I don't have anything that is not already up on other channels.

In those days the race was recorded on several reels of 2 inch broadcast tapes. As time past some reels may have lost,taped over or damaged. This is way 1976 1977 and 1978 races are missing parts of the telecast.

Well 76 I believe was the last Sportshour show hence as broadcast no one would have recorded it.

That is true but it is still missing about an hour before they have there break. They come back on air just as they are pushing Moffats Falcon to the back of the pits. The missing parts which was aired includes Brock running out of fuel on conrod and the first round of pit stops etc. Check the highlights on KZfaq and you will see some of the lost footage.

@@michaeldawson735 also 77s replay includes a brief few minutes from the missing tapes as well

Furthermore the (1978) off-air includes more missing pre race pieces from after it returned from Hardies Heroes replay (which is where the off-air taper started taping). I think either 78 or 79 (I think its mainly 78) the off-air contains the pre-recorded driver interviews that featured during the broadcast.

The LC XU1 Torana I feel is also up there too.

Nanas car 😂

On the road the Lj XU-1 was the better all round the early Ford GTs were better for long highway stints. None were "best ever". I owned several of both from new, my fave GT was the XT 302 4 speed.

For sure.

Why, because he was honest about things?

full factory support helps, where Ford had cut their support of Moffat for 78.

@@daniellebcooper7160 Always the excuses Ive heard them all. Oh it was a lighter car blah blah blah. The fact is the two door falcon was a heavy lumbering dinosaur whose suspension and steering dated back to the 50s. No rack and pinion steering and brakes that would be lucky to do 10 hot laps before they were struggling. In 79 the first ford to finish was in 25 position as they all fell to the wayside under the relentless pressure of a field of A9Xs whose lap times couldn’t be matched. Only fools like moffat and Carter Johnson ect who’d spent YEARS and millions trying to get 351s to hang together for race distance hung on for the ford diehards to cars CLEARLY a generation behind the Torana in development. To prove my point the first 8 cars over the line in 79 were A9Xs and many were NOT factory backed. So your theory or EXCUSE goes out the window. The only reason the fords won in 77 is because the A9X was in early development and was brand new. As a footnote Brock’s last lap in 79 where he won by 6 laps was not broken until 1983 by Alan grice in a VH group 3 commodore. Meaning the A9X could’ve easily been used for 4 years without a challenger.

@@ToranaA9X308 The greatest comedy in Aust Touring Car Racing history is the ridiculous wallowing barge Falcon GT & the army of gronks who love them. A whole bunch of these great clanking mechanical monsters called Ford Falcon XY GTHOs packed the front rows of the Bathurst grid in early October 1972. Moffat had a factory backed example sporting a race developed 351 Cleveland loaded with the latest Amercan high performance goodies including a flat tappet cam, race prepped Holley etc & a super duty close ratio reinforced TopLoader gearbox & the typical caveman Ford 9 Inch Diff with factory Detroit Locker guts. By the time the chequered flag fell in the afternoon on that fateful Sunday every single one of those goomby Furd turdmobiles had been caught & overtaken by a teency little 6 cylinder Torana with a puny 202 red motor, Stromberg carbies, a little Aussie 4 speed gearbox & a tiny Holden Banjo diff. The Falcons were packed full of big time US race technology junk. The little Torana was built out of 99% practical, durable, reliable & economical Australian made bits. Any Australian who believes the Furd is a superior product to the locally developed Holden is best advised to sober up, get better medical help & to switch medications. The Ford Falcon GT was a barge ideally suited to zombified slobs. Moff had raced Hardtops since '73. He knew the very best recipe. Harry came up with the basic layout for the A9X & John Sheppard perfected it. After less than 18 months development time, no 351 Falcon could get anywhere near a sorted A9X as clearly demonstrated in both the '78 & '79 Bathurst events. Moff had raced hardtops for over 5 years prior to Bathurst '78. These numbskulls who moan eternally about a lack of factory support for Moff in '78 like to deny the fact FORD GAVE MOFF THE CARS, THE ENGINES, THE SPARE PARTS, IN FACT... THE ENTIRE FORD AUST RACING TEAM AFTER BATHURST '77! MOFF HAD PLENTY OF FACTORY SUPPORT! It just came via an alternate means. The truth is: The A9X easily outgunned the Falcon GT, Ford could see this, so they grabbed their chequebook & hid under a rock leaving Moff to suffer all the embarrassment. I never liked Moff. But, he was the greatest villain ever sent to fight our Holden racers & he did a damn good job acting the smarmyarse villain. Without Moff we would never have had all those years of fabulously exciting touring car racing. Moff arrived on the scene in '69 & at exactly the same time as Harry took on the HDT. Having Harry on our side & extremely capable Moff on the opposition side brought us the very best Touring Car Racing ever seen anywhere. We were extremely fortunate to live in a time where these two towering giants clobbered each other to bits with cars we basicly built here in Australia. The LX Torana A9X optioned up with the prepollution L34 308 & Borg Warner T10 was so damn good, race organisers banned it for the 1980 season. Similar LX HatchBacks currently run with 5.0L Chev Power & with Holden 308s in Historic Categories & no megabuck Falcons can get anywhere near them. History records some 351 Falcons did win races. The A9X put an end to all that. Long live the fabulous little V8 Torana & her rapid little sister; the GTR XU-1 which beat the best Falcon GTHOs on the day.

@@ToranaA9X308 ''Always the excuses Ive heard them all.''

@@ToranaA9X308 All youve done is back up what ive said. Ford fully supported Moffat in 77, Moffat won easily. Then theres youre Golden excuse...*The only reason the fords won in 77 is because the A9X was in early development and was brand new.* (Always the excuses Ive heard them all ) Was the a9x brand new?...maybe to some it was. Except for the rear disk brakes and super T-10 gearbox, the Toranas were pretty much the same spec as 1976, with a years development done to them. And why did they get those two crucial upgrades?...because the factory had a race program. In 1978 Ford had dramatically cut their funding, where as GMH boosted theirs. Ford brought out an homologation special with a couple of improvments to the chassis, but nothing like the toranas got. In 1979 Ford completely dropped funding for motorsport and any development for those racing falcon coupes. GMH kept up its funding. To prove my point even further...heres a quote from you>>>>*To prove my point the first 8 cars over the line in 79 were A9Xs and many were NOT factory backed.*