Great footage of a golden era in motor racing, no politics, no bulls##t, great opening title music too. You’ve gotta love the 1970s.

This era of Bathurst was by far the best, 60 cars, different classes of car, pure racing with none of the bullshit of todays racing

Thank you very much. I remember exactly what I was doing that day.

I was 7, we had a brand new XB stationwagon. Absolutely no similarity to the GT whatsoever except the front grille, but from this race onwards I was a Ford man.

Poor old Moffat now 79 this year and in a home with Alzheimer's . Estranged wife and eldest son whining in court over his assets . Good ol Larry Perkins looking out for his mate though. Hard when family are planning life after the great Australian legend dies . Shame on them

Moffat a true pro even when things gone to mud

The Ford Coups looked awesome

At least back than you could tell the difference between Holden and ford and other cars 👍👀

Alan Moffat... He was more disliked than Darth Vader when I was a kid in a Holden loving family. what an absolute champion and fierce competitor he was.

Amazing what turns up on KZfaq! Not only was it great re-watching the '75 Bathurst (saw it when originally broadcast) but I've also found out what the title of the intro tune is after 45 years! That catchy but business-like tune was also used on a BHP ad at some time in the seventies or possibly early '80's. Now that the whole "Ford Vs Holden" thing is over I can appreciate what superb little cars those L34's were, and that's despite my being a one-eyed Ford fanatic all my life.

I was there in 1975 on the mountain with all the others going crazy. This WAS Bathurst without the kink at the end of Conrod when men where men & braking was diabolical. The escape road to Bathurst saw plenty of action.

Ford vs Holden, Moffat vs Brock, the great years of racing in Oz. Too many rules and accountants now.

How good does the Clevo sound climbing up the mountain!!! beautiful noise!!

I was upon the hill watching this particular race..

Much better than NASCAR.

aaaah... memories of the days when racing was pure

I was there! It was a real race in those days. Now- it’s as boring as can be, just a series of sprints between safety cars.

11:41-12:04 The camera behind that long haired dude I see is a Sony AVC-3400 B&W video camera which connects to a portable Sony AV-3400 1/2 inch B&W EIAJ format reel-reel videotape recorder. So somewhere out there are some B&W reel-reel videotape recordings of this race if they have survived, would be interesting if they somehow surface!

Such a shame that the whole master tape no longer exists... Damn ATN 7! If only VHS existed just one year earlier...

Loved Moffat's comment. "You don't run a F1-11 with a Spitfire motor do you!".

please bring back these days was all about racing not anything else

Those were the days...

Will Hagon & Evan Green sounded so similar. Extremely similar. This was the last Bathurst 1000 Will Hagon commentated for Channel 7. After spending 1976 commentating in England, he returned to Australia in 1977, & joined the ABC commentating on Motor Sport races for them for a very long time.

RIP Evan Green (1930-1996).

So many things to see in this race. The lack of sand traps and barriers around Bathurst. The weight of the drivers (were big chunky men 🤣😂) The pit times took as long as today's races take haha. How many cars were in the field at the start. It was like Sydney peak hour. The amount of flared jeans haha

The music used at the intro is "Time Trial" by Mick Vickers of KPM Music.

Moffat's codriver was a big chap!

I know this has probably been said a million times in the comments but this era was awesome. Good close racing in cars that were recognisable as ones you drove yourself. A multitude of classes which kept you cheering on "your car" in each class. Slower cars that the fast cars had to negotiate while watching some of those "slow" cars match or better the big boys across the top of the mountain due to light weight. Today's Supercars are only a shadow of the excitement and if you don't like Holden or Ford then you're pretty f*cked. The drivers were real characters too, like Grice, Moffat, Longhurst, Brock, Tricky Dickie and Bond who was a rally exponent. Ahhh, heady days!

Great tv coverage for the day, my cousin was driving with Seaton,I was there just sayin'

How interesting is this! Reminds me of watching this race every year as a kid and sad about what a boring event it is now. If Le Mans can run several different classes of cars and huge speed differentials what is wrong with the clowns running the sport now. Every V8 supercar looks exactly like every other car. Its just boring....

Man that would have been scary with Drum brakes back, and not even H harness just normal set belts ?.

Australian pride on display fast Forward 2020 there is not a whole lot .

12:30 colin Bond apparently likes ' dirt roads ' but thats not the reason he's going up there....!

Bathurst should never ever stopped being a production car race .

Real cars real driver who new how to drive a car wish it was like this again v8s are so boring now moffet new what he was talking about

With hindsight, the refuelling procedures back then were frightfully dangerous.

no more holdeen no more ford, no more bathurst, it's like the end times for me

Car racing porn, full stop. Stock production, all classes (my first car was an escort lol), and drivers just balls to the wall with an unadulterated conrod straight. The GT’s and Toranas were just pure muscle.

Niiice coupe

No walls those days !!

Moffit had a point during his interview. Stock as much as possible is fine. But if one of the main drivers (Brock, Grice or Moffit himself) had been hurt, or worse killed, by his issue. How would they justify not allowing the teams to modify the steering or braking systems?

Ford got the nervous nellies for 1975. The SLR5000 was quick. Nick Polites at City Ford opens the checkbook. The minilites on the Moffat Ford go onto the TransAm Mustang for 1976.

Halcyon days...

little did allan know where those comments would lead to..

Before the chase, before the pit lane wall, before the bitumen on the skyline run-off, still with the Armco hard barrier on the exit to Hell Corner, cigarette advertising, unfenced crowds, great unique cars, time wardens with clipboards... This has been stolen from us and replaced with the homogeneous single class rubbish that is V8 Supercars.

They should never have allowed any modifications outside the factory. Not even wider tyres. Better speed isnt better viewing. If a component couldn't last the race , nurse it around till factory improved.

Grice being knocked off by some galoot

wish bathurst was still race on sunday drive on monday event rip Brokie

Mark Skaife and V8SuperCrap need to watch this and learn how to run a real race

frank gardner claimed they won this race

These guys drive real cars and had no cool suits or dry ice. Nowadays they get out of their cars sweating and carrying on. I’d love to see them with no cooling shit. These guys could drive the whole race alone if they wanted. I heard a great story about one guy smoking 😂 those were the days. I was 6 years old and I can remember watching the Bathurst races every year. Kids today don’t even know it’s on. You really have to look at how tough these guys were. Like I said no cool suits no training like today. Most of not all had day jobs and weren’t rich. They loved the sport and everyone could get involved. Great times that sadly we will never see again. The PC police have ruined the world along with the internet 😔 Edit: I just saw them using a jack to change a tyre an actual hand cranked car jack 😆 bloody legend’s. The rich teams used a blow up jack shit. 😂

5.40 SO 22 YEARS AFTER JAGUAR WON LE MANS WITH DISC BRAKES FOR THE 1ST TIME THEY STILL DID NOT HAVE DISCK BRAKES ONLY DRUMS WTF

May you please do 1976 atcc hardie ferodo 1000 please

one constant in all car racing, any thing that goes wrong in never the drivers fault. they will always find some excuse to point the finger at anyone or anything but themselves.

Holy shit, there’s like 400 cars

I forgot how the Fords were just as outnumbered then as they are these days

The car Allan Moffat drove in this race was destroyed the following year.

Ive had times where l liked fords and holdens. Moffat was correct in 1975 in that certain key areas of vehicle suspention, braking ect should have been upgraded at the factory to satisfy the demands of racing. The series did so much to development in ordinary every day motoring, what a pity penny pinching automotive manufacturers were so apprehensive to spend a couple of bucks here and there to improve some basic areas of these cars for a safer and more reliable racing car. They were the most memorable years of motor racing. Sad to see the end of holden and the commodore, sad to see the end of the falcon. The new socalled commodore replacement in my opinion looks crap and is not deserving of the holden commodore badge.

Came here to watch this after seeing the highlights of the 2022 race......dull, dull, jelly molds , graffiti strewn, identical looking cars. sigh. Just love the XB Falcon style.

Wonder why Holden never raced the the Kingswood instead...

DRUM BRAKES FOR FUCKS SAKE

Moffet the biggist Muppet on the road if he wasn't in front

these where the years of best sedan racing in australia. never missed a round or bathurst even in black and white. the current v8s are so boring that last year i never watched a round of the championship or even bathurst. this year the same, bring back group c ,supercars is boring.

Not many Ford coupes. No Ford support, and small oil sumps that cause oil surge and 351 Cleveland blow ups. (So i watched on DVD recently)

Such beautiful looking cars back then not like noe especially those fucking terrible looking 888 racing back then didn't care ford or holden gorgeous looking cars

I get it now. Fords are like our Nascar stockers and Holdens are like our Trans-Am cars(back in the day. I'm strictly talking size of vehicles). What were the holdens like 500kgs lighter without all that sheet metal of the bigger Falcons. Why did Ford use such a large car. Didn't they make a small car like holden that they couldv'e dropped a V-8 in?

I hope nobody bought a car from Ron Hodgson in those days

Lol love listening to Moff telling us how shit his stock ford parts are :)

It's not often you get to see the race director roll something... Safety car dispatch for a rolled race control please...

V8 Supercars killed the great race bring back production touring cars who really wants to watch yank tanks go around.

I much prefer the look of the 240Z that was in the race.

When privateers raced.

who was the rich millionaire who raced for fun. he lived permantly in Melbourne hotel I think. retired Captain or something.?

Flying barges

When Bathurst was exciting ... now too many rules, excessive use of pace cars now cars running same diffs gearboes ,brakes tyres etc boring. My option .. Dibbo

John Goss had a high HP spec car approved by Ford who presented it to Cams and Cams refused to reply on the build number for homologation until it was too late for Ford to build what was a endurance special with rocker arms and a list of goodies that not even the Cobra option 97 had 3 years later . Ford did make a John Goss special but was a 4.9 V8 (302) that had a green hood and green paint .lol My uncle was at Cams and when they seen the specs of the car in February 1975 , he said the cams hierarchy shit themselves & ignored the problem.

Holden still running rear drums by 75. What a joke.

Nothing but a sad clown show now.

Wingin Moffat! Always was wingin!

so what was the Transmision problems ????, its when ford dropped the toploader and used the useless single rail, shit box..

Moffats cry just says Fords were shit :)

Make conrod straight again, and stop driving v8’s, much prefer watching bog stock family 7 seater SUV’s, make it relatable again.

Typical Moffat, cry baby, it was what it was, it developed, except Moffat, he still is complaining and winging!

Peter brockvwas the biggest cheat to ever be in this race. Shit my car blew up no matter i will take yours.

Back when men were men and cars were cars. None of this gay EV shit.

This was a time when Bathurst was worth watching. Stopped watching when it became the amorphic "supercars"

More racing driver royalty then you can poke a stick at I couldn't tell you a single race car driver in 2023🥱 cheers Stephen 🤠✌️🦘🐨🐴