15 years after Peter Brock died, his fateful Daytona Coupe is restored in a museum | ABC Australia

Peter Brock was killed on September 8, 2006, when the car he was driving, a Daytona Coupe, crashed into a tree during the Targa West Rally in Western Australia. Good friend Peter Champion once held Australia's largest collection of the nine-time Bathurst 1000 winner's cars, race suits and memorabilia at a museum in Yeppoon in central Queensland. Fifteen years on from Brock's death, only one race car remains in his collection - the Daytona Coupe from that fateful day.
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[@NVRAMboi]

I'm not emotionally caught up in this tough loss, but thinking as a man for his good mate - you did right and well by him.

[@ruantengyi]

I can’t believe Peter died just a few days after Steve Irwin. It was that week in 2006 that we lost two Aussie legends

[@bandingo652]

Peter Brock was a certifiable wheelman & racing journeyman. Surely one of the best racing drivers , Not just in Australia yet the entire world. Much love & respect from America .

[@southcanterburyskywatch1362]

Such a hard thing to see, the vehicle that took our great mate and idol away. After all these years, it was only a month or so ago, i watched the video of the last stage, before the fatality happened. One hell of a lump in the throat, but we always must remember, Brocky would have loved it. Racing, Speed, Fans etc etc, he enjoyed the Daytona, it was just bloody unfortunate that it was this car that ended it all. So dam pleased to see Peter Champion take the Daytona into his hands and not left to become bits and pieces and i bet my bottom dollar, no expense would have been spared in the restoration. Like Brocky, Peter Champion is also an absolute legend, not only a great mate of Brockys, but thanks to his invite, up to The Brock Experience, in Yeppoon, i was, like most who visited the big shed, i was absolutely blown away to what Pete had built inside the big shed. Just one fellows dream, one fellows input, what hew put together up there in Yeppoon was absolutely dedication to his great, late mate, Peter Brock. Legends all around. ;-)

[@johnd8892]

An amazing coincidence about the Cobra Daytona was that the original Cobra Daytona cars were designed in the US about 1964 by an American car racing and engineering legend also named Peter Brock. Searching KZbin for Pete Brock Cobra Daytona should show the story behind the original sixties racing cars now worth multi millions.

[@paddy2661]

100% agree thankyou Peter for restoring it ....

[@seanslater]

RIP Brocky. Thanks for all that you've done PC.

[@timh6977]

Great job Mate!! The most Respectfull thing you could have done.

[@andypandy8569]

Rebuild was the proper call. Well done.

[@JayGuitars1]

I cried when Brocky died. I’m sure a lot of us did. I know Peter liked to support local businesses, but I’ll tell you, I’ve watched plenty of footage of that car, and I reckon it was twitchy as….

[@lesliehoward8981]

Ironic that Peter Brock Aus died in a car designed by Peter Brock USA for Shelby American....

[@tonybolstad9514]

RIP Brocky. An absolute Aussie LEGEND 🇦🇺 from one if your kiwi fans 🤙

[@aimanfitri0iv]

we never forget them i was born in 2004 2 years before his death i was involved as well the number 05 we never forget them in for next couple of years

[@brimendis]

It's nuts that he was coming 2nd at 61yo

[@RealInventions1]

yeah very good point

[@wheredafarqrwi7331]

PB. Legend.

[@denniskarayiannis1719]

Brocky you were just amazing

[@B33ond]

I remember where I was on the day of his passing. Was in brissy at the time. Couldn’t believe it.

[@hisheroship]

So glad we still have this car. Great job.

[@kerrykelaher2607]

" must have been " slopping camber" on the corner downhill slope !" ( to give " opposite lock does not work ! )

[@StRaphael-we9qn]

Hi there, my old mate was 3 cars behind that crash. Too fast for that road.😮

[@alistairmills7608]

Your a good man Peter Champion.

[@billmago7991]

job well done, but i prefer to look at the '79 A9X and smile as i remember Brocky

[@philippa5004]

🙏⭐️

[@snapped4433]

I feel ile it was the right thing cause otherwise as the guy said people will constantly be saying I've got is last blablabla. Rip to a legend

[@andypandy8569]

Sad day.

[@user-vh5cm6vp8q]

AND WHO WAS THE CO DRIVER WITH PETER BROCK AND IS HE STILL ALIVE

[@wolfydan121]

mike hone was his co driver and he didnt die in the crash so could still be alive

[@RakeshKumar-nt3yo]

I searched it up on Google and it said he was diagnosed with covid-19 and he passed away😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@shaneanderson1036]

who was his GF at the time of his passing ?

[@seanslater]

Julie Bamford

[@milkshakemuncher]

A woman about half as good as Bev was.

[@user-vh5cm6vp8q]

Ok yes now by NOING him yes I'll admit I had a big CRY as he will never be forgotten

[@peterhoare3219]

When I get REALLY drunk, late, occasionally. I put myself through all this again..... I knew Brocky, not besties real well, but knew him in the Glory Days in the 80s. Had dinner with him and his family and some other payers, at his final Bathurst 87....😱😱 The rumours are true.......... He is/was possibly the most charasmatic person you'll never meet. Unfortunately. Even discussing the friggin' weather was memorable. He is AMAZING... But, you can tell. He AINT God........ However. Close enuf!!!!! 😁

[@peterbarber7613]

Nearly all the cars he has are replicas

[@kevinguy3036]

We all get Older & Slower unfortunately Peter Brock was unwilling to admit he was no longer as good as he had been

[@peterhoare3219]

That's bullshit. It was just one of those things. It's a public road. Very variable. Could have had happened. Watch the video of his last stage he completed. You try tell me then he was slow and in doddery......

[@johnbrooks9523]

@@peterhoare3219 I'm with you. PB had a very special gift. An uncommon extra sense. He was always in touch with the machinery under him, he could feel the "pulse" of his race cars & he became a living part of every one of them. The man could read braille with his backside when it came to covering roadway in a hurry. This gift was still well & truly thriving right up to the last minute. Even the commentary in this presentation informs us he was running second in the Targa. Amazingly you get some nowhere dunderhead with no idea sticking his two cents worth in with a lopsided goonbar opinion of Brock's endless ability. Brock was probably still within Australia's top ten race car drivers at the time of his demise. On an equal playing field & in comparable machinery, he never failed to deliver. I'll never understand the mentality of the frootloops who underrate him. He achieved more in Australian Touring Car racing than any other driver before or since & we get idiotic feedback from dimwits in denial. Had he lived, he would have continued to race until he'd broken the lap record for wheelchairs around the old folks home. He was born to race & he was never going to just sit around when there was a race he could win as he demonstrated right up to the very end. I don't need to defend Peter Brock. History records his massive achievements & he just kept on achieving... "no longer as good" He was good right to the end.

[@milkshakemuncher]

I get your point, perhaps he was not at his absolute peak performance from glory days, however, he was coming 2nd in the Targa where he crashed. So he definitely still had the skill, commitment, speed and bravery to compete in that Targa. If he was too old and should not be in it, then no one below 2nd place of any age ought to have been there. The fact is, this crash could have happened to any driver in the event.