Ford Falcon XE Group-C - Dick Johnson - 1982
A bit better prepared this week for #mocaroundgang #mocaround57 for 80's touring cars.
This period covered my life ages 7 - 17, so a primetime interest in cars. It helps that I also live in Australia, home to the legendary Bathurst 1000 km Touring car race, held in October.
The 80's started off in Australia running Group-C regulations, with a switch to International Group-A in 1985.
Dick Johnson’s 1983 Bathurst 1000 race began the day prior when his famous GREENS TUF XE Falcon made contact with the wall at Forrest’s Elbow and crashed out during the Hardies Heroes shootout for pole position.
In arguably his team’s finest hour a replacement Falcon was sourced (Andrew Harris’ ex-Bob Morris car), and the rebuild began. In the last minutes of a cold Saturday night a crowd of dick Johnson fans gathered watch one of the miracles of Mount Panorama.
The rebuild was going to take them all the way to the start line. The team were faced with the challenge of working in such a small space with so many people.
They were also trying to introduce all the development from the crashed car that they had found over the year and put it into a car that was a year old and hadn’t had any development since.
The new Greens Tuff was freshly repainted green with the #17 added to it. Dick Johnson made it out onto the track just in time to take up 10th place on the grid.
This mocaround challenge is hosted on instagram by @illuminated_mocs
Ford Falcon XE Group-C - Dick Johnson - 1982
A bit better prepared this week for #mocaroundgang #mocaround57 for 80's touring cars.
This period covered my life ages 7 - 17, so a primetime interest in cars. It helps that I also live in Australia, home to the legendary Bathurst 1000 km Touring car race, held in October.
The 80's started off in Australia running Group-C regulations, with a switch to International Group-A in 1985.
Dick Johnson’s 1983 Bathurst 1000 race began the day prior when his famous GREENS TUF XE Falcon made contact with the wall at Forrest’s Elbow and crashed out during the Hardies Heroes shootout for pole position.
In arguably his team’s finest hour a replacement Falcon was sourced (Andrew Harris’ ex-Bob Morris car), and the rebuild began. In the last minutes of a cold Saturday night a crowd of dick Johnson fans gathered watch one of the miracles of Mount Panorama.
The rebuild was going to take them all the way to the start line. The team were faced with the challenge of working in such a small space with so many people.
They were also trying to introduce all the development from the crashed car that they had found over the year and put it into a car that was a year old and hadn’t had any development since.
The new Greens Tuff was freshly repainted green with the #17 added to it. Dick Johnson made it out onto the track just in time to take up 10th place on the grid.
This mocaround challenge is hosted on instagram by @illuminated_mocs