Inside Peter Brock’s 1984 Bathurst 1000 winning VK Holden Commordore

Inside Peter Brock’s 1984 Bathurst 1000 winning VK Holden Commordore | ABC Australia

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Why does one of Australian motorsports most famous racing cars have an interior that looks like a regular family vehicle, has large holes in the boot lid, and the number ‘05’ emblazoned on its side?
National Motor Racing Museum coordinator Brad Owen shows off the VK Holden Commordore that Peter Brock drove to win the Bathurst 1000 motor race in 1984.
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@aulzhoefer 9 ай бұрын

This is when racing was relatable.. win on Sunday sell on Monday!

@andypandy8569 Жыл бұрын

Group C was great. Wish it would come back!

@Kwaka28 2 жыл бұрын

My true hero and legend. Peter Brock.. miss you.. shattered when you left us...had a vk Brock running gear...best car ever..thanks for all the great cars and memories mate..

@crustyjusty7 3 жыл бұрын

I went there around 1999 / 2000 and you could actually sit in that car and get a photo. I was lucky enough to do just that... very surreal experience.

@96libertytt Жыл бұрын

I saw an interview with Peter Brock where he said they brought in the VK in mid 1984. They then changed to Group A for 1985. That means these VK big Bangers were only raced for 6 months.

@tomnewham1269 3 жыл бұрын

Well done on presenting this car. I must admit this car and the car beside it are my two favorite race cars of all time.

@neverleftthe80s29 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this story. Incredible car. They all had real soul, unlike todays racecars, (V8's, F1 , etc)

@scarto3887 3 жыл бұрын

one of if not the toughest car to ever race.Max respect from a Ford guy

@alancure8841 2 жыл бұрын

My favourite but I like them all cheers great video go Holden Peter Brock still the king of the mountain 👍🏁

@substandardabuse6028 3 жыл бұрын

Loved the HDT cars growing up in the 70's and 80's. The Marlboro sponsorship had no effect on me to take up smoking either.. LOL. Looking forward to the Brock documentary tonight.. Great work ABC

@wayno23 3 жыл бұрын

Wicked car , love the wide body look. Marlboro man smoking it up lol👍. RIP Brocky O5

@destinyangel5 9 күн бұрын

When there was real racing. The Brock 05 machines XU1, L34, A9X ,VC, VH and VK still make the hairs on back on back of neck stand up in 2024 .

@tropicarna 3 жыл бұрын

what a beast! Long live "The King"

@alanwall961 2 жыл бұрын

Love that vk , I have a smaller picture of the last of the big bangers, signed by Peter and larry

@peterhoare3219 Жыл бұрын

I have one signed by all four drivers. A professional photo, framed of the 1,2 finish. And it's sizeable 🙂

@iancorse9254 Жыл бұрын

A Great insight Brad !

@langfordrae2064 3 жыл бұрын

I remember watching this car race, would like to visit the museum sometime.

@nswhorse 3 жыл бұрын

Do it. It is fantastic. They have a tonne of touring cars, but also a tonne of bikes, and lots of interesting history about all of it.

@anitakerry3032 3 жыл бұрын

Good to see that they did not blur out the Marlboro out . Unfortunately they sold the die cast models without the signing and you had to find someone that did the decal on line to make it authentic .

@mikey9999 2 жыл бұрын

That's great...so informative

@noeljohns196 2 ай бұрын

Good explanation thank you. I certainly could relate to the cars and drivers back then given the race cars being more closely related to the road going version.

@timdingleakajacksparrow2748 3 жыл бұрын

Rip Brocky 05 😢

@tupickscc368 3 жыл бұрын

Im gonna buy some ciggies now cheers

@tonymontana897 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah me too. Can ya spare me fifty bucks mate ?

@rebeccakenworthy4623 3 жыл бұрын

Just remember where to keep them, under your t shirt sleeve like a real '80's Aussie!!! LOL

@DirtySlapper99 3 жыл бұрын

Australia rest in peace

@tonymontana897 3 жыл бұрын

Yep. Only memories to keep us going from here on in.

@peterbarber7613 3 жыл бұрын

End of the australian engine my bum.The aussie engine was used until "93"

@kahuwynyard4408 3 жыл бұрын

peter barber Perkins started the ‘94’ season with the engine, not sure how many races tho. Bathurst ‘93’ was a fantastic and very fitting farewell.

@DirtySlapper99 3 жыл бұрын

Most went to chev except for lp and some privateers i recon the racing died with the privateers

@jefftheaussie2225 2 жыл бұрын

End of the real one, lead burner, after that it was unleaded. Never the same.

@jamiespinks3657 8 ай бұрын

Yep, was disgraceful that the museum coordinator in the video was ignorant of this.

@bodgiesteve8849 2 жыл бұрын

1:55, the 'Group C 'area, started in 1973. 4:56, issue 76, Australian Muscle Car Magazine, page 41, states that many of the performance parts had been removed and replaced with road car parts. Such as a 253 engine ?????

@robossuperchannel9434 2 ай бұрын

Three wins from four starts. Pretty, pretty good.

@volksdeutschewaffenss9670 3 жыл бұрын

amazing to see its still running the points dizzy in 1984 when all the road cars were HEI from around 1980 on wards, maybe its running the l34 twin point dizzy ? i watched this race too and all the hipe , last of the big bangers pre race ect did not mean a thing to me, how time and history make things a big deal now, to how it was back then , RIP BROCKY

@jayredau7307 3 жыл бұрын

It’s not the original

@peterbarber7613 2 жыл бұрын

@@jayredau7307 It's not the original what Jay

@markperkins8858 3 жыл бұрын

I truly believe it's cause of this car that the vk is so popular these days there seem to be a he'll of a lot more vk than vb vc vh around and tributes to the Marlboro vk are a lot there's a lot around

@hisheroship 5 ай бұрын

Real cars, real chassis’s, real racing.

@davehoar4001 6 ай бұрын

Great car .my personal favourite win Saturday sell on monday

@mrboppah 3 жыл бұрын

That car was actually sold and raced in the UK and wasn’t located for some time. I believe it had some damage to it at various times as well. There was also a lot speculation around this one being the actual Brock car.

@obiemichaels9675 2 жыл бұрын

No this car has always been at the museum the Harvey car went to the UK and later got restored as 05

@melbguy1 5 ай бұрын

@@obiemichaels9675 Brock drove that ex-Harvey car at Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2005. That was a great sounding car & must have been running a lot of compression.

@zacharycarrasco5109 5 ай бұрын

Love it 💯

@michaelgibson3011 20 күн бұрын

Group C was the ultimate.

@CRFLAus 3 жыл бұрын

Can we see that little RX3 next?!! BRAP!

@vkboy3146 Жыл бұрын

Hi cool vid can you tell me what colour the door cards are? is it sandlewood? Cheers

@fatsolutions 3 жыл бұрын

Thank yiu

@stevenJEDI3 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely beautiful looking car

@craigpeardon1474 3 жыл бұрын

I believe the real 05 was in the Peter Champion collection. And the car at Bathurst is the 25 car re numbered. .?

@peterbarber7613 Жыл бұрын

Craig Peardon. The real 05 car is in Bathurst

@chopperking1122 Жыл бұрын

the 25 car , the john harvey car , went to england , where it was turned into a sports sedan . it had a hard life , was returned to australia , where it was restored as 05 . have a look at the cruddy headlite covers on the museum car , the various paint chips and marks under the bonnet , to see it was the 05 car , in its unrestored condition . thats a quick quote from a feature in AMC , where they went thru the car with forensic like precision . comparing pictures of small details from the cars back in the day to match them up .

@Samsgarden 11 ай бұрын

Actually resembled cars we bought rather than a brand

@HeardItOnTheX 13 күн бұрын

100 Marlboro logos and no ashtrays. Almost an Alanis Morrisette lyric.

@chrisF351 3 жыл бұрын

Didn't group C start in 1973?

@dazaspc 3 жыл бұрын

He missed a very important part of Group C that was right in front of him and could never be done today. The light weight Scaffold Tube Aluminum Roll Cage.

@beagle7622 3 жыл бұрын

He missed a lot. A car expert he is not, like what brand of carbs. I never knew exactly what carbs they put on this car.

@angry9901 2 жыл бұрын

Webber's.

@nathansmith7243 3 жыл бұрын

Larry perkins Bathurst winning VP Commodore had a Holden motor

@rebeccakenworthy4623 3 жыл бұрын

That was a chev based motor I thought, weren't they all running 304 Chev's by then?

@rebeccakenworthy4623 3 жыл бұрын

I watched that race where he went from last place on the grid to winning! What a drive!!!

@timjohnun4297 2 жыл бұрын

@@rebeccakenworthy4623 Larry's 93 Bathurst winning car still had the Holden 304 engine. He stuck with it as long as he could, until the Chev was mandated

@fullnoyz7670 3 жыл бұрын

Hey spotto a joes garage sticker!

@doykwis2220 3 жыл бұрын

My friends dad owns Peter Brock's vk

@volksdeutschewaffenss9670 3 жыл бұрын

so does my brother , his is a white special 5.0, brought from phil brock at berty street when peter up graded to the newer model, i think peter changed cars like we changed shoes

@markr6812 3 жыл бұрын

0:43 that picture is from 1983, not 1984.

@timb8095 3 жыл бұрын

What happened to the original engine?

@timb8095 3 жыл бұрын

Is this the car that was at Goodwood?

@Andyc351 2 жыл бұрын

@vkboy3146 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone know if the decals were painted or stickers thanks

@Andyc351 2 жыл бұрын

Painted

@pattoallen1981 3 жыл бұрын

Peter champion bought alot of brocks cars and had a museum in yeppoon how many of them where genuine i dont know

@oldskool6294 3 жыл бұрын

there was a dispute with him and Bathurst council over who had the real car. I think the council car was verified as being real.

@BruceLee-sw4ms Ай бұрын

I said to a Brock mechanic how I thought this was The best Holden to win Bathurst. Then he told me the truth about the car.

@peterbarber7613 3 жыл бұрын

Who owns the car now

@brittenv1000 3 жыл бұрын

What is the rocktober sponsorship please?

@skunkoceros 3 жыл бұрын

The car was sponsored by the 3XY radio station, Rocktober was a promotion of rock music for October.

@simon7218 3 жыл бұрын

2SM did Rocktober here in Sydney too. I think they were affiliated with 3XY.

@ldnwholesale8552 3 жыл бұрын

Those rear tyres are not the correct size. They were far taller. The plastic engine was used right through GpA and up til 94 in Supercars. Larry was the last one using them.

@armorgeddon 2 жыл бұрын

What is a plastic engine?

@obiemichaels9675 2 жыл бұрын

@@armorgeddon it's something misguided people who like chevs call the Holden 5litre. And the tyres are correct

@terryjackson4538 Жыл бұрын

I was going to say the same thing. All they did was turn the 308 into a 304 to get under the 5 litre capacity for group A.

@matthewkulakovski 3 жыл бұрын

Why is the vk orange

@ryanschacht_ 2 жыл бұрын

Did it have a supercharger at all?

@peterhoare3219 Жыл бұрын

Nope

@DoitforBrockbrock 3 жыл бұрын

🇦🇺👍🚀

@streetguru3054 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure Group C started in 1973

@rebeccakenworthy4623 3 жыл бұрын

Hang on, he's incorrect about the 05 being reference to the Blood Alcohol Level allowed when driving... I think he's forgetting that up until the early to mid 80's the legal blood alcohol limit was 0.8!!! I'm calling B.S on that story

@beagle7622 3 жыл бұрын

You are wrong . In Victoria it was .05. Brock did a lot of Road Safety talks in his early days & adopted the number for cars he drove. I believe other states may have had different limits in those days . I knew a couple of people who did lose their licences . No sympathy even back then.

@jefftheaussie2225 2 жыл бұрын

.05 in Victoria, Brocky was Victorian after all.

@terryjackson4538 Жыл бұрын

.08 in SA. .05 in Vic and NSW. Not sure on other states at the time.

@steviev1422 3 жыл бұрын

...I'm pretty sure that the blood alcohol limit was .08 when it first came in. Some other fact checks seem required. Don't use Brocky cheaply no matter who.

@suitinaute 3 жыл бұрын

It was .05 in Victoria. I was a kid but can remember it pretty vividly. casr.adelaide.edu.au/T95/paper/s29p1.html#:~:text=Since%20its%20introduction%20in%201976,be%20in%20excess%20of%200.05%25. Think I can recall Brock promoting it too. There was a red winged logo saying 'Stay under 05'. I think that might have been displayed pretty prominently on Brocks car (as stated in the clip).

@weareleeds987 3 жыл бұрын

Not in Victoria it wasn't. Since the 1970's it has always been .05% as far as I am aware. Before that, I remember blowing in the bag and the crystals turning green, which meant that the car was locked up at the side of the road, and I had to find another way to get home. I was only 300 metres away from home and was allowed to drive the car the next morning after picking up the keys from the local police station. There was no way a copper could tell how high the blood/breath - alcohol percentage was and no conviction was ever recorded. Oh the good old days!!

@balwa999 3 жыл бұрын

BT1.....

@stevenleades 27 күн бұрын

Last of the Australian engines? ummm.....

@farvatron Жыл бұрын

Audio was terrible! And we didn't need to know about the .05

@proscreens2137 3 жыл бұрын

Stopped watching when the lame Group A came in

@Dave.S.TT600 3 жыл бұрын

Group A Still great racing but we succumbed to Globalism, looking back.

@justaname1862 2 жыл бұрын

Brock only won a race if he had the fastest car...when he didnt...he Lost!

@peterhoare3219 Жыл бұрын

Gee. Let's rethink that statement. I was THERE in 1997. 🙂

@mothereartha7 3 жыл бұрын

I was going to watch this but it’s abc, and lm boycotting them because of years of woke nonsense, so l won’t be watching this video.

@MrFister84 3 жыл бұрын

Cool story.

@gdawwg1125 3 жыл бұрын

You’re a flog

@chapo4461 3 жыл бұрын

Wow your loss then ya goose

@jefftheaussie2225 2 жыл бұрын

I agree with you too but watched anyway. ABC stands for All Bloody Crap but if it’s Brocky it’s a must even if they went for the woke angle sometimes.