The final couple of laps from the 1977 Hardie Ferodo 1000 from Bathurst, featuring Allan Moffat and Colin Bond in their Ford XC Falcon hardtops in the memorable 1-2 form finish.
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@RtB68 Жыл бұрын
The footage of the two cars coming down conrod from the helicopter is probably the best piece of footage in the history of that race.
@darrylmackie9184Ай бұрын
Dream on IT'S The only thing Ford has to brag about.
@RtB68Ай бұрын
@@darrylmackie9184 Oh c'mon Darryl...read your comment again. Seriously?
@megafauna83742 жыл бұрын
I was there. The Doonan family who owned the Lithgow Ford dealership took me. It was great.
@paulgrima38122 ай бұрын
Didn’t miss a second this race way way back then ❤️
@B.Wayne19396 ай бұрын
As a Holden Fan In this Era 🥰 I'm Happy that Bond Allowed Moffat to Win a 1, 2 Ford Win, So Iconic and Legendary..
@gavinplunkett977 Жыл бұрын
Best Bathurst finish ever.
@philsurtees Жыл бұрын
Rubbish. Alan Moffat hobbling home to win, despite the fact that he didn't win, because his car was completely rooted, doesn't compare to Brocky winning by *_SIX LAPS_* - which is still the record - after leading every single lap of the race, and setting the track record on the final lap...
@rodneyvanderveen837616 сағат бұрын
@@philsurtees I put it to you that today it's Holden that's rooted!
@vinorob2 ай бұрын
I remember watching this on TV when I was a kid. Great day for Ford
@BadApe351 Жыл бұрын
I still do a fist pump whenever I watch this iconic moment in Bathurst history. Two great Australians in Allan (Canadian/Aussie) and Colin - dual winners of this race in my books - bringing those big beautiful Falcons across the line together after withstanding a Torana onslaught lead by the King of the mountain - Peter Brock. Both still had a lot of racing in them to go of course but not so much with Ford sadly after it pulled it's direct support a year later. And because of that Ford victories were few and far between after '77 for a long time.
@assininecomment1630 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, nah... That "onslaught" had long since crumbled during the afternoon. Also, Brock wasn't the King - up to '77, he'd only had won twice. Oh, and if you're _still_ doing fist pumps about this, you _really_ need to grow up, and get out a bit more. 😬
@lifelongbachelor3651 Жыл бұрын
@@assininecomment1630 quiet, dummy.
@kaitimebb Жыл бұрын
Best race ever.
@KG84C10 ай бұрын
sour grapes
@J_S2092 жыл бұрын
“Crushing defeat” .... Mandrake in the Mighty Ford Falcon. So nice listening to Evan Green and Mike Raymond ... beats listening to screaming 888 Skaife.
@BlairSauer2 жыл бұрын
Mike Raymond was a great commentator according to old folk. May he rest in peace.
@assininecomment1630 Жыл бұрын
Mike Raymond was definitely a great _supporter_ of motor racing, @@BlairSauer - but _commentator_ ?! 😆 His babbling nonsense, and reliance on the cheesy line, lame segué, and crappy pun often made listening painful. Evan Green and a string of commentators since then, have been better by miles.
@BlairSauer Жыл бұрын
@@assininecomment1630 fair enough
@assininecomment1630 Жыл бұрын
I just saw the video of qualifying laps by Moffat and Bond, for the '78 race. 🤦🏼♂️ Raymond was doing his usual gold-medal effort of mangling metaphors, including this highlight: "He's really got the stick to the floor!" 😑 The clanger of all time was a few years later, when Garry Wilkinson (the only one to pump out more verbal diarrhoea that Raymond) regurgitated this: "They're sweating tears of blood out there!" 😖
@BlairSauer Жыл бұрын
@@assininecomment1630 I don't think that's at all offensive. Commentators could have fun back then. Things are a little woke now.
@theaussieviking8555 Жыл бұрын
An awesome finish but I always remember what my Brother told me about it. He was a great fan of this finish. He was working doing computer support on loan to Ford Victoria and got on well with the chaps in R&D, as he maintained all their equipment. They chuckled and says but you know they were illegal! Apparently they had ultra-thin glass (3mm windscreen and 2mm side glass) with the weight moved to the floorpan with lead. Even Brocky knew, but he was running roller rockers so couldn't afford to have the tappet covers off. ACI Pilkington supplied the glass on the understanding it was for a clay modelling and not for road use.
@BadApe351 Жыл бұрын
Ahhh...the good old days!
@musclecarbear47046 ай бұрын
Moffat tried that trick in his Cortina for the Sandown 6 hour. He was forced to get real glass installed before the race. These are the tricks he learnt from the US. Where they acid-dipped the body shells to reduce weight.
@robdiv58486 ай бұрын
It never gets old
@chrisheggie9522 жыл бұрын
I was there sitting on the fence in Pit Row to watch this incredible (though staged) finish. While I was a Moffat fan, I have the greatest respect for Colin Bond for allowing the boss to have his fourth and not take one for himself. One of the greatest ever Bathurst finishes to cap off a magic year for the team.
@gavalan33672 жыл бұрын
I was 8yrs old, sitting at home watching this on a black and white tv. Have always loved the xc coupe, even though I became a Holden fan when Moffat went to the Mazda. This was truly a great era in Australian motorsport. Thank you to Brocky and Moffat ( and others of course ) for all they gave to the sport. Great memories.
@hanajinks1044 Жыл бұрын
I was on the hill, and it's not correct to refer to it as "staged"..
@HomeMadeBow Жыл бұрын
How about an ''Earned'' finish?
@hanajinks1044 Жыл бұрын
@@HomeMadeBow I was a kid and speculating with the adults- they all agreed to a man that Bond would move aside for the Team Captain- after all, it was a Team. A handshake was still a contract in these times...
@kaitimebb Жыл бұрын
Guys, Moffat was 100m ahead. and allowed Bond to close up for the dealers.
@jeffford181 Жыл бұрын
The BEST looking car in the world..............
@assininecomment1630 Жыл бұрын
You really gotta get out a bit more, champ. 😒
@stevemudge16093 ай бұрын
Simply amazing!
@musclecarbear47046 ай бұрын
This moment changed Bathurst forever. Amazing!
@nickkostakis96002 жыл бұрын
TOP STUFF mate
@meba1092 жыл бұрын
The Greatest Race Win EVER !
@stevensmith7926 Жыл бұрын
79 will always be the greatest Bathurst win
@assininecomment1630 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, nah... Despite me having a (mild) preference for Ford over Holden - this wasn't even _close_ to the greatest win at Mt Panorama! It was a good effort and success for the huge Moffat team machine. In _some_ ways it was also impressive to get that unusual 1-2 ending. Still, plenty of individual drivers, less tested cars, and new or small teams, have had greater wins, under more adversity: against bigger teams; against faster cars; against superstar/unbeatable drivers; in tougher weather/conditions; overcoming bigger mechanical dramas; with smaller budgets. Others have had bigger winning margins, and with cars kept at peak performance/condition the whole race through -'79 being the obvious one, of many.
@1ihws Жыл бұрын
@@assininecomment1630 and the photo of that particular Bathurst win was made into a really really awful wallpaper print, that was particularly popular for the bedrooms of “boys” pretending to be men, yep, remember it very well, lol!
@rhettcorbett334610 ай бұрын
Best coverage of cars down Conrod Straight & best finish EVER.
@robertsopinski7971 Жыл бұрын
Great race, great win, I was there! Let's not forget the co-drivers. Jackie Ickx, formula 1 driver especially. Very precise, accurate driving. Car handed back to Alan Moffat in perfect order to win the race.
@philsurtees Жыл бұрын
Ah ... nope, that's completely and utterly wrong! Jackie Ickx drove poorly, screwed the brakes, and handed the car back to Alan Moffat in terrible condition, which was why Moffat was having to nurse the car home in the end, and didn't actually win, with Bond only coming second due to team orders. Sorry to burst your little bubble...
@jonglewongle34382 жыл бұрын
His wife was a top little number. Pauline Moffat was the bomb. [ You learn something new every day. I never realised that. ].
@blastermaster23832 жыл бұрын
Not now
@nickkostakis96005 ай бұрын
Great show. ONE. TWO 😮 that was fixed anyway I still love it.😂
@alanjm1234 Жыл бұрын
IMO the XC hardtop is the best looking car Australia ever produced. And the Moffatt Ford Dealer Team livery was the best livery ever.
@klano8443 Жыл бұрын
I don't think brock ever got over this humiliating victory by the falcons because brock was always trying to replicate it but "no prizes for second"
@justink1075 Жыл бұрын
Best looking race car ever.
@imanenigma3348 Жыл бұрын
I know it's ancient history now, but THAT is how you do it. Bondy knows he could have won, he would be happy knowing that fact and they are both professionals, thinking of the big picture.
@Ticonderous1 Жыл бұрын
I remember watching this with my dad ...I was about 10 .. I kept asking why didn't the number 2 car pass the other one ...
@jonglewongle34382 жыл бұрын
This was plastered all over the sports pages, the Ford 1 and 2. It got the quintessential configuration for Ford. But the news reporters were putting it to Moffat as a possible rort with Moffat's vehicle having complications and that Bond could have easily done Moffat and Bond was maybe also shielding and shepherding Moffat from other competition.
@alanjm1234 Жыл бұрын
Third place was miles behind! There was no need for Bond to shield Moffatt.
@jonglewongle3438 Жыл бұрын
@@alanjm1234 Ah so. I'll cop being mistaken on the last bit. I cannot exactly recall what the reporters exactly put to Moffat.
@zetecryt Жыл бұрын
Moffat was not only a great driver but had a knack of pulling some of the world's best to help him in his quest to win. Perhaps it was his sheer determination. I'd love to hear how he managed to convince the great Jackie Ickx to drive for him in 1977.
@gavalan3367 Жыл бұрын
In Allan Moffat's book he tells how he got Jackie Ickx to be his co driver - a lazy $10,000 did the trick, which would have been a hell of a lot of cash in those days.
@Bungeye75 Жыл бұрын
I'm a mad Ford fan. If I had all the money in the world I would buy the DJR 92 RS500 in a heart beat.... But these 2 Falcons are the most important, and iconic Fords in Australian motoring history. Nothing will come close to that 1-2 finish
@Pablo668Ай бұрын
Classic finish this one. Fords greatest moment at Bathurst?
@lucasronson5752 жыл бұрын
'THIS IS' one of the greatest wins for the ford 2dr falcon hardtops , Australian motoring at its best ! , its called bringing in the 'heavy artillery'
@assininecomment1630 Жыл бұрын
What?! 😂 No, it's nothing like that. There was _nothing_ heavy - in size or engine firepower - in the Team Moffat cars, or any 2-dr Falcs. Fords had been on the mountain, and all over the ATTC, with 5.8 litre Windsor and Cleveland motors, and in big heavy family cars, since '69. A few were still being punted around in '84. So, essentially, the same old artillery, wheeled out for 16 years in a row. (The only time any Fords were firing with higher performance artillery, was in '67 with the first GT, over the minnows in Minis, etc - and in '70 and '71 with the Phase 2 and Phase 3 GTs.)
@SquareEarth1 Жыл бұрын
Yep, great cars, great days. However I do remember when Moffat drove the RX7 (around '83), he got our family friend at the Canberra Car Show to do a paint job on the side door - the Stuyvesant jet I think. He wanted it done for free because he was Allan Moffat. Lost me as a fan from then on. A pity.
@philliphowson19372 ай бұрын
I'm classic rice ❤💯1️⃣🇦🇺
@kaitimebb Жыл бұрын
So many say ''Bond let Moffat win;; but Moffat was well ahead of Bond before slowing to get Bond in position for that glorious 1-2 footage...like Ken Miles at Le Man.
@hanajinks1044 Жыл бұрын
I was there...
@coalfacechris1336 Жыл бұрын
Greatest Ford victory ever. Kind of wish Moff had let Colin win.
@imanenigma3348 Жыл бұрын
I hear you, but Moffat and Bond were professionals and looked at the big picture. Smart that is. None of the short sighted, instant gratification BS.
@brianhoffman48612 жыл бұрын
You all know...I meant.xb
@user-et7br6ir1h10 ай бұрын
Must of been fords time
@brianhoffman48612 жыл бұрын
Rich me sport....a driver would have....
@Mercmad Жыл бұрын
And the brave little Mazda 😂?
@Aquarium-Downunder Жыл бұрын
as we have all knowen for the last 46 years Bond should have wone the race. My father was real pissed off, he lost his money with the bookie, he had Bond for the win, didn't do a each way bet
@hanajinks1044 Жыл бұрын
Bond was #2 Driver and would never have passed Moffat during these last laps.
@brianhoffman48612 жыл бұрын
Learnt English
@brianhoffman4861 Жыл бұрын
Mate....
@davehad-enough23692 ай бұрын
Colin Bond's race and not taking the flag would be the biggest regret in his career. And really, a low point in Moffat's career. Moffat in fact would not win another Bathurst. While the media insisted it was a "crushing victory" others would think things should have been done more professional. Brock would claim the next two Bathursts in the incredible A9X Torana and go on to win another five Bathursts.
@michaeldeal8060Ай бұрын
Oh, it was crushing alright. One - two thank you. Ford dined out on the Conrod Straight helicopter images for decades. The MHDT 1984 1-2 did not look as slick due to John Harvey dashing to make up time to slip car 25 behind 05 at the flag. As for "done more professional", the team orders having Bond fall behind Moffat's car was the epitome of professionalism. Moffat was boss and Bond a paid employee. You can argue whether it was sporting to do that, it is a fair argument. But it was certainly professional as was everything Moffat did in his career. It has also been said that Bond was offered a stint in car 1 earlier in the day and declined. If that were so, he would have also been classified a winner. The main problem people had is that Moffat for a while after the race was rather coy about his car's mechanical problems and even denied there were problems. But the team most certainly won a crushing victory.
@stuarthynes613611 ай бұрын
Bond could have taken comeoffit team orders suck.
@tonyp28658 ай бұрын
You just hate Moffat.
@brianhoffman48612 жыл бұрын
Shit...I have one of those in my garage.... google...xa coupe... Barn find
@laurencetilley9194 Жыл бұрын
After the Greg Chappell under arm delivery, this would would be the worst case of bad sportsmanship in Australian sporting history.
@imanenigma3348 Жыл бұрын
You are kidding of course. While I'm sure Moffat was happy for the win and Bondy would have loved one also, Moffat and Bond are professionals and look at the big picture, the sponsors and the marketing opportunity. None of this short sighted BS, save that for the plebs. If the number 2 car was ailing, I bet Moffat would have slowed down for the 1 - 2 finish. That's why he drove and we watch, get it?
@hanajinks1044 Жыл бұрын
From whom? Moronic comment...
@laurencetilley9194 Жыл бұрын
@@hanajinks1044 You obviously did not hear what Bondy had to say, years later.
@hanajinks1044 Жыл бұрын
@@laurencetilley9194 I actually do vaguely remember some sour grapes, now you mention it...
@hanajinks1044 Жыл бұрын
@@laurencetilley9194 No arguments on the Chappell issue, but this was Team Driving - nothing more, nothing less.