1968 Holden Monaro GTS

https://silodrome.com/1968-holden-monaro-gts/

 

get the day off to a good start, pony car racing in Australia

the above corner is 5:45 into the video

32-year-old Paul Hogan working as a bridge painter in 1971 – 15 years before he became famous as Crocodile Dundee

 

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2026/04/32-year-old-paul-hogan-working-as.html

530" supercharged KB Olds powered AA/Gas 63 Dart in Australia does 9 second runs

the first to drive a car across the Australian continent found that adventure would take two years, two tries and two cars, and only after 42 days and their second attempt did they get their Talbot to Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, from Port Darwin

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10230374709605585&set=pcb.25112922768349791

Here's a sentence rarely heard in racing - the car was destroyed by a Kangaroo

The No. 64 Mustang GT3, tag-teamed by Mies, Dennis Olsen, and Broc Feeney was destroyed after just 20 minutes on track thanks to the kangaroo's interference. Mies hit the animal on the Conrad Straight, resulting in critical damage to the race car.

https://fordauthority.com/2026/02/kangaroo-obliterates-only-ford-mustang-gt3-at-bathurst-12-hour-video

racing at Bathurst

this is the historic/iconic visually amazing vehicle that had 2.4 million people enter a contest to win, the Hot Rod Coca Cola Levis Denimachine, built in 10 various ways

 

The interior of each customized Denimachine Ford van was decked out with red shag carpeting, a Coca-Cola college dorm size mini refrig, a CB, RCA tv, an eight-track, and wall-to-wall customization of tufted pockets and Levi's buttons galore, along with red paisley-patterned fabric for crown molding

Each was customized to be unique in small ways, but not just in appearance, the mechanicals were upgraded a bit too, with Cragar Road Star wheels and Goodyear GTs, traction bars and a sway bar, a B&M transpack for better shifts, Mallory unilite electronics to upgrade from points, and Hooker headers exhausting through Thrush sidepipes of course

The hood is a fiberglass scoop from Hooker, as are the fender flares and spoiler

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-denimmachine-maybe-better-known-as.html

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=8216829121704429&set=pcb.2762387133921386

https://www.hotrod.com/features/denimachine-january-1977-982-1110-76-1

https://fordauthority.com/2026/01/50-years-ago-levis-and-coke-turned-this-ford-van-into-denim-heaven

this success bred imitators in Australia, the Easy Roller and Freedom Machine

and the Chrysler Valiant wagon version 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/40031157273/media

I can't find much about it right now, but this 48 Ford Deluxe was called the Gray Ghost, the around Australia rally in 1954

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1429194525380470&set=p.1429194525380470&type=3

making a 1930s race car, from scratch. 200 days of fabricating and building, in less than 25 minutes (depends on what you set the video play back to be, I recommend 1.75)

Bennetts Customs, a Canadian transplant in Australia 

https://www.facebook.com/BennettsCustoms/

https://bennettscustomsco.com.au/pages/about-us

https://eaglebaybrewing.com.au/local-good-things-with-jordan-bennett/

the latest president and CEO of Ford Australia started working as a forklift operator for Ford at a parts and service warehouse in Melbourne in the early 1990s.

form there, somehow he went on to a job in the finance department.

Anyone that has worked at a car dealership can tell you that's a very unlikely transition, but from warehouse to finance? 

I'm guessing he was a college student and got the job in the warehouse, and after getting his degree, he was offered the job in the finance dept. 

However it happened, it was the obvious path to getting into the management track at ford.... mechanics aren't wanted in management, it's either engineers, legal, or financial. 

https://fordauthority.com/2025/12/ford-australia-gets-new-boss-in-uplifting-rags-to-riches-story

all that remains of a plane

 minute 13:20 in the video, and the 2nd engine at 15:30

every couple of years, it seems someone finally convinces someone who's been sitting on a cool Falcon for decades, to sell it so they can flip it and get rich at auction, like this one owner 73 Falcon XA GT RPO 83, 4 spd stick shift, It's 1 of 120 built in 1973 - and a 70 Falcon GT

https://supercarblondie.com/priceless-ford-muscle-car-airlifted-from-home-40-years

Perth Australia has a innovative speed bump mechanism around Curtin University campus... Actibump, a gutter that adjusts to the speeding car's velocity, and drops out

 

drive.com.au/caradvice/internet-erupts-over-australias-secret-speed-bumps/

https://www.ipwea.org/blogs/intouch/2018/04/16/these-smart-speed-bumps-only-punish-speeding-drive

https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-release/australian-first-active-speed-bumps-put-brakes-speeding-motorists/

It's finally the day they released the new Travis Pastrana Gymkhana video from Australia. The race track scene is cool, and original, and the skipping across the river is very cool once you see it wasn't shallow

Aussie Valiant Ute at SEMA! Nice surprise