FORGOTTEN GT
Seventeen lousy laps.
That’s all that stood between the Falcon XT GT writing itself into the record books and Bathurst folklore in 1968. But it never happened.
You see 17 laps before the chequered flag Fred Gibson and Bo Seton were in the lead and staring at back-to-back Bathurst wins for the Falcon GT, but a rock went through the radiator, cooking the engine. A long plume of white smoke from the back of the car as it coasted down Conrod straight with the chequered flag in sight was all she wrote.
Nineteen sixty eight was the first time that factory-supported teams from Ford and General Motors faced off at Mount Panorama, both armed with V8s.
Holden’s new 327GTS Monaro filled the top three spots with the first Falcon home an XR GT in seventh, one spot ahead of
