Happy 50th Birthday Ford Cortina

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Originally Posted by Jim Goose

AAhh... gee ... You do realise the cars raced in those days were barely modified off the shelf?

This is why the falcon GT series appeared, in order to race them.

Win on Sunday, sell on Monday.... was the catch phrase.

"Race cars" ???? hardly.. they werent race cars at all. Most drivers drove those TO AND FROM bathurst and drove those cars wearing suits and a Helmut and a lap sash seat belt.

Ahh yes another nonsense folklaw

Well the privates maybe, and thats *just* a maybe!

Ford Motorsport was run out of Lot6 Mahoneys Rd. [nothing like hearing a Clevo reving its tits off @ 7000RPM late into the night, during development!] Moffats and other factory raced vehicles where hand built with unlimited budget at that location, the factory Holdens and Chryslers of the same era where also hand built with unlimited budget, most times a arms length away from the factory operation, or by fully funded "private" teams ie read brock.