Saw this guy while doing a road closure on a night stage . It was a quiet still night and then this sound echoed around the valley for minutes before he came screaming past, full lock, full send . Absolute magic moment
Read a old article ( well old now ,10years or so) about a old VC with I think a 6l all alloy motor . . . Long story short it ended up with the nickname ' trench digger'
There was one of these or similar on the Rally Australia at the Bannister stage in the WA state forest. It was struggling against the 4WD Subarus and smaller rally cars but it got the most cheers where-ever it went past, wild, noisy and seemingly out of control, hanging the tail out over the roadside scrub, gravel spraying everywhere.
Lol you can hear a koala crying in the background at the start of the race on the first corner that v8 raring past probably woke him up in his tree lol.
@@Joshua_N-Athey’re smaller, sound better and back in the day could keep up with them, I know that the American v8’s could be modified to get ludicrous amounts of power but back then touring cars were mostly stock so they could only race with what was essentially a factory vehicle
Yeah breaking down under medium revs and pretty slow and lumbering... try this on for size: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vP9QpcqzSns.html the Commodore would disintegrate on the first jump, and these are only 2.0 - 2.5 litre 4 cylinder cars. The v8 would make a fine boat anchor.
@@Darndiddlyarn No rally championship winning car ever had a V8. Too much weight in the front, ruins the handling on loose surfaces, and they can't jump for shit.
Pepe Ian Sorry but Holden built and developed their own engines from the 1950’s to 1990’s..... Don’t be too clever kid..... Look at the Chevrolet Kommando/Constantia ~ Pontiac G8 ~ Chev SS & Buick Royaum 🙄 originally know as a Kingswood ~ Commodore ~ Monaro & Caprice..... These cars where developed and built in Australia then exported to the States ~ UK ~ South Africa ~ Japan..... Ford ~ Toyota ~ Nissan & Mitsubishi also had vehicles in production plants built in Australia..... 🤯
Lol LOVE IT!! Little VK lightest Commodore ever made, with probably a very trick 308 V8 & it would be awesome fun to drive being manual. The original polycarbonate bumpers were super fragile for stock street cars, Lol I see a few pieces gone south off the rally car. Perhaps super thin sheet stainless steel glued on where the rocks most likely hit it would help? Enjoyable video cheers.
Simply awesome, but what a handful on dirt, with that much power you've got skill and balls. One mistake and those trees are approaching bloody fast and they don't give, l speak from experience learned the hard way. Be safe Bro.
Miss my vk's. Used to buy them for about $150 each. Build up a car from multiples and sell the rest. Now they are worth a small fortune. I have my vz ss, 6.0l Atill not a vk though
Hardly new, Jack Murray and others used V8s back in the 50s. Bruce Hodgson? used a Phase 3 HO as a rally car. The only Ph3 ever in competition. HDT ran a 308 HQ Kingswood around the same time. And a few years earlier 5 litre auto HK Kingswoods. London to Sydney XT GTs, 350 Monaros. Over the decades a LOT of V8 rally cars. World wide!
Yeah, but did a V8 rally car ever win anything after 1970? Nope. Modern WRC cars are the fastest rally machines we've ever seen, and they're all 1.5 litre turbo 4s. That kinda says something.
Mark Taylor ran a XY GT in the ARC in the eighties. And won the series many times in it. It was sold off to a guy in Tasmania who ran it for a few years now Mark Has it back. There are plenty of V8's in club level rallys. I have a VP V8 Commodore, I have a friend with a freshly built VE 6.0 Commodore rally car. They are the most fun you can have
