Photos from Oz and NZ as promised...

Any like I said - the BACK WINDOW STICKER to!

Cracking pics + lots of interesting info = great thread!

Again,beggers and thieves,the falcon was a Boss mustang with a falcon shell,had hardly any local content ,whereas the holden at the time had the GTS 350 ,apart from the engine,it was all local ,same with the valliant.But if you must query the 6.3's racing cred,the first three 6.3 were built right hand drive ,so that their creator .Erich Waxenburger could sneak one off to Makao,where it raced and won hands down,.Not enough?
The next outing was SPA,24 hour race a far harder race than bathurst against far faster cars than anything running in Australia.there followed numerous wins and places throughout Europe including Finland.And this was without factory backing..
This car went on to win at SPA,at the same time Bob Jane,a former winner at bathurst was trying to get a 6.3 to race at Bathurst for 1971,but he was knocked back,the reason being that too few 6.3's were sold in Australia. 300 were sold out of a total rhd production of 703.
Amate in Victoria went to a ford day a couple of months ago ,on the way home he blitzed a few Gt's to entice a racer against his 6.3,one taker tried but was shut down in the 50-100mph sprint,I've worked on the genuine phase 3 back in the day,driven both E38 and E49 chargers,driven a genuine bathurst GTS 350 monaro and seen dozens of toranas off in my Merc.i even blew the doors of a CV8 monaro last year and went head for head with a Xr8 falcon a couple of months ago.No,the propaganda machine in oZ has about as much credibility as monkey boys WMD stories.

I just checked a web page (google again) and the 1000km race is 161 laps! and I copied this off the sam site
www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1372980

The track itself is a challenging circuit, which provides some of the most spectacular racing you could ever hope to see. Approximately 6.2km in length, the track drops 174 metres from top to bottom. Drivers begin at the bottom of the mountain on Pit Straight, before leaving the line to negotiate Hell Corner. The sight of 40 to 50 or more cars trying to maneuver around a 90 degree left handed corner should give you some idea of how this corner has earned its name. After exiting Hell Corner, the cars blast up mountain straight at speeds of up to 240kp/h. A series of tricky corners takes them to the top of Mount Panorama, where they pass through Skyline, one of the most scenic places on the track. It's a pity that the drivers have no time to enjoy the view - before too long, they're on their way down the mountain through a series of steep esses, and the aptly names 'Big Dipper'. Cars passing through this part of the track will often have two wheels leave the ground, as they negotiate this steeply dropping corner - it's truly spectacular racing. After passing through Forest Elbow, the cars begin their run down Conrod Straight. This is the longest racing straight in Australia - around 1.9km in length. By the end of it, they are traveling at close to 300kph. This may not match the speed that many other classes of racing around the world can achieve, but bear this in mind - each car is close to 1.3 tonnes in weight. By now the drivers are well aware of this fact, as they rapidly enter Caltex Chase (now simply known as 'The Chase'). This is a jinking right handed corner, that leads into a series of left handers, designed to slow the cars before reaching the 90 degree Murray's Corner, leading back onto the Pit Straight.

SPA 24 hours...not as challenging as bathurst... ;D ;D ;D
Come on David ,get real, and as i said Bob jane,who you must have heard of or seen his companies adds on tele ,You know"BOB JANE tee marts ....",well as i said,tried to bring in a 6.3 racer,but was knocked back in 1969 and 1970 by CAMS because too few had been sold,nothing to do with being a heavy car ,(although the latest Monaro and falcon are heavier than the merc.) and BOB has never been short of a dollar.Here he is winning the forerunner to bathurst at phillip island in 1961
Somewhere i have pics of a 6,3 racing Camaros(427's ) in germany in 1971 where it came third.

Yup the kiwi's can modify alright, thought i would tell you lads that i once saw a fiat bambina with a roll cage single seat and a bloke with full leathers driving it at over the ton when passing us in a 62 dodge towing a trailer with the stock car on it had (the fiat) a 900 turbo kawasaki bike engine in it and another one in the north island was a mk3 cortina with a 4 cyl lycombing aircraft engine so there ya go summit to think about there are many more like that minis with 350 chev V8's ford 100E with chev V8's my bro had a mk2 cortina with a american 2.3 pinto and christ it went too......................>

heres a pic of one.............................................................[img src="x4.putfile.com/5/13223013210.jpg"][/img]