TARGA Tasmania 2022 - Giocattaolo Group B, Pure Sound

[@johnszwede8516]

Great to see the Italian Aussie v8 supercar in action, along with the best U turn to date

[@niallobrien4736]

Love to see this. Awesome sounding classic car, with two people clearly having fun. Be nice to see theae types on the tv program a bit more

[@Leftfield71]

My dream car has always been a Mercury Silver E49 Charger, but a close second is the Giocattolo. I've been in love with this car since I first saw in one of the motoring magazines back in 1986/87 when I was in High School. It's a great car and sounded amazing. Thanks.

[@b08m4rt1n]

If Back to the Future had been made in Australia, the line would have been: "You made a time machine out of a Giocattaolo?"

[@schrenk-d]

It is "Chook Lotto"

[@melbguy1]

That's a mean car. Love the sequential gearbox. Still it peeves me how many restrictions modern cars have re: modifications, yet Targa allow a Group B racecar with sequential dog box run

[@Hezath]

This is a really nicely done video. That Giocattolo is perfection.

[@anthonypetty9288]

I kind of wish that my Sprint sounded like that.....😉 Always liked the Giocattaolo. 🍀❤

[@garageblitztv3215]

Thank you 🙏 that was truly amazing - ever since seeing one as a child I have wanted one, but I have never seen them again in the metal…

[@fasdiablo]

Wow, just wow !!

[@mattyguff1]

Awsome.

[@howtofixyourtech9945]

That was hilarious 😂

[@stevedavis2473]

Rarer than a super or hypercar. Only 15 made. Just 13 left complete

[@ralphziehfreund1229]

Adam Kaplan looks like a bit of the Walky has migrated into this one. This and the Walky both best sounding cars in Targa. Not to mention the driver who isn't afraid to give them plenty.👌👍

[@stevedavis2473]

My favourite Aussie muscle car ever. I've always wanted one. Is that no1. Because no1 was red

[@no-namecrown5510]

Needs Group C wide body and 345's out back..

[@justin3131ify]

What gearbox is this thing running? Sequential obviously! But there's minimal gearwine from the outside... im intrigued??

[@tonywilson4713]

My boss circa 2001 had a sideline business of a Formula Holden team and one of his mechanics (a mad Brit with F1 and Le Mans experience) also worked for Adam Kaplan and had (what I think) is this very car in the shop except it was blue in those days. This is from memory so if anyone has better details I'll defer to them. To say it was an evil beast back then is a misnomer. At its first run in Targa they had to deliberately de-tune the engine it was so bad. The problem is that instead of the lightweight Alfa V6 as originally planned. Giocattaolo used the cast iron V8 which moved the center of gravity back and up which made the back end want to become the front end (see 2:12) with no warning. But even back then it was capable of a low 9 second 1/4 mile (something like 9.3). I had hoped to get a ride in it but never did. I did ask and the mechanic in charge who said he'd try if available but warned me it was terrifying. When I asked he just pointed at another mechanic and said ask him. The other mechanic said it was the scariest car he'd ever ridden in. They told me they had tested it at the Ford You Yangs high speed oval and it got so scary and unstable they had to stop. The top speed with the gearbox-diff combination at the time was around 300kmh but they couldn't go that fast because of the suspension issues.

[@giocattolo1988]

Very accurate recall Tony, your memory is solid! Adrian Gamble was the mad Pom! We had a heap of fun back then.

[@tonywilson4713]

@@giocattolo1988 Oh thanks. Its great to see and hear you are still having fun with the car. I worked in Arthurs robotics and automation business. I would have liked to spend more time around the race team than I did, but that wasn't what I was there for. What I liked about Adrian and another mechanic named Eric was they had a natural ability with complex problems. I did my degree in aerospace engineering and we get taught quite differently to other engineers when it comes to problem solving. Normally people are taught to isolate the problem and just deal with it in isolation. That's fine for most things. If you do something like add concrete to a bridge or steel to a truck chassis to make it stronger so what your not trying to lift it 35,000ft into the air at 800kmh or fly it across the solar system. So we get taught to consider the effects & consequences of changes on the entire system. We generally refer to it as "systems analysis" or "systems engineering". In all my years the only people outside of aerospace who I saw thinking that way were Adrian and Eric. That includes 100s and 100s of other engineers. I believe its because in a race car there's so much to adjust and they are chasing small amounts of performance that they have to consider multiple effects so they don't get a gain in one place and a loss in others. I hated they wouldn't discuss what they were doing at times because I wanted to learn to from them and I don't think they ever realised I wanted to learn how they worked out their solutions. I'd forgotten Adrian's name, but not his abilities, so thanks for that.

[@AlphGen]

Weren't they constructed on the Sunshine Coast

[@giocattolo1988]

Yep, Caloundra.