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68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#886261
Sides wrote:Anyone remember the big cry-baby session from the Ford guys at Bathurst one year, resulting in all the Holden guys having to trim 10mm from the lip on their rear wings ??? 10mm !!!

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I remember that and the previous races..

it seemed to Me that Holden had a BIG advantage that year...

and when Dick Johnston was winning they loaded His Falcon up with lead...??

I used to watch every race back then.. they were televised in Tamworth on NEN9 but Not on NBN3 Newcastle [or its translators]
I had a high Tamworth antenna and booster but the picture wasn't good so I used to get a friend in Tamworth to tape it and send it to Me on Monday... lol

Nowadays I can't tell a Ford from a Holden... lol
stupid color schemes..

LEE

PS: at least Our V8s don't look like the cars racing on the Ovals in the USA - Ford GM Toyota Chrysler all look the same and don't even have headlamps or taillamps etc... LEE
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

giro-pilot Commited Dubber

72 posts · joined Jun 2011 ·

#886285
best years in the 80 you had bmw alfa toyota jag capris escorts a datsun bluebird ford holdens volvo it was great raceing idont watch it

amazeer Bishop of Volkswagenism

3,029 posts · joined Nov 2005 ·

#886394
What is a "production car"? The GTs, toranas, monaros, they were all homologation specials. After 1972 theyre certainly havent been production cars in the top category of this country. They went to Group C, and then Group A

Thats just the thing, it wasnt great races as such unless you call people winning by umteen laps a great race. Brock won it by 6 laps in 79! First and second rarely finished on the same lap, let alone first and 3rd.

Super Tourers had all sorts of makes and were the official touring car race formula in this country for a year or 2 but went broke. Remember they had the "real" long weekend date and the V8's had the other. People stayed away in droves. The teams couldnt race $20 sponsorship so it died in the arse.

Sad fact is that the vast majority of aussie race goers are either ford or holden bent and they have to have V8s. They want to be able to scream out for burnouts and harrass women to show their upper torsos (I dont mind that bit when the girls oblige 😉 ) If the rules didnt change to allow other makes to build fantasy cars then ford would have to drop out. I dont know how a front wheel drive V8 Taurus would go. It would have turned into a one make series.