Historic Ford and Holden DVDs

The Championship Chase (Norm Beechey DVD)Holden Monaro

Before Brock......there was Beechey DVD
The foundation stone of todays V8 Supercars was laid in 1970, when Norm Beechey won the Australian Touring Car Championship in a Shell-sponsored olden Manaro. This video is the story of that dramatic, significant year. It was the first time an Australian-made V8 had won the title, which until then had been dominated by cars like the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro. The Holden Monaro Beechey started with was a 327, which was to prove unreliable. He moved to a 350 for 1970 - which had enough grunt to beat the Mustangs, winning three of the 7 rounds and finishing second in one of them to take the title. Norm Beechey was the first crowd hero in Australian Motor sport, a spectacular driver who sometimes fitted inferior tyres in practice so as to make more smoke. At the end of a race meeting he would he would sit for hours on the bonnet of his car, happily talking to his odoring fans and signing autographs. He was as huge an icon as Peter Brock would later become. However, after 20 years in racing, this highly-successful  businessman wanted to spend more time with his family. After winning the championship round in Perth in September 1972 he donated his winnings to charity, flew back to Melbourne, sold the Monaro, his transporter and all the spares, and chopped his racing helmet in half with an axe.(Bill Tuckey). This DVD tells his story.

 

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Torana When you're hot you're hot.

In 1969 Bathurst was a horsepower race between Holden with its Monaro and Ford with the Falcon, GTHO. But while Ford went looking for more power from the HO, Holden made a surprising move of dumping the V8s and unleashing a smaller, more nimble, but amazingly potent, six-cylinder car. The Torana XU-1 went on to become one of Australia’s legendary muscle cars. It provided Peter Brock with his first win against the might of the Phrase 3 GTHO and it dominated early ‘70s Australian rallies. Relive the glory days of the XU-1 as Peter Brock and Colin Bond host a collection of Holden/Castrol sponsored films that were shown in cinemas during the ‘70s.

 

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30 Years Falcon GT The Legend.

Recorded from the masters of the television special dedicated to the legendary Falcon GT, this landmark documentary is a tribute to the car that for over 30 years has been revered as the greatest car around motor racing, and which carved out its own legendary status in the history of motorsport.

 

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Commadore The Early Bathurst Years.

Hosted by Peter Brock and John Harvey two of Holdens legends.
No Holden has been more successful in motorport than the Commodore model. From the late ‘70s to the mid 00s, Commodore has been a winner on the racetrack, and never more so than in Australia’s Great Race, the Bathurst 1000. This Holden archival video recounts the early years of Commodore at Bathurst: its debut win in 1980, and the follow up Brock/HDT triumphs in ’82 and ’83. These first three Bathurst wins were where the legend of Commodore was forged – and they were only the first of many.

This is the Last 4 original cinema films produced on Bathurst.

 

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Torana SLR 5000.

Holden’s SLR5000, known as L34 in its Bathurst-winning race spec, was the V8 successor to the nimble Torana XU-1, and debuted by Peter Brock as he won the final two races of his first touring car championship title in 1974. But it was Colin Bond who was the star of Harry Firth’s Holden Dealer Team in the five-race manufacturer’s championship.

HDT pipped the Falcon contingent of Moffat, Goss and Carter with a final victory at Phillip Island. This classic cinema film represents Aussie motoring racing – seventies style. In a much different scenario to today’s high-tech Supercars, we revisit the days of long hair, flared jeans and leisurely pit stops as well as look at the mighty Torana SL/R 5000.

Plus highlights of the Torana L34 victories at Bathust 1975 and 1976 all on one great video hosted by Peter Brock and John Harvey.

 

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Torana A9X

Holden’s Torana A9X Hatchback hit the racetracks in late 1977 as GMH attempted to halt the big dollar Moffat Ford Dealer Team steamroller that took first and second placings in the 1977 Australian Touring Car Championship.
Peter Brock threw down the gauntlet to Allan Moffat at the Sandown 500 with a debut victory in his privateer Torana A9X, but both Moffat and Colin Bond took sweet revenge with a one/two result at Bathurst as lack of development proved costly for the leading Toranas.

In 1978, the A9X had proved to be both an excellent road and race car as Peter Brock, now back with Holden Dealer Team, blitzed the ATCC.
The A9X Toranas, with a 400hp V8, roller rocker overhead cam gear, four wheel disc brakes, Detroit locker diff and wide alloy wheels set the pace at Bathurst with Brock grabbing pole from Ford’s Bond and Moffat.

Brock was slow away on raceday in foggy conditions then charged back through the pack as rivals dropped by the wayside. Brock and New Zealand co-driver Jim Richards cleared away to win by a lap from the A9X of Grice/Leffler.

Things got even better for A9X and Holden in 1979. Bob Morris won the ATCC from HDT’s Brock and John Harvey without Ford getting a look in.
Then Brock and Richards thrashed all-comers at Bathurst to record an unprecedented six-lap victory with Brock claiming a lap record on the last circuit in his fabulous A9X.

It was the end of an era for Torana with five Bathurst trophies on the shelf while gaining a deserved reputation as one of Holden’s great sporting icons.

 

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