Thread: Who Will Be Watching Bathurst?

Originally Posted by Outback 1
I had been watching since the late 60s the days of the mini gt and gts cripes they even had corollas and mazdas

Originally Posted by Outback 1

No I'm not that old that I would remember Studebaker at bathurst but like you I do remember the first racecams 😆

You didn't miss the Studebakers by much then. They raced in 1964.

They also had a tendency to run out of brakes. Not something you want to happen at Mt Panorama.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Armstrong_500

https://nmrm.com.au/displays/visitin...tudebaker.html

Originally Posted by vnx205

In that case you probably remember the days when one of the big questions about the race was, "How long before the wheels fall off the Studebakers?"

One of the few times I have watched the whole race was when the Celica carried the world's first in-car-camera.

It is sad that motor racing lost the racecam pioneer, Peter Williamson (Celica driver) earlier this year.

Originally Posted by pop058

It is sad that motor racing lost the racecam pioneer, Peter Williamson (Celica driver) earlier this year.

I remember when they tried to open the boot of Peter's Toyota with an axe.
Pickles.

Originally Posted by Pickles2

I remember when they tried to open the boot of Peter's Toyota with an axe.
Pickles.

Rumour has it that as he was laying into the boot with the axe, one of the crew turned up with the key and he sent him away because the TV cameras were already filming the action. The story may be apocryphal .

I didn't know that he had passed away.

His little Celica was quite a rocket, but I don't recall the Supra ever doing that well.

Originally Posted by Outback 1

I had been watching since the late 60s the days of the mini gt and gts cripes they even had corollas and mazdas

And that's how the racing should have stayed,,, a mix of "all types and models of cars",,, cars that we could then go and buy on Monday.
Give me the Historical racing any day.

Originally Posted by Chops

And that's how the racing should have stayed,,, a mix of "all types and models of cars",,, cars that we could then go and buy on Monday.
Give me the Historical racing any day.

They still have Production Car events, Bathurst 12 hr, etc.

Originally Posted by Chops

And that's how the racing should have stayed,,, a mix of "all types and models of cars",,, cars that we could then go and buy on Monday.
Give me the Historical racing any day.

I love the sound of a V8, but, I would have loved to have seen how the Turbo Falcons would have competed with the V8s over the distance. You can really wind up the wick on them, obviously reliability would suffer. They can suck the juice to.

In my opinion I would have liked the cars to have stayed as close to street legal as possible. I reckon this would have been better for the Aussie car industry. "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday"