EVERY OCTOBER, before being ruined by contrived rules, came an event that sent Australia’s car enthusiasts totally mad with automotive envy.
The grid for Bathurst’s annual endurance race was headed by cars that those watching would give limbs to own. Some had enough money to buy an XU-1 Torana or E-Prefix Charger, but dealers wouldn’t sell those cars to just anyone and insurance companies wanted half the purchase price as an annual premium.
The car companies knew it too, so into the parts bin they delved to produce models that mixed performance with practicality and created
