1979 Repco Reliability Trial
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2022
- The 1979 Repco Reliability Trial held in Australia was designed to test both vehicles and drivers over 14 days and nearly 20,000km. It attracted the best drivers locally as well as international drivers.
Map of 1979 route - www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/emb...
Drew Morphett narrated, I knew it the second I heard his distinctive voice…RIP you legend
I was lucky enough to speak to Peter brock at the check point at port Hedland WA . I will never forget it or him he was and still is my racing car hero, RIP .
I remember the Holdens overtaking me on the federal highway at Lake George. Bumper to bumper traffic. They flew past on blind corners. The funniest part was the support cars. Two Sandman wagons right up their arse going just as hard.
Many forget , thanks for memories , and that two great Peugeot pilots , gave their All , RIP ,
I was 10 when this was going on and remember it clearly. It was in the paper every day. Repco got more mileage out of that trial than any advertising campaign they could have ever conceived.
smokin, drinkin & BBQ'in
The wife and I with our 4 kids where at the Melbourne showgrounds to see the start. We then drove to watch the first competitive forest stage. I competed against Geoff Portman in rallies whilst a member of Melton Motor Sport Club. Wonderfull days.
What a beautiful country Australia is.
It is a pity that they didn't at least show all of the vehicles at some stage. I crewed for an FJ Holden 207 entry, Jim Reinders and John Lewis from Dandenong, we were in a Mk2 Escort PV loaded to the hilt, flogged the poor little thing around to keep up! Certainly an experience, all those years ago!
I was just finishing my apprenticeship with the Ford dealer in Mount Isa during this and got to work on one of the Cortinas. We replaced the engine and it was disqualified.
I done this in real life with my Vk turbo Ls commodore. We entred a charity rally full send. The most powerful charity bash ever built.
Love the opening shot and sound of the 202 with triple SUs 🔥
takes me back to the GTRXu1 days
When Australians didn't sound like Yanks.
Go Stanza! The winner by far
A brilliant film of an incredibly tough event. I take my hat off to all the driving crews, service crews, admin staff and, not least, the film crews.
I was living in Coober Pedy for both the 1977 London to Sydney and this 1979 Repco Reliability. It was great watching all that machinery being pushed near their limits. I also found it interesting in this video that the Stanza was still snapping it's axle tube just to the right of the differential. We had towed two out of four pre-release test vehicles with the same failure
The Stanza had an A9X diff and axle assembly.
Wearing T-shirt & stubbies racing in cars without all safety shit. Now I have a seven point harness in a form fitting seat, arm restraints, leg restraints, SFI-20 fire suit, HANS device, head sock & a helmet the size of a pumpkin!
The Ovlovs are about the same size as a Commodore with far less power!! Fairly tough cars though. Cortinas a little smaller and a little less tough.
I spent over 24 hours on the Adelaide control, that after rallycrossing on the Sunday! Teams varied. Ford, HDT, even the Portman crew had a big cast who whipped the crews off to a bed. Others, Larry Perkins in his VW especially laid the seats back and went to sleep in the car. And Larry still has that car recently renovated at Cowangie!
HDT were the best organised with all sorts of 'consumeables' at every major stop. Shocks, springs, gearboxes, diffs, brakes were replaced. And their service vehicles carried all of these parts as well. The engines were in effect 202 XU1 engines
Bondys Cortinas suffered from a lack of prep, reputedly a rush to build the cars. And the Cortinas were not as strong a car to start with. Though not terrible either. It seems they were a somewhat more standard car.
Stones on the road?? Stonies cartoon summed it up that they had GMH part numbers!
Wait a minute? Are you saying there was cheating in motorsports? How could they! Nah, seriously. Thank you for the insights :D
Wow, Prince Leonard!!!!
Narrated by the late Drew Morphett 😢
I remember watching this on television. When I was on vacation in Australia in 1979 it was fantastic. I wonder if they still do it today. It would be interesting if they did
They will never do another like that one. Speeds were high and so was exhaustion for both cars and crews. More so smaller teams who had to do most of the work them selves.
There was one in 95 but a far calmer event where the teams actually got some sleep. Won by Ed Ordinski again in a Commodore.
One in 98 won by Bruce Garland in a Holden Jackaroo.
Helmets are for track racers! Back then. :D
Really fascinating. Thanks for posting.
I remember when this came through Melbourne the Final Leg. I was there.
Been looking for this for so long thank you ❤❤
Thank you
Why would you be surprised the GM teams won? They had spare parts shipped in with a team of mechanics.
They had more than that - this was a complete set up for Holden. In the factory block where I worked there was a sign writer who had the contract for all Marlboro advertising in Australia. In the months leading up to this event, Larry & Dennis' workshop had at least 50-60 commodores through being painted in marlboro livery, they told me straight out that the Holden dealer team were sending out three brand new cars every day. Rigged from the get go.
Would like to drive in this race, all the way around the island of Australia
This was a complete set up for Holden. In the factory block where I worked there was a sign writer who had the contract for all Marlboro advertising in Australia. In the months leading up to this event, Larry & Dennis' workshop had at least 50-60 commodores through being painted in marlboro livery, they told me straight out that the Holden dealer team were sending out three brand new cars every day. Rigged from the get go.
Yeah right and the moon landinga were faked in that same workshop.
What a load of BS mate, how would they have smuggled new cars in every day with all the press coverage, helicopters & not to mention the other competitors , locals ect. Even under the cloak of darkness it could never of logically happened.
Plus they were scrutinised every day. They had to have the same chassis and engine block number otherwise they would be disqualified
@@neilringram Neither yourself or 355sle have any idea as to the power Holden had over the motorsports authorities. Whatever HDT wanted - they got! Neither CAMS or V-8 supercars would ever allow Ford - or any other manufacturer - to dominate motorsports in Australia. End of thread.
Now people seem to think they need a 4WD to take their kids to school...
20:54 Falcon jumps the start
Um that wasn't a Porsche 914, it was a 911.
Exhaustion Trial actually
Rather than going to all the expense of rigging the event with a bunch of Commodore clones, why didn't they just borrow that old EH ute from ABCtv's _The Outsiders -_ that thing got the guts flogged out of it and never quit! 😆
Nice 👍
Was that How many tires have you done Answer 30 or 50 or something. (Meaning theyd had between 20 and 50 flat tyres in tge Citroen ?
I have a question. How much manpower extra tools equipment spares.backup cars did it take to gift peter brock and holden the event .how far from stock..The xu1 bathurst prep motor put out 190 hp plus at the rear wheels
In the only shot of the under bonnet of the Commodore ,IT looked like 2 Carby's..
Two big FO sized air filters.
But they were all able to buy or cheat what they wanted. Brock got busted or that later on.
Not many countries where you can drive 20,000 km around.
True. It’s incredible to think Russia’s perimeter is 58,000 km. I’ve been to Siberia…you wouldn’t want to drive around Russia, most of it is impassable
Miss u Peter. What a tough rally
Blimey.
What no helmets......
The good old days when there was no racial garbage acknowledging traditional owners etc...
I'm guessing you lost hrs of sleep conjuring up a comment like that!
@@picnz1I’m of indigenous descent, Nyungar tribe near Perth, and I can’t stand all that crap too, no one in my family can…get the government to focus on really closing the gap, that’ll do me
I feel Repco has gone backwards bigtime If I was in that race today I'd have never started because Repco are incapable of providing the correct peace of kit.
Noice.
Holden where replacing whole back axles and complete suspension that's not reliability , i bet holden where flogging how reliable they where what crap.
This was a complete set up for Holden. In the factory block where I worked there was a sign writer who had the contract for all Marlboro advertising in Australia. In the months leading up to this event, Larry & Dennis' workshop had at least 50-60 commodores through being painted in marlboro livery, they told me straight out that the Holden dealer team were sending out three brand new cars every day. Rigged from the get go.
do you mean were instead of where?
@@ronanrogers4127 were
...yep, no quarter was given to the otherwise solid 1958 Morris Major - it was instantly labeled "unreliable" for that very reason. If you experience ANY major mechanical failure, that should be a wrap.
You guys wouldn't be Ford guys by any chance
Just saying
Nice euro cars: Citroen CX, Peugeot 504, Volvo 242GT, Porsche 911 and 924, Ford Cortina (aka Taunus)
That RX7 is not really an ideal rally car.
When manufacturers get 8nto motor sports, it ruins it for me.
It was all about the manufacturer
Typical Holden they rebuilt the whole car along the way and then try call it reliable…. What a joke but much like Peter brocks Bathurst wins in his team mates car that was a dozen laps down. Fake advertising…
This was a complete set up for Holden. In the factory block where I worked there was a sign writer who had the contract for all Marlboro advertising in Australia. In the months leading up to this event, Larry & Dennis' workshop had at least 50-60 commodores through being painted in marlboro livery, they told me straight out that the Holden dealer team were sending out three brand new cars every day. Rigged from the get go.
@@bradwilliams1691. Ford wasn’t much better. I got to work on one of those Cortinas and it was in no way a standard TE. And they still only managed to get the one home.
@@todaywefly4370 Being a blue oval guy, I'll be the first to admit that running with the Cortina was not a very sound choice.
@@bradwilliams1691 yep. That front end just wasn’t up to it. That engine I took out had an alloy head 2 years before the Falcon got it and the rear axle was a 9” on leafs. Not exactly a Cortina hey.
See, all you need to travel around Australia is an old Commodore
Yes, I see says the blind man.
Typical Holden they rebuilt the whole car along the way and then try call it reliable…. What a joke but much like Peter brocks Bathurst wins in his team mates car that was a dozen laps down. Fake advertising… 4 hour lead??? Yeah I’m a car that’s still new.. first place should go to who ever made least amount of repairs. It is a reliability challenge after all not who can bolt on the most new bits. You lose Holden. Go the datsun😂
This was a complete set up for Holden. In the factory block where I worked there was a sign writer who had the contract for all Marlboro advertising in Australia. In the months leading up to this event, Larry & Dennis' workshop had at least 50-60 commodores through being painted in marlboro livery, they told me straight out that the Holden dealer team were sending out three brand new cars every day. Rigged from the get go. As far as I'm concerned George Fury should've won, especially considering that his Datsun Stanza was being held together with chewing gum & baling wire.
Any penalty for a crook hair cut ?
No, it was compulsory.