UTE042_NZ
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Yea, it's like Trigger's broom on "Only Fools and Horses"they did say in the video the car was repaired after the crash?
The historical value is that it was the very first factory-built race car to bear a Holden badge and if it hadn't had the crash, it wouldn't have been taken to bits examined and rebuilt, leading to changes that created the beginning of the 5-decade great Holden vs Ford battle. Up until then production car racing was between Mini Coopers and Ford Cortina Lotus with the Ford Mustang just beginning to become a competitor. Holdens couldn't even beat the minis until the Monaro came along.
Check this out:
Sydney, in the wet 1969. Mustang, Monaro (DNF), Cortinas, Minis (and I think I spotted an EH being lapped). Check out the body roll on the 'stang.
Bathurst, dry 1969. Heaps of mad kunts driving whatever they could get their hands on, turning the mountain into a car park. Pit crew wielding club hammers.
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