The movie was a cult Aussie classic from 1974 and filmed around the streets of Sydney.The race scene was filmed around the hilly areas of what is known as "The Lower North Shore" ie north side of the harbour.
It was a low budget film but surprised a lot people with its success here and yes it was a fore runner to Mad Max with at least one actor going on to star in that.
The original posters and signs for advertising the movie used to say "Stone-Take the Trip" ,while viewing it now it seems corny but in its day it had huge impact on the local bike industry and riders.From then on Z900's became very popular.Some of the origial film bikes survived most did not.
Every second rider from then on had to have a "Stone Bikini Fairing" as they became known as.
The stunt work on the bikes was performed by gun rider Craig Brown. There are more scenes from the movie on you tube.
A few years they had the 25th Annversary of the movie and thousands of riders turned out for the group ride.I did some repairs to fairing for a friend of mine who built up a replica of the red and white full fairing bike just for the group ride.
Language.HA HA that is Aussie English with its broad nasal tone,also known as "Strine" don't worry we think the same thing with some southern USA accents.
The mechanic in the last scene was actor Gary Mcdonald and also inthe links in the You tube clip, it is the same person but he is in his Norman Gunston comedy mode.In this character mode he just loved to "take the piss out of people" which some just could not understand and took too him too seriously.
AC- I was into HQ Panel vans as well,had some fun with it on the road and in the back too:
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Brett