I was at that race. Ford Cobra's won. Moffat 1st Bond 2nd.

Well said ,everyone forgets how good Pete Geoghegan drove in his stint. Really showed if you raced the torry it wouldn't/never did reach its laps quoter, silly old Harry dreaming again

@@jimmartin9704 Just how many laps do halfwits think were covered in the '73 race? If Brock caught Moffat in his first stint & passed him & Moff spun out in the process & if Brock cauld run at that pace & still stay out until lap 54 after Moff had to pit his gas guzzling barge on lap 45, I think it is fairly safe to say Brock had that race by the scruff just as he had the year before. And anyone who assumes Harry was silly is just a fuckwit, especially after his little 202 Toranas beat Ford's great 351 turds in '72 & very nearly beat 'em again in '73. Delusions are cheap.

@@johnbrooks9523 Wow, what a load of horse shit 72 rain helped the Torana to victory, only halfwits believe other 73 where do l start Brock wasn't driving solo like 72 so all your reteric about him doing his lap quoter and passing Moffat is all bullshit, hence running out of fuel by Chivas when being pushed hard by pete. And firth is totally to blame for the fuck ups in his fuel plan by telling Chivas to go for max laps, went well for him didn't it?????? 74 was even worse for firth 100 laps into race and l think 6 laps in front , Harry tell Brock to slow down,which intern made them fuck the motor up( that was from Brocky mouth not mine).why do you think he never drove with firth again after that race, he didn't know shit

This is so true. All the hoo ha about how much bad luck Brock had when it was their own stuff up but, poor old Gossy gets caught up in someone else’s debacle.

Being a proud Torana owner just a reminder that Toranas is just a plural word, no need for the apostrophe.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I still think the GTHO Phase III is the classiest-looking Australian car ever; the XA to XC is the ugliest (does this make my bum look big), Ford agreed by releasing the XD about 5 years later.

@@brianvogt8125 I hear what you're saying regarding the HO, but it's a 4 door sedan. To me those big arse coupes, with rear guards filled with racing rubber, look the goods. Mind you, I would not say no, if anyone gave me one, be it an XR with 289 through to the X series coupes with 351 cubes.

Same at 9.50 when the Ambulance was on the track. No flags. no slowing down, nothing !!

I vaguely remember that there was a flag colour to indicate "emergency vehicle on the track." Marshalls were probably waving them well in advance of camera view. Mt. Panorama is a pig of a place to impose a safety car on a race leader - he/she could easily lose 2 minutes of well-earned advantage. Track exit points are rare - Murray's Corner & Hell Corner spring to mind. McPhillamy Park has one now; not sure whether it was there in the 1970s. All other breaks in the fence are dead end driveways to private homes.

6:08, 6:09, 6:17, 6:27, 6:38-6:44, Ron Dickson/ Bob Stevens Monaro GTS/4 308 swathing the 3.5 turns lock to lock behind the Tan dash. Back next year as a 350 with Dickson/Crea.✊

Same to you kenny8 and many thanks for all the kind comments in 2016, it really helps in the morale department. Our aim is to have all the history in one place for all to see.. the TV crews from the era deserve it as do the drivers & crews etc, it was like one big family back then.. cheers

Things you'd never get away with today: A camera man zooming in on a woman's braless knockers, and an editor who spent the time to edit the footage of said knockers into the documentary, presumably for it to be shown on television.

The first car they ever produced

Mistake of the editor there since the Gibson/Seton car was clearly out of the race early.

I remember the pit stop and driver change after the spin, the co-driver wanted to know what had happened before he left the pit which didn't impress Moffat who just wanted him out on the track.

+JINXED _JINXED_ no probs it's a great piece for its age..:-)

it is unlike me :D

all good mate :-)

If i recall it was the XB GT

Hearing you there mate. The computer controlled clones they use these days don't do it for me.

@@area51isreal71 Yes thanks. In 1973 the cars were much more like what we could buy and it wasnt restricted to basically Holden and Ford..it was dangerous...and the drivers had real blood and guts character...putting everything they had on the line..not just being an employee. It was amazing television.

area51isreal they still race em , before bathurst etc but with massive tyres on em now ,nothin like those wafer thin things they used to have on em

@@Skippy-id9yt Muscle car masters! Excellent!

Public surveys were done by the organisers, to determine what the public would pay to see. Unfortunately, that's what led to Stupor Cars. We are in the minority, but that's life. It's all irrelevant now, because production cars so closely resemble each other, that it wouldn't be much of a spectacle. I attended the 12 hour production car race (and minor events) during Easter 1994. RX7, Maserati, Volvo 850 (Peter Brock, blown turbo). My arrival almost doubled the spectator crowd. 2 guys died in a sidecar race when they crashed at the end of the McPhillamy Park sand trap.

It did, ya must have missed it, 16:30 just behind the Torana. cheers.

Actually the Holdens had a straight 6 of 202 cubic inches, with triple sidedraught carbs. Very similar to the chev 6. The Fords had 351 Clevelands.

Its not a road course the way america has road courses. This is a long race track with several very high speed sections where the bigger V8s just walk away from the 6 cylinders. Think nurburgring rather than monaco

Yes mate, smaller turned out to be a big advantage. The Torana you saw started life in the UK as a four cylinder Vauxhall. GMH (General Motors Holden) saw an opportunity to create a new class in the market for a six cylinder compact. The nose was stretched to suit a straight six, it was an instant hit. Before that, Harry Firth (overseeing Holden's racing program) on seeing the original prototype saw massive potential and created the GTR-XU-1 Torana. The gamble on a smaller lighter car payed off in 1972. The Torana got the holy grail....Bathurst. Seeing off the Ford works team and Chrysler (who by then had no factory support) to claim victory. The Torana did eventually get a 308c.i V8....along with a four and six cylinder but not until 1974 with the LH series. That was only in what was called the SLR/5000. It was very fast but as it turned out, it was too fragile for the power as far as racing went. Harry Firth did his magic and made an improved version dubbed the L34. Much better, but Ford launched a counter attack with the XC Falcon Cobra. They cleaned up just about every major race in the country, something had to give.....and it did. Severely humiliated, GM Holden (with Harry Firth's Help and guidance) turned there attention to the LX Torana which was a minor face lift of the LH but now included a hatchback to create the A9X Torana. Game set and match, nothing could catch it. Ford gave up and even Holden could'nt see the point anymore cos they were racing against privateers driving there products and pulled their team out. That was the Torana, gone but not forgotten. It did so much to challenge the way us Aussies thought about cars. I see that you are American. Maybe the Plymouth Duster was your Torana? Hugely popular, cheap to buy and run with economical six cylinder engines, but full on exiting with a 340 V8.

@@area51isreal71 I hate to tell you this but I passed up an LJ XU-1 in favour of a two door LJ 202 with an LSD because it was $200 cheaper at $1,500 (the XU-1 needed about $500 of work). With extractors and twin downdraught Strombergs, (no cam or head) it reached 210 km/h downhill, allegedly. I was at Uni and didn't have much money or experience but the car forgave me trying to kill myself and I was able to fix everything myself (which is where the experience came from).

No Aussie Holden motor ever won.

Ahhh yes but if the Phase 4 GTHO had have seen the light of day then so too would have the V8 LJ Torana and upgraded Charger R/T. What a hell of an interesting race that would have been hey?

E55 R/T Charger FTW!

XU2

E55 Charger hottest looking car for sure.. He i ftw best looking car colours best dash gauges what an era

Actually, 1972 would have been the year of the Phase 4.

Forever grateful for Holdens incompetence

LJ XU-1 was the 202 with a trick cam and triple carbs.

@@grumpycarlsworld, It had a 202? It went pretty fucken good For a 202, Didn't it? also, I'm guessing it had weber's on there when you said "Tripple Carbs" Which would make Sense.

@@mrvomit101 Watch the '72 race & you'll see a dinky little 202 get up & beat the best Falcons in the country at the time, at Bathurst.

@@johnbrooks9523 it was a wet race so no surprise a nimble car could do that.

d1styl. Yeah, I've always wondered why that didn't happen, it's very strange.

Blakhatz.. our in-house band..😉

@@Super100MPH good feel music,great video ,so many great drivers ,lol Ian Tate with the mutton chops.

Not sure the artist, but title is Pappa Was A Rolling Stone.

Too right it was biased. And it hasn't changed much even now. I think that and Ford's 351 GTHO Falcon Superoos changed my thinking.

I'm a petrol head so when I get asked if I like ford, or holden, I say yes.

The film is credited to General Motors, so natural for it to be biased. The original upload of this to KZfaq has in the description "from the perspective of the Holden Team".

It's how it was done in the day. No nanny state safety car slowing the entire circuit so everybody can catch up. The race went on.

@@grumpycarlsworld Yep. Roger Williamson died at Zandvoort earlier that year and all they did was put a blanket over his burned out car and continued with the race. Medieval with modern eyes.

The film is credited to General Motors, so natural for it to be biased. The original upload of this to KZfaq has in the description "from the perspective of the Holden Team". Even the Wikipedia page for the race had used this films narrative, which had to be changed because you're exactly spot on. Great effort by Goss!

@@Peregrine1984 Sit down one day & add up how many Clevos lined up at Bathurst since the Phase 11. Then add up how many of 'em stayed in one piece for the entire 500 miles or the 1000 ks. Gossy might have gone on to win in '73, but history records that Clevos had other ideas. Don't bother adding up how many Qualifier illegal hotrod Clevos were blown to Kingdom Come in practice over the years because I'd hate to see you cry. Goss had a better chance in '74 because it rained & no one could get any power down, so there was no need to stress an engine.

If the race hadn't gone metric he'd have won the race.

Yeah but he did run out and lost

Although the best surviving highlight reel of the day, clearly promoting the narrative of a certain Holden victory being lost due to miscalculation (Chivas running out of fuel) is questionable at best with the benefit of hindsight (the film is credited to General Motors and their sponsors at the time). Clearly Moffat slowed significantly when no longer challenged for the race lead, so while it is possible he may have had his own trouble if pressed harder, it is certainly a hollow claim that because Brock and Chivas were able to finish within a lap of Moffat and Geoghegan despite running out of fuel they lost a certain race win. The race pace of the Torana's may have been compromised by trying to run to only two stops with Geoghegan able to make up about two and a quarter minutes over Chivas in his stint alone. Brock was the only driver to not haemorrhage time to the race winner but never got close to achieving the fuel economy required for his strategy to work, falling short on both his stints by as much as 16 laps. Brock obviously would have had to slow significantly more to complete the required laps. The real victim of this narrative is the incredible effort by John Goss not being a bigger part of the story. Despite Goss building his race car in his spare time he was able to take pole position, set a new lap record and lead the factory entered cars by 40 seconds at his first pitstop. If not for some small exhaust issue, and a collision with a car that had illegally re-joined the race (after being towed), the 1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 may well have been celebrated as a Goss/Bartlett victory in the David versus Goliath style.

Maybe but thats Bathurst, it was a ambitious plan from Firth, that only Bondy got to the required laps easily because he wasn't racing anything, just circulating. Once pushed hard the plan failed, Webber's are quite thirsty, so no he wouldn't of won

And biased commentators. Still the same at the latest Bathurst race.

Ford fans still the same level of victimhood in current times to, I see.

The film is credited to General Motors, so natural for it to be biased. The original upload of this to KZfaq has in the description "from the perspective of the Holden Team".

thats endurance racing, not a series of sprints like today

Someone went to the trouble of sourcing and uploading rare footage for you to watch for free, and that is the best you can offer? Seriously...

Its not reverb its multiple speakers from the track announcer