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[EunUCh]

I think we need to get the footage down on disc b4 it gets unobtainium,living in the past i know but it seems
artificial with all the hi tech stuff now,computers tuning on the run and all the fancy telemetry,dataloging all well and good.
Goin back to the old days if it was not race ready on the day you didnt make it,nothin rong with with the tech stuff,just too
much of it,test it ,tune it,race it,then work out what needs doin for the next race,just my opinion.

[Potta]

Who were the Top 5?

[Dr Terry]

That would be Ian (Pete) Geoghegan, Norm Beechey, Alan Jones (not Bond) & Allan Moffat.

I'd like to see this in print, I can't believe that they could leave P Brock out of a list of the top 50 Australian touring car drivers.

Dr Terry

[Potta]

He's in the list Dr Terry, just not in the top 5. (based on what Rob 5000 has said above).

I don't know of anyone who has done what he did, and it wasn't all in factory cars as many doubters suggest.

In terms of fan base he would be number 1 without a doubt.

[Swarbs]

Might be opening a can of worms here , but does anyone know the fate of Brockies 75 bathurst winning L34

I ask because I made some serious enquires about this car when it was advertised many years ago I think it was in unique cars ? through Hamiltons Porsche

I still have kicking around somewhere a faxed copy of its cams log books . BUT . I have since heard that It could be right as the original car hit a tree. anyone ?

Hi devil
Have a read of this thread
Post #33 explains a lot and i presume L34#1 is the car you are chasing
I may be wrong but it is a good read anyway




http://www.gmh-torana.com.au/forums/topic/42055-hdt-a9x-where-is-it-now/

[REDA9X]

Brocks 75 L34 was written off many years ago, converted back to a road car and backed into a tree. The car Hamilton had for sale was the HDT Brock car.

[a9x868]

i am extremely thankful that we have had an evolutiion in motorsport and that it gives me a lot of pleasure to take my 12 year old son to bathurst this year fof his 13th birthday. i am very grateful that he was born on the bathurst weekend
and being in perth it took me 40 years to get there for my first. i,d go every year if i could. i dont give a shit whats racing, it distresses me that he will be 13 and he,s never ridden in my A9X HATCHBACK but by god he knows what it is.
this will be my 6th and his 5th. I LOVE MY SON , I LOVE MY CAR.

[REDA9X]

but the best news I have heard form a very reliable source, Channel seven did not throw out all their old footage and late 2012 will be releasing complete races on DVD starting in the 60s and right through all the 70s races of Bathurst including Hardies hero's' and Sanddown

That really is good news. I'm pretty keen to see the 70 - 74 races with the XU-1s.

Steve

I hope that source is reliable because I was told by another very reliable source in channel 7 that channel 7 destroyed the complete races many years ago and that Chevron only ever got bits of it which they put onto video years ago.
The copies people have been selling were acquired from the national film archives.
The sam person also told me Amaroo Park had copies of every single event ever run there, however it was poorly stoored in a brick shed and the tapes destroyed. What was retrievable was acquired by Chevron, but 99% of it was unusable.

[REDA9X]

Well, that can only be a good thing. I wish we could see the touring car rounds

[REDA9X]

Devil as i said above the car Hamilton had for sale was Brocks HDT car. The 75 car was not a HDT car, it was converted toa road car and later written off