Former V8 Supercars chief Tony Cochrane famously once said that there are no sacred sites in Australian motor racing. He was, of course, wrong.
As everyone else knows, the Bathurst track is a sacred place – and it’s not even the only ‘sacred’ Australian motor racing site.
Ask any Holden fan with a deep sense of history, and they will point to their shrine: the building at 35 Queens Ave in the inner-east Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn. This was home to Harry Firth’s Holden Dealer Team from its 1969 inception until the end of 1977. This modest brick structure was the headquarters of Holden’s racing effort during that time; it was within these walls that Firth and his team helped develop and race the HT Monaro GTS 350 and the Torana XU-1, L34 and A9X models for Holden.
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