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