Bob Morris Bathurst 1000 XD Falcon Australian Touring Car In The Pits

[@bigkeg9173]

Definitely a car that stood out back in the day. Great to see it running around 👍

[@jackwilson8651]

Ahhh, Jesus, just listen to that thing! I’m very happy to know someone like this is liking after this history and keeping faithful. Keep up the good work

[@mullins6429]

Yep. Those were the days. What a fantastic car and video.

[@johnphillips519]

Awesome stuff, I remember that car like it was yesterday👍

[@T.W.I.T.]

That is so bloody beautiful. brings a tear to my eye..

[@ghostofrockwell6983]

A Cleveland symphony 🎼🎵

[@mitto4504]

Bloody slow Commodore in the way lol Those Bathurst Clevos sound incredible.

[@mrcollins1561]

Yep 5.0l commodore that the 5.8l ford couldn't catch on the straights.

[@BeyondSalvation1990]

⁠@@mrcollins1561 nah mate the commodore kept blocking him. 👍

[@stevemcintyre4398]

Magic sounding Cleveland!

[@JaredR1996]

Damn that Cleveland sounds so good

[@GarageSupra]

Modern rubber on cars like this must be a huge gain. Super cool

[@wobblysauce]

Modern old style rubber though for the class, just as it was back then.

[@Panthercholo]

Amazing sound.

[@rickthelian2215]

Looking and sounding great😊

[@index6738]

Gets juices flowing watching this. Don’t get same feelings since.

[@simonbyrne7748]

Car looks great and sounds great

[@davidparry-jones472]

Moffat also co-drove this car at Bathurst 1980, after his Federation XD Falcon expired on the first lap. Great race memories and cars.

[@mrfrdman]

Man I could watch this all day ,looks and sounds great ,out of the way Commie:)

[@nealhill1534]

What a mint car and mint sounding car

[@gmarshall1026]

Love the xd falcons

[@andreasfiss4663]

Leistung??!! Was waren die damaligen Vorgaben die der Wagen erfüllen muss um in dieser Klasse C zu Starten? Hört sich voll Brutal an.Gefällt mir extrem.Hatte früher den 6Zyl Ford Taunus, allerdings nicht diese Rückleuchten.Meine waren viel kleiner und fast dreieckig Bj bzw Ez1/79 ,🇩🇪

[@slowoldboy]

Great video ....

[@wonkeep85]

Looks very similar to a European Granada mk2

[@bunter6]

Yeah its like the put the Mk2 through a photocopier at 120% & the XD was born. Both great looking cars but the Aussies got much better engine choices than us.

[@johnbrooks9523]

@@bunter6 Yep... We got the big ol' bent eight boat anchor which was often murdered with ugly clusters of polution control clutter & a pathetic 2 barrell carb. Thankfully, our then current & generous & curiously liberal Group C rules allowed staggering engine improvements. These old Group C rocketships often churned out 4, 5 & 600 Brake HorsePower & this particular car campaigned by Bob Morris was a front runner with a very highly developed 351 Cleveland donk. None of these local Australian versions of the "Granada" came with hopeless 4 cylinder powerplants. The common & most popular engine in our "XD FALCONS" was a 250 cubic inch inline 6 with a cast iron crossflow head & it was also choked half to death with a piddly little carburettor.

[@billspooner3792]

I so want to drive that XD

[@evalpacer1396]

Is there a better sound than 351 cubic inches of Cleveland's Finest at Full-Noise?

[@PETERNESS]

355 stroker,340 mopar,289 Ford,302 Boss,426 Hemi KB ,LS3 and even a 192 with a 3/4 racer cam fed by 3 webbers

[@philipbrown2514]

Good stuff hope ya got spare door handles with it

[@adrianhughes2443]

Where can we see it?

[@enduroboi6780]

I was wondering if this car is still original specification to the 1980 rules ?

[@540chevhell9]

How much hp was the 351 making for Bathurst in those days?

[@pyroman6962]

Steve Masterton's XE falcon made 530 hp with factory cast iron intake and two side draught Weber's on a fabricated long runner adapter ....

[@Steveaustin007]

Dick Johnson said his 1980/81 cars made around 400hp.

[@pyroman6962]

The group C 308 Holden made 440 hp (flywheel) with a pair IDF Weber's , seen the dyno sheets from Neil Burns ....

[@540chevhell9]

Thank you all 👍

[@brushitoff503]

Fark Yeah!

[@leftish23]

They're not great lookers, but they more than make up for it with the sound they make.

[@mancinicharlie]

Music

[@blainesellars1548]

Aero of a brick 🧱 😂 but great sound

[@LethalLee666]

removeable steering wheel in 1980 hmmmmm really