HATCH-ET JOB
Mar 25, 2020
4 minutes
STORY IAIN KELLY
PHOTOS CHRIS THOROGOOD
“WITHIN A MONTH IT WAS PAINTED AND BACK TOGETHER. I HAD IT GOING IN NO TIME”
THE image of Peter Brock laying waste to the 1979 Bathurst 1000 in his Marlboro HDT A9X Torana is etched into Aussie history, with the six-lap victory just one dot point in his utter domination of that race weekend. It spawned a generation of Torana fans and surely helped the A9X become one of the most collectible Aussie-made cars of all time.
Having done their time as cheap second-hand transport, LX Torana hatchbacks are now one of the most prized finds among
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