Channel 7 coverage started at 7:55am. Race started at 9:30am. In the 1960s there were not enough cameras to cover all of the race track. Race in 1967 named after Gallaher cigarettes.
my farther had one of those model fords brought it brand new he washed it with water and kerosene he had the car till the day he died 7 years ago the paint was perfect no rust no fading the inside was like new same motor and transmission i sold i to a collector 45 grand it had 78 thousand miles on the clock
The years following this race was the golden era of Australian motor racing. Australia stood still to watch 2 totally different car which were the mighty GTHO versus the legendary Holden GTR-XU1. The battle between these 2 cars put Bathurst on the world stage for motor racing.
What rubbish, this race was for real cars that real people could buy at their local dealer for a dozen different brands of cars, not a contrived event to promote two manufacturers to the exclusion of all the others. Oh, and where are they now???
Yes those were awesome golden nail biting years, with fierce brand loyalty. Ford man myself first Australian super car gt in only one color gold which was never able to be replicated.
@@paulhall170Holden and Ford Australia both died due to lack of public buyer support and through a failure of both to follow buyer trends and preferences. Beyond that, the two cars he mentioned were based directly on the same vehicles available on the showroom floor. Yes, they had roll cages, racing seats and 5 point safety belts.. All was to make motor racing safer. Remember, the Australian Touring Car Championship extended into the late 90's, before the "Supercar" rubbish made its appearance.
great vid, thanks.... i used to have a 67 Fairmont and it floated around like a boat. horrible handling and cornering.... back then we had to spend money on replacing and modifying everything. better brakes, suspension, rims and tyres, motor work, carby/manifold, extractors and exhaust.... now even a soccer mums vehicle like my Kia Grand Carnival is fast and handles reasonably no mods at all.
I learnt to drive in a 68 Toyota Corona, I couldn't imagine someone trying to go racing in one. Four wheel drum brakes, a 1.6 litre engine, and a gear stick a foot long would have made racing them a real challenge...
The Toyota Corona was after a class win against cars of similar price that also did not have high specifications. Or even just to finish the race well without breaking down was a sales plus compared to some more expensive cars.
I think I've managed to sync the audio. It looks right to me if you move the video track forward 10 seconds and 9 frames (at 25 frames per second = 259 frames). File is about 200mb - happy to pop it in google drive for you to download. Many thanks for the upload.
Wooww 1967 # The first COLOUR VIDEO RECORDED SOO BEAUTIFUL ! i was only 6 years old , still running naked around the village , like the car still using thin tyres and no off-set rim ! Sharpe CONERING THE CAR GO TO GHE SIDE ! The absorber and the spring should be upgrade during heavy coner its able to hold the LOAD AND SMOOTHLY move !
I was looking at the drivers as they left the pit box, peering over their shoulders. Then I realised there's no wall separating the track from the pits. Brave mechanics in the pits, just getting on with it. ('67 is the year I was born. Everything was dangerous when I grew up ...)
An awesome look back with well known Alfa Romeo dealers Mildren and Foley. Is that a young Kevin Bartlett as a member of team Alfa? Imagine racing the Leyland Austin or Hillman Imp... think I saw them in the mix! Thank you :-))
BMC back in 1967. No Leyland for a few years. No Austins ran. All Morris Mini Cooper S cars in Australia. Previous year the Morris Cooper S filled positions 1 to 9 outright. Domination of V8 cars and all others never to be repeated. Austin name reserved for the larger BMC cars in Australia since about 1962. Only the Cooper S models did well. Wikipedia should have how the Imp. Not a memorable result but fast on the twisty flat bits back then.
Many thanks for this one. Wondering if you had another copy of this, as the audio/video synch is out by about 10 seconds. Or is this how its provided? Cheers.
I remember the old days with cricket , when the batsman hit the ball the commentator would tap his pencil on his desk to imitate the bat hitting the ball , awesome !!
That was awesome , i watched the whole video , amazing , lol , some big names in there , safety wasnt a and priority , old mate changing a tyre and has fuel poured all over him HAHAHA , loved it 😆
For better or worse it was back in the day when commentators had complete license to say as they please. The commentator in question doesn't even know the difference between a Corona and a Corolla, LOL.
The Mildren Alfa team was dudded here, they were laps ahead, thanks to good pace and fewer pit stops for fuel, but, of course, it wouldn't do not to have a Ford or Holden win, so a dirty backroom deal was made and we have the result we wanted.....
Also the lead Alfa was even further in front until it picked up a stone in the radiator lapping a slower car heading down conrod, by the time the temp gauge started to soar they were already past the pits.
The Mildren Alfa team wasn't even running in the same class as the Falcons, or the Holdens. Their only competition were two other 1600 GTVs and a Dodge Phoenix of all things.
@@greebo7857 yes that's true. But, with a little effort (its not hard with modern technology) the sound and video could have been made a lot more in sync.
@@Holden308 Fixed - little effort indeed! I just left a comment for the uploader - hopefully he can upload the new video in place of this one so the views and comment remain intact.
The 302 XT GT would have won in `68 beating the 327 Monaro if it wasnt for a stone hitting the radiator in the Gibson/Seton car. Holden fans use excuses when they lose so i will too. You can take 5 or 6 wins away from Brock for cheating & im not talking about him swapping cars, he used 4V valves when the rules said 2V valves & he won a few by luck not skill.
Alfa would of won in 67 but for a holed radiator lapping a slower car down Conrod, they had passed the pits before the temp gauge rose. Alfa ended 2nd in 67 but beat all the Fords home in 68 coming in 4th and on the lead lap.
@@rodneyjones4890 Really? There are 2V and 4V heads, but no such thing as "2V / 4V valves". I think you're getting confused, as the "V" stands for Venturi, not valves.
@@hcrun Early tech microphones & Forest Elbow doesnt help. Have you ever been there ? The speed of the car in a rock valley wall & early microphone tech, it puts the sound out of time just like loud speakers, they are out of time from the person speaking the words to when you hear it.
Those were the days! Beats the shit out of the current crap.
Channel 7 coverage started at 7:55am. Race started at 9:30am. In the 1960s there were not enough cameras to cover all of the race track. Race in 1967 named after Gallaher cigarettes.
Awesome stuff, gotta have a smoke and beer at the pits, true Aussie spirit.
Right on👍👏
“Don’t you start that car!” During refuelling….but here, have a cigarette 🤦♂️
Lovely to see all those great Alfa Romeo GT/Vs and Giulia’s competing against the big Falcons etc
They were the days. Not just Holden and Ford but every brand imaginable. Not like the rubbish at Bathurst now days.
Couldn't agree more.
We need variety and just handicap the winners back to the field, simple.
But there will always be whingers and whiners.
Proper racing no nancy boys . just REAL CARS being driven hard as
@@maldunne3175spot on
grass roots racing at its best
Love these old videos of Bathurst, who are the plonkers who dislike!
Hell this was racing exciting enough that I might have even bought a ticket, and I live in Bathurst...
Remarkable footage enjoyed watching your program. Thank you .
my farther had one of those model fords brought it brand new
he washed it with water and kerosene he had the car till the day he died 7 years ago the paint was perfect no rust no fading the inside was like new same motor and transmission i sold i to a collector 45 grand it had 78 thousand miles on the clock
"Win on Sunday, sell on Monday"....the Corollas were later put on the AMI used car lot as "Executive" driven vehicles.
Good to see this stuff go the GTs
8:58 Ah the X2, a 179 with twin carbys, headers and Holdens first four speed.
Wow just found this, thanks for the awesome post. Holden supporter for 25 years and its awesome to see bathurst in its un molested state. 👍
The years following this race was the golden era of Australian motor racing. Australia stood still to watch 2 totally different car which were the mighty GTHO versus the legendary Holden GTR-XU1. The battle between these 2 cars put Bathurst on the world stage for motor racing.
What rubbish, this race was for real cars that real people could buy at their local dealer for a dozen different brands of cars, not a contrived event to promote two manufacturers to the exclusion of all the others. Oh, and where are they now???
Yes those were awesome golden nail biting years, with fierce brand loyalty.
Ford man myself first Australian super car gt in only one color gold which was never able to be replicated.
@@paulhall170Holden and Ford Australia both died due to lack of public buyer support and through a failure of both to follow buyer trends and preferences.
Beyond that, the two cars he mentioned were based directly on the same vehicles available on the showroom floor. Yes, they had roll cages, racing seats and 5 point safety belts.. All was to make motor racing safer.
Remember, the Australian Touring Car Championship extended into the late 90's, before the "Supercar" rubbish made its appearance.
I love that jumps out the car and some one throws a packet of cigarettes and lights up in the pits how cool are these days
Quite a few having a smoke. Don't forget the race was sponsored by Gallaher, a cigarette brand.
Rumor has some drivers would light up while driving, these are true production cars with standard ashtrays, lighters and all the mod cons.
How times have changed miss production car racing you could relate to the cars.
Drivers used to eat their lunch during their driving stint as it was such a leisurely pace.
Nah, they ate driving.💪👍👏
When they had various classes not just the one like now.
The 6 hour at easter is a good modern interpretation of the early Bathrust 500s with class production car racing and big grids
The 60s where so cool. Thats when my dad was a kid. I just love the older races and cars. I'm a young guy.
It was the best decade of the 20th century ,your dad must be about my age
😁😁👍👍👍 I thought I was watching a Classic Movie back in the 60s 🤣🤣👍
great vid, thanks.... i used to have a 67 Fairmont and it floated around like a boat. horrible handling and cornering.... back then we had to spend money on replacing and modifying everything. better brakes, suspension, rims and tyres, motor work, carby/manifold, extractors and exhaust.... now even a soccer mums vehicle like my Kia Grand Carnival is fast and handles reasonably no mods at all.
No roll cages, no fire suits, standard suspension, standard brakes, skinny tyres. When production car racing meant production cars.
Yep, racing in just a pair of jeans and a t shirt.
I learnt to drive in a 68 Toyota Corona, I couldn't imagine someone trying to go racing in one.
Four wheel drum brakes, a 1.6 litre engine, and a gear stick a foot long would have made racing them a real challenge...
My first car, $435 in '92, would do just shy of 160km/h took a while to get there, but it got there.
The Toyota Corona was after a class win against cars of similar price that also did not have high specifications.
Or even just to finish the race well without breaking down was a sales plus compared to some more expensive cars.
How long is a foot..
@@MelodyMan69 The length of my 'ole fella!
@@ThePaulv12
304.9 mm Got it!
Back when the cars had attitude and worth watching..😊
Back when any racing was actually worth watching
The cars were shitboxes
So true
@@jbrandon8945 better looking than the space cars of today , especially 4wd's.
Wow the great race 50 years young, thx for sharing
I think I've managed to sync the audio. It looks right to me if you move the video track forward 10 seconds and 9 frames (at 25 frames per second = 259 frames). File is about 200mb - happy to pop it in google drive for you to download. Many thanks for the upload.
Bumper cam ahead of its time
10 years before Mad Max.
I like how the race was started by a guy with a flag in one hand and a stopwatch in the other.
56 cars on the grid, worth some $100k all up. Compare that to now and it gives some idea of inflation over the years.
my uncle had fastest 125cc Yamaha before the kink taken out ..146 mph love the 70s up there
🐂💩!
Wooww 1967 # The first COLOUR VIDEO RECORDED SOO BEAUTIFUL ! i was only 6 years old , still running naked around the village , like the car still using thin tyres and no off-set rim ! Sharpe CONERING THE CAR GO TO GHE SIDE ! The absorber and the spring should be upgrade during heavy coner its able to hold the LOAD AND SMOOTHLY move !
They say you can still smell burning brakes at the end of Conrod to this day.
What brakes? LOL.
Love it, just take out mum's Cortina, tape over the lights and whack a number of the side and....watch the wheel disappear over the fence.
Mum won't be happy!
So, which of the motor racing drivers in this 1967 Bathurst The Great Race are sadly no longer with us?
When you pop a wheel and that same wheel cops you one, that's all class.
Wow, that was great. Thanks for posting!
Great stuff''...
dato bluebird what a screamer
Rolling the car back over to complete the lap! 20:28
Great to watch, real cars real racing! And the most inane commentry.
Note the telegraph pole at the end of conrod straight and no fences,
@K W That's how it was 50+ years ago.
Don't judge the past on what is done today.
@K W Good man!
That's how we knew motor-racing in those days. I'm 75 and watched "Bathurst" every year until V8 Supercars killed it for me.
I was looking at the drivers as they left the pit box, peering over their shoulders. Then I realised there's no wall separating the track from the pits. Brave mechanics in the pits, just getting on with it. ('67 is the year I was born. Everything was dangerous when I grew up ...)
Better days
There was as much oil on their heads as in the cars.😁
An awesome look back with well known Alfa Romeo dealers Mildren and Foley. Is that a young Kevin Bartlett as a member of team Alfa? Imagine racing the Leyland Austin or Hillman Imp... think I saw them in the mix! Thank you :-))
BMC back in 1967. No Leyland for a few years.
No Austins ran. All Morris Mini Cooper S cars in Australia. Previous year the Morris Cooper S filled positions 1 to 9 outright. Domination of V8 cars and all others never to be repeated.
Austin name reserved for the larger BMC cars in Australia since about 1962.
Only the Cooper S models did well.
Wikipedia should have how the Imp. Not a memorable result but fast on the twisty flat bits back then.
Hillman IMP was big in the UK Racing scene in the time. Rear Engine vs Front Engine for Mini..
Great vid
Many thanks for this one. Wondering if you had another copy of this, as the audio/video synch is out by about 10 seconds. Or is this how its provided? Cheers.
This is how it was, I will see if I can fix it.
I remember the old days with cricket , when the batsman hit the ball the commentator would tap his pencil on his desk to imitate the bat hitting the ball , awesome !!
Fuel spilling on pit crew while drivers jump out for a ciggie? and everybody seems to be lighting one up.
That was awesome , i watched the whole video , amazing , lol , some big names in there , safety wasnt a and priority , old mate changing a tyre and has fuel poured all over him HAHAHA , loved it 😆
16:18 has a quick spit, gives the fuel guy a look and gets on with it, Gold! 🤣
Really ? You watched the whole video ? Gee, you must feel special.
Were these the days when you drove your car to Bathurst and then raced it?
this is better than current races
That's racing unlike today's high tech sterile environment....
Aahhhh !MILK a race drivers energy drink
For better or worse it was back in the day when commentators had complete license to say as they please.
The commentator in question doesn't even know the difference between a Corona and a Corolla, LOL.
16:16 tire changer gets dosed with gasoline and barely blinks an eye!
..back when real men raced real cars... and drank milk during pitstops ...
A la Gelinite Jack! ( The milk shakes)
1967 when the commentary was a minute behind the pictures.
Iol
Downunder's Daytona!
No, nothing like it.
If there was any doubt about who won, why didn't also check the odometers in each car?
What's to stop them altering the gearing on the speedo drive? Anyway, odometers aren't totally accurate.
Where's the bloody Holden Monaros :o
The were no Monaro's in 1967 !!!
@@MickH60 doh* my bad. Cheers
What were those ejits doing standing on the road at 0:40? Jeezuz.
Pity the soundtrack never matches the video - hard to watch.
Gotta be some recent computer glitch that could be fixed.
Did ya' see the UFOS hovering above the track ?
Safety? Who dat?
@ 2:11 - 25,000 miles over 7 hours?
Sum total of all cars driving the 500miles
When the term "motor sport meant something" and was relevant to the man in the street
No safety cars!
The Mildren Alfa team was dudded here, they were laps ahead, thanks to good pace and fewer pit stops for fuel, but, of course, it wouldn't do not to have a Ford or Holden win, so a dirty backroom deal was made and we have the result we wanted.....
Also the lead Alfa was even further in front until it picked up a stone in the radiator lapping a slower car heading down conrod, by the time the temp gauge started to soar they were already past the pits.
The Mildren Alfa team wasn't even running in the same class as the Falcons, or the Holdens. Their only competition were two other 1600 GTVs and a Dodge Phoenix of all things.
@@atomicmillenial9728 Nevertheless, the Alfas were notional outright winners, but were robbed of that accolade...
The sound is really out of sync
The sounds out of sync !
Badly
Old tape footage. Be grateful you have it.
@@greebo7857 I shall attempt to fix it.
@@greebo7857 yes that's true. But, with a little effort (its not hard with modern technology) the sound and video could have been made a lot more in sync.
@@Holden308 Fixed - little effort indeed! I just left a comment for the uploader - hopefully he can upload the new video in place of this one so the views and comment remain intact.
11.00 milk was a bad choice RB
The 302 XT GT would have won in `68 beating the 327 Monaro if it wasnt for a stone hitting the radiator in the Gibson/Seton car. Holden fans use excuses when they lose so i will too. You can take 5 or 6 wins away from Brock for cheating & im not talking about him swapping cars, he used 4V valves when the rules said 2V valves & he won a few by luck not skill.
Alfa would of won in 67 but for a holed radiator lapping a slower car down Conrod, they had passed the pits before the temp gauge rose. Alfa ended 2nd in 67 but beat all the Fords home in 68 coming in 4th and on the lead lap.
Please explain what "2V and "4V" valves are.
@@Rob-fc9wg Seriously ? You need to be told ? So, you can`t GOOGLE it ?
@@rodneyjones4890
Really?
There are 2V and 4V heads, but no such thing as "2V / 4V valves".
I think you're getting confused, as the "V" stands for Venturi, not valves.
@@Rob-fc9wgOk expert. Both port a valve sizes are different. 4V valves are BIGGER. 4V is NOT just 2 barrel & 4 barrel carby. The valves are different.
Funny seeing Beetles and other stuff running, as in other previous years!!! Not much consideration to safety either! BMC racing??? 😂😂😂😂
Italians like milk.
Engine and tyre sounds are about as far away from real-life as is possible to get!!
They are real, 1967 microphone technology.
@@rodneyjones4890 Referring to the synchronisation, Rodney, not the actual samples themselves.
@@hcrun Early tech microphones & Forest Elbow doesnt help. Have you ever been there ? The speed of the car in a rock valley wall & early microphone tech, it puts the sound out of time just like loud speakers, they are out of time from the person speaking the words to when you hear it.
Don't look no different
Who the hell wrote the script.... Hilariously awful.