The Roaring Season

[quote][i]Originally posted by Terry S[/i]
[b]This car was the lowest powered ever to win the ATCC.....[/b][/quote]

Also the lightest by a big margin.

It's interesting that this car wasn't significantly faster than the best of the 48/215 Holdens in 1963.

It was 1973 not 1974 thanks Ray for the correction.

[quote="Terry S"]It is incredible how much ATCC winning cars have changed.

This car had only 130 horsepower and 5 and 1/2 inch tyres..........[/quote]

This car was the lowest powered ever to win the ATCC

It had been preceded by four Jaguars and was followed by five Mustang V8’s

and the competition was Beechey and Muir in their S4 Holdens

[quote="Milan Fistonic"]Found this article in the November 1964 edition of Sports Car World.

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It is incredible how much ATCC winning cars have changed.

This car had only 130 horsepower and 5 and 1/2 inch tyres..........

Frankly, I don't think so...

It had its own character and even if Geoff had been an Aintree (BARC) man he came here with some definite ideas to do it better than Aintree.

1974? You mean on the Club circuit?

Aintree of the south seems a very apt title Ray, whenever it was dreamed up. I only went to Warwick Farm once, in 1974 which sadly was the last car race meeting ever held there.

in #43, the first photo caption
i bet the chrome rocker cover was good for 8-10 mph. lol

A name for a book planned fifty or sixty years after the event, yes...

But never the circuit or any mention whatever in the day.

[quote="Ray Bell"]Was it?

I can't say I ever heard it called that...[/quote]

See this:

[url]https://www.pitstop.net.au/browse/search?ipType=&searchKeywords=aintree[/url]

Found this article in the November 1964 edition of Sports Car World.

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Was it?

I can't say I ever heard it called that...

[quote="Milan Fistonic"]This is an entry list from the Warwick Farm meeting on 5 December 1965. The numbers don't match but it does show the three Neptune Racing Team cars.

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The Neptune Team normally ran with #2 for Manton, #3 for McKeown and #4 for Beechey at all circuits except Warwick Farm.

You can see from the above that it numbered strictly down the page in order. Only the unlucky #13 was omitted.

If there was a Division 2 race the numbers continued from Division 1. Not that they really liked Division 2 races.

It was no place for favourite numbers. You had to have a good supply of peel off numbers.

It was very "pukka" and English, the influence of Geoff Sykes. It was not for nothing it was called "Aintree Down Under".

We're getting a long way from the Geoghegan Cortina..,

Which did win the ATCC at Lakeside by the way. A lucky win as Brian Muir was forced to use Goodyears which had an increased wear rate as they wore down. And Bob Jane's Jag had gearbox trouble IIRC.

This one is HB Viva which has square headlamps.- has had 202 XU1 motor fitted to it and raced since 1977.
HB Torana has same body but square headlamps

Wouldn't they be Vivas the same as we called them Toranas?

All the same, only a couple ever raced in Australia. One with a Hemi 6 engine.

Ray,In our Sports Sedan Class, Vivas running from XU1 -327,352 Chevs are still having their place in the sun with Historics.
.......and we have no Cortinas, they run in Historic Saloon Class.

But the Vivas had such a short time in the sun...

Cortinas just kept on going in some form or other.

Ray...Cortinas have had a high attrition rate..Check out cars in NZ.Gerald Hargraves V88 version rolled, Jack Nazers burnt, John Wards, written off., just to name a few .

What a shame it wasn't a Cortina...