Craig Lowndes and Mark Skaife at Sandown for HSV Staff Drive Day

Craig Lowndes and Mark Skaife at Sandown for HSV Staff Drive Day

[@benjaminkeith6910]

These cars look and sound great to this very day

[@chrisgraf1304]

You know it's in the vintage days when you see the registration sticker on the inside windscreen

[@djjohnnymusic]

It is so old, I think it was about the same time we signed a young Rick Kelly to drive the Formula Holden car.

[@7071t6]

Best of both worlds, just imagine what they have at home, built numbers ones of each of the models. :)

[@H0LDENSUX]

Last of the locally made 5.7 Litre V8s. Just a few kilowats shy of a 3.5 Litre V6 fitted to the Lexus IS350 10 years later.

[@Hapkido82AUS]

And the lexus still 150nm less .....

[@frankiesultana376]

Skaife preferred the old model how cool

[@7071t6]

That VT 220 was for sale, seen it, unless someone brought the plates and just wanted one the same colour and put the thing up for sale. :)

[@djjohnnymusic]

All the old staff cars got sold after a certain time, although you wont find the original 300Kw GTS in it's original guide (GTS001) as it got restamped to GTS300.

[@martynwhite3811]

When the camera was in the back of the car you should have held it against the side of the headrest for a better video. Great to see the VT's driven properly.

[@djjohnnymusic]

Would have loved to have been able to, but being an od JVC VHS camcorder, it wasnt small and light. If it was done today, I would have had GoPros like we use in our HQ race car (search Michael Ling Racing HQ 70).

[@stevedbutler1990]

wow this must've been in 2000. see the ls1 clubby (like mine) fly past the 5.0L :)

[@4dshow]

Lowndes was in a VTII LS1 and Skaife was in the 220kw VT1 with the stroked 5.7

[@briangardner8522]

Yeah the LS1 is faster but the Iron Lion is Australia's own V8 , the GTS with the Aussie stroker will always be worth more than a clubby

[@-sandman4605]

I was hoping for some days of thunder type action 😉😄😃

[@jam2theongie836]

Thank the unions for completely ruining the Australian car industry

[@lucyxx5895]

Back when Skaife was white-anting Lowndes out of HRT