"Holden showed no interest in helping me with a car for the [Bathurst] 1969 race... so I thought, bugger it, I’ll go and get a Ford instead. That’s why I switched to Ford and ran a GT-HO in the 1969 race. We finished second that year and should have won.”
That’s what Bruce McPhee, winner of the 1968 Hardie-Ferodo 500, told AMC founding editor Mark Oastler back in 2004 for issue #17’s forensic examination of that success, Holden’s first Great Race victory, in an interview five years before the New South Welshman’s passing.
McPhee’s ’68 win got the ball rolling on the marque’s long history of success on the Mountain. He was the highly-respected yet low-profile battler that outwitted, outplayed and outlasted the works and works-supported teams of Ford and Holden.
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