Love the Beast - Egnore Kev beat me to it!

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Apr 01, 09 3:24 pm

Here is Eric Bana's car from a few years ago.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Apr 01, 09 3:28 pm

Now that is cool. Prefer the ones with the twin blue stripes over them though. Thanks for posting Sandy.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Apr 01, 09 3:33 pm

Clivey wrote:

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Apr 01, 09 3:36 pm

No roll cages? How come they break their backs so easily?

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Apr 01, 09 3:45 pm

Effectively, under the rules at the time, and apart from a rudimentary roll cage, they were standard cars.

They were monocoque cars.

This just appeared in an Aus newspaper .... A Suburu and a Skyline street racing, came together, hit some poles, one driver dead, one with amputated legs.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Apr 01, 09 3:53 pm

Clivey wrote:No roll cages? How come they break their backs so easily?

Still running the stock steering wheel, centre console and even the carpet !!!

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Wed Apr 01, 09 4:08 pm

Amazing photos Sandy. You've almost got me wanting one.

Almost.

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Wed Apr 01, 09 4:25 pm

Here's a dealer promo one. Big story behind it, can't remember it though....

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Wed Apr 01, 09 4:29 pm

Kev wrote:Big story behind it,

No mate. It is stuck to a board at the front.

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Wed Apr 01, 09 4:36 pm

Nice to see the Northern (t)wit ain't dead, mate!

TYREMAN · Post by **TYREMAN** » Wed Apr 01, 09 5:18 pm

Dave wrote:Amazing photos Sandy. You've almost got me wanting one.

Almost.

I would have one now that i have seen Sandys Falcon up close,the pics don't do them justice,there striking in the Metal,as good looking as any Ford i have seen.

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Wed Apr 01, 09 8:07 pm

this is why the aussies go mad for a muscle car

you could literally buy the machine that you saw doing 500 mile endurance (obviously a priority in such a big country) with peaks of 150MPH on sunday, off the showroom floor on monday
and frankly until 71 72 blueprinted show room version was what was raced...yes there was cheating but..

in fact they had to sell 400 of em before they were eligible to race

So Ford falcons
Holden's torana and monaro

Chrysler valiants pacer and Charger

have a well documented race heritage in both Aus and NZ
and those cars were

1) affordable for the bloke on the street
2) achievable for the rest with bolt on parts if you couldn't get the homologated version first off

and this lasted until they spolied it all....(bloody health and safety) in the 70s

these drivers were either mad mental or hero/genius its hard to tell

who goes circuit racing with nylon carpet and a steering wheel like a friggin tall ship.

the fuel in the pits was poured in from cans probably by blokes in T shirts smoking full strength high Tar Winfield

if anyone wants to borrow a couple of copies of aussie muscle car mag i'll lend em out.

but i do want em back

Dave