NOT ONLY WAS the Monaro racing off showroom floors, it was also racing to victory in Australia’s biggest race, the Hardie Ferodo 500 where Bruce McPhee and co-driver Barry Mulholland won and gave Holden its first Bathurst win.
Before the 500 nine Monaro GTS 327s lined up at Sandown Park, Victoria in September for the 3-Hour Datsun Trophy race, the Bathurst curtain raiser.
Two Victorian rally aces Bob Watson and Tony Roberts, both new to circuit racing and on provisional race licences teamed up and won.
It was the pairs’ third ever circuit race and three
