australia from the past....

[bigrich]

https://youtu.be/kNv-k5rSGPE?si=TmsW5kHtb_OH1A7O

[bigrich]

was hoges clairvoyant , very current ......https://youtu.be/i7ekJ6eAjEk?si=-_QechK6GwV3UnHR

[bigrich]

our current defence force https://youtu.be/RXA8UCo5SRc?si=f02WYwdwFXhaKozm

[bigrich]

https://youtu.be/HlS9t8EAx7U?si=ZpGpRkx40jRS5-YV anyhow have a winfield .....

[bigrich]

https://youtu.be/c3Xbdtqw8L8?si=gcFFN2cYdqhlZXDK pushbike song , for you guys old enough to remember

[bigrich]

holdens add https://youtu.be/VGW-WX77zjY?si=Xq9Ytxmz9sw7OFCF

[bigrich]

blokes with chargers back in the day .....https://youtu.be/wd4ucXFhzwY?si=qUHaJtyrFlHOsHrq

[bigrich]

HQ ute v8 "overlander" https://youtu.be/gq4GymWdBBQ?si=L_5vDmehkmpOJuK7

[bigrich]

race prepped falcon gtho in historic race class at bathurst . turn up the sound if you like old school muscle cars...https://youtu.be/toLPTjE1GZk?si=HvFQx3CRIOfubJRB

[bigrich]

here's another one if that's your thing , falcon gt trying to catch HQ holden sedan at bathurst historic class racing https://youtu.be/AUu5gjyYmMQ?si=1FbbC6t2YiW2nGw2

[bigrich]

i couldn't forget the chase scene from the start of mad max https://youtu.be/WTzuM8BF1_4?si=h1s0AHr9Kl_zxJLI

[bigrich]

sorry fellas , had a few drinks and got sentimental about the culture of this countries past . contribute your own memories of this once great country .....

[Die Judicii]

You BLOODY little rippa Rich.
All classic,,,,,,,,,, All gold.

Top pick was the race quipped GT.
Left old Norm Beechy behind early,,,, was held up for awhile by the Charger,,,,,, but the Horses prevailed.

F#ck Man,,,,,,, that Shaker brings back some memories.

Showing my age here,, but who gives a flying F@ck any way.
Bring it on Rich,,,,,,,,,,,

[bigrich]

:thumbsup:
You BLOODY little rippa Rich.
All classic,,,,,,,,,, All gold.

Top pick was the race quipped GT.
Left old Norm Beechy behind early,,,, was held up for awhile by the Charger,,,,,, but the Horses prevailed.

F#ck Man,,,,,,, that Shaker brings back some memories.

Showing my age here,, but who gives a flying F@ck any way.
Bring it on Rich,,,,,,,,,,,

thanks for the compliments mate , thought i might've been going a little overboard

i was listening to some old tunes of my extensive record collection and got sentimental about the australia of old . the one i grew up with where people were proud of our unique colonial culture , when we had some very smart inventors and we used to make everything here .

disclaimer , don't drink and post

[bigrich]

here's another great moment from our past , when we had true leaders who were connected to the people .

https://youtu.be/s8mdHO2_Zo8?si=7pbQE002gBCM7hOl

[bigrich]

here's a great moment from bob hawke telling a joke about "Australian irreverence " wow it blows my mind when i think of the comparrison to our more recent leaders . bob hawke was a genuine australian


https://youtu.be/YMa0j5A3nWw?si=BaL9Q3hokYbF-pMl

[bigrich]

another great australian moment from when we used to make stuff

https://youtu.be/F4aODrNLXs8?si=AQZ274chT1JNbxkJ


https://youtu.be/50BJ9dTBGBw?si=RRHU7ChtTqLSkfRv

[bigrich]

those were the days , quick , rush straight down to Kmart and get a new stirling 22 semi auto ...

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/08/31 ... 100979.jpg

[Wapiti]

Great stuff mate.
Unfortunately, "we" collectively are to blame here.
We f*cked this by voting the way we have.
remember the crap the politicians and motoring industry told us - Australians don't want big cars anymore - so the best machines ever made in this country ceased forever.
Aussies don't want big cars?
So now, the most popular selling cars here are made in Thailand, and are huge 4-door 4wd's.
Yeah, good one.

[bigrich]

Great stuff mate.
Unfortunately, "we" collectively are to blame here.
We f*cked this by voting the way we have.
remember the crap the politicians and motoring industry told us - Australians don't want big cars anymore - so the best machines ever made in this country ceased forever.
Aussies don't want big cars?
So now, the most popular selling cars here are made in Thailand, and are huge 4-door 4wd's.
Yeah, good one.

with voting , not me mate , i've seen the writing on the wall a long time ago and have been voting ON ever since . over 20 years now i think . we had our own brand of trucks that were over engineered very solid design based on the cab over mack "F" series , called leader . used to be made out at darra , cat engines with road ranger boxes . local gyprock company still uses one a bogie drive twin steer . i used to know the mechanic who serviced it . they kept it cause it would haul and go places lots of other trucks wouldn't . i'll keep posting on this topic to remind us of what we were

[mickb]

Assuming voting works. You dont need a massive conspiracy theory involving vote fixing or reptile overlords to say it doesnt. just big business influencing the show and the wrong sort of easily bought people making it to the top in both parties marching to the same drum.

I keep going back to the fact most the first world went down the same way at the same time, this isnt just Australia. Manufacture, national assets, power grids, all got sold off and extorted just the same way. Thats a pretty big coincidence. If voting and people power worked, one of the 30 or so other first world countries would have pulled out of the nose dive and corrected themselves by now. (Even by the law of averages half of them should have) But none did.

[Bugman]

those were the days , quick , rush straight down to Kmart and get a new stirling 22 semi auto ...

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/08/31 ... 100979.jpg

Yep good posts...great memories.

[bigrich]

those were the days , quick , rush straight down to Kmart and get a new stirling 22 semi auto ...

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/08/31 ... 100979.jpg

Yep good posts...great memories.

Out of all the nostalgia I’ve posted, I like the one with bob hawke telling the joke about the canoe. Can you imagine albo-sleazy trying that on ? He’d f@ck up telling a joke he’s so hopeless. lol

[bigrich]

picture quality is poor , but here's a uniquely australian super hero . enjoy

https://youtu.be/AkGNJWw9Hj4?si=mCxIsYlRGtS5Dswj



hoge's test for english immigrants ......



https://youtu.be/p-7g5qbCPAM?si=0PFnoSlog-uGjNox

[bigrich]

aussie bike classics ....

https://youtu.be/t3GW2_MMMMs?si=anjQwW3iqMCBM0Qz


https://youtu.be/sz7VEr5sEfQ?si=2fTKmG9TyMbSOFAV