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Looking good . Just curious, what sort of clear coat did you use ? , it's not very common to use lacquer these days, but for a first paint job , it's way easier to use , or is it 2k?

Great to see Dads escort feature (car 69) ❤ I believe there was only 4 sets of those wheels made

Those sure were the days...! As an avid 15year old car nut, I used to watch as many races on telly as were broadcast. Outside of channel 7 showing Bathurst, ABC would televise these races. Wheels,Modern Motor, Racing Car News and Cheque Flag were assiduously read each month. With so much sport, including car racing behind paywalls, it has become expensive viewing. Thanks for the upload, great memories and times 👍😁

Interesting that you say the Croydon Thompson wheels are ultra rare . I purchased a pair of 14 x 9s a while back , well , I'm 99% sure they're Thompsons, there's no brand name on them , but they look like what's on that Escort. Cool car. Is David Thompson related to Croydon?

Amazing to think my Father was a Driver in that film. He also helped set up the Doomed car's for the Crash scene's.

I found your channel today and subscribed to it today 😀

In 1955 / 1956 / 1967 the Jaguar D-Type won - so three wins in a row.

Great to see the first lap. I watched the full race at home in 78 and loved it. If you thought Colin Bond was upset by not being allowed to win the 77 race then spare a thought for GMH who suffered the humiliation of the 77 defeat. But as Holden said at the time - that will never happen again and they built a car that simply destroyed the Ford Falcons with Moffat and Bond DNF. 1979 would be even more humiliating for Ford. Again Moffat and Bond were DNF with the first 8 places going to the mighty A9X Torana with Peter Brock again the winner and only one Falcon Hardtop finishing the race. The devastation was so great that Ford pulled out of racing leaving Holden to ponder whether it was worth continuing as there was nothing able to beat the Toranas and Moffat without a factory team.. Great days of Australian Motor Racing ... long gone and it has never been repeated.

The on board shot at 5:30 is maybe the best sound ever made by vehicle in history

Great to see it making progress. Keep up the good work

Like the movie "Grand Prix", I have taken to only watching the racing scenes of these two movies. Brilliant work on the photography side, considering when these two movies were made. And then there's Steve McQueen.

This with Ferguson 4x4 and Maxaret could have eaten little Audi Quattros for breakfast !!

Love it!😀

I was always under the impression those Capris were sporting Weslake Heads, not Cosworth. Someone please enlighten this subject further. Just an old guy infatuated with the “DRM “ Series.(Still playing with Cars, LOL)

My first race weekend was at Daytona in J Switzer's GTL Datsun 1200.

Definitely a big step forward.

Stalked from Facebook...Replatforming the Datto! 🥝✔️😁

Nice work you are making great progress.

I love those 2 , angry blue and white v8 xc ford falcon coups , sounds sweet .

Shaker run is the greatest car film ever! and i thing it is strongly underrated for politcorrect reasons

UK calling - There was a guy called Tony Proctor here in the 1980s used to Rallycross a MK2 Capri with a Ford GAA engine, CZcams has a few videos of him. The guy was an absolute legend to watch. What a wonderful MK1 you have, Hens Teeth !

Awesome chronology and history. Love the Ford racing sedan history from the Cortina, Escorts, Capri, Falcon, Galaxy, and even the Mustang, and whatever you call them in NZ.

Cool, thanks.

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E A R G A S M !

I'm very happy to say I live in Pennsylvania USA I actually own car number 355 it is 100% original unrestored and all matching numbers I'm very proud to own a piece of Australian motor history and an extremely rare car

The Prototype cars were the most beautiful ever

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It’s criminal you didn’t start it 😂

Lets see Careless Airways try and catch up with this Morris Marina 😂😂😂

surprised that the 390 GT mustang has a single track rear.

good thing they have all those trees to slow you down in case of an accident

Nothing like Coppins pedaling the #141 Trans Am. A great era of N.Z. motor racing.

Good informative video. The American who brought his Pontiac to NZ to race it , reminds me that I think I read in a magazine years ago , that Sam Posey came to race in NZ with his '70 Challenger, but Iv'e tried to find evidence of that and haven't found anything.???

I remeber watching this through a snowy television reception back in the day. Very cool era of the sport.

Can see my younger self in the tunnel exit shot and the panel car wreck scene : was in the bus watching the capri coming out of the showroom

Skip to 6:30 if you want to see racing.

Still the best translation of racing to the screen in a feature film as there’s ever been.

Yes it's being restored I have pics but asked not to make public.

Hate to say this Mr. Bloke ,but you completely entirely ruined this Chase sequence from " Bullitt" by chopping it to pieces !!!

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At 2:30 !!!

Great work Steve! 🥝✔️Under Edsel B Ford's belt was the Cobra Mustang II, another cynical paint and sports pack upgrade. In an Australian setting, where the RP0 97 pack didn't go far enough was in weight reduction and engine endurance. The Holden GM GPOs effectively used an L34 Formula 5000 Repco castings, homologated through Formula 5000. Ford Australia, knowing the Cleveland had a suspect block, suspect nodular crankshaft and a known oiling and a standard adjustable non roller rocker problem in the 6200 to 7200 rpm zone, failed to use the durability items that were available from Ford's international supply. The 1969 366 Triple Carb Cleveland project allowed Ford Australia to pick up just 30 homologated durability components. Instead, a 400 pound heavier car, with No alloy heads, no Steel crank, no alloy block, no Boss 302 roller rockers, no drag reducing fiberglass Monza or Concorde show car van front. The 78 Falcon Hardtop failed under the pressure put on it by the A9X. Holden read the emerging combined sprint and endurance race conditions, and Ford Australia's best looking factory racer was short changed just like the XD, XE Falcon and Z28 Camaro were in 1980 to 1984.

Why did you edit it? Not cool.

I was Frank Leary's crewchief. Incidentally, Casey Mollett who finished third was using Frank's spare engine.

When F1 was for men

Good 'ol Tony Palmer , 'Nissan' 1200 . it is a Bloody Datsun !!!

If you are going to show show it in full and stop butchering it with piss poor editing

Just one thing: the three works RS3100 Group 2 Race Cars, such as the one in this video, while based on the production model RS3100 built in Cologne, Germany, were in fact built from the ground up by AVO, Ford's Advanced Vehicle Operations facility in Essex, UK. They weren't even constructed from panels pressed in Cologne, AVO built everything in-house. They were sent to Ford's Competition Department in Cologne only for Homologation purposes as that's where the production models were built, and Driver Support during European competitions. I'm not sure why these extremely rare British race cars are so often misrepresented as being German-built.

The Morris car has a rocket underneath to overtake both falcons down Conrod Str8.😮😮😮