These videos are brilliant. Brings back plenty of memories. I was 16 at the time and this was the 2nd last year of group c racing. To me living in Sydney this race was just as important as any Rugby League GF. Discovered the race by accident in 1976 while flicking through the channels, of which there were only 4 in those days.
The VB and VC commodores were a great design. They went a bit downhill from there. You don't get livery on cars like the Marlboro Holdens anymore. They were just the best. And I particularly liked the John Harvey second car, done in lite style. He was a great driver too.
@@princephilip-v5t Yeah, I have seen a couple, but don't really remember any before this one. I've watched every one since, though. Fond memories, watching with family members that are no longer around.
@@Anachroschism Fond memories Im sure, me too. Bathurst was like Christmas Day at my house in those days. The only day of sport my father watched (for the first 2 hours).
1983 was Evan Green's last Bathurst as a race commentator for Channel 7 in Sydney after 20 years of being the compare for ATN7's Bathurst telecast from 1963-1983. Two years later, in 1985, a much young Neil Crompton would make his Bathurst debut for Seven Sport, replacing Evan Green as their Bathurst 1000 race commentator & pit reporter.
Love the background music during the showing of the grid. Christine Gibson's last Bathurst would be 1984 when she partnered a young guy in his first race for Nissan, some kid by the name of Glenn Seton. They drove the Pulsar EXA. Chris was faster than Glenn that weekend.....
@@robhardy7059 Driving Force - Bathurst 1000 Theme, 1981-1985 by John Ertler is the intro song. The first two songs played in the racecam segment are Sirus & Mamagamma by The Alan Parsons Project.
Consequently Andrew Harris and Gary Cooke borrowed the Commodore which would have been for Barry Lawrence and Geoff Russell as part of Dick Johnson and Kevin Bartlett getting the Harris/Cooke Falcon, therefore Barry Lawrence and Geoff Russell were high and dry and without a drive in 1983. Just goes to show that race drivers have plenty of heart💕💕 when it comes to helping a fellow competitor. Great stuff.
Christine Gibson was a very good racing driver in her own right. Given the car to do it she could have easily mixed it with the boys on any track in Australia.
These were the best days of Bathurst ever today in 2024 i wouldn't bother crossing the street to meet so called racing driver's no one comes close to BROCK MOFFAT PERKINS HARVEY for ever 🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁
wow, what great racing, could you please put up Bathurst 1991 for me? I would be quite interested to see just how the Nissan GTR went to get that memorable first win.
Good grief, just how bad a commentator was Gary Wilkinson. Early on, when they were chatting about a Pulsar "warning car", he said "that must be the Christine Gibson etc car" - no Wilko, she's driving a racing car, not the warning car... At about 1:30:00 seing Peter Brock back in the race, he proclaimed "Peter Brock, back in the race driving the 05 Commodore" - no Wilko, that car was retired ages earlier and he was driving 25. Just incredible that this bozo was still calling this race.
A big difference between todays Slot Cars and yester-years WTF is it doing? The girls seem happier too, the fans just crazy, in fact the fans cars looked alot like the race cars. Oh to hoon again, today is just too anal in the way every speeder is a 'criminal', shit.
that was the appeal. the fans thought their cars were the race cars. I used to hoon on motorcycles but the cops killed that. Its a police state on roads these days. Freedoms like that were great.
Just speechless how nobody was killed in them day with trucks, broken down cars and still they kept on racing and in them days taking over another car when your broke down was conceded ok these days it would be called cheating
