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.
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?
@@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.
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!
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.
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.
@@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.
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!
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.
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 UA-cam.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 - 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
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.
@@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
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!
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.
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!
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
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.
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....
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.
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
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.
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. 👍
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.😮😮😮
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.
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!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
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!
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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...?
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!
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.
Thanks for posting this brilliant footage 👍 I remember when me and my mates all looked forward to watching Bathurst we’d watch it all day. I remember after the race I’d jump in my car and go to a back road and drive the car hard and listen to the sound of the V8 thinking I was racing ( I survived) I had a XW GTHO falcon Back in 1971 I wish I still had it 😢 Today I wouldn’t cross the road to watch the bullshit cars they race. Not a single one of my friends have any interest in the fake cars they’ve turned into They’ve totally fucked it up 😡
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. 😁👍
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.
I still wandered how a ZB Commodore using a modified VF Commodore floor pan with rear wheel drive configuration qualifies as a production car, when you can't buy one from the showroom floor.
No such thing as a ZB commodore. It's an Opel Insignia. They could run the car they ran because V8 supercars isn't series production or group C or Group A
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.
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....
The XY Grand Tourer with Handling Options was the car everyone said they had beat on the streets in the day Lol, That's the car that everyone looked up to in Australia and still today only the price has changed but not the legend.👍
When I was a kid there was a crash worse than the one on this video when an open wheeler lost control at the top of the mountain very close to us and ploughed into the crowd and I believe the was deaths. I think it was number 38. I'm 76 now
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.
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…
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?
@@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.
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!
The commentary of Kevin Golsby is distinctive. He did lots of documentaty films, TV adverts, TV dramas & comedies.
@@brianvogt8125 Great to know who the commentator is, thanks!
Real racing, real men, no media hype or bullshit. Pure Magic!
Thanks for posting. Paul in NZ
You poor bastard, living in NZ.
Yes, no dick girls walking around in g strings, not many tattooed goons walking around thinking how cool they were, just good fun.
Great see the old circuit.
Much preferred the racing back then for so many reasons.
2:04 that shadow of the cameraman sitting on the bonnet is just insane. thats dedication
or the car moffats driving hasnt a roll cage , so its not his race car , and the camera guy is standing thru a sunroof
How Bill Brown walked away from that crash is unbelievable….
How he missed those 2 guys right in front of the bonnet is also a miracle!
they don't crumple as easily as the new ones do, which fold in onto the occupants by design..
@@fenderfetish I think they were marshals, which is why they were alert.
you can even see his head hit the barrier, how that barrier kept from killing him is just amazing
The great Australian dream, Australian cars, Australian culture, Australian way of life... all gone.
Sad isn't it?
Yes that happened on our watch. We have no one to blame but ourselves.
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.
Same happened in South Africa mate...
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.
Great times. I own a Bathurst charger. I can't believe they raced on razor blades for tyres.
They used 225/50 tires.
Loved the chargers - very underrated car , looked fast standing still !! 👍
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.
@@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.
May I enquire as to what gearbox a Bathurst Charger ran?, was it 3 or 4 speed?
1971 was a special year , having the three , Holden , Ford and Chrysler , all running factory backed teams . Fantasic extended original footage .
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!
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.
Agree Alan is a great Australian (Canadian) 😊
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 UA-cam.
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.
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.
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I couldn't have put it better myself mate. Today's racing is so sterile that it doesn't even rate a watch.
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.
Ah shorts and white socks. The pit uniform of the 70's.
Dead beers hurled onto the hill, screeching cross ply tyres, body roll like the Queen Mary. ❤️ it all!.
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.
Your Dad sounds like a good man.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
@@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
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.
When racing cars was racing and exciting and one could not miss a minute, shame it is hardly worth watching anymore!
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!
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.
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!
i totally lost interest when the skylines won and they got booed when on the podium.
Love this in colour saw it in b&w when 11 yrs old.
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
I think these were the days, so enjoyable when all together and REAL cars
Real rust buckets but ya had to love them.. Sad that the PC brigade buggered this great race up
What a time capsule of an epic race and the best track 👏
Maybe some of those US NASCAR types should come over and take lessons in the way it's done here.
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.
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....
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.
That's what freedom looked like.
I loved seeing probably Italians made a mini grand stand from scaffolding
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
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.
I remember watching Bathurst 71, when I was 12 years old ! (and every year since)
When Conrod was straight all the way down, ahh brilliant.
Doc Gonzales it's a shame a driver lost his life racing down it. Changed the race forever.
More speed and harder breaking in the end
Until they put a wiggle in it to slow things down...
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.
@@stephanburgess654 Mike Burgmann in 1986?
Kevin Goldsby...his narration and commentary creates excitement...love that style of voice.
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. 👍
The good old days so. Much better than today
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.
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.
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.
I was there. Camped up at Mcphillamy for three days. Brilliant. Wouldn't go near the place now.
Mt.Panarama....what a track! What a history at this circuit. Used to watch it from Go to Wo as a nipper.
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.
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.
Steering, brakes and suspension straight off an 1850s Cobb & co coach!
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.
yep, they were true gladiators :)
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.
this is better than the hybrid nascar bs we have now
Great quality video....and what a Great time for australian racing.
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.
Yeah, I think the tyre squeal was added for "excitement and drama".
I haven't lost hope for the Australian car AND truck industry. CKD kits AND IMPORT TARIFFS - why make foreigners rich?
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.
Great !!! Thanks for this.... real racing !!!
Lucky enough to be there in 71, I'm a Holden person BUT Moffat was a great Competitor.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.😮😮😮
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.
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!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
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!
@@ldnwholesale8552 There's no hiding at Bathurst mate...
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
The Digby Cook Torana sounded just like a V8 when it accelerated out of the pits! Good bit of video here, thanks.
just AWESOME, GTs, Toranas and Chargers wallowing thru the corners :):):)
REAL production car racing,some of the cars even registered with number plates!!,very close to what the public could buy
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
This is awesome. (The safety aspect has changed slightly these days).
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.
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.
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
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.
It's become American. Sadly.
@@pixeleyes2332 Funny thing is, the most popular race series here in the UK are the production cars.
Current touring cars have no relavance sadly
Yep I don't watch it anymore it's supposed to be factory production cars racing not full on racing cars
Wow great upload. . Great to see it in colour .. looks like plenty other good videos on your channel too!
What a great period .. beautiful
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.
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
Back in the days when local industries employed SKILLED locals !
Real authentic production car racing. Great days!
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.
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.
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...?
Death defying feats on skinny tyres. 60 entries vs 28 for the race this year...
60 interesting entries.
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.
WoW so happy came accros this i was born in 1971 so glad i watched this and ive been to around 35 Bathurst 1000s
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
The Landscape around Murrays Corner is so weirdly different. Its had some huge excavations taken out of the fields
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!
😂🤣I think your right 👍
I think the fence proved itself with the Bill Brown crash, it cut that car in half
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.
Thanks for posting that was Gold, was that driver having a smoke on his pit stop!
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.
I'm 32 - and can't stand the rubbish. Even the cricket is unwatchable these days.
@@GetUpFalcon Too many show ponies in cricket now.It’s seem to be about them and not the game....
@@gordonrosswhitehead5052 Nah, we had show ponies back in the day, Thommo, Lillee and Marsh and co, the difference being, those guys had BALLS...!
Look kids! We use to make things here years ago, and not some 3rd world country reliant on China for its next meal.
Brings back a lot of really great memories- cheers and thanks for the upload 👍
Loved this, nice memories.
GOD I remember this what an era,
Moffat's horse power wins his races but that said he still was a great driver.
Heaps better back then
I don't go there anymore
I love these old Holden promotional films from the '70s. Very cool.
Thanks for posting this brilliant footage 👍
I remember when me and my mates all looked forward to watching Bathurst we’d watch it all day.
I remember after the race I’d jump in my car and go to a back road and drive the car hard and listen to the sound of the V8 thinking I was racing ( I survived)
I had a XW GTHO falcon
Back in 1971 I wish I still had it 😢
Today I wouldn’t cross the road to watch the bullshit cars they race.
Not a single one of my friends have any interest in the fake cars they’ve turned into
They’ve totally fucked it up 😡
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
No matter what we said about Moffitt he could drive a race car what a champion Allan was
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. 😁👍
Great show brilliant cars Top video thank you
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.
Anyone of those GTHO's would be worth a small fortune these days
With the Falcon XY era, five per cent - yes 5 per cent - were GT's. Lots of fakes made afterwards of GT-HO.
think so?
I still wandered how a ZB Commodore using a modified VF Commodore floor pan with rear wheel drive configuration qualifies as a production car, when you can't buy one from the showroom floor.
No such thing as a ZB commodore. It's an Opel Insignia. They could run the car they ran because V8 supercars isn't series production or group C or Group A
That's "V8 Supercar Racing" that is not so popular
Old racing and old female golf games, don't know why but I love it!
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.
im a holden guy but i love them all.
I introduced Alan to espresso. He couldn't handle it. :)
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
All that body roll is beautiful
I can't believe the Datsun was allowed to keep racing! 😂
Awesome year I was born :-)
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!
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
Probably closer to $1,000,000.
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....
When Bathurst was a race
What a great time all Australian made cars , now fifty years later we have nothing to show shame.
The XY Grand Tourer with Handling Options was the car everyone said they had beat on the streets in the day Lol, That's the car that everyone looked up to in Australia and still today only the price has changed but not the legend.👍
Ah, when men were men and sheep were frightened !
They still are in In Zid.
@@ADRIAN-fb9xj Only if they are not wearing their wooly burka.
The rooms are too!
Real racing in real production cars
Alan H .The Ford Falcon GTHO Phase 3 was a homologated Falcon GT.
Those HOs were homolgated, as where the XU1s and th Chargers and some of the small cars as well. Supposed to be 500 cars,,, very special accounting!!
that suspension roll
Wow this upload is gold!!
Race Sunday sell Monday not any more
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...
When I was a kid there was a crash worse than the one on this video when an open wheeler lost control at the top of the mountain very close to us and ploughed into the crowd and I believe the was deaths. I think it was number 38. I'm 76 now
never happened