Bathurst 1976 was my first visit to Mountain, starting a yearly tradition for decades with the best race cars, you could purchase off the Show Room Floor... The Car that Won on Sunday, Sold on the Monday Rang True.... Shame that era of car racing no more... Racing of today has lost followers due to parity of the race cars...
Tears rolling down my face, wot a race.... then i remembered my father designed the channel 7 logo on the winning Torana... And i own one! my head farken exploded! thanks for uploading the video. cheers mate
There's a story about how a lap scoring error handed the victory to Morris/Fitzpatrick instead of Bond/Harvey in the MHDT car. The Holden Dealer Team protested, and Clerk of Course Ivan Stibbard agreed with them, but GMH General Manager John Bagshaw made the decision not to protest the result. Seems the factory team snatching the victory away from a privateer that "won" the race in such a dramatic fashion would not have been a good look.
It’s a hunch but there are some good cars being sold. Series Production as I think these cars were called, took over from the Touring Cars of the time pretty much by then end of the decade.
Wish it was still like this....
Bathurst 1976 was my first visit to Mountain, starting a yearly tradition for decades with the best race cars, you could purchase off the Show Room Floor...
The Car that Won on Sunday, Sold on the Monday Rang True....
Shame that era of car racing no more...
Racing of today has lost followers due to parity of the race cars...
Or the lack of parity. No good having a so called parity formula when you allow one brand to completely dominate.
Tears rolling down my face, wot a race.... then i remembered my father designed the channel 7 logo on the winning Torana... And i own one! my head farken exploded!
thanks for uploading the video. cheers mate
Good old days!
What great drama !!
best days of this race, best commentators too
This was one of the great Bathursts, so much drama.
There's a story about how a lap scoring error handed the victory to Morris/Fitzpatrick instead of Bond/Harvey in the MHDT car. The Holden Dealer Team protested, and Clerk of Course Ivan Stibbard agreed with them, but GMH General Manager John Bagshaw made the decision not to protest the result. Seems the factory team snatching the victory away from a privateer that "won" the race in such a dramatic fashion would not have been a good look.
No wonder Bond jumped to Ford by 1977
Bathurst can bring the Highest of Highs and the Lowest of Lows!!!!
It’s a hunch but there are some good cars being sold. Series Production as I think these cars were called, took over from the Touring Cars of the time pretty much by then end of the decade.
They were Group C (1972-1984) Series Production ended in 1972
"OOH NOOOOO!!!!" LOL
They didn't show what happened to Moffat after that driver swap. Did the co-driver crash?
how many cars were there?