1979 BATHURST Peter Brock's Hardies Hero Lap 

Please please publish those photos if possible :)

That's a great story. No doubt you would've enjoyed the chat with brocky. Those photos you did would make interesting viewing I'm sure.

Trouble is thier worth a fortune now ! And mostly kept in garages, showroom collections!

They put Chevy engines in them when the set them up for racing because the original Inline 6 was under powered and they only made 2 V8 Torana one of which is crashed and the other one in a museum.

@@justanotherrandomperson1359 better check your facts . They made 2 or 3 prototype LJs with a V8s . LH and LXs were all Holden V8s ,not Chevys

@H HOUR HOTEL Yeah, eight years in the future. Are you such an imbecile that you can't understand the concept of anachronism...?

Yeah they sounded like they were doin way more than 7000 rpm, FKN awesome.

@@deanwallden297 Has he not heard of a 308?

is he dead

Sub-urban Art-ist yes he was killed as a passenger in a car accident in 2006

Jackson Higgins he was the driver.

Roberto Giusti oh yeah my bad

@suburbans nation yes he died in 2006

@H HOUR HOTEL fuck you pull out some stupid comments mate! So what Ford was hard up for a dollar hey? Moffat, Johnson to name a few! Even though Dick was a pioneer to start with Ford has/ had plenty of coin when they first got into supercars. You got a problem with Brock and Holden?

Well it was a lot different to his race laps - including making several errors.

Induction noise through the 2 dual throat Weber carbs is what really made them sound great :)

Kiwis r shtt

@@nathanhill4458 No argument here . But Brock was King regardless of the marque you are loyal to.

Brocky will be. Don't know about the Torana.

For eternity, and i am a Ford man. Will never be another Peter Brock, and you got to love that A9X at full throttle.

Soon it will be - wouldn't it be great if we had a car! These electric things aren't really doing it for me (yet).

H HOUR HOTEL .You are the master of the moronic metaphor. STFU. All of your comments have been carefully researched at the university of abject stupidity where you graduated with distinction.

Reliable it thrashed ford shit for decades. Those 351 s were an overrated hand grenade. Ask Moffat he spent a fucking fortune on those piles of shit.

Why are you yelling at me

Speedwest Yeah Sad, they all contributed to making our Aussie Touring Car History Special, RIP and thanks.

The Mustang doesn’t even use the Coyote engine.

Yes they built the cars as a rolling chassis at GMH at Dandenong. They had huge amounts of extra spot-welds. No engine or transmission, sound deadening or seats from memory. Built them for the other big teams too.

Not to mention, he also called Brocky "Pete Brock" ;)

Chris Crapalot

He came over for the 1980 race as well

So has the brains that gave us the formidable A9X !

You’re right, 9K was a lot in ‘79, and they only get 1k for pole now.

a 3 bedroom house cost 25k in 1979

Andrew Simpson now in Sydney a 3 bedroom costs 500k and that’s 50km from the CBD

Thomas McNamara Is that 1k for Bathurst Pole?

The payments to the racers wasn't always the best.. underrated 🤙

try building something like that nowadsys for the masses (even in limited numbers).The greens would have a fit.

that's funny as fark

Ab Zug You're hoping to high, next is the Virtual Reality 1000 at Bathurst which from ground zero amounts to a bunch of people in a park wearing goggles, lol. You know, like I silent disco but for your eyeballs 👀

Nonsense the car he most raced were commodores

@@iamasmurf1122 His best Commodore years were 1980 - 84. After that, he never achieved another literal Bathurst win. The Torana years were peak Brock. And hey......I love both nameplates.

@@iamasmurf1122 Dunny Doors never had the looks or the sound of an A9X

I picked up on that too. Does he mean under the torque capacity of the cam or what is he meaning? Initially I thought he meant camber of the track

@@RhythmicEye The cam is designed to produce power in a certain range where they want it to work best, sort of decides the characteristics of an engine, the comment seemed like he was saying if he carried more car speed/engine revs it would have exited that little bit nicer.

The Moon is square excellent explanation. Thanks! One of the world’s great motorsports events. I preferred the old track with all it’s kinks, dips and irregularities, not practical anymore I suppose with ride height of modern cars. The sound of those old V8 motors is like listening to the richness of an old, high fidelity, analogue sound system. The deep and throaty roar, music to the ears, as opposed to high pitched strangled cat.

Actually, if you watch in-car cameras at Indianapolis you would realise that there is far more to it than cruise control. It is a totally different skill than road racing but it is a skill nonetheless.

Still wrong but don't worry about it.

I thought the same, when they first put it in. I think it's the best corner in Australia now

Gotta blame the evo & wrx for his death thats why you don't see them in Targa races anymore. 😎👍🇦🇺

Then It wouldn't be an A9X would it???

I'm guessing you haven't been watching TCM then?

Lol, Americans are so funny.

Be nicer if the production cars were closer to the supercars 👍

Maybe you should read up on how close they actually were 😊

In the Group C touring car days, the race cars were for all intents and purposes very much hotted up road cars with a few added extras for safety such as the bolt in roll cages and bladders in the fuel tanks as well as other obvious differences such as slick tyres. But there were a number of the Group C Falcon's, Torana's and Commodore's that were actually converted to road cars after their life on the track. Not to mention that more than a few started their lives as actual road cars before hitting the track (Dick Johnson's 1980 Falcon rock car actually started life as a cop car in Maryborough before Dick bought it at auction earlier that year). Group C and Group A race cars were much closer to their road going versions than Supercars or V8 Supercars or whatever they want to call themselves ever were or will be.

I watch Touring Car Masters these days as it reminds me of this old glory eira. I don't watch supercars at all.

@@3800TURBO the only Supercars race I watch these days is Bathurst. I'm from Adelaide and don't even watch the Adelaide 500. These days I prefer sports car racing.

It's not a fucking vauhxal dickhead.

All over? Whoops, we lost 2 of probably 300 great Aussie drivers. BACK IT UP BOYSSS ITS ALLL OVER! BURN THE TRACK DOWN, SELL EVERYTHING! WE'RE DONE! You're a joke, the Supercars is still thriving and Mt Panorama as a race track is never going away. The 1000, 12 hour, and 6 hour grow every year, and become more exciting every iteration. Don't kid yourself, just because you're too old to enjoy some new cars and drivers doesn't mean no one else can.

Lowndes was a traitor.Brook took him on,had a dummy spit and joined Ford.Nuff said.

Peter Brock raced a Ford aswell

@@davetaylor5299 brocky also drove a volvo.He was HSV.Simple as that.

It died as soon as it became Ford vs Holden only. Ford and Holden were the slowest cars on the track why would anyone want to watch them race?

FKN well said Rosco

rossco289 good ole days mate

Very well said you are exactly right.

I'm hearing you

Its no longer the same place, sadly

I think they were used to pull hot air out from under the guards, to keep the brakes cool. Brock used them for qualifying in 1979 and they were also fitted to the VC Commodore the following year, in some of the sprint races, from memory. Probably not used in the longer races because it would take longer to do a tyre change in a pitstop

Yep, a carburetor fed 308, with a fairly warm camshaft and better breathing.

Funny that a guy known for unvarying perfection, lapping time after time like a machine, stuffed up a corner in a totally, utterly un-Brocklike fashion during his Hero lap. But got pole anyway...