍🇺🇸

@eamonnmunroe6102

Жыл бұрын

True . The Australian ute keeps going if they're looked after, Holden Ute the best. HQ -HZ the best

This is the sort of shit I love. Turning paddock finds back into road going cruisers, all without spending mega bucks. I dig it. 👍

@reecemartin453

2 жыл бұрын

i moved out of my mums house, she sold my hq ute for $600. sucks, cuz it had a rebuild 202 and a 4sp body was shot though. gf at the time parked it in the shed... literally

gold .// wish i kept my hj ute it was a tidey ol girl and reliable I moved my shit from hervy bay in QLD to the rock in riverina NSW with it and drove it around fora few years after that

I grew up in one of these as a kid. My grandfather drove one installing clotheslines, cutting lawns, collecting odds and ends. I must have spent half my primary school years sitting in the back in the tray on top of rubbish and building left overs "so that they wouldn't fall off the back". Those HQ Belmonts did a million miles and were the heart and soul of Australia. They were worked hard and driven until they dropped or rusted to death, and like their drivers, they were tough as nails.

Love seeing an Aussie legend being brought back to life, wish I was so lucky. Beautiful piece of motoring history

Good to see a nice old hq getting saved like the channel guys keep it up all the best west Aussie

Living in Melbourne I look forward to these videos every week. We haven’t been able to cruise at all for months on end and the enjoyment these videos have given my son and I have been a great help. Always loved the channel and I love it even more now !

@TheIronEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers John! I hope you and you lad can get cruising again soon!

In 1977, starting at the Gold Coast, a schoolmate and I drove right around the country on highway 0ne (excluding Tas; did that eight years later, different friend, different car) plus a visit to Uluru from Darwin. We drove a '72, 3-on-the-floor, cab/chassis version of this car with a homemade canvas canopy on the tray, a Yamaha 175 trail bike plus our other gear and a dog. We picked up a kitten in Darwin who rode in the cabin and finished the journey with us. He went on to live with me 'til he was 20 yo.The journey included thousands of klms of currugated dirt roads in the 14,500 ks approximate total. The ute never missed a beat throughout the 3 month saga; not even a flat tyre! Which was lucky for us because, at 17 and 18 yo, we were virtually clueless about vehicle maintenance. I don't remember ever even checking the tyre pressures! No wonder I haven't been able to win the lottery ever since; I think I used up all my luck in that one adventure!!

You are the master at turning Pig Shit into Strawberry Jam. Ute looks killer, wish I'd bought it! Nice work.

I am a Ford Man, but how can you not love a HQ, they are cool as F!@k, particularly the HQ Coupes. Great video once again Mate, that old girl looked very cool.

I love seeing a car getting revived instead of being left in a field to rust, hq’s are a aussie icon and we need to hold onto as many as we can 🙌

The Aussie wheeler dealers amazing.. these videos are way better than your usual stuff

@TheIronEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t want to do too much buying a selling 😔

All fun to drive until the front ball joint snaps. Like my old HQ. 🤣

@bnetolldnataman

2 жыл бұрын

Been there. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

That HQ was in remarkable condition to start off with and you have made it so much easier for the next owner. Well done on a great job!

This is great to see an Aussie show, awesome work. Thanks for creating these

The old Email factory in Woodville North? Fuck me so it is, I worked there for 12 weeks over summer after finishing high school and before starting Uni. Worked in the die injection workshop making plastic water tanks for Bonaire evaporative air conditioners. Used to drive there for a 7:00am start each morning in my 67 200ci XR Falcon 500 in the summer of 1975-76. Never been back since but recognised the building instantly after almost 46 years. Jeez next I’ll be seeing that old Falcon in the shop. Nah it was a POS, but if I saw the 74 Maxda RX-4 13B that replaced it soon afterwards then I’d melt - still love that car.

@TheIronEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

Nice man! It’s a cool old building with lots of history. You have the chance to see it again i the flesh next Saturday (October 16 -5pm) as we’re having a car show if your interested. Cheers

Hey if you don't like it I'll take it someday I'm going to Australia just to see some of the cool cars we missed out on

Love the old survivor look

Love the videos, Your a lucky man to have a lady who will get in and help.

NOTHING BETTER THAN CRUZIN IN A CLASSIC AND AS THEY SAY ONE MANS TRASH IS THE OTHER MANS TREASURE..GREAT WORK GUYS ..SEE YOU ON THE ROAD...

Its amazing what a difference a nice seat makes!! The ute turned out great and I don't think you did anything to it that was too difficult. You obviously know what needs to be done to take it from an old beater to a nice cruiser......it looked great in the end.

Would love to see more treasures you have for autos down under!!

I miss my telecom orange HQ Ute so much!

Sweet effort... id cruise in that for sure!

HQ came up a treat I liked the way you did your white walls on the tyres.

Holden styleside utes of that era rust just about everywhere including underneath along the bulkhead behind the seats so apart from the bit of bog on the plenum it was a good find. Cleaned up pretty well,original belmont spec too,at least it used to be lol.

It is amazing what can be achieved in a small amount of time and the new owner can do some upgrades but still have a running driver. Well done.

Hey Discovery Channel where are you? Sign this man and his crew up!

Looks awesome! The kick panels you made look pretty spot on! At Better Auto Rubber in nerang on the Gold coast we manufacturer them frequently 😎 they exist!

@TheIronEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

Haha sorry, I meant they don’t exist on this particular car! We used Better rubbers on the rear window install and also the pedals 👌🏼

@oliviashephard3356

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome stuff!! Hope they fit well 👌 love seeing our stuff in these videos!

@TheIronEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve used your stuff in a few of my videos. Im open to working together if interested at all? mark@theironempire.com.au

Good vid, the paint was a huge transformation

Man you did a wicked job there. Could so see a small v8, and a little bit more tlc and that would be a weapon of a ute

Best one yet! Love HQ’s

What a change! That’s awesome

Great episode mate! Nice to see a low budget, purchase to profit in 16 minutes. Sure it's not a full show stopping resto but you demonstrated the true meaning of "bang for buck!" As you said, someone can pick up the ball and go from there or just enjoy now. I have owned a few cars but never a Holden but the old Q has a nice front end and lowered with white walls well, very cool. Four wheel drums, small six and three on the tree, oh yeah! Not everything has to have a blown big block, costing a squillion.

@TheIronEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

100%

The ute looks great. Good that it came from up north in SA nowhere near as much rust as Adelaide cars. I live in the north west corner of Victoria. Well done.

what a great. facelift shows folks what devotion to detail and a little time and energy can do to make your ride pop and look so much more respectfully to drive. CHEERS to your unproperly introduced girlfriend to us for being by your side and not being afraid to get her Hands dirty.girls like her few and far between, a keeper. Great video thanks again Bill in Fort Wayne Indiana USA

Looks fabulous Mark

Well done, looks amazing end result. 👍

Nice job. Great result.

Awesome build loved the build in the 1 episode awesome worked some magic there

Loveing the easy builds your doing & Adelaide based cool as too man do more holden stuff

Great result, looks wicked, love the white walling mint!!

Awesome vid, really cool to see how these gumtree specials look with a little time and effort 👍

Saw this thing with my own eyeballs. Looked amazing. Well done Mark.

Hey mate your videos keep getting better and better, very inspiring 👌

I really enjoy watching your channel, keep it up 👍

This is awesome, great watch, cheers ✌🏽

Amazing work!

The ute looks so good!

Great job on the Ute, love your work guys !

The HQ ute came up awesome good work love your channel guy's

Digged the edit of this one. Thanks for the ride along :)

Bloody mint work mate always like your projects and yous are all hand on and show what can be done with some good diy 👌

The ute came up sweet Mark👌 Love the low stance and the white walls looks killer👍 Keep up the good work

Great work...

Great job in saving an Aussie classic.

You done a sterling job on the old HQ Mark.👌

Thanks for this. So many memories of my own HQ Ute. I was fortunate to able to cast my own inside door release tabs, they always seemed to break so easily.

You did an awesome job cleaning the old ute up for a quick sale. It looks like a solid project vehicle.

The Ute came out looking pretty bloody good

Good stuff Mark

i got an old 79 hz kingswood chasis cab model, would have liked the style side but this old car has its original motor and it was road worthy so im happy.

The 80's music and cleaning the Q took me back to the good days for a moment.. Thanks bruva

@TheIronEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

Glad ya enjoyed that 80s flavour

Great result Mark. The ute looked really good. You should be very happy with how things turned out. Your stuff is very inspiring. Thanks so much for sharing. Jules @ Jive Talking Garage

Great work. This is fast becoming my go to/favourite KZread channel.

@TheIronEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate

That turned out alright. Would love one like that to put a 350/400 in. Big cam, big exhaust. Would be sweet.

Looking the goods there mate. Your channel is very motivating I must say- great work!

@TheIronEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

That’s what it’s all about! Cheers

Very impressive mate. I wanted that Ute and I’m a Ford fan.

That looks mint mate.

Very tidy mate, Holden Ute is a classic

Great ep mate 👍🏻 amazing what can be done with a little foresight and some hard work. This one really did turn out cool! I don’t know how you part with them at the end haha

Very cool, great job.

Enjoyed this one. You did just about all that could be done without completely starting all over again. Loved the wheels. The silver trim really made them.

@TheIronEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate

Hey, just found your channel. Love your work, awesome that you show what can be achieved with simple work ethic. Cheers mate.

@TheIronEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate

Loved this mate! Great content. Saved that car

Great video love the old utes I'm currently tidying up a vy ute gets more work done that's my project but I love the old utes . Like your work guys 👍

I think I actually saw you advertise this on facebook and was very much considering purchasing it.

Hey Mark I really liked the cruising footage portion. A minute or 2 of footage just seeing the finished result cruising in action is really satisfying to watch. I think this episode was really well edited. Nice one.

@TheIronEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate! I appreciate the feedback!

Love this channel bro

Awesome job on that bro.

mad respect brother awesome ute

Love the Chanel just got Steve at stitches and sound to do my roof lining he did a killer job and I’m so happy defanatley would recommend him

@TheIronEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

Nice man!

It came up a treat, would be cool to leave it as it with the exception of tough driveline! You've really stepped up the production value of videos Mark, really enjoyable!

@TheIronEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate

Favourite episode this is really cool

@TheIronEmpire

Жыл бұрын

Cheers mate! The quick ones are fun!

Came up awsome 🤙🤙

Great work reminds me of my HQ Belmont SW that I had in Perth in 1989 while there on a working holiday. Worked at Scarbrough Garage saved up enough cash to buy it of another work college mechanic. Great times.

@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479

2 жыл бұрын

You wouldn't recognise Scarborough bch now if you visited now. I lived there in the 70s and 80s and visited recently. All modern and touristy now

@brucebarlow6604

2 жыл бұрын

@@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479 unfortunately every beautiful popular place has now changed for the worse at least we saw it at it's best great days.

great episode that hq looked boss

You can't get anything more basic than a HQ Belmont. 173 with a 3 on the tree, 4 wheel (unassisted) drum brakes. Wow, stand on the brake pedal to pull up. Bench seats and no chrome trim on the vehicle. Everything is optional, even the radio.

makes me really miss my old ute =(

More Australian classics, excellent

Looking good

You remind me of the greek father in my big fat greek wedding spraying everything with window cleaner and the HQ looks awesome

That HQ Ute looks sick bro 👌 Done a great job on cleaning her up. Reckon you should of kept her though and made it a gts Ute with a small V8. Oh well you have another Ute in the shop I'm looking forward to seeing done 🤘😎

Good job mate, saved another one.

Just found the channel awesome stuff mate. Subbed 🤙

It needs some bodywork & a front disc conversion would go astray. My dad used to drive a 1972 Model HQ Kingswood station wagon which still had the MPH speedometer fitted but it just rusted out & my dad pulled it off the road in 1993 about 13 years after he bought it back in 1980,he gas axed it because it was full of rust. A person such as myself would cut the rust out of it & I probably wouldn't keep the 202 engine (if it's a 202 engine that's fitted) since they're a 66 kilowatt engine which is very thirsty,my GENIII 5.7 litre Chevrolet LS1 V8 powered Holden VY SS Commodore uses less fuel than one of them does as it's a bit more on par with the 173 cubic inch Holden six which was pretty good on fuel for back then. I would bolt something which is a bit more modern into it !

Love the HQ Ute. I miss my HQ premier one tonner project Utility. I love bench seat cars. That would make a great Daily Driver

Nice turn around!

Dirty ole Belmont 😂 she d survived fairly well.

Great video, you got a new sub out of this

@TheIronEmpire

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome mate, cheers