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Old 28-06-2018, 07:12 PM   #1
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Just stumbled across this on YT. I’m about 15mins in and will probably watch it all just for the car spotting and a bit of reminiscing from my p plate days lol.

Good mix of cars from that era. The quality is to be expected for that time, I imagine the camera the guy was filming with was probably the size of a TV news camera lol.

Anyway I thought some here might enjoy it

“LYGON STREET CARLTON BURNOUTS 80s”

(Not my vid, nor do I know the person who made it)

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Old 29-06-2018, 01:04 AM   #2
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Haha memories.
I remember some of those cars.... my car is parked in the background I think.

too long ago.
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Old 29-06-2018, 07:12 AM   #3
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I found the same video!
I watched it all and enjoyed every bit of it. Made me laugh and cringe at the same time. My mates and I were just like these guys.
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Old 30-06-2018, 11:26 PM   #4
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Old 01-07-2018, 11:56 AM   #5
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Modern Australia sucks. Need to leave this place, everything fun is illegal and all we do is please minority groups and make life easy for real criminals...
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Old 01-07-2018, 02:19 PM   #6
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We have a film festival in town this week, one of the movies is an aussie movies from the 80s, running on empty.

Features a GTHO as well as some other nice old cars. All about street racing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runnin...pty_(1982_film)


https://youtu.be/1YuExOULwf8
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Old 01-07-2018, 06:50 PM   #7
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For you expat kiwis, http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/quee...-1980/comments A movie that captured a slice of v8 scene late 70s early 80s in queen st auckland. Also look up Flash Cars a book by Murray Cammick the guy nailed it.... RIP Steve Bliss... The reason i love Ford V8s...any one from that time will know.
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Three decades later and people lust after the same cars as seen in this video. Back then they were cheap and readily available.
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Anyone else getting errors trying to play the video in the opening post?
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Old 01-07-2018, 08:49 PM   #10
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Try here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEkwt2pPpeY

My old man had the Caltex servo on the corner of Pelham and Swanston so I spent a lot of time watching before got my own licence. They were determined boys kept going and going.
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