Bathurst

[Amber Fluid]

I really wish I had one of these babies.

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I am assuming we can't embed youtube videos in this forum so have had to post the link

 

[RobW]

Bathurst a bit like it used to be with mixed class racing back in the day.

Minis slipstreaming GTHOs at 150 mph!

 

[warra48]

Nice !
Love the sound of that classic V8.

 

[Dave70]

Mate, that's gold. Look at those old clunkers lurching around!
My old man owned a phase 1 and use to let me change gears from the passenger seat. It took both my scrawny kid arms to shove that notchy top loader around.

Here's some classic footage from a slightly more risky angle.
I've ridden for years and I cant believe a lumbering 1981 Honda on 1981 tyres could be punted so hard round a racetrack no wider than a typewriter ribbon and lined with brutal concrete walls. Giant kahunas..

 

[pcmfisher]

Nice video.
The GT's probably got more horse power in its windscreen wipers than a lot of the other cars had at the back wheels!
Hows the air scoop torquing on acceleration.
I am sure I saw Mr Bean out corner him at one stage though.
And OMG, did I see a Renault 10

 

[Amber Fluid]

Mate, that's gold. Look at those old clunkers lurching around!
My old man owned a phase 1 and use to let me change gears from the passenger seat. It took both my scrawny kid arms to shove that notchy top loader around.

Here's some classic footage from a slightly more risky angle.
I've ridden for years and I cant believe a lumbering 1981 Honda on 1981 tyres could be punted so hard round a racetrack no wider than a typewriter ribbon and lined with brutal concrete walls. Giant kahunas..

I have been around Phillip Island but not Bathurst and not on a 1981 Honda. I love my bike :super: but I agree, those riders back then had to learn how to ride properly as there was virtually no technology to help their mistakes.

 

[Clutch]

And out of the 350 GTHO's made, 750 are still on the road!