Issue 139

Issue 139


1973 Bathurst 1000

The birth of the 1000km Bathurst enduro, and the first Great Race for modified touring cars

Running on empty

The sorry saga of ‘Get Max Laps’, and the story of the Holden Dealer Team’s spectacular fuel strategy own-goal that cost the General the Great Race half a century ago

Triumph and tragedy

One works team Falcon Hardtop GT had a largely troublefree run to victory in the ‘73 Hardie-Ferodo 1000; the other works team Falcon was doomed before it even took the start

Back to the future?

The radical plan in 1973 to return the Great Race to its ‘showroom’ origins

Gibbo’’s Ute!

Reuniting Fred Gibson with his now-restored Road & Track Falcon XY work ute

F5000’s homegrown hero

The story of the Repco-Holden V8, and how this home-grown Aussie Formula 5000 racing engine proved the equal of the best race-prepared small-block Chevs in the States

From trash to treasure

How one man’s treasured HQ Monaro GTS 350 coupe was saved from the scrap heap

Graeme Lawrence

Profiling a quick Kiwi who was a frequent visitor to our shores through the 1970s - which included a spell as Murray Carter’s co-driver at Bathurst