The track and cars progressed nicely from this by 1977, the start of the golden era.

That Canadian driving that HO looks like a teenager stole a good car!

That was grouse . Real racing on a real track . The best of Australian race craft compared to the over corpritised rubbish of today's " racing"

the highlight for me was the gtho rolling along the armco. until i saw them right the datsun 1200 and he drove it off without windows!

From 67 to 77 great advancements were made in the event.

Raw seat of the pants hard racing with very average tyres & brakes,great variety of cars on wonderful but rough old track thats what made Bathurst Races legend!

Ive driven a xy gt ho falcon at 140 mph. It was scary. And ive driven a hsv clubsport at260 kmh and that sat on the road like it was on rails.That is 30 plus years of cars getting better and better

Lol that oversteer

I can recognise the type and manufacturer of these cars, unlike today when they are unrecognisable clones of each other.

Jack Phillips

Nice to see it all in colour, back in the day we watched at home on an AWA black and white TV with a screen smaller than todays computers. Leo and Pete Geohagan, legendary racing brothers of whom I was a lifelong fan. I remember Pete doing a celebrity race prior to an F1 GP in Melbourne in the mid 80's. I think they were all in Ford Lasers or Nissan Pulsars. Even with his big frame and late middle age, he still won by a country mile.

Pity how this classic race has been ruined.

Awesome, go Allan

It was great to watch this again, the variety of makes and the variety of drivers. But the writing was already on the wall, moving away from the original concept. Sure they still had to be sold in a minimum number and from the showroom, but introduction of 'specials' from the GT500 in 1965, the 1275 Cooper S and the start of the V8s in this clip, it had already lost the ideal on the Armstrong 500. I'm not really complaining though. There was fabulous racing and hard luck stories aplenty. It was compulsory viewing on the Sunday of the NSW long weekend.

thanks

Great footage - has this been colourised from the original B&W film??

Ahh, the glory days of Bathurst. On a visit back to Aus in late 1983, I took the VCR tapes back to London with me to view and show the Poms, the race. Before I saw them, some mongrel bastards broke into the new flat and stole a whole bunch of shit. All the other stuff was insured but my precious Bathurst tapes were lost forever. A long time memory of the race that got away. All due to a couple of lowlifes. The halcyon days of proper motor racing. Lakeside, Surfers LUVVED it.

Beautiful old shots. Thank you for sharing. Video Like 👍

The days when racing was affordable and for the masses, people were interested because it related to the cars they drove at the time. Now it’s elitist and very discriminating against those without money.

Fake tyre squealing

#32 Prince GT ?

No matter what we said about Moffitt he could drive a race car what a champion Allan was

No namby pampy racing here.

Go the HOEYs! I still can't believe that Bill Brown walked away from that acco with just a black eye.I guess the roll cage did it's job.

Heaps better back then I don't go there anymore

From the time before bogans stole Australian Motorsport and installed V8 stupid cars.

just AWESOME, GTs, Toranas and Chargers wallowing thru the corners :):):)

Silver XR GT. I thought they were only in hold

2024

Never heard so much tire squealing when I watched the original races.

Harry firth and cheating was just natural to him.. Peter brock had ruined what should have been a great career by stealing race wins. Like oh well I will just kick my team mate out of his car fudge the lap scoring and put a car back on the lead lap and pretend we are a real race team.. now days it Roland Dane. Try developing some skills Holden hero’s darling.

The fake tyre squeal spoilt it for me

If it was a beauty contest the Chargers won easily.

what is this from?

I like how the race was started by a guy with a flag in one hand and a stopwatch in the other.

this is better than current races

"We're on-time... Most of the time!". Cheeky there

What an era. A train featured in the commercial running with a door open. That's wild!

That was awesome thank you very much for uploading, it brings back fond memories of yesteryear when real cars were racing at Bathurst. The closest we have today is the historic races that are run on Saturday of the Bathurst 1000. It’s a shame that they dubbed the tyre squealing noise in this video, I would much rather have listened to the 351 Cleveland in the GTHO. 😁👍

I had initially dated this to 1972/3 based on the cars...until I saw two Geminis and what looked to be an HJ Holden: 1975!

kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4qmg2yYi6ySjZI Home footage of same era specifically Watsons Bay and iconic Doyles, then called Ozone.

This film was commissioned by GMH. Its bias in the commentary is so distinct. The way it was dismissive of Moffats’ effort was pathetic. Sure, the Falcon had a gearbox failure but, that wasn’t predicted. It was leading extremely well before that happened. I was there that day and it was clear which car was the fastest. Nobody could honestly predict what would happen, as in the following year when Moffat, again leading handsomely, had a crank pulley disintegrate. The script was written after the event, it was just pure propaganda with hindsight, there was no foresight.

Back when media had no prob with prmo chicks!🤯😻

Tell us the CLASS WINNER TO the other class cars were held back by rules but they could eat up the bigger cars down the mountain, and in that year a Honda 1300 coupe 9 was in the top ten outright, but we don’t hear about that because it’s not a Holden or Ford. ..Datsun 1200 and 1600 Won class A and B…. And again not told.

Great show brilliant cars Top video thank you

wtf this bloke had a fetish with short skirts

People forget the Fords qualified 5 seconds faster than the XU1. Moffat was a smart driver, he looked after the car , engine , tyres brakes and gearbox. Not the fastest driver , just one of the smartest and knew if he finished he would win.

I think that is the exact same ship I went on last year. They have painted over the rust and haven't washed the windows since 1964.

Hello Charger!

Drivers used to eat their lunch during their driving stint as it was such a leisurely pace.