"End of an Era" Bathurst 1979 

I loved the quote about "if the car lasts four laps, I just drive it and know it'll last the whole race."

lol yea right

I'm a holden man. Mr Moffat, the real hero ..and all the boys..

It's so legendary!

Bathurst cheat!

yeh well.. you have to have a 9'' diff to stand that torture,, not a sht salisbury. or did they ilegaly use 12 bolts.. cheating as usual..hence, drop tanks, so you cant see the diff. 9''.. & torans, with side draughts.. never an option,,su,s only.. fkn sad holdens..

@@harrywalker968have a cry you wanker 😂

ThingsNerdy Virtually unmodified? I don't think so. But yes - compared to today's touring cars, which only bear a resemblance to production cars.

+ThingsNerdy They actually were quite modified, but at least the original parts were modified.

+ThingsNerdy definitely a sprint race these days!

The usual sensationalism from a f***ed in the head reporter trying to make a name for himself... ruined GT/S era... then 7 had the hide to put him on as a commentator for Bathurst.. I prayed that a wheel would come lose and find the arse....

Which reporter? The one in the clip or are you talking about the OP?

There were more manufacturers in the video era than just Holden and Ford, it was the favouring of rules to suit a holden vs Ford event that spelled the beginning of the end, long before 2019

Please don't compare Bathurst to the nonsense that is American - we can't turn right - racing. Talk about delusional...

you are welcome, pleased you enjoyed it.

Falcon GT look like big grandpa cars That Torana just looks amazing Looks tough as

@@cancan8467 Go look at how many times the grandpa Falcons won Bathurst compared to your girly toranas. How does the torana look tough ? Oh, a woman basher driving it makes it look tough ? The man who had to follow orders his whole life. He died cause he didnt follow what he was told. Harry Firth told him not to run. Giant Killer ? It was Wet & Moffat got a 3min penalty, not to mention you bitched about the XA-GT cause you had nothing to catch it so you got it banned. Luck not Giant Killer. Holden fans are the biggest wankers on Earth. How is a car sexy ? You crack-a-fat over a car ? Loser.

@@rodneyjones4890 don’t get upset cry baby You know Holden’s won so many more races than Ford there was really no point them even turning up most days .. Ford Look outdated soon as released they were 5 plus years behind Holden if not 10 years in design and sexiness .. XD was only car they released looked ok

@@cancan8467 Not playing with a level field. The Falcons by 79 were hardly competitive and swamped by Toranas in numbers. CAMS should never have let it develope in to a series of Odd ball makes

Torana looks like a cheap box with ugly bolt ons. Hardtops have style.

Are you saying that crystals won't improve my fuel economy?

No one's ever heard of you two.

MrValiant are you a Valiant fan/owner?

thanks

Thanks.

And when he came over Skyline Peter said “I can see all the way to Blakehurst” where he lived .

GoldCoastCB Yes I agree, I loved Australian motorsport back then. Dick Johnson was always being interviewed as he drove, as it was guaranteed to be a laugh.

The only day of the year when I would sit in front of the tv for hours watching these talented people driving the state of the art vehicles of the time. Today it's not the same. Computers , electronics , trans axles. The excitement of motor racing is still there but it's not the same. Maybe I'm just getting old.

you are welcome, I am glad you enjoyed it.

@@StuffForNerds I really appreciate it. I love everything Australian, especially motorsport. And this movie gave me so many informations, plus the lovely vhs quality.. thanks again !

Yeah, cos we all want to see somebody win by 6 laps. How fucking boring.

@@woopimagpie how is that boring? the idea is to WIN the race if you allow the race leader to get 6 laps ahead of the entire field then your car is shit get a better faster car, forcing to reel in racers to give other teams a fighting chance is whats fucking boring its a race to see who is the best not a special ed class where everyone is a "winner" because reasons. its attitudes like yours and others thats ruined motorsport today!

@@woopimagpie It was far better racing back then, far better...

I heartily agree

LOL. As you say...

They do. It's called production car racing. You should check out the Bathurst 6 Hour, 19th - 21st April 2019. It's pretty much exactly what you're asking for.

@@woopimagpie And the 6 hour is far more interesting!

you are welcome

I tend to agree :)

at least the ford was ford,& not part ford like the holdens.9" diffs,v8 brakes on a 6 cyl,anything to win,.sierras 4 laps ahead of brock,ban them,we have to win.ITS A FIXED RACE.PERIOD.never seen a holden beat a ferrari.,,eh..real races,not fixed..

oh yeh,& cambered wheels on the radial tuned suspension b/s,of about 3.5 degrees.BECAUSE TORANAS NEVER HANDLED.

@@phantomwalker8251 Tons Of Rust And No Acceleration

@@phantomwalker8251 I've owned both GT's and SLR,s mate, loved both too, to say the Torana's never handled is pure BS....

If ya get one can I come too?

You're welcome

I remember the Pioneer discoVision well. We used it at Sutton's Motors Darwin. The sales department would use it for P.R., then it would come to the workshop for training nights.

you are welcome

:) he he he

Good riddance

It was like sasquatch blowing you kisses through a thick mane of fur.

Screw you, focus in the racing. Not a bush you idiot! 🖕

I had quite a bit of trouble myself as the disk and the player only support NTSC. I had trouble with all the dropouts as the disk is badly laser rotted. In the end I used a Sony digital8 camcorder with a tape I recorded nothing but the timecode on, them used it to record the output from the laserdisc player. I then used the firewire connection to get the contents onto my PC for clean up, editing etc. These days I have an old Canopus ADVC-500 which works very well and tolerates the tape or disk dropouts form old and rather tired media. Hope that all makes sense and helps.

yes, sorry I haven't been able to answer here until just now, you are correct, I got a copyright hit on that exact song :)

This laserdisc WAS a Holden Promo Disc, so very biassed as you can imagine.

Toranas. At the very end of the film, he drives off in a Commodore.

Brock was driving the monaro that he shared with des west which came in 3rd.

Actually no, with CDs the audio is digitised then stored on the disc as binary bits, with the Pioneer DiscoVision, the Video was stored as an analogue FM signal, with the "tops" of the FM waveform clipped making a pseudo digital signal. Later Laser Discs were true digital with the video and audio digitised before being written to the master. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc look under the "design" heading.

King OfTheJungle end of the Tirana’s

The sound track is original, straight from the old laserdisc

Brock's HDT Torana had a 308 Holden 5L or 4999cc bent 8 Australian engine while the fords had the 351 some fords may of being using 302's as well

@@sammy_dog Thanks!

That was my first car. I had one in mint condition and with 30k on the clock when a drunk random drove into my lane one night and hit me head-on at 80kph when I was a teenager. Fortunately I had my drivers seat all the way back (like a tosser) and it averted me from any injury other than bruising from the seatbelt. The VB was a total write-off though :(. I remember sitting in the wreck of the car that was sitting in my parents driveway every weekend for a couple of years after that as I couldn't afford to repair it as I was still paying it off. That moment ruined my early teens/twenties of my life but I still miss that car.

They struggled to get the Cortina six right. What hope would they have with a V8 model? Holden was able to do Torana six and V8, and get the cars right. Torana was a masterstroke for them.

They were just warm/lightly modified street cars; that was the point of the race. It was meant to be representative of what you could buy in a showroom. Are you young or just daft?

the Ford is a Falcon XC coupe the same type of car as the Mad Max car just a later model. No the A9X Torana had a Holden 308 V8 made in Australia

Sammy Dog ok awesome thanks for the info

The Fords had a 351 Cleveland engine from the US - or at least US designed anyway.

@@jjacer1 The engines were made here, Ford Australia was stamping out 302 and 351 Clevelands long after they ceased production in the US.

Peter Brock's 05 A9X Torana was developing some 16 more horsepower at the end of that race compared to the hp rating at scrutineering! Brocky won by 6 laps to 2nd place and set a new lap record on the final lap. Best guess is that particular Torana, which is owned by the Bowden family in Queensland, is worth around $3,000,000 nowadays!