1971 Hardie Ferodo 500 Bathurst

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  • @cloudattack3279
    @cloudattack3279 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This was the right type of race. All groups involved. The glory days of stock car racing long gone. The Conrod was awesome before the kink. All these drivers had balls of steel.

    • @UFO-racer
      @UFO-racer 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You know we use to start pumping the brakes as we came over the hump in Holden, Ford and Chargers to but the others went much deeper…

    • @CanberraProtest-dm6hu
      @CanberraProtest-dm6hu 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And that S section coming down the Mountain. What a great camera shot of that. Have they been taken out too or we can't see that on modern TV camera angles?

    • @brianvogt8125
      @brianvogt8125 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CanberraProtest-dm6hu The road shape remains the same except for the addition of The Chase on Conrod Straight and widening of Hell Corner. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Panorama_Circuit .
      Street furniture (mainly fencing) has been improved enormously since 1979.

  • @SharonSmith-sb6xx
    @SharonSmith-sb6xx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    We grew up watching this race. Every year a group of Mum and Dad's friends would get together for a 'chicken and champagne breakfast' at one of our homes and watch the race with a BBQ lunch, lots of beers and kids running around. We had a blast. Love the commentary and the soundtrack....so 1970's!!! Great memories and laughs!

    • @brianvogt8125
      @brianvogt8125 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The commentary of Kevin Golsby is distinctive. He did lots of documentaty films, TV adverts, TV dramas & comedies.

    • @SharonSmith-sb6xx
      @SharonSmith-sb6xx 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@brianvogt8125 Great to know who the commentator is, thanks!

  • @JohnJohn-zn8ib
    @JohnJohn-zn8ib ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I remember that roll over clear as day, was getting ready for Sunday school on the Sunday morning and was in shock, black and white television back then, great days.

  • @pauln1557
    @pauln1557 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Real racing, real men, no media hype or bullshit. Pure Magic!
    Thanks for posting. Paul in NZ

    • @graemeking7336
      @graemeking7336 ปีที่แล้ว

      You poor bastard, living in NZ.

    • @JohnJohn-zn8ib
      @JohnJohn-zn8ib ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, no dick girls walking around in g strings, not many tattooed goons walking around thinking how cool they were, just good fun.

  • @area51isreal71
    @area51isreal71 5 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Thanks heaps mate. That was just plain bloody terrific. V8's, sixes, fours and even rotary engined cars that were able to be bought from the showroom at the time mixing it up together. Apart from the factory teams from Chrysler, Holden and Ford with the Charger, Torana and GTHO I noticed Datsuns, Mazdas, Ford Escorts, Minis and an Alfa Romeo all fighting for class honours. It was several races within the one race. V8 supercars? I think I would rather watch Home and Away repeats instead. Thanks again for posting this gem.

    • @markwhelan9887
      @markwhelan9887 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Z

    • @306champion
      @306champion 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      area51isreal.
      I couldn't have put it better myself mate. Today's racing is so sterile that it doesn't even rate a watch.

    • @jasonlennon1940
      @jasonlennon1940 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Well said mate. Used to watch bathurst and all the racing when l was a kid now l don't even turn on the tv. Those days are long gone and racing became to politicaly correct like everything else nowadays.

  • @hcrun
    @hcrun ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Sad to see that AM is in a bad way with dementia. He may have outlived his greatest on-track rival but I think he's getting the rough end of the pineapple.
    Anyway...thanks for putting this on YT. I watched it back on the day at a friend's home in Eastwood. Tradition had it that every "Hardly Ferocious 500" was watched with friends at one of our homes. Great days.

    • @pippaknuckle
      @pippaknuckle 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agree Alan is a great Australian (Canadian) 😊

  • @alanriley9754
    @alanriley9754 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Great see the old circuit.
    Much preferred the racing back then for so many reasons.

  • @cressida00
    @cressida00 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Dead beers hurled onto the hill, screeching cross ply tyres, body roll like the Queen Mary. ❤️ it all!.

  • @vicbitter2142
    @vicbitter2142 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I've. been a motor racing fan since I was a kid, and this is the first time I have seen this coverage of probably the greatest time in Oz Motor racing. Today most of the cars in this race are worth more then a nice house and some worth the cost of several. 1971 was imo the pinical of Australian motor manufacturing. Thank so much for putting this video on TH-cam.

  • @davee8659
    @davee8659 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Thank you for putting this up. I was 3 at this time but dad worked for GMH and I quickly became a Brocky fan. In the early '00s I photographed a lot of the races - particularly the Porsche Cup, the V8 Supercars and the Bathurst 1000 and my press pass gave me full access to the pit areas and the course.
    One night at about 9:30pm after a big day of race photography, I was packing my camera gear into my car in the empty carpark and I heard footsteps behind me. I turned and it was Brocky making a bee-line towards me. He held out his hand to shake mine and thanked me for my contributions. We had a chat for a while and he dimly recalled meeting dad. This was after a very full day of signing autographs and shaking hands with endless queues of fans. Can't think of many motorsports 'heroes' who would have done that.
    Not long after that he passed away on that fateful day and we lost a true racing hero and gentleman. This video rekindles a lot of great memories and I thank you for it! Regards, Dave

  • @stevensalvadori1045
    @stevensalvadori1045 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Love this in colour saw it in b&w when 11 yrs old.

  • @Warpedsmac
    @Warpedsmac ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Kevin Goldsby...his narration and commentary creates excitement...love that style of voice.

  • @andymartinez767
    @andymartinez767 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I think these were the days, so enjoyable when all together and REAL cars

    • @tazman8697
      @tazman8697 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Real rust buckets but ya had to love them.. Sad that the PC brigade buggered this great race up

  • @fiddlestickzmuzik
    @fiddlestickzmuzik 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Damn this brings back so many memories for me as a kid I loved watching Moffat Bond, Bartlett and Geoghan etc, my old man used to take me to practice days at Oran park and Warwick farm, we'd jump the fence, run across the track and walk around the pits like we belonged in there, no one ever said anything to us, I loved it of course. he never took me to race days just practice, hated crowds my old man did, we watched the main race on the tele.

    • @Bluepilled-c5t
      @Bluepilled-c5t ปีที่แล้ว

      Your Dad sounds like a good man.

  • @brianmoylan1671
    @brianmoylan1671 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    1971 was a special year , having the three , Holden , Ford and Chrysler , all running factory backed teams . Fantasic extended original footage .

    • @cheltboy
      @cheltboy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Actually GMH would not offically get involved in racing; hence, Holden Dealer Team. I think they were giving support behind the scenes. The Datsun getting back on the track after rolling is typical of the attitude then. Great days indeed!

    • @thomasraftery409
      @thomasraftery409 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Chargers were not properly sorted out. The brakes were a nightmare, didn't exist. The 3 speed gearbox was highly inadequate. The Falcons brakes were spot on and reliable as was their speed and handling.

  • @zyawotha
    @zyawotha 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    2:04 that shadow of the cameraman sitting on the bonnet is just insane. thats dedication

    • @chopperking1122
      @chopperking1122 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      or the car moffats driving hasnt a roll cage , so its not his race car , and the camera guy is standing thru a sunroof

  • @7s29
    @7s29 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Great times. I own a Bathurst charger. I can't believe they raced on razor blades for tyres.

    • @chryslervaliant.2758
      @chryslervaliant.2758 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They used 225/50 tires.

    • @not-pc6937
      @not-pc6937 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Loved the chargers - very underrated car , looked fast standing still !! 👍

    • @distantcoff7391
      @distantcoff7391 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah sadly being brought up with Holden's, I have to say the Charger was by far the best looking car of the day and we'll into the future.

    • @DodgyBrothersEngineering
      @DodgyBrothersEngineering 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@distantcoff7391 that's a tough call, I'm not a Ford fan but the Phase 3 was a good looking car too. The VH Charger was definitely a good looking car.

    • @jolla9963
      @jolla9963 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      May I enquire as to what gearbox a Bathurst Charger ran?, was it 3 or 4 speed?

  • @yoesomite2199
    @yoesomite2199 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember watching Bathurst 71, when I was 12 years old ! (and every year since)

  • @mikevale3620
    @mikevale3620 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    It's because these production cars were actually production cars, some with their number plates still attached that soon after when CAMS changed the rules completely that I stopped following the great race and haven't watched it live since. Excellent video that brings back fond memories watching as a 15 yo. 👍

  • @steveretiredqfgroup.ansett1532
    @steveretiredqfgroup.ansett1532 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was at this one, up a tree at forest elbow...rode out the from Sydney on my old Honda 500/4....memories

  • @jasonlennon1940
    @jasonlennon1940 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What unbelievable incredible day's of real racing. When bathurst was unspoiled with that chase and we here in Australia built great Australian cars remember those days. At least l still own a falcon 351 which is part of this country's history now as are all those car's from those far better day's of racing. What an era....

    • @brianvogt8125
      @brianvogt8125 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I share your sentimentality about The Chase. However, Conrod Straight isn't as flat as a sheet of window glass, and the cars became too fast to reliably survive the trip down. In the mid-1970s, John Goss was blown off the course & into a vineyard by a strong cross wind while airbourne after the hump. Mike Burgmann died in 1986 when he crashed his Commodore into the base of that unnecessary bridge. Inadequate fencing with Armco in all cases.

  • @DerekArmsden
    @DerekArmsden 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Ah shorts and white socks. The pit uniform of the 70's.

  • @peterwhitehead4924
    @peterwhitehead4924 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What a time capsule of an epic race and the best track 👏

    • @michaelschulz336
      @michaelschulz336 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Maybe some of those US NASCAR types should come over and take lessons in the way it's done here.

    • @markchilcott719
      @markchilcott719 ปีที่แล้ว

      STILL an awesome track, even to walk around. AND we enjoyed better cars from the Bathurst production racing. One of the world's best motor racing circuits.

  • @brianmoylan1671
    @brianmoylan1671 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    FORD Australia at its zenith. The world wide "total performance" decree ( from Ford in detroit) was still alive and well in '71. A full factory backed team, wonderful leadership, engineering, and first class drivers. The phase 3 in the hands of Allan George Moffat, were too reliable, and electrifingly fast.

  • @Dallas-Nyberg
    @Dallas-Nyberg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Back then, most of the race cars were road registered. They drove them to the track. stripped off and/or added a few bits and raced them. If they survived the race, they drove them back home.
    I much preferred the racing back then. They were racing cars that the public could buy of the showroom floor.

    • @Mercmad
      @Mercmad 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Years ago a block offered me a valiant that he had raced at Bathurst. An E34 ,he modified the engine etc and then drove to the race....from Brisbane.

    • @Dallas-Nyberg
      @Dallas-Nyberg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Mercmad - the great Des West came from Wingham NSW.. he used to drive his Monaro to Bathurst to race it.. He said it worked a treat. The long drive would help to run in the newly fitted engine. Cheers

    • @professorpatpending8731
      @professorpatpending8731 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Dallas Nyberg. Actually they were production cars, slightly modified for CAMS rules, and then taken to the race tracks.
      Ford v Holden v Chrysler in group D and E.

    • @Skippy-id9yt
      @Skippy-id9yt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@professorpatpending8731 thats what he said mate ,road registered (production cars, we get the point he was making ) , why bother being a know all mate , seriously

    • @DodgyBrothersEngineering
      @DodgyBrothersEngineering 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I miss seeing cars with a real interior go around at Bathurst. Today's cars aren't even cars, they are panels over a tube chassis.

  • @stephanburgess654
    @stephanburgess654 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember watching this race that year all day. Wasn't a Moffat fan but loved the Chargers. Always loved the way the cars popped up over that little hill on Conroy straight. From memory that crash of Browns ford actually broke a marshals elbow as he tried to get out of the way.

  • @peterjohnstaples
    @peterjohnstaples 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    When racing cars was racing and exciting and one could not miss a minute, shame it is hardly worth watching anymore!

    • @theaussielifestyle6931
      @theaussielifestyle6931 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I agree mate. i'm on the edge of seat watching this, i got bored watching Bathurst this year that i went and mowed the lawn!
      Its a pity in only 17 and never got to experience this in person!

    • @gordonrosswhitehead5052
      @gordonrosswhitehead5052 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hasn’t been worth watching for years now.The is no connection to what they race and what you see on the show room floor at the dealers.That was the idea of it all to show the car buying public how good their product was based on what you could buy at your local dealer and what was then raced.Not anymore.

    • @FutureSystem738
      @FutureSystem738 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Racing was indeed racing! Bathurst USED to be a must for me, (and even for my wife)! I went there many times in person, (certainly in ‘72, ‘73, ‘74, ‘75) and if not, would ALWAYS watch on Tv. Now I often don’t even bother turning the Tv on unless I have absolutely nothing better to do. Yawn!

    • @vsvnrg3263
      @vsvnrg3263 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i totally lost interest when the skylines won and they got booed when on the podium.

  • @greebo7857
    @greebo7857 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was there. Camped up at Mcphillamy for three days. Brilliant. Wouldn't go near the place now.

  • @jeffwilliams742
    @jeffwilliams742 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    The good old days so. Much better than today

    • @brianvogt8125
      @brianvogt8125 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The public spectacle has been unmatched for 30+ years now, but track safety was only a vague concept back then. No concrete walls to keep vehicles on the mountain. At the 1979 Easter motorcycle GP races, Ron Toombes was killed when he went down the hill & into a tree. Insufficient number of marshal stations, almost non-existent communication between them. Motorsport is extremely well organised now, but lacks interesting competitors.

  • @FutureSystem738
    @FutureSystem738 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This was definitely “the good old days” when it was a real race.
    Not any more.
    Racing was indeed racing! Bathurst USED to be an absolute must for me, (and even for my wife)! I went there many times in person, (and certainly in ‘72, ‘73, ‘74, ‘75) and if not, would ALWAYS watch on Tv.
    Now I often don’t even bother turning the Tv on unless I have absolutely nothing better to do. Yawn!

  • @AFA82
    @AFA82 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How Bill Brown walked away from that crash is unbelievable….

  • @darrylmackie9184
    @darrylmackie9184 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Lucky enough to be there in 71, I'm a Holden person BUT Moffat was a great Competitor.

    • @simonolsen9995
      @simonolsen9995 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Moffat would have really benefitted from a modern PR team. As A kid, i remembered being very unimpressed by his clinical, robotic personality. Plus he was a "yankee" and Ford man. But looking back at this now, nothing but respect for, and a belated salute to the man.

    • @brianvogt8125
      @brianvogt8125 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@simonolsen9995 Like all Candians, Allan Moffat would take extreme offence at being described as a "yankee." His nationality was well known at the time.
      True, he was very clinical - attention to detail made him more successful than most. On one occasion, his steering components bent, putting him out of the Bathurst race. Channel 7 allowed him an interview to explain while the race continued. "This might sound like sour grapes, but ..." he reassured the public that street-legal tyres cannot impose the rod-bending load that race-legal broad racing slicks can do.

    • @simonolsen9995
      @simonolsen9995 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@brianvogt8125 I'm sure he was big enough a man to not take "extreme offence" at an eight year old who didn't even know the difference between USA and Canada, To a small town Aussie kid back then, every north American accent was "yankee". Regardless of whether it came from Macon GA or Calgary. The quotation marks were a hint.

    • @williamnot8934
      @williamnot8934 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Great to watch back then.Then you go and buy a new or Holden or Falcon and get treated like a Mug and sold a piece of junk by some arrogant Showroom Salesman. Not to mention the crappy after sales service that was offered by Holden and Ford. I remember how arrogant Holden were with their spare parts pricing when you tried to repair the expensive piece of junk you bought from them just a few months out of warranty. The best thing to happen to the Australian Motor Car Industry was Japan.😮😮😮

  • @araifinn7436
    @araifinn7436 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    That's what freedom looked like.

    • @CanberraProtest-dm6hu
      @CanberraProtest-dm6hu 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I loved seeing probably Italians made a mini grand stand from scaffolding

    • @CanberraProtest-dm6hu
      @CanberraProtest-dm6hu 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes and i was born around this time and have enough childhood memories to know how suffocating life is today. So is why I am an avid freedom fighter now

  • @Arctic_Traveller
    @Arctic_Traveller 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Nice to see this race in quality colour, back in the day we watched it on a 24" black and white TV.

  • @mickcarson8504
    @mickcarson8504 4 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    The great Australian dream, Australian cars, Australian culture, Australian way of life... all gone.

    • @mattyoz0
      @mattyoz0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Sad isn't it?

    • @jamescarney6894
      @jamescarney6894 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Yes that happened on our watch. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

    • @digital727
      @digital727 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Look at what Coles & Woolworths did to the country. Farmers,Grocers & businesses complaining & warning us for decades of their greed & selfishness & what did we do besides sit on our couch watching & thinking "She'll be right mate,I'm comfortable". Expensive no variety same garbage & choice, making sure others can't compete.

    • @LeonKotze70
      @LeonKotze70 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Same happened in South Africa mate...

    • @iSobeyHvK
      @iSobeyHvK 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It is a little sad to blame the next generation for what happened on your watch. All went downhill once Gough Whitlem was ousted. that was the downfall.

  • @docgonzales
    @docgonzales 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    When Conrod was straight all the way down, ahh brilliant.

    • @stephanburgess654
      @stephanburgess654 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Doc Gonzales it's a shame a driver lost his life racing down it. Changed the race forever.

    • @velocityjet1884
      @velocityjet1884 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      More speed and harder breaking in the end

    • @MichaelKingsfordGray
      @MichaelKingsfordGray 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Until they put a wiggle in it to slow things down...

    • @Bluepilled-c5t
      @Bluepilled-c5t ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Imo they should have just flattened out the hump a bit instead of putting in a bend. The hump was the problem, not the straight.

    • @Aaron_Hanson
      @Aaron_Hanson 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@stephanburgess654 Mike Burgmann in 1986?

  • @pharronrhodes4746
    @pharronrhodes4746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    These cars didn't have the brake, tire, or suspension technology of today. But see how fast they are anyway. Driver skill was on display every race from all the drivers.

    • @ldnwholesale8552
      @ldnwholesale8552 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The joke is that these days HQs are faster, and that is with the addition of the chase. 202 3 speed manual.
      Track is a race track these days, not a closed scenic drive.

    • @Rob-fc9wg
      @Rob-fc9wg 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Steering, brakes and suspension straight off an 1850s Cobb & co coach!

  • @MrGoblin60
    @MrGoblin60 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh, they were mighty men wrestling what were essentially street saloons around all day. I can remember hurrying back from Church with my brother to plonk ourselves down in front of the tv for the rest of the day to marvel over the Phase 3's. Sounds like Kev Goldsby doing the narration.

    • @vicbittertoo
      @vicbittertoo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      yep, they were true gladiators :)

  • @barrybr1
    @barrybr1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Mt.Panarama....what a track! What a history at this circuit. Used to watch it from Go to Wo as a nipper.

  • @stephenrand5286
    @stephenrand5286 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This is incredible footage and it’s great to see.Well done to the person who posted this and I love watching the old footage of the series production cars at Bathurst because there are some great stories in there as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @306champion
    @306champion 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thems were the days, this is what got me hooked.
    I really dont remember all these squealing tyres, maybe some dubbing has taken place here.
    The bloke in the HO in the pits with brake problems! I thought they had no brakes left by this stage and just kept going.
    This was racing in its purest form, I loved it, I still love it and we wont see the likes of it again.

    • @ottomellar6774
      @ottomellar6774 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, I think the tyre squeal was added for "excitement and drama".

    • @markchilcott719
      @markchilcott719 ปีที่แล้ว

      I haven't lost hope for the Australian car AND truck industry. CKD kits AND IMPORT TARIFFS - why make foreigners rich?

    • @ZoomStranger
      @ZoomStranger 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not dubbed, these were crossply tyres - I run them on my old Landrover and yep, they are a leap back in time from any radial. Tomorrow morning mine will have flat spots until they warm up because I've got a half tonne in the back. Grip is non-existent in the wet, but these are Chinese. Brownie's tyre giving up Just Because at 100mph wasn't dubbed either.

  • @donbon4204
    @donbon4204 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    this is better than the hybrid nascar bs we have now

  • @sv5k14
    @sv5k14 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great quality video....and what a Great time for australian racing.

  • @dadsonion5292
    @dadsonion5292 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is wonderful - about the time I started watching Bathurst at age 8. I loved the mixture of classes in those days. Hard to believe the race kept running and marshals just risked their life on the track to remove it when an accident occurred.

  • @californiaadventurer2719
    @californiaadventurer2719 5 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    Racing was so freakin' cool back then...stock-based cars on a natural-terrain course. Now it's so sterile and artificial, I don't even watch it anymore.

    • @pixeleyes2332
      @pixeleyes2332 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      you could watch the race on sunday and then go to the showroom and buy the same model that was in the race on monday , today the cars are so modified and illegal to own on the road

    • @MrTecAut
      @MrTecAut 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      If you take a good look on everything, you'll see that everything is going on the same way... everything is boring. The whole world is blastering boring.

    • @stevensalvadori1045
      @stevensalvadori1045 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's become American. Sadly.

    • @gothicpagan.666
      @gothicpagan.666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pixeleyes2332 Funny thing is, the most popular race series here in the UK are the production cars.
      Current touring cars have no relavance sadly

    • @jackstorm9080
      @jackstorm9080 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yep I don't watch it anymore it's supposed to be factory production cars racing not full on racing cars

  • @pwo128
    @pwo128 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Gee that was a bad accident with Bill Brown. But the most amazing was to see the Datto roll on Forrest Elbow...the marshals simply righted her and the driver hopped in and continued the race!! Wouldn't happen nowadays.
    I lament the loss of the true production car style the Bathurst race used to be.

    • @ldnwholesale8552
      @ldnwholesale8552 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Naah, there would be a nanny car these days and Alan would have lost his hard worked for lead.
      That is how Brock and Moffat won those races, just run away early and hide!

    • @MickH60
      @MickH60 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ldnwholesale8552 There's no hiding at Bathurst mate...

    • @ivanjulian2532
      @ivanjulian2532 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Bathurst 12 hour is now "the true production car" race. Check it out some time. The cars in THIS video are lapping around 2:42... the cars in the Bathurst 12 Hour are now in the high 1:59s

  • @paulthew2
    @paulthew2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That was hilarious. Casual wear in the pits, spectators helping to lift a rolled car, marshals (one in slacks) o the track ambling beside a wrecked car while the race still runs....and awesome driving and cars. Loved it.

  • @alanriley9754
    @alanriley9754 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cheers mate.
    My late father used to compete against Harry in the mid 1950s. He and Harry were of the same age.
    Harry was indeed "the fox" 🦊
    Dad was a GMH man who tested the Holdens at Lang Lang and worked at both the Dandenong and Salmon Street plants.

    • @stevessoutheastasia4426
      @stevessoutheastasia4426 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      All ways wondered what the old plants would say if it could talk, dandy is a transport wharehouse and salmon st is just concrete with the last remaining skeleton for a shed rotting away , sadly most dont know what that site was originally for ... i drive past every day ... cheers

    • @markchilcott719
      @markchilcott719 ปีที่แล้ว

      Back in the days when local industries employed SKILLED locals !

  • @not-pc6937
    @not-pc6937 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Brings back a lot of really great memories- cheers and thanks for the upload 👍

  • @slimshady2777
    @slimshady2777 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wow great upload. . Great to see it in colour .. looks like plenty other good videos on your channel too!

  • @kevinclose4879
    @kevinclose4879 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was one of those watching in a tree just 20 or 30 metres away from the spectacular Bill Brown crash. A dozen people handed me their cameras to get the photo from a bird's eye view.

  • @stephenpickering9653
    @stephenpickering9653 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for posting that was Gold, was that driver having a smoke on his pit stop!

  • @Rusty_Gold85
    @Rusty_Gold85 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Landscape around Murrays Corner is so weirdly different. Its had some huge excavations taken out of the fields

  • @darting100
    @darting100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    REAL production car racing,some of the cars even registered with number plates!!,very close to what the public could buy

  • @vicbittertoo
    @vicbittertoo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    just AWESOME, GTs, Toranas and Chargers wallowing thru the corners :):):)

  • @mikloslipcsey7923
    @mikloslipcsey7923 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    15:26 One of the spectator areas at the Albert Park circuit for the Australian Grand Prix was named after Doug Whiteford. I think he was the first Australian to win the Australian Grand Prix three times.
    What strikes me about the Bathurst track back then was the lack of run off room if you lose your brakes which was not uncommon - except at Murrays and Hell corner… where the road goes on and on and on.

  • @shiraz99
    @shiraz99 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Great !!! Thanks for this.... real racing !!!

  • @oz2strokeman394
    @oz2strokeman394 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Digby Cook Torana sounded just like a V8 when it accelerated out of the pits! Good bit of video here, thanks.

  • @TheKnobCalledTone.
    @TheKnobCalledTone. ปีที่แล้ว

    I love these old Holden promotional films from the '70s. Very cool.

  • @donbrashsux
    @donbrashsux 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a great period .. beautiful

  • @michaeldowning2278
    @michaeldowning2278 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Loved this, nice memories.

  • @gazzamacca9813
    @gazzamacca9813 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love the sound of the Ford V8, great memories

  • @PJWXR6T
    @PJWXR6T หลายเดือนก่อน

    It was all great, the cars were real, not the ‘sleds’ of today and the guys were crazy brave. You can’t live in the past, but I do miss it 😊. I’ve owned most of those cars, they were all quirky and their own special little problems …

  • @dailydoseofsydney
    @dailydoseofsydney 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    WoW so happy came accros this i was born in 1971 so glad i watched this and ive been to around 35 Bathurst 1000s
    🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @ottomellar6774
    @ottomellar6774 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yeah, I think the tyre squeal was added for "excitement and drama". Unfortunately we cannot hear the engines, which I know were much louder than the tyres.
    For me, 1971 was the greatest year, despite the Chargers not winning the race.

    • @ZoomStranger
      @ZoomStranger 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They didn't bother with the kind of fakery so easy to produce now. They recorded a race and put it on the TV live. Do you really think they tapped "squealing tyres x 4" into a computer the size of Britain and waited for a punched printout tape saying it was loaded ready for the next corner dub...?

  • @bugproductions9050
    @bugproductions9050 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    This is awesome. (The safety aspect has changed slightly these days).

    • @306champion
      @306champion 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We need safety BUT someone blows a tyre and "WHAM" out comes a safety car.
      I recon they did bloody well with flag marshals and they kept on racing with towey's on the track, it only took common sense.

  • @nickkostakis9600
    @nickkostakis9600 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great show brilliant cars Top video thank you

  • @jamesm3123
    @jamesm3123 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ive driven a xy gt ho falcon at 140 mph. It was scary. And ive driven a hsv clubsport at260 kmh and that sat on the road like it was on rails.That is 30 plus years of cars getting better and better

  • @RexyH267
    @RexyH267 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    GOD I remember this what an era,

  • @georgekaplan6451
    @georgekaplan6451 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Death defying feats on skinny tyres. 60 entries vs 28 for the race this year...

    • @Mercmad
      @Mercmad 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      60 interesting entries.

  • @jacquesdemorton5871
    @jacquesdemorton5871 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    A cold can of Coca-Cola, a tank full of BP petrol, a GTHO, Bathurst and Allan Moffit behind the wheel.
    Sad to get old and put up with rubbish.

    • @GetUpFalcon
      @GetUpFalcon 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm 32 - and can't stand the rubbish. Even the cricket is unwatchable these days.

    • @gordonrosswhitehead5052
      @gordonrosswhitehead5052 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GetUpFalcon Too many show ponies in cricket now.It’s seem to be about them and not the game....

    • @MickH60
      @MickH60 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gordonrosswhitehead5052 Nah, we had show ponies back in the day, Thommo, Lillee and Marsh and co, the difference being, those guys had BALLS...!

  • @wayneharper2168
    @wayneharper2168 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember we had the telephone on all day. We as kids would watch the start. Then at lunchtime to see who's winning, then the last few laps.

  • @bbkingwasthegreatest711
    @bbkingwasthegreatest711 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    If you look at the shadow of the cameraman at 01:55 and at 02:01 he seems to be perched on top of the car, the good old days

  • @26TptCoy
    @26TptCoy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    8:07 Bill Brown testing fate ... 13:04 few laps later big crash same spot. How lucky were the flaggies on the fence. These cars had rear seats, I wonder if there was anyone game enough to sit in the back? It is good quality up load and in color, thanks.

  • @johnmerton3630
    @johnmerton3630 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Moffat's horse power wins his races but that said he still was a great driver.

  • @Ben.jack.in.off.to.you1
    @Ben.jack.in.off.to.you1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    im a holden guy but i love them all.

  • @PrettyChrome
    @PrettyChrome 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    All that body roll is beautiful

  • @gregbassace1
    @gregbassace1 ปีที่แล้ว

    A time in which compared to what races at Bathurst in 2023, I rather watch the grass grow. Nothing can convince me that Supercars is better than this. The grand old days of variety of cars, classes and outright winning drivers.

  • @brendanayres7920
    @brendanayres7920 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    All those old Mt Panorama safety features like dental-floss Armco, earth banks and gum trees, just in case you missed the other two.
    I think that the cars go faster now-days because they aren't carrying around drivers with giant testicles!

    • @not-pc6937
      @not-pc6937 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      😂🤣I think your right 👍

    • @ldnwholesale8552
      @ldnwholesale8552 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think the fence proved itself with the Bill Brown crash, it cut that car in half

  • @cheltboy
    @cheltboy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Real authentic production car racing. Great days!

    • @brianvogt8125
      @brianvogt8125 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Back in 1971, you could go to a car dealer and buy one of these. From 1974 onwards, the Group C rules became progressively more permissive. The end of production racing came in about 2001 when GMH made one last run of unit construction body shells at the Elizabeth plant. The I.T. workers (EDS Australia) had to disable about 14 alarms that would have indicated missing components along the assembly line. For later years, V8 Stupor Cars were all steel tube trellis with acid-etched (for lightness) body panels riveted on. The only components you could buy from a car dealer were the lights & brand badges.

  • @cobar5342
    @cobar5342 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Heaps better back then
    I don't go there anymore

  • @richardatkins4386
    @richardatkins4386 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Check out the car camera that was available in 1971 at 1.50 sec in with the shadow going down in the dipper

    • @csykes23
      @csykes23 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is it someone on a flatbed with a tripod!!?? It looks it!!

  • @Batman-wv5ng
    @Batman-wv5ng ปีที่แล้ว

    What a great time all Australian made cars , now fifty years later we have nothing to show shame.

  • @madazza
    @madazza ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can't believe the Datsun was allowed to keep racing! 😂

  • @ottomellar6774
    @ottomellar6774 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just figured out that the filming was likely silent, soundtrack added later, hence the tyre squeal inserted by someone who hadn't witnessed the race.

  • @winnie-the-poohahaha4428
    @winnie-the-poohahaha4428 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When all cars raced not just the sooks in a v8 . Well worth watching back then but now I only watch the first few laps and the last 5

  • @wizzard5442
    @wizzard5442 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was on black & white tv back then, Australia didnt have colour tv till 1975.

  • @vsvnrg3263
    @vsvnrg3263 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the highlight for me was the gtho rolling along the armco. until i saw them right the datsun 1200 and he drove it off without windows!

  • @abbeyhall4624
    @abbeyhall4624 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Talk about drive by the seat-of-ya-pants. Them's were the days!!

  • @danjo1967
    @danjo1967 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    the days, when there were no guard rails, worked on your car in the paddock, and painted them with a paintbrush with a few beers over the weekend...

  • @philliphowson1937
    @philliphowson1937 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just got ready for the big race coming up this weekend on TV 7

  • @philliphowson1937
    @philliphowson1937 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    When Bathurst was a race

  • @georgep9059
    @georgep9059 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow this upload is gold!!

  • @MrTonaluv
    @MrTonaluv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Why no Monaros? They had no hope against the mighty GTHO Phase III 351 Cleveland. What amazing cars!

  • @nevilleabbott2330
    @nevilleabbott2330 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I had a friend in primary school in the seventies who's father had a brand new falcon GThO 351,, probably worth $250000 by now

    • @Rob-fc9wg
      @Rob-fc9wg 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Probably closer to $1,000,000.

    • @MickH60
      @MickH60 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've owned 2 SLR's, 2 Gt falcons and a HK GTS monaro, amongst a pile of other early V8 Fords, all of them are worth a small fortune now, bought them for peanuts back then though....

  • @robertmcfarlane3598
    @robertmcfarlane3598 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No matter what we said about Moffitt he could drive a race car what a champion Allan was

  • @jeffwilliams742
    @jeffwilliams742 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Race Sunday sell Monday not any more

  • @MarksElectricLife
    @MarksElectricLife 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Ah, when men were men and sheep were frightened !

    • @ADRIAN-fb9xj
      @ADRIAN-fb9xj 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They still are in In Zid.

    • @Mercmad
      @Mercmad 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ADRIAN-fb9xj Only if they are not wearing their wooly burka.

    • @hughgordon6435
      @hughgordon6435 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The rooms are too!

  • @peterantonic5216
    @peterantonic5216 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was awesome thank you very much for uploading, it brings back fond memories of yesteryear when real cars were racing at Bathurst. The closest we have today is the historic races that are run on Saturday of the Bathurst 1000. It’s a shame that they dubbed the tyre squealing noise in this video, I would much rather have listened to the 351 Cleveland in the GTHO. 😁👍

  • @Stllno
    @Stllno ปีที่แล้ว

    We even ‘spoke’ differently in those days!