Those Chargers really were beautiful looking machines. Oh to have one sitting in the garage.

I love this. Real cars racing for real. My mate was a Charger bloke. When people said the Charger handling was crap, he said "nah. Just stick a couple of bags of cement in the boot".

LOVE the chargers Chivas really driving the wheels off it here!!

Great to watch. All great cars of their era.

Hey Charger. What a car.

Can you imagine what that start sounded like!!!!!!

Awsome bit of Aussie motor racing !!!

this is awsome it relly was race on sunday sell on monday

Back in 70s my 265 sportsman had a 4 speed box. It was no slouch.

@MrFrog265 You're talking about the factory race car, the production car is much slower than that. The e49 holds the title of the fastest Australian production car, and held it for 27 yrs. It would complete the quarter mile at 102 mph, indicative of a vehicle that could complete the quarter at 13.7, but the tyres of the day were crap. There endeth the lesson.

GREAT STUFF!!!!!

It's a miracle the chargers where even raced.. the bean counters at chrysler didn't want to fork out the extra dollar's for better brakes and a 4 speed gearbox. Just because of some stupid policy about using locally made parts...the 3 speed e38 chargers where severely restricted especially at Bathurst

Thanks for for that mate...cheers :)

Wish they still raced at The Farm.

We used to make those, you know!

You need to watch all 3

Glory days!,, Long now gone.

Charger best of era

You mean the E49 was the "fastest accelerating production car". The GTHO Phase 3 was referred to as the "world's fastest production 4-door sedan". The lesson never ends, I'm afraid.

@brewil The Charger pushed the other two all the way, the other two ruined their tyres, the Charger's tyres were in great order. A factory car racing against two heavily modified vehicles. Anyway, makes for good viewing.

@laurence265 Could be the larger cars trying to limit wheelspin at the start, or possibly bogging down?

Series Production were supposedly standard 'off the showroom floor'. The reality was the race motors were fully stripped and blueprinted and the minimum production runs (then 500) had a number of enhancements. But tyres? They were made to order for the factories but were standard road tyres

Great video. A time where motor racing in Aus was 3 gears? 4 gears? V8, Slant 6. 6 Cyl straight? Whatever! No rotary's??

what came out the factory and what was on the race track were different vehicles. a lot of modifications and under the table funding happened back then. brock getting special cranks and flywheels just for his race car that were not in your production xu1's etc. competition is never really fair. look at todays sports with all the people they are catching out on roids etc.

So, no color tv in 1970s? I am just an old kid from 1980s. Interesting. I just had to go through my old memories.

Torana ace up sleeve %%%%%braking 😂

stop arguing! its my fly on the wall! JUST ENJOY THE VIDEO!!!

Did they race slicks back then or conventional ?.....just the way they throw their cars into corners...''awesome''...

The E38 charger 6 cylinder 3 speed 14 second quarter mile XY GTHO PHASE 3 V8 FOUR SPEED 14 second quarter mile

The commentator was just repeating Chrysler's excuse for not fitting a 4-speed box to the E38.

I did say, "was referred to", not "was". That's my out, and I'm sticking to it. Wouldn't happen to have the relevant quarter mile and 0-60mph times handy, would you? Most of the faster cars in Europe were 2-doors, anyway.

Ford forgot to put enough brakes and tyres on the GTHO ph3.

...doubt it...

@chargerrte49 Charger is a pretty good handling car for the period, a lot of propaganda was spread back in the day, hence the bad handling tag. But when someone drives one, they're shocked at how good they are, as long as they drive a good example, not their uncles midget next door neighbours car, a decrepit piece of rubbish at which all others of that make are tarred with the same brush.

no you're not...yes i did...you're welcome.

It’s a pity they bought in the super car laws , if Chrysler had been able to go ahead with the E55 V8 charger they would have had a Bathurst win in 73

You mean the XU-1 V8 - XU-2 was as much a misnomer as the FX model.

@laurence265 The only serious modifications that ALL THE CARS were allowed in that category, was a bluprinted engine and a chopped exhaust (on all tracks after 71) after the second flange. The standard LJ XU1 was actually on par with the E38 and Phase 3 in acceleration, the 0-400m times in the high 14sec mark. And when the Bathurst Version XU1 came out later that year, it had about 20hp more, and went even faster again recording a 14 flat for the quarter. Faster than the E49 and Phase 3.

You're repeating what I said in regard acceleration, parrot anyone ??

whos he fooling its a big disadvantage with only 3 gears ..regardless of 1st being a tall gear .really the second gear in the 3speed is way to tall..a 4speed and taller diff gears would of been the go..

A bit strange he said the tall first gear gave a greater chance of faster acceleration lmao.., just shows the commentator didnt know jack shit hahaha

actually mate, it shows how little you understand.

The GTHO was getting its ass kicked on the street by a little car manufacturer called Mercedes Benz. As for it being the worlds fastest, that is only said in Australia, don't go to europe and say that, they'll laugh. The 49 was the fastest acceleratiing car, and it was fastest over the quarter mile. I've owned HO's, world's fastest, I think not.

Go the XU1

the 'fx' was called the 'Holden' that's all...your example 48-215 is simply the year of manufacture-1948-plus the body style/model-215-(standard sedan)...i.e. a 1950 ute was called 50-2106...you say 'briefly'..yes, a 48 is only called a 48 during 48, after that it's called a 49. but it was never nick-named the 'fx' until 1953, which is 5 years later, as a reference to the new suspension. it was never marketed as an 'fx', it was called 'holden', so get that up ya smartarse.

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