Great story! This would have been a truly terrifying experience - glad to see these wonderful folks and their Monaro made it. That's former TVT-6 news reporter Trevor Sutton doing the intro narration - I recognised his distinctive voice.

Cool story and what a great-looking car. RIP to those who lost their lives.

Saw that Monaro at Launceston Motor Museum in September

@ceciliapolicarpio1822

3 жыл бұрын

is it a 308?

I actually just went to tassie and saw that exact Monaro! great museum highly recommend it! and we were staying in Hobart and went on that bridge multiple times! RIP to those who lost their lives

Apparently It was only the Automatic Transmission that held the car from falling. Had it have been a manual they would have tipped over the edge !

@youcrosseyedh1774

2 жыл бұрын

Cool , that’s one thing good about an auto.

@Thinginator

2 жыл бұрын

This is my new favorite response for when people get worked up over automatic vs. manual transmissions, lol. My automatic might prevent me from falling off a bridge!

Classic car design. I hope GM bring these back as a BEV.

Can't think of anything more horrifying that that

Remember that tragedy so we'll watching it on NZ TV-over 45 yrs later I can still remember seeing that Monaro hanging over the edge of the bridge Auckland New Zealand 2021

Great story, lucky to be alive to see the next generation, unbelievable

I was just looking at some old 8mm film that my parents took back in 1974 from the top of Mt Wellington and was amazed to see it included a distant shot of the collapsed section of the bridge.

@drewlaredo7220

8 жыл бұрын

then why does it say it happened in 1975?

@ESISTTIGER

7 жыл бұрын

Reasons!

@Fontgod

7 жыл бұрын

Good point.... I guess I got the date a bit wrong, I was like 2 at the time. Maybe the film had 1974 on it or something as most of the footage would have been from that year. My parents remember being cut off from most of hobart at the time, they lived in Primrose Sands I think around that time.

i remember that day and those photos. scary morning

most famous aussie car story ever!

@harleybirrell9645

5 жыл бұрын

Little dancer

I can only assume that there are scrape marks on the belly of the Monaro? I'll bet that bloke is thankful for a good wife and that he listened to her that night!!!

@Thinginator

2 жыл бұрын

If there are, I wouldn’t even want to restore that part of the car, it makes for a great story if anyone asks about it.

@RobertB56

Жыл бұрын

It's in the motor museum in Launceston

Is it still around ? Is it still at Launnie Car museum ? I'm a Ford man but like the HQ Monaros.

@noelgibson5956

2 жыл бұрын

It will be around forever. This baby is a part of Aussie folklore.

The car is so beautiful

I wonder if the number 2525 bus (with Sandra Bullock driving) (and a decent run up) could have jumped the gap?

@rum5812

2 жыл бұрын

well funny you bring that up this story over shadows the the ford cortina that was behind the holden

Law changed for captains - no watching of Ben Hurr's ramming speed in battle

Those cars perched over the edge - ooh scary!

Lucky bloke. Nice car.

You could almost imagine putting your foot out and nothing's there, and just in the imagining I got a touch of vertigo... Sylvia saved the day. So now I start wondering what happened to the EK(?) Holden. *Edit Maybe FB Holden? Anyway I started wondering if they had a full tank of fuel at the time, it could have "tipped the balance" so to speak.

@ldnwholesale8552

2 жыл бұрын

EK Wagon. Murray Ling, Bellrieve newsagent.

I went to Tasmania and saw the bridge just after the Lake Illawarra hit it..

Just remember more then a few cars did go over the edge ,

Almost lost the old HQ

@bradleyminehan3247

6 жыл бұрын

she was new back then

Would have shat all over myself….

Never heard of this until now

mmmm i wonder if the fb-ek is still around?

@spikedominikovichspikearoo1900

3 жыл бұрын

yes the fb is around a aussie drove the car around europe the uk holden club has a article on there sight about the car hanging over the bridge

@catey62

3 жыл бұрын

Was thinking the same thing. it deserves its share of fame too.

@GeeenJ

3 жыл бұрын

its a ek wagon not fb as the guy that claims the car he took to europe is i met that guy in darwin in the early 90's he was showing his fb wagon at the darwin high school car show he was claiming it was the car but its not the ek wagon owner lived in rokeby not far from my sisters place it was a light pinkish colour with a white roof the guy claiming his fb is the car is 2 tone green he became quite aggitated when i called him out on it lol

@rum5812

2 жыл бұрын

@@GeeenJ yep nothing pisses folks off more when you call them out bullshit story

the car is always amazing

Gotta love the true blue

A very Australian looking incident!

bloody beautiful

I'm here from my grandparents.

Apparently the Monaro is worth more than the bridge cost to fix . . . .

It was only the fact it was automatic that it didn't go over the edge. A manual gearbox wouldn't have got hung up

@thecarwreckhunter

4 жыл бұрын

that's what frank was saying about it, probably true too

my dad has a 71 hq monaro gts 350 2 door in red everybody loves it

@rum5812

2 жыл бұрын

bullshit

Lucky …. A well balanced q

Does anyone know what happened to the EK Holden?

@catey62

3 жыл бұрын

Apparently it is still around somewhere as well..someone else commented it's on the UK Holden club sight

Anyone know, was she a 350?

What about the other car?

@spikedominikovichspikearoo1900

3 жыл бұрын

the other car is still around a bloke went around europe in it story is on the uk holden sight

This car sorry this Aussie icon would have to be worth 2 million dollars!!!!

@Fallakami

4 жыл бұрын

Nah 30k

@rum5812

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fallakami 30k haaaaaaaaaaaa

@harveypennicott5317

4 ай бұрын

Actually to all concerned the iconic car that hang over on the bridge survive all odds in one million years would never be seen again definitely it's worth 2 million may be more I'm born Tasmanian was at the Drive in pictures that night with my Two brothers we didn't know till we left to go drive back home on the easten shore unfortunately we had to drive right around back road from Bridge water which thousands of cars were line up to get through back high way took all night till day break before we got through it was hell that night but now a new second bridge was built the Bowen bridge pretty much the same only four lanes ,👍👍

👍👍👍

The Prime Minister was furious from memory mucked up his overseas trip. I still cringe when I see that photo. A couple of others weren’t so lucky.

Out of all places to park your car you had to park on the bridge

What about the fb wagon!

The other car next tomonaro on the edgevof the bridge wonder what happened to the people in theat car

Its a 71 coupe I had one 253 4 on the floor hounds tooth interior maroon in color.

@railtrolley

2 жыл бұрын

The HQ on the bridge is a 1974. The amber front bumper indicators give the year away. 71 and 72 HQs had clear indicators on the front bumper. 73 and 74 had amber indicators. A change in the lighting laws.

@rum5812

2 жыл бұрын

@@railtrolley well he never said that the car on the the bridge was a 71 MR wikipidia

Fantastic video of Australian history shame about the last bit with turncoat Hawke

Some poo was made...