By rights, 1982 should have been a vintage year for Australian touring car racing. It wasn’t.
It was the third year of ‘Group C Mk2’, the new set of technical rules brought in at the end of 1979 to aid the transition from the old Falcon XC coupe to the new (four-door sedan) XD model, and from the Torana A9X to the new Commodore VB.
It hadn’t been a great start to the new rule framework, though. Ford in the end decided it didn’t want to play, fearing (incorrectly) that CAMS (the controlling body of motorsport) would allow Holden to run a 350 Chev V8 in the new Commodore. This was a heavy blow to what was meant to be a fresh start for touring car racing in the new decade, and an exciting new chapter in the battle between Holden and Ford. The Australian Touring Car Championship that year was notable for its threadbare fields and, with Allan Moffat not racing, no front-running Falcons at all.
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