Bathurst Classic Cars...What's your all-time favourite?

[Life's Good]

 

[Life's Good]

 

[Parra]

It's not cars - these sort of shots from old Bathurst races are amazing. Flat out on Conrod Straight. Balls.

 

[Dodgy]

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Even if that car is a slow as a treacle, it looks fast and mean!

 

[beave]

Was the start of my love for japanese cars.

 

[Life's Good]

Even if that car is a slow as a treacle, it looks fast and mean!

Jim Richards won the 1985 ATCC so it wasn’t too slow. The black & gold livery just works though.

 

[Dodgy]

Was the start of my love for japanese cars.

C'mon bro. Nobody liked these cars!

Jim Richards won the 1985 ATCC so it wasn’t too slow. The black & gold livery just works though.

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I think your pic is a Group C Touring car though?

Anyway. The JPS colours would make a superute look fast.

 

[Life's Good]

C'mon bro. Nobody liked these cars!

I think your pic is a Group C Touring car though?

Anyway. The JPS colours would make a superute look fast.

Group C was up to 1984.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_C_(Australia)

The BMW 635 was under the Group A rules(along with the Volvo that Francivec won the title in 1986).

 

[beave]

C'mon bro. Nobody liked these cars!

I think your pic is a Group C Touring car though?

Anyway. The JPS colours would make a superute look fast.

Yeah, all the bogan V8 fan bois hated them because they were amazeballs.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Was the start of my love for japanese cars.

As said below - loads of people hated these but what a car. And who could forget Jim Richards' speech on the podium at the booing brethren

Along with the RX7's, Some earlier Japanese Cars I liked..

Loved the Starion but really loved this/these.. Think the Bluebird held the lap record for many many years after they changed the reconfig of Conrod Straight - until finally someone took it back. Anyway..

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

more classic photos mainly here - however the big XA, XB, XC falcons of the 70's & 80's are all classics to me.

 

[Fire]

1980 VC Commodore.

Just sold for $2.1m: https://www.supercars.com/news/championship/brock-bathurst-winner-sells-for-2-1million/

 

[The Brain Stormer]

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One of my favs along with true blue

 

[The Brain Stormer]

I was & have always been huge fan of Dick Johnson. Grew up loving the Blue Oval & Bathurst. One of the best days of the year.

My old man always had V8 falcons. We’ve still got his XB Hardtop in our garage. Doesn’t move much these days but we’ll never part with her.

 

[veggiepatch1959]

Never let James Reyne destroy the national anthem ever again.

 

[The Brain Stormer]

Yeah, all the bogan V8 fan bois hated them because they were amazeballs.

Lol I find it funny that a lot of people associate V8’s with bogans all the time. You prefer a rice burner hey?

 

[beave]

Lol I find it funny that a lot of people associate V8’s with bogans all the time. You prefer a rice burner hey?

I prefer a car that can actually put some power down in the wet and not end up either wheel spinning or eating shit off the side of the road.

I am more into AWD and nimble Skylines, Audis, Evos, WRX (i own a 2013 with mild mods),Focus RS, VW Golfs to a heavy RWD taxi cab. Not everything is about straight line speed.

If Ford and Holden back in the early 90’d just tried to compete and develop their own shit to keep up with the Nissan GTR’s instead of acting like a bunch of sulky bitches and threatening to walk, we might have actually had better cars into the future.

Im interested at how the Mustang will go next year, the one they had yesterday looked decent enough going around the mountain.

 

[The Brain Stormer]

I prefer a car that can actually put some power down in the wet and not end up either wheel spinning or eating shit off the side of the road.

I am more into AWD and nimble Skylines, Audis, Evos, WRX (i own a 2013 with mild mods),Focus RS, VW Golfs to a heavy RWD taxi cab. Not everything is about straight line speed.

If Ford and Holden back in the early 90’d just tried to compete and develop their own shit to keep up with the Nissan GTR’s instead of acting like a bunch of sulky bitches and threatening to walk, we might have actually had better cars into the future.

Im interested at how the Mustang will go next year, the one they had yesterday looked decent enough going around the mountain.

Fair enough, my daily is a Kenne Bell supercharged BF GT. The WRX, Evos etc all get me off the line but having a blown V8 is awesome fun just hard to contain off the line. Funny for a ford fan but I don’t like the Mustangs at all. I Prefer the look of the Camaros & Dodges.

 

[beave]

Fair enough, my daily is a Kenne Bell supercharged BF GT. The WRX, Evos etc all get me off the line but having a blown V8 is awesome fun just hard to contain off the line. Funny for a ford fan but I don’t like the Mustangs at all. I Prefer the look of the Camaros & Dodges.

Yeah, AWD is just superb off the line and int the wet. I owned a VS SS when I was younger and my Rex would f**king kill it side by side.

I drove a Dodge Challenger (just the RT entry level with the N/A hemi) in the states and I really liked it (they absolutley nailed the styling on the current model). It handled better than I thought but the roads around most of california where i took it weren’t exactly windy so it wasn’t really exposed to our shit roads. Would love to have a try of a scat pack or a hell cat. Its insane that dodge wont just make a RH version and bring it out here properly. It’s off the same base as the 300 so it’s not like it would be impossible to do. Even with what’s happened with the local car shit here, it surprised me they haven’t had a little crack at our market with it.

Once the current batch of new commodores are sold, the mustnags are about the only affordable V8 I can think of sold here? I’ve read the Camaros are going to be be pretty $$$$ even for the entry level ones?

I have driven the mustang and they’re okay, f**k all room in the back though so they’re not a family sedan that people need to get their head around that its a sports coupe (the challengers back seats are decent enough size wise even being a 2 door).

 

[The Brain Stormer]

I can blow the Japanese cars away once I have traction at 100+ kmph lol...by then it’s all over anyhow. On slicks different story obviously, can’t run another time until I get a roll cage etc. Ran a 9.6 so need to spend more $$ to have her compliant. Too much power for the street, a Rexy or Evo would be fun as a daily as well I spose.

I’d love a hell cat, run a mid 9 off the showroom floor. Plus they look like a muscle car! Do the stock dodges have a fair bit of punch in the US?