Bathurst...a long time between drinks!!!

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Okay, will Ford get there xecrement together this year for the Great Race?

I'm gonna be sitting on my favorite armchair with a poker in the wood box as a gear shift, and a rubbish bin lid as a steering wheel. Got my big Moari mate Grant comming over. He's like 6 ft 2", and is a fanatic.

The wife will be in the other room, with Grant's wife, and my wife will have the medication at the ready.

Bat-thirst. Will the skirting boards still be repairable if Holden wins...again!

Last year, Ford had it in the bag, but the plastic bag cooked the engine.

As they say, your only as good as your last race. Winners can smile, and looser can please themselves.

I hope, if I get to heaven, God doesn't drive a Holden....
 
:D It's gonna be a HUGE time! Alloydave hits the streets tomorrow, the Rugby World Cup starts Friday, less than a month to daylight saving and the Melbourne Cup. Swap meet season... No bag limit. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
 
BRING ON BATHURST!!!!!!!! I CANT FREEKING WAIT TILL SUNDAY!!!!!!

COME SUNDAY ARVO AT 4.45 ALL US FORD FANS ARE GONNA BE ONE HAPPY MOB!!!

me and the mates throw a bathurst party every year. i partly run a ford car club and all the club members come togeather and have a few drinks and a bbq. we make a day of it and have been doing so for the past 4 years!!.

GO FORD GO HARD GOOD LUCK!!!!

AMBROSE/INGALL!!!! DO IT FOR US FELLAS!!!!!.

CHEERS.JOE.
 
I'm watching the race, man what caranage. Some wild, wild biffs there. Holdens still leading.

Grant and me are chearing like a pack of mental hospital inmates on a full moon. 2hrs gone, Garth Tander is one lucky s.o.b. The Skyline gravel trap has been in fine use. A 109.5 mph lap, 126.859 sec lap to cover 3.86 miles. Average fuel use is about 1.36 pounds a lap, and some are heaps better than that. 161 laps, 621.5 miles, and all cars travel 2/3 rds of the race reving the crap up 640 feet of rise and then decend at 180 mph. Rev limiter is 7500 rpm, and you'll never get below 5100 rpm unless theres an accident. Tanks hold 32.4 US gallons, and guys are hoping to do it all on 5 fuel stops.

630 hp of good old Boss 302 V8 with EFI. Gotta love it!

Race should be over in another 4 hours.

Later!
 
Oh dear, Holdens are still in front. Kiwi Greg Murphy is way ahead, but his car is smoking a little. Then Skaife, the waiting shark. The first is way back.

I was hoping to sing "I'm wondering where the Lions are", but it aint over till its over.

I don't do blind faith when it comes to cars. The smartest driver and best orginised engineer and pit crew rule. I'm eating my fingernails here.


Come on Ford, make it a trifecta

Car Of the Year
AVESCO Winner

and BATHURST.

Surely God drives a Ford, for Henries sake!
 
not happy jan!!!

at least skaify got black flagged, murphy is a good bloke so he probably deserved that one any ways
 
Old Dicky Johnston said it best 'Irrespective of what you've won, the public only remembers one thing...Bathurst'. Nothing else is important. Geoff Polites is the neatest thing to happen to Ford Oz since Jac Nassar and Bill Bourke, but history will be awfully hard on him if his blue oval chipped BA's don't hunt mountain lions being humped by helmetted racers.

Because he is a racer first, and not a romantic, Dick Johnston focused on winning the Australian Touring Car Championship. People see Brock Commodores with ACTCC Winner or Bathurst winner laurels on the a$$ of SS and HDT Commodores, but Dick one the ATCC just many times between 1980 and 1984.

Clearly, the Stone Brothers Racing team and other BA punters just don't get it. The funding for the race team is based on total points take, so they work day an night optimising for the other rounds. They are brilliant, and desrve overwhelming praise for there work in making the Fords champ winners.

The amount of times championships and other non-Bathurst rounds have been won by Fords is signifcant, but from the public persective, Bathurst should be the culmination of the AVESCO series. The unburstable Chev-engined Holdens take 'em to the cleaners each year because they have a total team focus, good engineers, and drivers who are gin-trap sharp.

I love Fords, and remain faitfull to the marque because of the best artillery Ford make is far better than Holden stuff. But there is 35 years of General Motors committment to winning Bathurst. Ford Australia may expect to throw silver and gold at funds, but they won't win unless they decide to commit to helping out the racers by informal technical links to them.

What Aussie Deputy Manager Edsel Ford (then the 31 years old son of Henry II) did in 1980 by helping out Dicky Johnston with $37, 000 after the rock was no help to him, he was on his feet with service stations and property in Brisbane, but it gave the Ford guys the moral support.

I respect the fine efforts of Ford Oz to cost cut, and push the envelope with the XD series, but HenryFord II and Marketing guru Max Gransden deserve there photos on a dart board for signing off the death of the V8 in 1982, and the turbo six in 1984. Ever since the 1978 decision to pull out of touring car racing funding, they crucified the future of the grass-rootes lust little kids and teenages had for hot Ford sixes and V8's. Now, grown up, these people buy Holdens.

On Monday, people started buying VY Holdens again.

Win Bathurst, even if it means loosing the AVESCO champinship. And show a 35 year committment to motorsport again. That's my advise.
 
they were going to have a Factory Turbo Six???


got a link to their portraits? :twisted:
 
The Turbo six was Dick Johnson's answer to Peter Brock. It had a Garrett turbo and Stromberg CD carbies. It had a nice body kit too, and a guage pod in the middle of the dash. I want one.
 
Holden partly endorsed the SL/T 3300 Turbo in 1977, and Normalair Garret did a 1980 VB Commodore Turbo for the Melbourne motor show. Mitsubishi Sigma Turbos, based on an aftermarket Normalair Garret, was a local Astron 80 engined conversion. Stroberg carb featuerd.

The Falcon Gran Prix Turbo was pulled in late 1982 before it hit production, while a few normally aspirated Gran Prix's were sold. The cars had 115 kW stock, and 162 kW turboed. 14.9 second quarters were claimed. They failed the Ford transmission and hot fuel handling tests. Stromberg carbs featured on the Turbo

The Laser Turbo, before unleaded petrol, was a Bensons Turbo conversion using the unleaded Mazda 323 EGI Turbo manifold, and they foolishly used the Solex or Stromberg carb again, not a remapped throttle body injection system. This caused so many waranty problems, Ford became very anit-turbo over night.

AIT's turbo was a hot favorite with 200 kW, but even with a rebuilt BW40 trans, it just had too many additional systems (a separate fuel system to manitain ADR 27 compliance).

Then Dick looked at the Jap SK or IHI turbo in 1985, but Ford baulked at that too.

Ford deserved what it got. An XE XR6 Turbo with 200 kW or an XE Falcon Cobra Turbo could have hit the streets with a World Class T5 or C5 auto option, but Ford just didn't care. A Falcon Turbo would have kicked some major butt at Bathurst.

But onwards and upwards fellas. We'll get a win, and I hope like heck we won't end up as arrogant as the Holden guys.
 
A few of those Grand Prix Turbos got out. One of Dad's friends had one. He didn't like it at all, and got rid of it quick smart and bought his old V8 back off the bloke he had sold it to.
 
:lol: It was prepared buy the guy who did Country Dealer Team (CD/T) Holden Geminis with twin Weber carbed 1600's.

The XE GrandPrix ran a deTomaso-style reactuangular gaurd flare kit, a stiffer than ESP suspension set-up, similar to, but not the same as ,ESP Scheel seated interior, and a lovely sky-blue paint job with Tony Simmonds neat B45's 15" alloys and 245/225 tyres. It looked even more sinster than the later ill-fated 1987 XF SVO. I personally think its the best looking Falcon, although otheres think it lookes try-hard. Yeah, and so did an XY GTHO Phase III.

Fords loss. Tricky Dicky was busy winning silverware, and Ford Oz didn't give a hoot. They had the same arrogant attitude that got Holden into the crap in 1981 to 1987. Thought they didn't need to give the customer the very best.

You know, the pride form the image builder modles filter down to every owner of the base model. In the old days, a 250 XY Falcon, XD Falcon, 161 HK Monaro or VH Commodore was a cool machine, because the owners felt GTHO, Johnstons 351 XD, GTS 327 , or VH Group 3 SS linage flowing through the veins of there trust stead. Bathurst wins sold cars.

But History proves that Ford learns nothing from History.

I hope some dudes from Fo Mo Co read this. Some champagne in the mid 60's Le mans, a few brilliant Bathurst wins, and some holy terror 351's and Turbo Sierras victories is all we have to chearish. Why did the ED and EF sell so well? Because Fords were wining! That's why I love XD's and XE's. They were championship winners.
 
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