1962 Bathurst 6 Hour Classic
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- Held on the 30th September 1962, it was an endurance race for production touring cars and production sports cars. It was divided into 6 categories depending on price and type of car, with no overall winner. This race preceded the Bathurst 500/1000 races that would become an iconic race. There was a diverse range of cars entered that were available to buy in Australian showrooms at that time; from a Hillman Minx Van, Daimler SP250, MG, Skoda, Holden, Ford, Morris, Datsun, NSU, Hillman, Fiat, Renault, Peugeot, Austin, Simca, Citroen, Studebaker, Morgan, Austin-Healey and Triumph.
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A bit like watching paint dry compared to today but a great comparison of the machines of those days vs today’s.
Thank you
And the Paint might have still BEEN wet on some of those cars . Brand New , Latest and Greatest of the day .
My first year at Bathurst for the Easter event following the car racing. I thought the motorcycle racers were crazy! But 5 years later bought my first motorcycle and there followed thirty years of adventure and the best years of my life!! Now 81 and have also been to the motorcycle races at Daytona (1979) IOM TT (1992) and 30 years of Bathurst. Sure to get into Bikie Heaven!! Cheers Maynard from Oz 🏍👍
There were so many names on that starting list that I remember growing up in the late 60s and 70s.
Matich, French, Firth and of course Leo and Pete Geoghegan et al.
It's great you've got this rare history online!
Awesome!!!!
R. (Bob) Jane driving with Harry Firth in a Ford Falcon. Just before I was born.😂
The good old days of the Armstrong 500 when cars were entered into the race from the show room floor 👍
Nope. The 1962 Armstrong was still held at The Island. But yes, the good old days. Modern Bathurst is boring silhouette crap.
@@greebo7857 Yes now a race for the rich 🥺
Great history from Bathurst, thanks so much for posting!
Amazing. Thank you. What history.
great stuff.thank you for posting.
dear lord, I was 4 weeks old when this was filmed.....
Amazing to see a variety of cars in this race. I guess drivers were trying to see what might be a good rally car for competition sports - so it was unusual to see a Hillman Minx van in the mix!
Compared to today they looked like they were just out for a nice quiet drive. At one point I saw some paper blowing in the wind, it overtook the cars.
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Thank you for posting 👍👍
But that’s all they have to race in those days and it was fun no Factory sponsors ,,,This is how it should stayed 👍👍👍
Great footage, but I think that the recovery trucks go faster than that now.
Unrecognizable from todays Bathurst & modern car racing.... Give me a time machine and I would take my HSV back there 🙂
Great 😃 old film and ooh I was there in the pits cheers
Go the Simca, I owned one, don't roll down the mountain like Tony Roberts did in his Falcon if I remember correctly.
Hit x2 on the playback speed in settings!😂 The Husky looks like it gets air over the top of the mountain!
Well the roads are just the same around Bathurst,
Before it became a two horse race
I wonder if they were allowed to fit Michelin Radials - standard crossplys would have been awful to race on. I remember driving on them but zero fond memories :)
Well the French Citroen and Renault cars had Michelin radial tyres as standard, so definitely they would be allowed to use the standard tyres.
Other cars possibly.
It's amazing that there were no Jaguars, either Saloons or Sports cars!
The classes/divisions were arranged by the retail price of the car, the Jags (E-type or Mark 2) would've been above the upper limit
@@paulc5525 The pound (£) symbol was used instead of cubic centimeters (cc) for engine size. I think that is a mistake made by the person who made the video.
@@oldsoulshow no, it was based on price not engine size so not a mistake
@@oldsoulshowpeople still buy cars based on prices and not how big the engine.
Price based classes more relevant as a bang for buck measure.
You do know that Australia used Australian pounds as currency before 14 th of February 1966 when we converted to dollars and cents.
The poor performance of the early Falcon six cylinder car likely convinced Harry Firth and Bob Jane to go with the Ford Cortina GT in the 1963 and 1964 race and win the race with them
A Hillman Husky?? Wtf were they thinking?
All the engine power of a Hillman Minx but it in a lighter car made it a contender to win the class for low priced cars and attract sales.
Win on Sunday , sell on Monday.
We had a Hillman Husky, it was a great little car with a compact size and a very practical station wagon 'fridge door' on the back. I loved it, it went quite well down the 'Mad Mile' between Sutherland and Loftus in Sydney. 😄
@@PaulinesPastimes I take your point, however, it would be like putting a Toyota Hiace in todays Bathurst. Well…..it would be if bathurst was like the old days. Real cars you could buy.
@@grahamwalton1049 Going over the top and through the dipper would have been fun though. I once did a club lap dash at Amaroo Park in my Daihatsu 360, and Oran Park too! The speed is all relative.
The 1600cc Hillman Minx motor was a bit of a sleeper - we put extractors and a side draught Weber on ours and it turned into an animal on those crossply tyres.
Brilliant result for Fiat 1500s
We loved out 1500s back in the day - then the 125s were even better. I had an 1100D Riviera in my drive in theatre days - the front seats folded flat for a huge space which was often put to good use :)
Fiat 1500 was my dream car back then. In 1966 I settled for a 1961 Fiat 1800 eventually fitted with a 2300 engine after I blew the 1800 to bits.
Sky line looked different would have liked to see something of con rod doing all of 90mph.
Although the winning Daimler SP250 Dart likely hit 120 mph.
Plenty of those cars would hit 100mph down conrod. Some would be terrifying on crossplies.
How things have changed if all the makes that raced there are only three in existence today Morgan Fiat and Citreon what happen to the rest gone and forgotten
They look super slow, but I know they weren't. Perhaps the film speed?
i thought that too but when the Daimler SP250 flies past other cars, i think they were just slow. The other thing to take into account is the steepness of Mount Panorama.
@@paulc5525 Ok. These SP250's had a fairly powerful hemi-head V8. I have always really liked them, they sound great, and their looks grow on you. Leno did an episode on his.
They do faster than this up and down my street
😂, and mine!
0-100 in 20 minutes
How's the rubbish among the spectators......😮
Tons more now compared to those good old days, we had more respect then 👍
Watching paint dry on crossply tyres.
I imagine the Citroen was on Michelin X radials. None the less, it would have been pretty exciting being behind the wheel trying to get the best out of them. The drum brakes would have faded like mad at the bottom of Conrod!
@@PaulinesPastimes The Citroën DS was the first successful fielding of disc brakes on a mass-produced car. Inboard front discs. Among its many advanced features.
@@johnd8892 Yes I should have known that. I think I was mainly referring to the brakes on the other cars. Had a friend who rallied an ID 19. He took me for a drive in it, it was fabulous 😊
As slow as a month of wet sundays
The SP250 was good for 200KPH so not that slow.
brakes would have been the bigger issue.
.. I wonder how much they did down conrod.