Was it their Bridgestone tyres, developed especially for Bathurst, that made the difference? Or was it their engines, and how the HDT had managed to achieve better fuel consumption than their opponents without paying a performance price?

It was neither, according to the man responsible for the HDT Toranas’ 5.0-litre V8 engines that year, Neill Burns.

“Probably [it was] just Brock,” he says.

This article appeared in Australia MUSCLE CAR Magazine Issue 111
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