Fastest I’ve ever seen on the public highway was 165mph in a Monza in Canada in 1980. I was the passenger, I it was scary. PS I painted Alan Jones’ crash helmet when he was world champion. Managed to get a tour around the Williams factory when I delivered the helmet.
Bloody great stuff, spent many years going to ALL meetings at A.I.R as family owned the food outlets in the late 70s to mid 80s. Great era. It would be nice if David Wall restored the Chevy Monza back in this body work and livery.
Nearly 300 km/h on that straight is amazing, cause it doesn't look very long. I also didn't know that Adelaide had a permanent racing circuit, I only knew the street circuit. Such an awesome upload, being from and in Germany I never expected to be able to see stuff like this, so a big thanks to you!
We have Adelaide International Raceway, now used mostly for drag racing, Mallala and a brand new world class track now being built at Tailem Bend, plus of course the ex-F1 (1985 to 1995) modified street circuit in the centre of Adelaide, which is currently used for the Supercars, etc.
The straight at AIR (which opened in 1972) is 920 metres long which is about the same as the Brabham Straight (Dequetteville Terrace) on the Grand Prix track. 300 km/h was a bit of an exaggeration really. In reality the Porsche and Monza were hitting around 260 before they were on the brakes. Even the old Formula 5000's and Wolf and Ensign Ford-Cosworth F1's only ever really topped out at about 280 km/h on Adelaide's straights so GT cars, even 600 bhp ones like the Porsche and Monza, being faster is a stretch.
I worked with Barry Campbell for a while and watched him build some fantastic sports sedans, I even built a few rear wings and front spoilers for Kieth Carlings 300zx
Really interesting to watch the first few laps and see the Monzac really getting up the rear of the 930 then the Porsche drive out of the corners balancing on the rear rear. Porsche was surprisingly crap under brakes.
Wow awesome driving from Peter (and Alan) wow I’ve never seen a 935 humbled like it was early in the race , never heard of the Monza (per se) awesome racing!!!
This was one of my first race meetings I attended when I was a teenager. I would've been about 15 at the time because later that year I was a flag marshal. At a touring car event at A.I.R. It was, so, so cold at this race meeting. We were in the grand stand and the wind went right through you. Jones 935 was the fastest accelerating thing I had ever seen from standing start. He stopped in front of us then took off. Incredibly fast. Then 3 years later it looked slow to the F1s. Great to see this video. Thanks!
The Monza did use BBS wheels, at least when Bob Jane owned the car and later in 1984 when Allan Grice drove it for new owner Alan Browne. Grice and Bryan Thomson (who bought the car from Browne at the end of 1984) were actually more successful in the Monza than Brock was. Both won the Aussie GT Championship in it (though Thommo also drove his twin turbo Mercedez-Benz 450 SLC Chev V8 in 1985).
Private, if you are referring to the Monza....it still exists, but its no longer a Monza. Bryan Thomson (who bought the car from Alan Browne in 1985 only a year after Browne bought it from Bob Jane) turned it into a Toyota Supra body in 1989 and promptly put it up for sale. Des Wall bought it and continued to race it, somewhat successfully, as a Supra. When Des died (I think in 2012) the car was inherited by his son, V8 Supercar driver David Wall who toyed with the idea of restoring it to the Monza as it is here, but ultimately has decided to restore the car as a Supra that his dad drove.
Peter Champion's Brock Experience exhibit on the Gold Coast does have a Monza that is painted up like this one.....and like the car Champion claims is the 1984 Bathurst winner, its a totally false claim (the real Bathurst winner is in the Bathurst Museum - Champion's car is the Harvey/Parsons #25 car that finished 2nd). Champion's Monza is in fact the ex-Garry Rogers Monza that Brocky never drove.
Bob Jane and Allan Grice got the best out of that Chevy Monza, but Brocky as good as he was tended to over-drive it like here when he fried his tyres inside of 10 laps in a 25 lap race. The Monza was beautiful piece of machinery built by Pat Purcell. The car is currently owned by V8 Supercar driver David Wall who inherited it from his father Des after he passed away. Plans were to convert it back to the Monza, but David might have decided to restore it back to the Chev Toyota Supra that his dad ran it as.
That’s correct. Alan Hamilton promised Jones that if it looked like the 944 wasn’t going to be competitive, he would get him a 935. The Monza was coming so Bond came in and Hamilton was as good as his word. People got to see just how good Jones was.
Annoying that the screen grid and the text above calls the two 935's as 930's. The 934 was a close cousin to the 930 but the 935 was a completely different car altogether!!!!
The GTs were what killed Sports Sedans.CAMS have made more than a few efforts. The crash the following year when the Monza turned left and took half the field out was the end of GT really. A few rebuilt Sports Sedans into GTs then had to bring them back a year or two later. The Monza was rebirthed into a Supra by Thommo and it then went to Des Wall. Some of those cars are still around. Lui's Anglia with big brother Serge, Clems Charger with Simon Pfitzner ,PPG who owns several Sports Sedans and being driven by Lui! The John Clark A9X is back on the road, Micks Escort is around, as are a couple of others.
Its currently owned by David Wall who inherited it from his father Des Wall. Des raced the car with a Toyota Supra body during the 1990's. Last I heard (2015) Wall was torn between restoring it to its Monza roots (as seen in this video) which a lot of people remember it as, or restoring it as the Supra that his dad drove. The car was first turned into a Supra by Bryan Thompson in about 1989. Thommo drove the Monza (and his Mercedes Chev twin turbo) to the 1985 Australian GT Championship. Allan Grice drove the car (then owned by Allan Browne who bought it from Bob Jane at the end of 1983) to win the 1984 GT Championship. Brad Jones also drove the Monza for Thompson in 1985 and 1986 winning a few races.
That Monza is an awesome looking piece of kit and so well driven by Brock
Was here as an 11 year old. Remember seeing Alan Jones in person. Great race
Great video - Just a great time in motorsport , the cars wide -loud - fast
Fastest I’ve ever seen on the public highway was 165mph in a Monza in Canada in 1980. I was the passenger, I it was scary.
PS I painted Alan Jones’ crash helmet when he was world champion. Managed to get a tour around the Williams factory when I delivered the helmet.
its cool seeing some unique cars
wish we had something like this today
Bloody great stuff, spent many years going to ALL meetings at A.I.R as family owned the food outlets in the late 70s to mid 80s. Great era. It would be nice if David Wall restored the Chevy Monza back in this body work and livery.
Nearly 300 km/h on that straight is amazing, cause it doesn't look very long.
I also didn't know that Adelaide had a permanent racing circuit, I only knew the street circuit.
Such an awesome upload, being from and in Germany I never expected to be able to see stuff like this, so a big thanks to you!
We have Adelaide International Raceway, now used mostly for drag racing, Mallala and a brand new world class track now being built at Tailem Bend, plus of course the ex-F1 (1985 to 1995) modified street circuit in the centre of Adelaide, which is currently used for the Supercars, etc.
The straight at AIR (which opened in 1972) is 920 metres long which is about the same as the Brabham Straight (Dequetteville Terrace) on the Grand Prix track. 300 km/h was a bit of an exaggeration really. In reality the Porsche and Monza were hitting around 260 before they were on the brakes. Even the old Formula 5000's and Wolf and Ensign Ford-Cosworth F1's only ever really topped out at about 280 km/h on Adelaide's straights so GT cars, even 600 bhp ones like the Porsche and Monza, being faster is a stretch.
I worked with Barry Campbell for a while and watched him build some fantastic sports sedans, I even built a few rear wings and front spoilers for Kieth Carlings 300zx
Really interesting to watch the first few laps and see the Monzac really getting up the rear of the 930 then the Porsche drive out of the corners balancing on the rear rear. Porsche was surprisingly crap under brakes.
wish i could like this video more than once!
Tell your friends about it and give them a link.
Wow awesome driving from Peter (and Alan) wow I’ve never seen a 935 humbled like it was early in the race , never heard of the Monza (per se) awesome racing!!!
This was one of my first race meetings I attended when I was a teenager. I would've been about 15 at the time because later that year I was a flag marshal. At a touring car event at A.I.R. It was, so, so cold at this race meeting. We were in the grand stand and the wind went right through you. Jones 935 was the fastest accelerating thing I had ever seen from standing start. He stopped in front of us then took off. Incredibly fast. Then 3 years later it looked slow to the F1s. Great to see this video. Thanks!
Nice, thanks for sharing!
In Jonesy's hands that Porsche 935 was a weapon.
That monza and those simmons wheels and that paint job and brock driving and that track what a combo
I think they are more likely to be BBS?
The Monza did use BBS wheels, at least when Bob Jane owned the car and later in 1984 when Allan Grice drove it for new owner Alan Browne.
Grice and Bryan Thomson (who bought the car from Browne at the end of 1984) were actually more successful in the Monza than Brock was. Both won the Aussie GT Championship in it (though Thommo also drove his twin turbo Mercedez-Benz 450 SLC Chev V8 in 1985).
Where is that car now?
Private, if you are referring to the Monza....it still exists, but its no longer a Monza. Bryan Thomson (who bought the car from Alan Browne in 1985 only a year after Browne bought it from Bob Jane) turned it into a Toyota Supra body in 1989 and promptly put it up for sale. Des Wall bought it and continued to race it, somewhat successfully, as a Supra. When Des died (I think in 2012) the car was inherited by his son, V8 Supercar driver David Wall who toyed with the idea of restoring it to the Monza as it is here, but ultimately has decided to restore the car as a Supra that his dad drove.
Peter Champion's Brock Experience exhibit on the Gold Coast does have a Monza that is painted up like this one.....and like the car Champion claims is the 1984 Bathurst winner, its a totally false claim (the real Bathurst winner is in the Bathurst Museum - Champion's car is the Harvey/Parsons #25 car that finished 2nd). Champion's Monza is in fact the ex-Garry Rogers Monza that Brocky never drove.
So good. Well done AJ. 🏁💪
"We go back to our central missionary position."
Great video - thanks for posting
Bob Jane and Allan Grice got the best out of that Chevy Monza, but Brocky as good as he was tended to over-drive it like here when he fried his tyres inside of 10 laps in a 25 lap race. The Monza was beautiful piece of machinery built by Pat Purcell. The car is currently owned by V8 Supercar driver David Wall who inherited it from his father Des after he passed away. Plans were to convert it back to the Monza, but David might have decided to restore it back to the Chev Toyota Supra that his dad ran it as.
2023 UPDATE: David Wall still owns the car and its still got the Supra body that his dad drove the car with.
Was Alan Jones supposed to be running the 944 (?) in 1982 but then the more powerful 935 was acquired? I remember going to Waneroo to watch him race.
That’s correct. Alan Hamilton promised Jones that if it looked like the 944 wasn’t going to be competitive, he would get him a 935. The Monza was coming so Bond came in and Hamilton was as good as his word. People got to see just how good Jones was.
Them Monzas were no joke.
I luv the widebody kits ...80z cars rule.
Awesome stuff! Do you have any more with the 935 and Monza?? Thanks for posting. Been looking for this for a while. :-)
Thanx for sharing whats possibly the rarest racing series for us Neanderthal Americans....what a great mix of cars...
Pretty sure the 935 was undefeated in 1982
It was
The monza is a beauty and is a purpose built.
Germans didnt get caught until Bathurst 1987.Brock is God.I just got a paint job on my iracing V8 mostly the same as brockys chev.
How do you not have 100k plus subs
Clem Smith in the V8 Charger is the same Clem Smith who owns SA's other permanent circuit, the Mallala Raceway.
RIP Clem
Alan Jones' demonstration of what talent there is in an F1 World Champion!
Jonesy was still arguably the best race car driver in the world at this point despite not being in Formula One.
Anyone able to find the race footage from when the car got totaled off the line in maybe Oran park..?
It was actually at Adelaide International in 1983. There is footage somewhere here on RUclips
The race between Clem, Lui, Mick, Ferrall and Lusty was more entertaining,, at that time all Sports Sedans
Annoying that the screen grid and the text above calls the two 935's as 930's. The 934 was a close cousin to the 930 but the 935 was a completely different car altogether!!!!
How do drivers know when another is diving down their inside when they don't have mirrors?
Part of it is the sound.
The GTs were what killed Sports Sedans.CAMS have made more than a few efforts.
The crash the following year when the Monza turned left and took half the field out was the end of GT really. A few rebuilt Sports Sedans into GTs then had to bring them back a year or two later.
The Monza was rebirthed into a Supra by Thommo and it then went to Des Wall.
Some of those cars are still around. Lui's Anglia with big brother Serge, Clems Charger with Simon Pfitzner ,PPG who owns several Sports Sedans and being driven by Lui!
The John Clark A9X is back on the road, Micks Escort is around, as are a couple of others.
That Monza still with us?
Its currently owned by David Wall who inherited it from his father Des Wall. Des raced the car with a Toyota Supra body during the 1990's. Last I heard (2015) Wall was torn between restoring it to its Monza roots (as seen in this video) which a lot of people remember it as, or restoring it as the Supra that his dad drove.
The car was first turned into a Supra by Bryan Thompson in about 1989. Thommo drove the Monza (and his Mercedes Chev twin turbo) to the 1985 Australian GT Championship. Allan Grice drove the car (then owned by Allan Browne who bought it from Bob Jane at the end of 1983) to win the 1984 GT Championship. Brad Jones also drove the Monza for Thompson in 1985 and 1986 winning a few races.
Its still a Supra. was on display at Muscle Car Masters 2016
It's a bit of a stretch that the Monza is a GT car. Weird definition in those times.
Always rated Alan Jones a better driver than Brock
17:44 now I know who was Mika Hakkinen's inspiration 😁💪