I could sit here all day watching the races of a bygone era. Not so much for today's Bathurst races which are just so generic and sterile.

back when they made cars as god intended

This was car racing 🏎️

Spectacular!

So cool how in the pit lane close ups you can see they really were just tough street cars, the Toranas with drum brakes and Moffats falcon even had the stock steering wheel on it!

Will Hagon & Evan Green sounded so similar. Extremely similar. This was the last Bathurst 1000 Will Hagon commentated for Channel 7. After spending 1976 commentating in England, he returned to Australia in 1977, & joined the ABC commentating on Motor Sport races for them for a very long time.

5ltr Holden engines Peter perfect in a Aussie made commodore Hard to beat

Cant believe its been a decade since this incredible duel.

Things started going off from here,look at the difference between the VP here and the VN

It really was interesting back then. The V8 roar vs turbo whistle, the sleek styling of the gtr coupe vs the boxy sedans, awd advantage when the track got wet, AWD on slicks in the wet vs RWD on wet tyres, it had it ALL. Then they ruined it, instead of being an incentive to Holden/Ford to produce better cars, they just got rid of the GTR.

Balls like balloons

Ford for life!!!

No one comes close to getting those sort of cheers

Thank you very much. I remember exactly what I was doing that day.

Bathurst should never ever stopped being a production car race .

That qualy lap certainly didn't affect Dick's race pace.

Absolute gold if only time travel was possible

Whincup on how he control his car is superb. He knows his car's maximum limit especially on the braking zone and corner speed. He also used his veteran moves to overtake mclaughin. Sadly he has nothing left on his fuel tank on the last turn.

The Lancer Evo IX RS was a beast

Amazing to think that Scaife did that time 3 years earlier in the Nissan GTR

Still the best song

John Goss had a high HP spec car approved by Ford who presented it to Cams and Cams refused to reply on the build number for homologation until it was too late for Ford to build what was a endurance special with rocker arms and a list of goodies that not even the Cobra option 97 had 3 years later . Ford did make a John Goss special but was a 4.9 V8 (302) that had a green hood and green paint .lol My uncle was at Cams and when they seen the specs of the car in February 1975 , he said the cams hierarchy shit themselves & ignored the problem.

Moffat a true pro even when things gone to mud

It’s a shame the gen 3 can’t produce racing like this

wish bathurst was still race on sunday drive on monday event rip Brokie

More racing driver royalty then you can poke a stick at I couldn't tell you a single race car driver in 2023🥱 cheers Stephen 🤠✌️🦘🐨🐴

It's actually crazy how well this captures the Houston experience. All of those places are places I frequent. A lot of the cars are people I know. I'm also honored to have my car mentioned in the video!

Back when men were men and cars were cars. None of this gay EV shit.

Baby Crompo

This was a time when Bathurst was worth watching. Stopped watching when it became the amorphic "supercars"

who was the rich millionaire who raced for fun. he lived permantly in Melbourne hotel I think. retired Captain or something.?

Ricky Ponting

Car racing porn, full stop. Stock production, all classes (my first car was an escort lol), and drivers just balls to the wall with an unadulterated conrod straight. The GT’s and Toranas were just pure muscle.

I was there! It was a real race in those days. Now- it’s as boring as can be, just a series of sprints between safety cars.

When privateers raced.

Flying barges

Its crazy the times back then and yet the cars never looked 9 sec off todays time's

Wish Champship had more rounds like this

Lol love listening to Moff telling us how shit his stock ford parts are :)

Make conrod straight again, and stop driving v8’s, much prefer watching bog stock family 7 seater SUV’s, make it relatable again.

Loved Moffat's comment. "You don't run a F1-11 with a Spitfire motor do you!".

Yes

I was 7, we had a brand new XB stationwagon. Absolutely no similarity to the GT whatsoever except the front grille, but from this race onwards I was a Ford man.

I can watch this everyday.

Was the best or fastest for the top 10 shootout but Johnson & Bowe said on race day the best car they had ever at Bathurst and of course won again . Remember dick set lap record on about lap 108: from memory a 2:14…..just a few 10ths behind his shootout lap.

Big pond- remember them the garbage internet provider.

Nothing but a sad clown show now.

Just watched the vn shoot out this things is quiet as out with the Aussie v8 in with the chev

With hindsight, the refuelling procedures back then were frightfully dangerous.