This picture was one of 50 Australian films selected for preservation as part of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Kodak/Atlab Cinema Collection Restoration Project.
The car yard (set up in for the film in Victoria St Richmond, an inner suburb of Melbourne) was so real that the crew kept receiving genuine offers from the public wishing to purchase the vehicles.
Australian actress Claudia Karvan was about 17 when she appeared in this movie, her first-ever comedy feature film.
A television is heard broadcasting Malcolm (1986), the first film produced by this movie's producers, Nadia Tass and David Parker.