Prepared the two Alto cars..David MacKay and Bill Browns GTHO's at Scuderia Veloce at Lindfield. They were shockers. Everything used to break on the Phase 1's... brakes, suspension mounting points, gear boxes, diffs. Borg Warner shit. The Phase 2 got the Top Loader and the 9" rear. Bill Brown was crap in a big car. But he paid for the drive. He wrecked this one in 69 and again in 70. He had no finesse and blew front tyres in both races causing the crashes. The hours we spent in vain. Colin Bond deserved the win. Harry prepared them well. Better than us, but he had a lot of Holden money. The 350 Chevvys were built in the US and arrived in crates, hand built, dyno'd and run in. We got bugger all from Ford in 69. It was not until 71 that they really got serious. We didn't even have a transporter in 69. We put trade plates on them and drove them up on Thursday night on the Bells Line of Road. That was fun.
As far as i can remember the phase 1s had 9 inches Top loaders 14 started that race and only 5 DNF They were a good car in the right hands, reliability too. More to do with how they were set up and raced than anything else
We don't talk enough about Colin Bond and his great career. Great legend. That Bathurst race he did with Tony Roberts really kickstarted his career. Like to know what happened to Tony Roberts and where he is now if he is still with us.
Bondy is a great driver. He did the 69 Bathurst with Brocky in another Monaro and Colin took the checkered flag. He was extremely successful in rallying Toranas for some years after. He also did that ONE, TWO stunt in the 1977 Bathurst with Alan Moffat ... Moffat claimed that win but the footage clearly shows Bond backing off to let Moffat through to take the flag. It would be interesting to know if he regrets that now ... I sure as hell would.
"It would be interesting to know if he regrets that now" Perhaps not, because his discipline and sacrifice is what everyone also remembers about that race.
After they started calling them V8 Supercars that was all there was, ( V8s ) before then they were production cars the old saying was " Race On Sunday Sell On Monday " because the cars that raced you could buy the same models off the show room floor as that were raced on the day. GO MONARO GTS I loved mine.
And a female driver, Christine Cole/Gibson (4:53) amazing skill & grit to take on this track back then. She really competed well against all these blokes
The tragedy is that, in those days they didn't care about the cars, I don't know about the '69 car, but the '68 winning Monaro was just sold off to someone and simply disappeared, probably just used and abused and crashed or ended up at some wrecking yard. No one would have realized back then that it would probably fetch a million dollars in 40 years time!
Not only did they know him but he was actually in this very race, it was his first Bathurst. He drove a HT Monaro, him and his team mate came in third.
@@Rob-fc9wg, Sorry, had Roberts in the wrong team, of course Colin Bond and Tony Roberts were the outright winners of that race also in a 350 HT Monaro.
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He’s a gentleman and class driver.
Love hearing these legends tell their story.
Prepared the two Alto cars..David MacKay and Bill Browns GTHO's at Scuderia Veloce at Lindfield. They were shockers. Everything used to break on the Phase 1's... brakes, suspension mounting points, gear boxes, diffs. Borg Warner shit. The Phase 2 got the Top Loader and the 9" rear. Bill Brown was crap in a big car. But he paid for the drive. He wrecked this one in 69 and again in 70. He had no finesse and blew front tyres in both races causing the crashes. The hours we spent in vain. Colin Bond deserved the win. Harry prepared them well. Better than us, but he had a lot of Holden money. The 350 Chevvys were built in the US and arrived in crates, hand built, dyno'd and run in. We got bugger all from Ford in 69. It was not until 71 that they really got serious. We didn't even have a transporter in 69. We put trade plates on them and drove them up on Thursday night on the Bells Line of Road. That was fun.
As far as i can remember the phase 1s had
9 inches
Top loaders
14 started that race and only 5 DNF
They were a good car in the right hands, reliability too. More to do with how they were set up and raced than anything else
Not to mention those crappy Goodyear tyres they put in those Falcons. That didn't help either. They soon put better tyres on the next year.
As a Formula 1 Race Marshall, Pit crew mechanic; this video makes me wince!
We don't talk enough about Colin Bond and his great career. Great legend. That Bathurst race he did with Tony Roberts really kickstarted his career. Like to know what happened to Tony Roberts and where he is now if he is still with us.
Great work Colin and Team. 😁
Bondy is a great driver. He did the 69 Bathurst with Brocky in another Monaro and Colin took the checkered flag. He was extremely successful in rallying Toranas for some years after.
He also did that ONE, TWO stunt in the 1977 Bathurst with Alan Moffat ... Moffat claimed that win but the footage clearly shows Bond backing off to let Moffat through to take the flag. It would be interesting to know if he regrets that now ... I sure as hell would.
"It would be interesting to know if he regrets that now"
Perhaps not, because his discipline and sacrifice is what everyone also remembers about that race.
129 mph top speed monaro 350 at bathurst.
I watched every race until they called them the V8 Supercars.
Why didn't you watch V8's?
@@zanemurcha2675 He watched every race before the V8 Supercars era. Ol tima 😁👍
After they started calling them V8 Supercars that was all there was, ( V8s ) before then they were production cars the old saying was " Race On Sunday Sell On Monday " because the cars that raced you could buy the same models off the show room floor as that were raced on the day. GO MONARO GTS I loved mine.
129 MPH on skinny tires...hard, tough racing for hard men.
And a female driver, Christine Cole/Gibson (4:53) amazing skill & grit to take on this track back then. She really competed well against all these blokes
And brakes that stopped you sort of
The tragedy is that, in those days they didn't care about the cars, I don't know about the '69 car, but the '68 winning Monaro was just sold off to someone and simply disappeared, probably just used and abused and crashed or ended up at some wrecking yard.
No one would have realized back then that it would probably fetch a million dollars in 40 years time!
thay were just ordinary cars with a few simple mods that had to be approved as the mods would be on factory cars. they were nothing special.
They did not know Peter Brock back then.
Not only did they know him but he was actually in this very race, it was his first Bathurst. He drove a HT Monaro, him and his team mate came in third.
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Des West.
@@Rob-fc9wg, Tony Roberts with Peter Brock and Des West.
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Tony Roberts too?
There's no mention of him in the 1969 entrants list.
@@Rob-fc9wg, Sorry, had Roberts in the wrong team, of course Colin Bond and Tony Roberts were the outright winners of that race also in a 350 HT Monaro.
I owned a HK Monaro.
To bad it was Stolen from Richmond, Western Qld. About 30yrs ago. ..
The 2018 6 pot commodore would have won this
wow , the commentary , is it uk tv or a posh aussie , lol
The 69 race commentary ? Kev Goldsby , an aussie
Imagine doing mt panorama in a 1.6 Isuzu Bellet, be down to first gear for the climb up the hill I reckon.