At 12.45 is my Fathers Charger he prepared it in his gargae Formula 1 Europa garage. Tony Allen and Phil {Peter,s Brother} Brock were the drivers. He helped Chrysler develop the RT/4 and convinced Weber to produce the 58mm DCOE carburettor's, they did and now its etched into history. It made the earth shake when reved up. So many stories to tell. Miss you Dad Love you forever. .
I was 14 or 15 then. It was bloody awesome with Aussie cars, cars of all sizes mixing it, real street cars, drivers on the ragged edge for 500 miles, some like Moffat driving the whole distance. It was genuine gladiatorial combat.
Fifty years ago....was there a year earlier. Look at how much just about everything has changed except for the fact that the track is still at the mountain. We must remember those who did not get to go home after their bike race or car race.RIP to them all.
Absolute classic Australian motorsport, when cars were real and drivers were fearless. Brock in the lead, his arm leaning out the window during a pit stop. Top driving in the rain on a tough course.
The Bryan-Byrt phase III (John French) ford came second. In 1979 after it was done racing it sold for $5,000, today it’s worth more than $1,000,000 , go figure.
l remember the front page of the melbourne sun, an Italian guy bought 2 with consecutive numbers when they first came out, and was going to garage them because he knew then they were going to be worth serious money.
@@bettysteve322716 Allan Moffat made the statement, “sorry he never bought a phase III when ford offered him one”, he said he just couldn’t see an Australian built car at over $5,000 ever being a popular vehicle or a good investment.
@@justdoesntaddup8620 Prices will decline though. Things are only worth what buyers are willing to pay. And as people with emotional or nostalgic connections to cars die, there are less buyers. Pre-war car prices have dropped considerably. Immediate post war cars are not hot anymore either. Early 70s cars are hanging on, but the big value increase is in 90s and even early 2000s cars as people who were teens then start earning good money.
@@nicbrownable Lol , I thought you were gunna drop the bit coin tip at the end. But in the end turned out just the average punter predicting the next market decline, just another Harry. There’s more people with plenty of money to keep pushing up prices than there are tickets in a lottery. There’s probably only 150 HO’s left , but the late model FPV & GTP sold thousands. They’re not rare. Only the FPV Rspec is rare , but they have no race pedigrees.
I was 12 years young in 1972. We had a similar car race here in New Zealand It was the Benson & Hedges 500. I went to it back in 1975. Australian Chrysler Valiants, and Chargers, Ford Falcons dominated the race.
@@kylebutler7142 I can remember a Holden Kingswood racing. But it was no match for the Valiant Chargers. I also remember the Leyland P76 as well being in the race. It was a long time ago ,so my memory is a bit vague. I think a Volkswagon Golf raced, and that was a new VW car att the time.
I went to the B&H back then as a teen. GTHOs, Chargers, the early ones only had a 3 speed floor shift, Pacers, Torana XUIs, Volvo 245Ts (the 2.4 turbo), right down to Lotus Escorts, Mini Cooper S and I think even some Hillman Imps. The occasional private entry 911, E-Type, Lotus Cortina, etc.
@@briananthony4044 The Benson & Hedges 500 was assembled production saloon cars. There were different classes. The engine size is was differed each class group. So the cars weren't modified in any way, they were new standard road cars. Chrysler Chargers Ford Falcons, Ford Escorts, Mazda, Toyotas, the odd European car such as a Fiat.
This was a great piece of racing history, and it was good to some the cars of yesteryear racing once again, it looked as if they hadf all come straight out of the home garage.
they pretty much did, they were cars Aussies could buy and drive. "Win on Sunday, huge sales Monday" was the Auto companies motto down here. One year, one of the Torana's kept blowing diff's, in the end, they went out into the car park and took one off one their own cars to stay in the race, a far cry from today's racers, "oops we scratched the paint, garage it boys".
I used to own a v8 xy The speedo went up to 140 mph and I had it over that a few times .It didn't handle corners very well the brakes weren't that good but in a straight line God it used to go like helll. Great fun.Also no speed cameras no mobile rader and no using the cops as mobile money making machines.
@@hrstoslife1714 that right, years ago in Australia we use to use the Imperial system. Cars use to use carbys and didn't use coils and ecu to run the car.
For those asking my car came from the factory with the 140 mph speedo .I think the xa or xb came with kph speedos or was it the xc. Can't remember too much drugs and alcohol back in the good old days.
Back in our days, when we could relate to the cars being raced. I never missed a Bathurst telecast, from when they started right through to when V8 Supercars took over, then lost interest.
@@sugarnads and drafty and noisy and smelly, but if you gave me the choice between a brand new 2022 anything, or a pre 1975, l will take the pre 1975 any day of the week.
I was there on the hill. It as bloody amazing. Great racing and atmosphere. It sure as wet on the hill but it didn’t stop the fans and their machines putting on a show in the campground. Holders verses Ford of course.
Thanks for showing this race. They all did a great job of not spinning in the rain in the first laps. The producer adding the siren at 8: 10 really didn't work tho. That would have been a great race to have entered.
Great to see, God it looks wet wet wet. I'd argue that the Spa 24 touring car races of the late sixties and early seventies were even better, wider range of cars. Thanks for the upload.
Looks like a demolition derby. This forage is so heartening in so many ways. It has left me shocked and quite upset, that this beautifully humane and innocent event has became. Im afraid to say that we are on the wrong side of history. The corporations have hijacked what was, and for the next 50 years have served up a sanitized hollow shadow of an event. What a rort. I had no idea of how things were back then. Im interested to know whether the roll cages in the Falcons seemingly buckled on rollover. Such bravery exhibited by the falcon drivers holding that lead over the toranas under such conditions. Racing at 110%
Couldn't agree more about how Corporatism has destroyed Sport. My parents drove up from Melbourne and l watched this as a 5 yr old at my grandmother's. My dad took me in 75 and my fav anecdote from the era is Goss blowing a motor at Friday practice, maybe 1972, running a new one in at midnight around the backblocks of neighbouring Orange, getting caught by the police and letting them drive the car back to the track as a way of avoiding a ticket.
Leaf rear springs, worm and roller steering on some cars, 14 inch mags with big profile tyres, torsion bar front suspension on some, steering geometry not yet designed for radials. Remember when the HQ came out in '72 with the advert proudly stating it had Radial Tuned Suspension lol.
@@briananthony4044 Yeah the big profile tyres would squirm and track all over the place under heavy brakes and heavy cornering and pushing a big flat square front into the wind above about a 100 mph , the thing would dive, snake and wander all over the place add to that the 1970’s pot holes & patches roads.
Have to ask yourself what progress has been made. Yes, safety, no doubt, but apart from that every single aspect of the race was more interesting and more entertaining back then. Everything: the cars, the drivers, the tactics and the broadcasting.
Howard Marsden fitted grooved dry weather tyres to the works Falcons - they were 'terrible' according to Fred Gibson (they needed full wets). Marsden also removed the front spoiler of the Falcons causing the front pads to run too cold and glaze, which cost Moffat the race.
This was the race they banned the Nissan GTR from as once it started racing, it was unbeatable, so it was heavily weight penalised until it was no longer competitive. The Aussies public weren't happy with a foreign car cleaning up their local race cars.
If I squint and call upon the gods, I can see this video in Black and White, the good ole days. We hated Alan Moffat, we thought he was a Yank you see. It was the field against Moffat the cheat. We just wanted him beaten. Fast Forward, 30-50 years and I know I was misled. Bloody Fantastic Canadian he was. The most famous Canadian in the world.
on here, look up "dick Johnson green falcon forest elbow" the lads at Bathurst TAFE rebuilt it overnight, the TV presenter got green paint on his red jacket when he leaned on it at the start line the following morning just before the start flag fell, never forgot that one.
@@bettysteve322716 I was there that day at McPhillamy, I had been there every year for more than a decade, had NEVER seen a big car come across the top as fast as Dick did that day, he absolutely bashed it over the top through McPhillamy and down into the esses , Such a shame, just 20mm to hard.
0:52 holly duck shit,,, they've got a fire going, imagine doing that at Bathurst now 😂 walikng around in gum boots with a big bottle of beer in one hand and a joint in the other
I owned one. Kept chewing through the main bearings. Had to be replaced at every service so I sold it before the warranty expired - only 12 months/12,000 miles then. Dealer offered me his GTHO III for the trade-in plus $250. I turned him down. Dumb, dumb, dumb!!!
people still do HQ racing today but l think (and don't quote me, l had one and wasn't a fan) 202's only no v8's. The SLR/A9X Torana was the holden race car of choice at the time.
I recall a couple of privateers racing the HQ’s, not doing much good though, the 350 chev Monaro H series won in 1968 or 69 , then the HDT turned to Torana XU1 cars & the A9X & L34 with V8.
The GTHO IV in the new body shape was the last of the model, only GTs followed it. The Torana SLR5000 V8 raced for a few years, but it had a short life too. There was a E55 340 V8 Charger which was to takeover from the previous 265 I6 models, but it never officially raced. I had one here in NZ, 1973 model.
These videos are a bit like owning a classic car - they're far more valuable left unmodified. Adding voice-overs, sound effects, and music doesn't add anything of value.
When they took away racing the same car you could go buy at the dealers this race lost all its appeal in my book. It’s never been worth watching now the cars are just shells that look like their namesakes.
this must be the show they made for women.the media destroyed australian racing the bias is sickening.stoped watching bathurst 30 years ago cose of the shit coveridge thats still going on today
