15 plus years since Brocky passed and it still puts a lump in my throat. He was an idol for a generation of Aussies. Great to see DJ part of celebrating his legacy.
@@frazerguest2864 lots of others as well. Jim Richards co-drove with Brock to more than one victory. John Goss is a two time winner. Alan Grice is said to have wrung his Chikadee Commodore out to near 10,000rpm down Conrod. So many amazing drivers.
Met Brock at a GM finance promotional gig when he came to NZ to compete, got a signed cap & to shake his hand, two days later seen Dick Johnson, being a Holden fan I gave him a bit of stick while wearing my Holden cap, he took his Jim Beam race team cap off and thew it at me said put this on ya head you wanker, my life was complete, got to shake Brocks hand & scored the God of ford legends cap. Still got the cap have never worn it.
A testament to how famous a race driver Brocky was, is that even us Brits know of his legend. Great drivers with character & skill transcend the distances across the planet. RIP Peter.
He spent time racing in Europe? He did the 1000km of Silverstone and even got 2nd in the 24 hours of spa. I dont think it matters where you live, if you're a motorsport fan you know who the best are.
I was on the Ford side, but always had a huge respect for Brocky, he was like a musician playing from the heart... speaking of which, Dicky played the old heart strings there too, thanks mate, you're a legend yourself, no one more fitting to speak so candidly about Brocky. Picking you up after the crash, golden.
I was lucky enough to meet Brocky on a few occasions and had a bit of a chat with him at a Melbourne car show. He was certainly charismatic and a true champion. RIP Brocky you legend. You are sadly missed.
People need to remember or realise Brock got to where he was through hard work and determination. He used to race modified cars of his own designs and it was his driving talents in these machines that first got him noticed. He then raced in teams with established drivers such as Colin Bond, and his talent soon became obvious. Some of what he was able to achieve in getting his cars around Mt Panorama so quick and consistently - and with so few accidents - very few drivers have been able to replicate, especially so long over their careers. You only need to watch how fluid he was through The Cutting, Skyline and The Dipper in his VK Group C Commodore in 1984, or in the wet in his VL Group A Commodore in 1987 to see the guy could REALLY drive. Brock may have had factory backing during the bulk of his career but he EARNED his success.
Good statement Brocks driving abilities are / were unsurpassed , its hard to compete with a driver that consistently laps with the best of times wet or dry his ability to adapt to changing conditions left him alone at the TOP and set a standard where his contemporaries were never able to catch up . Further more Brocks winning & loosing record says more about the mechanics than driving abilities..
you miss the most important aspect really, and why it wont be repeated. wheres amaroo? wheres oran park? all the tracks are gone, covered in housing estates. more people. less to do.
Peter thrilled us and he also dissapointed some of us, but I suppose when it was all boiled down, he was human, he was exposed to far greater temptations than the average person, and after watching this, listening very carefully to Dick Johnson, Peter was also in the company of some very nice people. I have always been a passionate Holden fan, and a hater of Dick Johnson on the track, but I'm now an admirer of Dick, he just showed me his human side. I felt his sadness of our loss.
Its sad about the advertising censorship rubbish, this car is apart of history... And i really feel for Dick, he sounded like he really regretted not thanking Brocky at the time, you could hear it in his voice.....quite sad.... Both legends!!
@@ianrawlings2546 Ian i agree with but you have missed point. His point is that this vehicle a few others like it are historical value but cant come out because of the sponsors advertising on these vehicles.👍🇦🇺
@@ianrawlings2546 What about the constant betting and alcohol advertising on television today, those 2 have ruined far more lives and families than any cigarette ever will!!!!!!
Mate had an SS Torana . Was kitted out with full A9X spec except the engine. That was a hot 355 Chev breathing through a 750 Double Pumper and driving through 4 speed Saginaw behind a Mcleod clutch and into a 9 inch rear. It lived in an old shed covered with satin sheets and was all street legal ( in 1989). Only took it out on nice fine days and one time I went too. Fastest car ride I ever went on, I had a hot RX 7, thought it was fast,,, It wasn`t. When he sidestepped the clutch outside the door of the poshest hotel in town and the wheels were spinning through the green light and half way along into the next block I realized my car was for hair dressers. Thought maybe I`d have him in the hills in the tight bends,,,, No. Took the wife for a ride too, She never complained about me driving again. Thanks Grunter, what a blast. P.S. How`d you get on with the pilot?
Bloody hell I actually teared up there at the end. Thanks Brocky and thanks Dick for such great honest insight. Legends....and that V8 308 aint bad either
Did you know that the DJR had to sell most of the cars that Dick had just to keep racing in the V8 supercars as a team and then he managed to get penske racing to join along the FORd team with the help of Marcus Ambrose who was already in the states racing with the FORD NASCAR series. now all Holden needs to do is find a Chevy Racing team in the States ( Like Richard Petty Racing ) to help sponsor the holden Badge and it will be even stevens, like the new camaro v's the Mustang, lol :) Now i can't wait to see that happen. :)
Dick says: "I would have loved to have given him a drive in my Falcon." Oh, something got in my eye. Then he says: "I should have told him thanks for picking me up in 1983 when I had the incident in the trees." oh fuck.
One thing that says a lot about Brocky, and if I'm honest, a hell of a lot about the people he drove against too. There are very few, if any, that won't admit to liking the guy, even if only after he passed. When all is said and done, that's the most important measure of a person there is. Brocky wasn't perfect, God knows none of us are, but if you enjoyed your life and a lot of those around you find their lives a bit poorer for your passing then you did more than alright...
Whether or not you like DJ Ford or Holden great to see the A9X out of the museum running around, DJ is a REAL Aussie character true blue thru and thru, in DJs early days Holden teams were not interested, his first race car was an EH Holden, then he was offered a drive in a good Ford team and never looked back, PB was killed in a Targa tasmania race in a fancy two seater car hit a tree, still hard too believe he is gone, legends of the era PB DJ AM CB JR LP KB no doubt others too!!
Thanks for posting. It's wierd that at time time you could not have cigarette advertising on the cars but there was no problem with the Jim Beam sponsership.....
So you can broadcast an old race with ciggie ads, but you can't broadcase the very car that is the subject of that old footage, in it's original paint scheme, because it features ciggie ads? How backwards is that?
Yeh! Like blanking out the name means people don't know what the rest of the paint means!! Censors must think people are stupid. An F1 team was sponsored by WEST cigarettes. They went to a country that didn't allow tobacco advertising, so they repainted the car from WEST to EAST, and cigarette sales went UP.
Yeah! and you can watch all the old footy matches with wall-to-wall tobacco advertising around the ground . . . . but we'll censor motor racing. Makes no sense.
@@brendanayres7920 they can use the old footage (like in the beginning of the segment) but they cannot up use new footage (made after the ban). I’m actually in favour of this as we all know the power of advertising is mind boggling! I hear people say that advertising doesn’t work, but when I start singing advertising jingles from my youth, that we haven’t seen on tv since the 1970s they realise that the advertising is so deep it’s actually scary!
Yes. Old footage is fine (few laws are retro active). It would absolutely depend on the broadcaster and the broadcasting standards regarding new footage. Even cigarettes can't advertise on their own actual packaging
Fairly ironic as he winds the car down Walls covered in alcohol branding. Ones as bad as the other so may as well open it up instead of nanny bullshit like blurring out a word when clearly the whole livery is Malboro...
We all loved Brocky, Ford fans as well But I can tell you we all feal the same About Dick , and the Holden FANS As well , Your a Class act Dick , Love You Mate
the australian style is disappearing, for that matter many styles as the world globalises. Lucky to have grown up in the day of the Brock commodore and many other things 100% Aussie., like the torana and even the gemeni lol
smokeybirdman nice mate i was 3 when he went and i always have my dad telling me storys about him we have some old cars like a 1973 2 door hq a 1973 prem a 1973 panel van and i have a 1983 gemini nice to see someone still think about the gemis
@@ules1974 made in Australia, perhaps in europe the driveline was different though , here it was 2.8 +3 litre 6cyl , 4.2 and 5.0 v8 motors and some 4cyl which were basicaly a shortened version of the 6cyl 202 aussie made motor, external oil pump etc
Falcon Torana Commodore RIP> I remember watching the in car camera for the first time when there were 3 classes in the same race, which made it awesome, when you saw the cars you could BUY off the showroom floor. RIP all the great names that made Australian Motor Sport.
I grew up as a kid in the 80's watching the Group C racing and I never missed watching Bathurst. I was a GM fan and Brocky was god because my great-grandfather was a mechanic and ran the armed forces workshops in the 2nd world war and he hated working on Fords, and my grandfather was a GM man, but Chevrolet - he was on a 1966 Belair when I came along, and eventually moved up to the 'new' 1974 big block sometime after the turn of this century, but in his past there were 1928, 1953 and 1957 models - all family cars. So Brocky was god, Holden were the good guys. Dick was the enemy and Ford were the bad guys. The youngest of my three aunts married a Ford fan, and his main man was Dick Johnson, so that caused some friendly controversy. None as much as when I was dazzled by the engineering of those Gibson R32 GT-R's and the 'underdog beats them all' story that followed and I turned to Nissan... and I'm still a Nissan guy, there's an R32 GT-R in the garage. But this video - I did tear up at it. The thrill of watching and hearing that A9X and how much Dick was loving it... I mean turn up that audio... but then the anguish in Dick's voice, and his regret. Well done Dick, you are a gentleman and that was a really wonderful tribute. Well done to whomever made this happen. Don't we miss those Group C and Group A days, when the cars were really varied and authentic production car racing. For goodness sake, can we PLEASE bring that back? There's no reason why we can't.
Dickie is actually doing it pretty tough there at Forrest Elbow. I wonder how he’d have gone in an A9X back in the day - the Falcs were always much heavier and bigger. Great vid - thank you.
Of all the cars that have raced, my favourites would be the 1977 Falcons (1-2 finish) tied with the A9X Torana. They don't make cars like that today. Now, you have too look for a manufacturers badge to see what you're looking at. I'm not a Luddite, but I preferred when you could tell what a car was by the shape. Those days are long gone.
I remember exactly where I was when I heard about Brocky, then Steve Irwin just a few weeks later! A week after that I was just about to leave for my annual trip to Bathurst and a mate sent me a text message “ been a bad month for Aussie legends, just a quick message to let you know I’m ok” . Thats about as aussie as it gets!
Very nice story legend, when the two icons died so close together, it was the saddest feeling I'd ever felt. A few months ago being told I can't go to Bathurst for the 1000 K race, felt just as bad if not worse.
The ‘Steve Jobs’ of racing . . . Peter Brock. Brock had a ‘Reality Distortion Field,’ much like Jobs. The car Peter drove was no joke . . . arguably the most balanced muscle car ever built - Australia’s Holden Torana A-9X.
The car Dickie Johnstone drove looks right except for the gear stick...... should be a Borg Warner Super T10 gear box..... with the gear stick much further to the left or bent back to the right in a radical manner.
As best I remember, the touch between Brock and Bartlett at 1:20 damaged the diff on Brick's Commodore, forcing it's retirement. Until that point it was positioned to win the 1981 Bathurst, and IF he did so, would have had a clean sweep from 1978 to 1984.
great video but i cant believe its illegal to show marlboro, but theres no problem showing a swastika on a german plane or tank. life was better back in the 80's
Swastika was, but the way the German army displayed it is different. I agree that even so, even in the Nazi configuration, it's not a symbol that should be banned. Displayed in a historical context it exists as history, and that should not be buried. As an example of display in context, I'm a plastic scale modeller and if you want to build a U-Boat, or a Messerschmidt, or any period vehicle, a lot of manufacturers nowadays don't include swastikas on their decal sheets. An absolutely ridiculous state of affairs. My father left his home in eastern Europe as a young teenager to flee the Germans at the start of WWII. I'm not in any way ignorant to the ills of the Nazi party. Removing the swastika from history is a complete travesty. Total bullshit. That's a message to you, too, _V BOMBER._ The German swastika does not encourage people to become Nazis. It is not an advertisement as the logo of a cigarette company is on a racing car. I do agree it's also bullshit that they can't show the Marlboro logo on the classic car, but do not confuse the two symbols or the reasons behind showing/not showing them.
I was a kid when i saw brocky on tv winning bathurst im now 58 goiung on 59 and i still get tears in my eyes and cry about brockys death yet dicky respected the man like brocky respected dicky and one day the two will meet again going fast together in there universe
Dicky hasn't stopped racing, i saw him getting trueblue falcon outta shape flatout in Tas. One day he'll cop the same. Brocky was a leader, Dicky was a follower.
make the bathurst 1000 production again and invite the world to pitch their cars against each other on the worlds best proving ground get rid of the supercars which nobody can buy to drive.
It would be like the 90s the gtr would rein supreme and then outlawed and eventually go back to Ford n Holden... imagine throwing an r35 in there now.. would kill everything... there is a substitute for cubic inches...it's called a GODZILLA
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Ford or Holden fan, you’ve gotta just appreciate a couple of Australian legends-Brocky and DJ, Torana and the Blue Meanie. What an era.
That’s just so true man. The roar of the Torana. The scream of the falcon. 2 most iconic cars in Australian Motorsport history
not being old enough to experience the best motorsport era in all history is a gut shot for me
Steve Irwin then Peter Brock 4 days later. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing for both. It was a bad week.
What a remarkably erudite and self-aware bloke Dick Johnson is. We Holden blokes loved to hate hime back in the day, but what a good bloke.
Dicky talking about Brocky like that really hit the heart, especially when he talked about Brocky picking him up after the tree incident.
15 plus years since Brocky passed and it still puts a lump in my throat. He was an idol for a generation of Aussies.
Great to see DJ part of celebrating his legacy.
He bashed the Holden just like he bashed his wife
Peter Brock, Dicky Johnson and Allan Moffat.....the greats of Bathurst and beyond!!!!!
You forgot about Larry Perkins.
@@frazerguest2864 Thank you
@@frazerguest2864 lots of others as well. Jim Richards co-drove with Brock to more than one victory. John Goss is a two time winner. Alan Grice is said to have wrung his Chikadee Commodore out to near 10,000rpm down Conrod. So many amazing drivers.
@@gilesflower : In the words of the legendary Mike Raymond, “Grace and Percy showing no mercy”.
Yes and Al Pal actually raced with Brock.
Met Brock at a GM finance promotional gig when he came to NZ to compete, got a signed cap & to shake his hand, two days later seen Dick Johnson, being a Holden fan I gave him a bit of stick while wearing my Holden cap, he took his Jim Beam race team cap off and thew it at me said put this on ya head you wanker, my life was complete, got to shake Brocks hand & scored the God of ford legends cap. Still got the cap have never worn it.
Awesome memory)
Haha this put a huge smile on my dial. What a memory. What a character.
A testament to how famous a race driver Brocky was, is that even us Brits know of his legend. Great drivers with character & skill transcend the distances across the planet. RIP Peter.
He spent time racing in Europe? He did the 1000km of Silverstone and even got 2nd in the 24 hours of spa. I dont think it matters where you live, if you're a motorsport fan you know who the best are.
I was on the Ford side, but always had a huge respect for Brocky, he was like a musician playing from the heart... speaking of which, Dicky played the old heart strings there too, thanks mate, you're a legend yourself, no one more fitting to speak so candidly about Brocky. Picking you up after the crash, golden.
I was lucky enough to meet Brocky on a few occasions and had a bit of a chat with him at a Melbourne car show. He was certainly charismatic and a true champion. RIP Brocky you legend. You are sadly missed.
yeah yeah, your chat was, "Hi mr Brock can I have your autograph."
People need to remember or realise Brock got to where he was through hard work and determination. He used to race modified cars of his own designs and it was his driving talents in these machines that first got him noticed. He then raced in teams with established drivers such as Colin Bond, and his talent soon became obvious. Some of what he was able to achieve in getting his cars around Mt Panorama so quick and consistently - and with so few accidents - very few drivers have been able to replicate, especially so long over their careers. You only need to watch how fluid he was through The Cutting, Skyline and The Dipper in his VK Group C Commodore in 1984, or in the wet in his VL Group A Commodore in 1987 to see the guy could REALLY drive. Brock may have had factory backing during the bulk of his career but he EARNED his success.
Good statement Brocks driving abilities are / were unsurpassed , its hard to compete with a driver that consistently laps with the best of times wet or dry his ability to adapt to changing conditions left him alone at the TOP and set a standard where his contemporaries were never able to catch up . Further more Brocks winning & loosing record says more about the mechanics than driving abilities..
He was a bit pompous, but he did earn all he got.
you miss the most important aspect really, and why it wont be repeated.
wheres amaroo? wheres oran park?
all the tracks are gone, covered in housing estates. more people. less to do.
Peter thrilled us and he also dissapointed some of us, but I suppose when it was all boiled down, he was human, he was exposed to far greater temptations than the average person, and after watching this, listening very carefully to Dick Johnson, Peter was also in the company of some very nice people.
I have always been a passionate Holden fan, and a hater of Dick Johnson on the track, but I'm now an admirer of Dick, he just showed me his human side.
I felt his sadness of our loss.
Always love Dick Johnsons' no bullshit straight - talking attitude.
Both absolute legends!!!..too add though,how much class has Dick Johnson!!! Top notch class that man is!!!real blokes bloke!!! From a kiwi
Its sad about the advertising censorship rubbish, this car is apart of history... And i really feel for Dick, he sounded like he really regretted not thanking Brocky at the time, you could hear it in his voice.....quite sad.... Both legends!!
Dickie and peter had a profound mutual respect with moffat they pushed each other and all three became legends.
On behalf of my children, the bans against cigarette advertising are NOT rubbish.
@@ianrawlings2546 Ian i agree with but you have missed point. His point is that this vehicle a few others like it are historical value but cant come out because of the sponsors advertising on these vehicles.👍🇦🇺
@@ianrawlings2546 people are going to smoke or not regardless.
@@ianrawlings2546 What about the constant betting and alcohol advertising on television today, those 2 have ruined far more lives and families than any cigarette ever will!!!!!!
Nothing sounds like a on song 308 Holden at full squirt . You did him proud DJ . well done
@ArkTiger4c whats wrong with the sound a small V8 makes.
@@Agent_Clark did he say something was wrong with it???? He just said the sound is similar to other small v8s
Thankfully no Ford Windsor or Cleveland sounds as hollow.
@ArkTiger4c They do sound special; musical ..
As a kiwi I don't often "fall in love" with Australian heroes. For Brocky, I happily make an exception. RIP champ 😢
I was never into Top Gear Australia, but this was a great clip.
Any of the Top Gear variants were rubbish..
Nobody else was either)
Right at the end you can hear dicks voice break up!! The emotion of the moment was creeping in. RIP Brocky the best of the best of the best!
for sure @8:06 there was a tear in dickys eye
Shit that got me...
2 bloody legends 👍
Australian motor sport has always been about being competitors on race days and mates every other day in between. Respect.
Dick Johnson ... Australian Racing Legend & Gentleman
Gotta love DJs honesty. Full respect but didn’t sugarcoat his feelings towards brock
I swear to you, he died doing what he loved, so don't feel sad. He wouldn't be! Long Live Brocky in our hearts!
Mate had an SS Torana . Was kitted out with full A9X spec except the engine. That was a hot 355 Chev breathing through a 750 Double Pumper and driving through 4 speed Saginaw behind a Mcleod clutch and into a 9 inch rear. It lived in an old shed covered with satin sheets and was all street legal ( in 1989). Only took it out on nice fine days and one time I went too. Fastest car ride I ever went on, I had a hot RX 7, thought it was fast,,, It wasn`t. When he sidestepped the clutch outside the door of the poshest hotel in town and the wheels were spinning through the green light and half way along into the next block I realized my car was for hair dressers. Thought maybe I`d have him in the hills in the tight bends,,,, No. Took the wife for a ride too, She never complained about me driving again. Thanks Grunter, what a blast. P.S. How`d you get on with the pilot?
I was such a massive Brock fan, I get tears in my eyes almost every time I'm reminded by this tragic loss...
Oh his Driving or his Personal life of family wrecking?
Peter Brock and Dick Johnson, equal legends
Jim Clarke . Don’t forget Alan Moffat, he was on equal par with the aforementioned duo .
Best line ever, People say i bite off more than i can chew, i tell them bite off more than you can chew, then chew like hell! Peter Brock.
I have a whole new respect for D.J (on top of the respect I already had for him) R.I.P Brocky
Aussies really love motorsport with their heart and soul.Gotta love the Fords and Holdens.
RIP Holden
This was Gold for a 51 year old Aussie bloke in SA 😊👍🏼
Thanks mate, thanks for the opportunity
Classic driver in a classic muscle car. Well done DJ. still miss ya Brocky.
Bloody hell I actually teared up there at the end. Thanks Brocky and thanks Dick for such great honest insight. Legends....and that V8 308 aint bad either
Ditto
As a massive Holden Fan I have no problem with this at all and if you do you are a foool!
gee, that brings a tear to the eye!! great show guys, thanks for posting it.
I cant believe this show "Top Gear Australia" lasted as long as it did. The personalities always make or break this type of TV.
Weren't too many people worthy of that car but DJ was one.
Did you know that the DJR had to sell most of the cars that Dick had just to keep racing in the V8 supercars as a team and then he managed to get penske racing to join along the FORd team with the help of Marcus Ambrose who was already in the states racing with the FORD NASCAR series. now all Holden needs to do is find a Chevy Racing team in the States ( Like Richard Petty Racing ) to help sponsor the holden Badge and it will be even stevens, like the new camaro v's the Mustang, lol :) Now i can't wait to see that happen. :)
7071t6. Holden and Ford have abandoned Australia and don't deserve to have their logo in Australian racing
Dick says: "I would have loved to have given him a drive in my Falcon."
Oh, something got in my eye.
Then he says: "I should have told him thanks for picking me up in 1983 when I had the incident in the trees."
oh fuck.
I think we all have those. I know I do.
"Incident with the trees". That's a nice way of describing the day D J came very close to his last ever race.
RIP Peter Brock 😓
Jeez, I can’t believe that I just cried watching this - I must be getting old!
Brocky - King of the mountain, good days!
One thing that says a lot about Brocky, and if I'm honest, a hell of a lot about the people he drove against too. There are very few, if any, that won't admit to liking the guy, even if only after he passed. When all is said and done, that's the most important measure of a person there is. Brocky wasn't perfect, God knows none of us are, but if you enjoyed your life and a lot of those around you find their lives a bit poorer for your passing then you did more than alright...
Whether or not you like DJ Ford or Holden great to see the A9X out of the museum running around, DJ is a REAL Aussie character true blue thru and thru, in DJs early days Holden teams were not interested, his first race car was an EH Holden, then he was offered a drive in a good Ford team and never looked back, PB was killed in a Targa tasmania race in a fancy two seater car hit a tree, still hard too believe he is gone, legends of the era PB DJ AM CB JR LP KB no doubt others too!!
That was intense guys. Thank you for putting this up
Just amazing. RIP Peter Brock.
Pure respect, love it
After all those years it still sounds sweet mate
Thanks for posting. It's wierd that at time time you could not have cigarette advertising on the cars but there was no problem with the Jim Beam sponsership.....
I still remember The Polariser ...the power of crystals..
Will never forget Brock & the Torana vs Moffat & the Fat 2 door
So you can broadcast an old race with ciggie ads, but you can't broadcase the very car that is the subject of that old footage, in it's original paint scheme, because it features ciggie ads? How backwards is that?
Yeh! Like blanking out the name means people don't know what the rest of the paint means!! Censors must think people are stupid.
An F1 team was sponsored by WEST cigarettes. They went to a country that didn't allow tobacco advertising, so they repainted the car from WEST to EAST, and cigarette sales went UP.
Yeah! and you can watch all the old footy matches with wall-to-wall tobacco advertising around the ground . . . . but we'll censor motor racing.
Makes no sense.
@@brendanayres7920 they can use the old footage (like in the beginning of the segment) but they cannot up use new footage (made after the ban).
I’m actually in favour of this as we all know the power of advertising is mind boggling! I hear people say that advertising doesn’t work, but when I start singing advertising jingles from my youth, that we haven’t seen on tv since the 1970s they realise that the advertising is so deep it’s actually scary!
Yes. Old footage is fine (few laws are retro active). It would absolutely depend on the broadcaster and the broadcasting standards regarding new footage. Even cigarettes can't advertise on their own actual packaging
Fairly ironic as he winds the car down Walls covered in alcohol branding. Ones as bad as the other so may as well open it up instead of nanny bullshit like blurring out a word when clearly the whole livery is Malboro...
Brocks A9X Torana started the SS Torana legend. So many incredible SS Torana's built for the street machine scene thanks to Brocky 👍👏👏👏
We all loved Brocky, Ford fans as well
But I can tell you we all feal the same
About Dick , and the Holden FANS
As well , Your a Class act Dick ,
Love You Mate
My two Australian motor racing heroes: Brock and Dick! BOTH incredible. (I know Dick personally- a gentleman and a scholar!)
The race cars of today might be faster, but I get more enjoyment out of watching and listening to that Torana!!
the australian style is disappearing, for that matter many styles as the world globalises. Lucky to have grown up in the day of the Brock commodore and many other things 100% Aussie., like the torana and even the gemeni lol
smokeybirdman nice mate i was 3 when he went and i always have my dad telling me storys about him we have some old cars like a 1973 2 door hq a 1973 prem a 1973 panel van and i have a 1983 gemini nice to see someone still think about the gemis
The isuzu/opel gemini you mean?
Lol.
Or the opel rekord /vb to vk commodore
@@ules1974 made in Australia, perhaps in europe the driveline was different though , here it was 2.8 +3 litre 6cyl , 4.2 and 5.0 v8 motors and some 4cyl which were basicaly a shortened version of the 6cyl 202 aussie made motor, external oil pump etc
closertothetruth sorry mate but the vb is a Rekord shell with a grafted opel senator front. And put together here Do some research and have a read bud
7:17 Levi's Bogart Jeans? Bogarts were made by Amco. I can't believe nobody's spotted the mistake.
Falcon Torana Commodore RIP> I remember watching the in car camera for the first time when there were 3 classes in the same race, which made it awesome, when you saw the cars you could BUY off the showroom floor. RIP all the great names that made Australian Motor Sport.
I grew up as a kid in the 80's watching the Group C racing and I never missed watching Bathurst. I was a GM fan and Brocky was god because my great-grandfather was a mechanic and ran the armed forces workshops in the 2nd world war and he hated working on Fords, and my grandfather was a GM man, but Chevrolet - he was on a 1966 Belair when I came along, and eventually moved up to the 'new' 1974 big block sometime after the turn of this century, but in his past there were 1928, 1953 and 1957 models - all family cars.
So Brocky was god, Holden were the good guys. Dick was the enemy and Ford were the bad guys. The youngest of my three aunts married a Ford fan, and his main man was Dick Johnson, so that caused some friendly controversy. None as much as when I was dazzled by the engineering of those Gibson R32 GT-R's and the 'underdog beats them all' story that followed and I turned to Nissan... and I'm still a Nissan guy, there's an R32 GT-R in the garage.
But this video - I did tear up at it. The thrill of watching and hearing that A9X and how much Dick was loving it... I mean turn up that audio... but then the anguish in Dick's voice, and his regret. Well done Dick, you are a gentleman and that was a really wonderful tribute.
Well done to whomever made this happen. Don't we miss those Group C and Group A days, when the cars were really varied and authentic production car racing. For goodness sake, can we PLEASE bring that back? There's no reason why we can't.
Dickie is actually doing it pretty tough there at Forrest Elbow.
I wonder how he’d have gone in an A9X back in the day - the Falcs were always much heavier and bigger.
Great vid - thank you.
Peter Brock lovely man sadly missed by all of Australia
Thank you Peter brock for everything you did
Of all the cars that have raced, my favourites would be the 1977 Falcons (1-2 finish) tied with the A9X Torana.
They don't make cars like that today. Now, you have too look for a manufacturers badge to see what you're looking at.
I'm not a Luddite, but I preferred when you could tell what a car was by the shape. Those days are long gone.
Utter gentleman & utterly respect 🇦🇺❤️
Massive respect to DJ
Gotta luv the 5.0 a9x , great car , pb. What a legend..
Where was the studio set filmed.....on the Indian continent?
Great words from the great tricky Dicky
omg 6:23 that gear shift knob is changing post codes it travels so far !!!
Spine tingling and tear jerking at the same time.
I remember exactly where I was when I heard about Brocky, then Steve Irwin just a few weeks later! A week after that I was just about to leave for my annual trip to Bathurst and a mate sent me a text message
“ been a bad month for Aussie legends, just a quick message to let you know I’m ok” . Thats about as aussie as it gets!
Very nice story legend, when the two icons died so close together, it was the saddest feeling I'd ever felt. A few months ago being told I can't go to Bathurst for the 1000 K race, felt just as bad if not worse.
Great respect for both men
i always start to cry and get shivers down my back
DJ. What an great bloke!
The ‘Steve Jobs’ of racing . . . Peter Brock. Brock had a ‘Reality Distortion Field,’ much like Jobs. The car Peter drove was no joke . . . arguably the most balanced muscle car ever built - Australia’s Holden Torana A-9X.
But it was still powered by a fairly stock plastic fantastic. You had to clench your butt cheeks and hoped it kept going.
Great to see this but why has it only just been released?
Awesome Classic Australian race history 😎👍🏾🇵🇭🇺🇸
The car Dickie Johnstone drove looks right except for the gear stick...... should be a Borg Warner Super T10 gear box..... with the gear stick much further to the left or bent back to the right in a radical manner.
Thanks captain kaos for the reminder Was definitely a good endo
Great FORD legend Dick Johnson.
pitty he drove gmh xu1 toranas in 1971/73
Ford Driver . Don’t forget Alan Moffat
It never went to air, its available on DVD, or torrent
Great to see Dick Johnson in a worthwhile car.
As best I remember, the touch between Brock and Bartlett at 1:20 damaged the diff on Brick's Commodore, forcing it's retirement. Until that point it was positioned to win the 1981 Bathurst, and IF he did so, would have had a clean sweep from 1978 to 1984.
Alan Moffat was the greatest in my books coming from a holden man.
great video but i cant believe its illegal to show marlboro, but theres no problem showing a swastika on a german plane or tank. life was better back in the 80's
V BOMBER amd the swastika was a symbolic gesture of peace way before Hitler adopted it.
Swastika was, but the way the German army displayed it is different. I agree that even so, even in the Nazi configuration, it's not a symbol that should be banned. Displayed in a historical context it exists as history, and that should not be buried. As an example of display in context, I'm a plastic scale modeller and if you want to build a U-Boat, or a Messerschmidt, or any period vehicle, a lot of manufacturers nowadays don't include swastikas on their decal sheets. An absolutely ridiculous state of affairs. My father left his home in eastern Europe as a young teenager to flee the Germans at the start of WWII. I'm not in any way ignorant to the ills of the Nazi party. Removing the swastika from history is a complete travesty. Total bullshit.
That's a message to you, too, _V BOMBER._ The German swastika does not encourage people to become Nazis. It is not an advertisement as the logo of a cigarette company is on a racing car. I do agree it's also bullshit that they can't show the Marlboro logo on the classic car, but do not confuse the two symbols or the reasons behind showing/not showing them.
I WILL NEVER FORGET THE DAY I MET PETER BROCK AT ORAN PARK IN THE PITS
I was a kid when i saw brocky on tv winning bathurst im now 58 goiung on 59 and i still get tears in my eyes and cry about brockys death yet dicky respected the man like brocky respected dicky and one day the two will meet again going fast together in there universe
You gotta love that energy polariser used to sell🤣😂😂 he took us all the mugs
Look I'm a Holden fan always will be but Dick Johnson you have respect from me even though you drive a ford freaking legend!
Got me right in the feels
Wonderful. Thank you.
As usual .. the commentators got it wrong.
A great video. Thank you.
308s sound fucking great!
Dicky hasn't stopped racing, i saw him getting trueblue falcon outta shape flatout in Tas. One day he'll cop the same. Brocky was a leader, Dicky was a follower.
Well.... Considering Dick won five ATCC's compared to Brock's three... Who was following who ??
I remember Dick in the trees but not Peter running him back,
was Brocky still in the race or out of it ??
The accident occurred during the qualifying shoot-out.
@@davkrod Thanks Mate.
Happened on Saturday during the shoot out. Dick shot out into the scenery.
make the bathurst 1000 production again and invite the world to pitch their cars against each other on the worlds best proving ground get rid of the supercars which nobody can buy to drive.
They didn't like it when the world kept spanked the aussie cars mate.
tangles01 that wouldn’t matter these days tho since Australia no longer has its own cars
@@daddydawn1653 Good point, but you can watch the improved production car racing series if that's what you want to see, it's a thing.
It would be like the 90s the gtr would rein supreme and then outlawed and eventually go back to Ford n Holden... imagine throwing an r35 in there now.. would kill everything... there is a substitute for cubic inches...it's called a GODZILLA
@@rayban5737 If you put an R35 in there now it would have to abide by engine and aero parity rules and be RWD with the control chassis.
Great episode honestly 😎👍🏾🇵🇭🇺🇸
I had a A9X for a few years myself.
Top Gear Australia is as bad as Australian Pickers, cringe.
Darren Murcott. Yep , absolute garbage
True, but the Dick Johnson in Brocky's car bit was good
Yeah. Pretty bad but they got this very right
You still barely see the Marlboro though the blur
Thats exactly what I thought....Its a part of history!!