Photos from the recent 2007 All Holden Day, All Ford Day, All Clubs Day & AMC Masters

[motorsportnerd]

Don't worry, guys. These events are annual events. They'll be on again next year.
That Phase 4 for instance has been at the last two All Ford days I've attended (2005 and this year). I reckon it'll be there next year.
No doubt other interesting cars will turn up at the various events next year.

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More photos from the 2007 AMC Muscle Car Masters.

1, 2 & 3. Peter Brock's 1991 Holden Commodore VN Group A racer. After three years of racing rival marques (a BMW in 1988 and Fords in 1989 & 90), Peter Brock "returned" to Holden. Well, not officially - the relationship between Brock and Holden wasn't patched up until Brock joined the Holden Racing Team in 1994. Instead Brock formed a short-lived (one year) partnership with his former Bathurst winning co-driver Larry Perkins to run a two car team of the then new Holden Commodore VN Group A with Mobil sponsorship. Perkins built the cars and engines, Brock supplied the media image and sponsorship. The VN was the last of the Group A racing Commodores, and at the 1991 Bathurst 1000, the 4.9 litre Holden V8 had been massaged to achieve about 413kW (550 bhp) at about 8,500 rpm. They were at their limits in terms of reliability at this sort of power level, and still struggled to match the opposition Skyline GTRs.

4. '39 Chevrolet Coupe which raced in the NZ Central Muscle Cars race.
5. Interesting Group C Nissan EXA Turbo which raced in the 1983 and 1984 Bathurst 1000.
6. A Group C Falcon XD touring car which raced in the 1980 and 81 Bathurst 1000 races. The Falcons race with a 5.8 litre (351 cu in) V8 putting out about 300kW (400 bhp). This is the car in its 1981 livery as raced by Brian Muir/Peter Geohagan.

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Some photos now courtesy of Nota. Thanks for the use of them and sharing them with us Nota.

1. Ford Customline.
2. Bob Jane's early 1970s Chevrolet Camaro as raced in the Australian Touring Car Championship.
3. Ford Shelby Mustang GT500
4. Valiant Charger E49.

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Back to my photos. Some Falcon GTHOs:
1. Ex Fred Gibson GTHO
2. Another ex-Bathurst GTHO
3 & 4. Two GTHOs from the Biante Historic Touring Car races.

5. Ex John Goss Group C Falcon XC Hardtop as raced in the 1979 Bathurst 1000.
6. The prototype HDT Monza. This was Peter Brock's idea of taking the German built Opel Monza and fitting it with the Holden 5.0 litre V8 engine to create a unique German-Aussie muscle car. Unfortunately, it never made production. If it had, it would've been the 1980s Monaro.

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1. Group C Holden Commodore VH touring car as raced in the 1984 Bathurst 1000 by Peter Janson/David Parsons.
2. Group C BMW 635CSi touring car as raced in the 1984 Bathurst 1000 by Jim Richards/Tony Longhurst.
3. Group A Holden Commodore VK touring car as raced by Gerald Kay/Byran Thompson in the 1986 Bathurst 1000.
4. The Allan Moffat/Jacky Ickx Group C Ford Falcon XC hardtop which won the 1977 Bathurst 1000.
5. A Ford Mustang from the NZ Central Muscle Cars race.
6. A replica? of the 1975 Bathurst winning Torana SLR5000 of Peter Brock/Brian Sampson.

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1. Ex-Brock Holden Torana XU1.
2. Valiant Pacer.
3. The new Holden Commodore VE Ute
4 & 5. Two Mustangs from the Biante Historic Touring Car races.
6. A Valiant Charger from the Biante Historic Touring Car races.

That's it for the photos. There are another couple of events in coming weeks (a classic car display at Burwood, NSW on Sunday week, a Toyota club display in a couple of weeks and the Australian International Motor Show next month), which I intend to go to. If I do get to the forthcoming events, I'll post some more photos.

[henk4]

Great stuff, thanks.

[Ferrer]

Originally Posted by henk4

Great stuff, thanks.

Indeed.

And that Monza V8 is very interesting. A shame nothing came out of it.

[2ndclasscitizen]

Originally Posted by Ferrer

Indeed.

And that Monza V8 is very interesting. A shame nothing came out of it.

Yeah, I'd never heard of that. Would've been damn fast with the 304/308 in it.

[whiteballz]

Some of My pictures. Alot are of the races and parking grounds, not of the pit displays.. Due to the fact I had the 70/300 lens on and didnt have the 18/50 with me, as I left it in the car..

351 badge.jpg

AJ's mustang .jpg

ford-history.jpg

GT-rim.jpg

mustang3-4.jpg

Prep station.jpg

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And a few more to come after this..

SS-00-SS.jpg

HSVMRC.jpg

[whiteballz]

I dont have the in depth mental ability of MSN to keep track of drivers and histroy os the cars, so just look way up at his posts and find out there

#2 camaro.jpg

#2 camaro-2.jpg

#6 escort.jpg

#8 GTHO.jpg

#14 camaro.jpg

#14 camaro-2.jpg

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More...

#32 porker.jpg

#39 chev.jpg

#43 R-T.jpg

#65 mustang.jpg

#377 mustang.jpg

corolla-1.jpg

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Last one for now.. more later.
(I might check if any of the 1280x1024 pics are within the 1MB limit)

Sunliner Mustang.jpg


EDIT: Turns out there are two.


mustang 3-4 panel.jpg


Torrana SLR5000 detail.jpg

As always, feel free to request bigger sizes.

[Ferrer]

Originally Posted by 2ndclasscitizen

Yeah, I'd never heard of that. Would've been damn fast with the 304/308 in it.

And we might have had it, which makes it even better.