They started with standard LHD steel body shells taken from the production line which were rumoured to have spent time in an acid bath to remove some excess metal before they arrived at the workshop. We have a volunteer within ten miles of your requested photo location. The second racer was given to Hodgson, a Ford works Escort rally exponent who rallied it for several years before the machine was involved in a head on accident with a Holden Commodore, the wreck exists. So while that was being sorted out, Moffat dusted off the Capri for two crucial rounds at Wanneroo in Perth (which he won) and A.I.R in Adelaide (where he came second). Large aerodynamically shaped fiberglass wheel arch flares were installed at each corner to shroud huge wheels and tyres and lightweight laminated window glass was fitted throughout the cabin. Compare the ‘race or tarmac spec’ of the RS2600 with the rally shot below. Bondy was a bit lucky as Bob Jane’s ‘full blown’ Torana V8 4.4 Repco ‘620’ Sports Sedan blasted away to an early lead only to slow, pit and rejoin the race back in 11th. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. ‘Unfortunately, the timing could not have been worse for what promised to be the battle of all battles for the ETCC crown between Ford’s new RS 3100 Capris and BMW’s mighty CSL ‘Batmobiles’. It complied by fitting leaf springs, but they were made from lightweight composite materials and had no springing function at all. One driver lucky to escape the carnage was Allan Moffat who had pulled up just out of The Cutting on the first lap with his Falcon stuck in neutral. However, the RS 2600’s German 2.6 litre V6 engine, which had already been bored out to 2.9 litres capacity and was producing around 320 bhp, had reached the peak of its development. Peter Brock and Canadian Allan Moffat made their Bathurst débuts in the race. That year he won his only Australian Touring Car Championship in the new L34 version of the SL/R 5000 Torana, and also won his second South Pacific Touring Car Series. Perkins in Gary Campbell’s Elfin 600B/E Ford during the 1972 Glynn Scott Memorial Trophy at Surfers Paradise, first F2 home (G Ruckert). Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. (Jerry Melton). (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap). Bond was involved in a dramatic finish in 1976 at the Bathurst 1000. Copyright © 1995-2020 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. He finished in 6th place on the same lap as the winning car. Bond reached the highest levels in Australian motorsport in 1969 when he was recruited by Harry Firth to the newly formed Holden Dealer Team. While his younger brother Ian "Pete" Geoghegan had much of his success in touring car racing, winning five Australian Touring Car Championships, Leo spent most of his racing career in open wheel racing cars. The race was Round 3 of the 1974 Australian Manufacturers' Championship and was the 15th in a sequence of annual “Bathurst 1000” races commencing with the 1960 Armstrong 500. (Bruno Betti), Edgar Hermanns’ factory Datsun 240Z, the Japanese factory a big supporter of Australian Rallying for a decade or so. In 1973 he again won the Sun-7 series at Amaroo Park. With top shelf drivers the calibre of Niki Lauda, Jochen Mass, Toine Hezemans and Dieter Glemser on the team, Ford was ready for all-out war. Along with winning the Australian Touring Car Championship and a little race known in 1969 as the Bathurst 500, the ever-cheerful ‘Bondy’ is also a three-time winner of the Australian Rally Championship. On the final leg towards Melbourne the Capri won a 20 lapper at Phillip Island, lapping the Torana’s, McKay finally able to use its ‘moonshot 5th gear’ on the Islands’ long main straight. It was made up of Datsun 1000, Hillman Imp, Morris Mini K and Toyota Corolla. Please reset your password. Moffat also claimed that had the third placed Peter Janson / Larry Perkins Holden LX Torana SS A9X Hatchback or the similar Torana of fourth placed Peter and Phil Brock been on the same lap (both Torana's were one lap down) and closing in on the pair that Bond would have been free to pass him for the win if it meant that the Moffat Ford Dealers team won the race. Moffat in his ex Allan Mann Racing Lotus Cortina contesting the TransAm race at Green Valley, Texas in 1967. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. Drag images here or select from your computer for Donna Wheeler memorial. For additional information, see the Global Shipping Program, This amount includes applicable customs duties, taxes, brokerage and other fees. Try again. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. Spencer Martin, Holden Monaro GTS350 and Allan Moffat, Ford Falcon GTHO, Gibson/Seton left and Roddy/Carter HO’s on row 2 (autopics.com), The full field of Series Production cars rumbles down the hill from the rise through the kink on the plunge to Dandenong Road on the warm-up lap of the 21 September 1969 Sandown ‘Datsun Three Hour’ race…. This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. The Dulux Rally was a unique event in the World, whilst influenced by the Tour de France was different in that competitors faced both the challenges of dirt rallying and circuit racing.

The rally commenced after a run from Brisbane to Grafton at Surfers Paradise Raceway. They need to find Keith to unravel the truth. It was held on 5 October 1969 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia.Cars competed in five classes based on purchase price (Australian dollars) of the vehicle.

To suggest a change to a cemetery page, visit the Cemetery Corrections forum. For all the plans by Chrysler, GMH and Ford for the Supercars of ’72 only one ever competed albeit as a rally car, hardly the function for which Howard Marsden and the boys at FoMoCo intended! Firth had little input into the specifications of the HT350 but Spencer Martin said of the brake failure ‘The brakes on those cars were always very skinny. Brock raced the LC V8 car at Calder on 14 May in the ‘Marlboro Trophy Series’ minus spoilers but with the widened steel wheels shown in the Bathurst shots earlier in this article, in a combined sports Sedan and improved tourer race running as a support event for the ‘Repco Birthday Series’ event for F5000 cars. Tags: 1969 Bathurst 500, 1969 Datsun 3 Hour Sandown, Allan Moffat, Colin Bond, Ford Falcon GTHO, Holden Dealer Team, Holden Monaro GTS350, Kevin Bartlett, Spencer Martin, Tony Roberts 4 Spencer Martin, Holden Monaro GTS350 and Allan Moffat, Ford Falcon GTHO, Gibson/Seton left and Roddy/Carter HO’s on row 2 (autopics.com) About. Insurance Inc, MINICHAMPS Biante 1/18 - Ford Sierra Rs 500 Bathurst 1988 Caltex Bond/Jones, 1:18 Biante Autoart 1976 Bathurst 1000 Holden L34 Torana 2nd Place Bond/Harvey, Biante 1:12 Holden ZB Commodore 888 2018 Bathurst Winner Lowndes/Richards. Colin Bond made an impact on the Touring Car Championship in 1990, winning two consecutive rounds of the championship at Lakeside and Mallala driving a Caltex sponsored Ford Sierra. I managed to flick the car around and I went backwards through the Armco. Please note: You are asking volunteers to find and take a photo of the headstone. The $2,251 to $3,100 class saw a mix of Chrysler Valiant, Fiat 125, Ford Capri, Mazda R100, Morris Cooper S and Renault 16. Bond Phillip Island Manchamp 1974 Colin Bond, Marlboro Holden Dealer Team, Phillip Island Man Champ, 1974. I did it so hard I put a gear right through the synchro. Colin Bond is regarded as one of the most versatile racing drivers that Australia has ever produced. Oil cooling radiators for the gearbox and rear axle were also moved to the tail end and mounted directly behind the rear wheels, with oil circulation controlled by a pump driven directly by the tailshaft via a toothed belt and pulley arrangement. The print belongs to Colin Bond, who had been convicted of manslaughter of a woman who rejected his sexual advances 10 years previously. From 1980 the Holden Dealer Team, by then under the ownership of Peter Brock, diversified into producing modified road-going Commodores and other Holden cars for selected dealers via HDT Special Vehicles. The prototype of the car is the beastie Bondie is wheeling around Bathurst in the opening photo, it was put together in late 1971 using a cast-off HDT Series Prod LC XU1 raced by the team in 1970/71. The 1969 Hardie-Ferodo 500 was the tenth running of the Bathurst 500 production car race. 1:24 HANFUL Castrol Livery-- 1973 Holden Monaro HQ GTS Custom Burnout Car, 1:18 1976 Bathurst 2nd Place -- Colin Bond/John Harvey -- Holden LH Torana L34 -, 1:18 Biante Holden VL Commodore SS Group A 1987 Bathurst Winner, sent insured, An item that has been used previously. Moffat brought the car to Australia and with support from Coca-Cola in one of the first commercial deals of its type in here and raced the car as a professional becoming one of the most iconic car/driver combinations in Australia. ‘Big Al’ Turner tipped Harry Firth out of the role of ‘Competition Chief’ of Ford Australia who marched across town and commenced the quasi-works ‘Holden Dealer Team’ out of his famous, cramped workshops in Queens Avenue, Auburn, a twee, inner eastern Melbourne suburb. Are you sure that you want to remove this flower?

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