In the end the issue was apparently resolved, according to Moffat, by CAMS paying him the prize money and strong-arming Jane by threatening to withdraw the track licence for Calder. Then the stewards disqualified me for disobeying the flag. I explained my case. Norm Beechey was the first. I have the new Aston Martin Vantage ready and I am awaiting the BMW Z4, so there's plenty to come. There was no mention of payment, but I figured that was to come. Fuel tanks were dropped lower and the engine was discretely sunk in its bay to provide a better centre of gravity and even better handling. The steering was heavy, she was sluggish in response and, although David has told me I’ll be the only one apart from his family ever to drive her, I’d simply rather not.

That Grand Final day was when the pulling power of top-end motor racing was confirmed.

He snapped up the car by clearing a debt of just $140,000.

The other was Pauline Dean. Bob Jane took maximum advantage, importing a 427-cubic inch Camaro. The track suited Jane’s Camaro but when it stuck in gear, I took the lead and was heading for victory until an official spotted something, unspecified, hanging beneath the Mustang.

David made her red again and when I was given the honour of driving her at the Australian F1 Grand Prix in Melbourne, I found that, after all those years I’d spent keeping her as the factory intended, she’d been interfered with.

Both played to win, but the incident that capped Moffat's abiding disdain was the one mentioned on page 358 of the book – when Jane refused to accept Moffat as the winner of a sports sedan event on the grounds that the Chevy Monza Moffat was driving should have been excluded from competing. Moffat also serves it up to some of his own co-drivers including Bobby Rahal, who at Le Mans apparently didn’t share a priority at for mechanical sympathy and blew the engine in their Porsche 935 when running fourth. I hightailed it back to the motel and briefed the front desk guy. It figured in some of the most controversial incidents in the championship, starred in front of the biggest crowd ever at Oran Park and played a lead role in the touring car battle regarded as the best of all times. We undid it and shortened it. Select cars to compare from your search results or vehicle pages, A new book reliving the life of Allan Moffat is a serious page turner.

One round remaining at Oran Park and Jane led the series on 34 points from Geoghegan on 32 and me on 31. The cheque was for $1000. I kept the Mustang for another 20 years, moving it from garage to garage, never wanting to be separated from it. I lost the championship by six points, a black flag and a momentarily jammed gearbox, a fault of the Toploader that can only be cured by coming to a complete stop. Buy and sell new and used construction equipment and machinery at Australia's No. The 1980 Bathurst 1000 was the last time Moffat drove a Ford Falcon at Mount Panorama. Allan Moffat was born in November 10th 1939. Oran Park attracted its biggest crowd on record. Moffat had read the tea leaves and well before then had been looking at other opportunities outside Ford. In the 23 ATCC races it contested until its forced retirement at the end of the 1972 season, it won 10, finished on the podium another four times, claimed 14 pole positions and set four lap records. At just after half distance he caught Geoghegan, dancing the red Mustang from one side to the other, looking for a way through and finally in desperation holding to the outside of the long first corner loop to gain the inside running on the drop into the esses, cannoning off Geoghegan’s door and away after Jane again.

That career will by any measure be judged a stunning success. Pictures courtesy of Vic Hughes and Graeme Ruckert, Wikimedia Commons. He has two sons and a wife. The seventh would go to Smokey Yunick’s NASCAR team. It has a great colour scheme featuring the Ford blue and the car has some nice decals, such as Coca Cola and Ford. “I called him in and told him we no longer needed his services,” Turner is quoted as saying in the book. Because he was placed in a position of paying Moffat prize money?

Forgiving is not a part of his credo. In contrast, Moffat's relationship with Brock was much more cordial.

Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Moffat moved to Australia as a 17-year-old college student with his parents when his father, who worked for Massey Ferguson, was transferred to Melbourne for work and in the early 1960s embarked on his record-setting motor racing career. In 1969 it never even got on the board, never even scored a point. Sometimes the person in question straddles the divide, as in the case of Colin Bond – a man Moffat clearly admires and likes as a person.

But first impressions count.” Good acts or bad acts, Moffat doesn’t forget. It's not until page 358 of Allan Moffat's autobiography that the reason for his decades-long resentment towards Bob Jane becomes clear. The book – 'Allan Moffat, Climbing the Mountain' – paints a generally positive picture of Holden's most famous race driver, but doesn't discuss much of Brock's personal life, other than to praise his long-time partner Bev. I had no expectation even of touching those cars. The company continued to support its hero driver Allan Moffat through the back door (via the Moffat Ford Dealers Team) but the money wasn’t abundant.
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Peter Thorn painted the Mustang red. Another remarkable factoid from the book.

I’ve come to buy used stock. It took pole position, fastest lap and the race win at each circuit.

Tight-arsed Ford’s Bathurst-win bonus didn’t even cover Moffat’s post-race party. Smailes has certainly managed to prise open the vault lurking between Moffat’s ears. The Mustang and the Cologne Capri RS3100 went for comparative peanuts in light of their worth today. But the Mustang still handled better and I won the first round at Symmons Plains and was leading the second at Calder when the engine overheated and stopped. As a result the reader better knows the extent of his, uncompromising and driven nature. WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Allan Moffat.

Australia's No.1 place to buy, sell or research a caravan or camping equipment. Though acknowledging the Englishman did build a sensational Phase III Falcon, Moffat condemns the pukka Marsden as a “yes” man who didn’t fight near hard enough to keep Ford in racing. Give me a couple of days and I will see what I can dig up for you.”. Highlights include the 'Bradbury moment' win at Monza in a VL Commodore, after the six BMWs that placed ahead of the Holden were disqualified for weight-saving technical infringements – and the whistleblower was a BMW privateer! “I am a merchant engaged in the selling of cars.”. Available at all good book stores, Allan Moffat: Climbing the Mountain, by Allan Moffat with John Smailes. Then the organisers changed the touring car rules. , by Allan Moffat with John Smailes is published by Allen & Unwin and is available in all good book stores priced at $39.99. One of the most private and introspective people in motor racing, Moffat – with some steady prodding from Smailes, has at the age of 77, finally opened up on much of the shenanigans behind the scenes, as well as his ongoing dislike for some of the big names of the sport. In the first round of the 1970 championship, I’d taken pole on the wet Calder track but there was nothing I could do to stop Beechey pushing past. Those were the two key words. But I seriously doubted it.

Sacked by Bob Jane, I wrote directly to Jacque Passini, the head of all motor sport for Ford. Jacque Passino had done what probably nobody else in Ford could do, with the possible exception of Henry II. He said, “There’s a car waiting for you”. Moffat doesn't say so in as many words, but as a competitor in the same race, and the owner of Calder Park, the venue for the event, Jane completely ignored the obvious conflict of interest and withheld the $5000 prize money from Moffat. Reproduced by permission of the publishers, Allan Moffat: Climbing the Mountain, by Allan Moffat with John Smailes He walked straight into the Coke tent and leant heavily on the front fender, testing the suspension. A buyer for your car is waiting right now. Tyresales has over 1.000 accredited fitment centres Australia-wide. Nearly 50 years ago Allan Moffat pulled off an amazing coup, when Ford gave him a priceless, irreplaceable, factory-built race car. Moffat has particular praise for the sportsmanship of Murray Carter who lent him his Falcon after a thief stole his.

His last hurrah was winning the 1989 Fuji 500 in Japan at the age of 50. You’d be dead wrong if you thought that Allan George Moffat, as focussed as he was on staying afloat and, ultimately, winning, didn’t have the time or energy for the fairer sex. Over the final six laps Moffat was relentless in his pursuit, driving superbly and was right astern of Jane in the final corner. Article originally published in Issue 1722 of Auto Action.

But Moffat then delighted the Ford fans with his return to Ford machinery, the Group A Sierra RS, to see out his career. While a car company’s reputation and image back then were built around performance models, political pressure and a changing, softer corporate ethic pushed Ford Australia to officially withdraw from motor sport in 1974. It was only when I left his office that I reviewed what he’s said; “I’ll see what I can dig up for you.” Not just “I’ll see what’s available”, but “for you”. He is entitled to put the record straight on some historical matters, but naturally some who crossed his path during the 1960s and 70s may not remember those matters in quite the same way. It’s impossible to know exactly how much Moffat has revealed of his private life and the often weird machinations of motor sport. The book is populated by a large cast of 'white hats' and 'black hats', mostly from among his race-track rivals, but quite a number too from the automotive industry and the world of corporate sponsorship.

But anyway, this is a book about Moffat – and more particularly his 'working' life. But two laps later it blew when I was challenging Jane for second.

Judging by the anecdotes across the 440 pages, Moffat is a good hater. Another visitor arrives, shoves Moffat on the arm to move him aside and starts talking to Truesdale as if Allan didn’t exist. After the crushing 1977 Bathurst double whammy, Moffat sensed that Ford would be eternally grateful and was delighted to receive a summons to Broadmeadows for a boardroom lunch two days later. Then Australia’s foremost collector David Bowden made me an offer that the bank did not allow me to refuse. “Sometime, I don’t know when, I am expecting a visitor or a phone call. MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia - Four-Time Bathurst 1000 winner Alan Moffat, known as 'Mr Ford' for much of his career, is battling health and legal issues in the final days of his life. I took the chequered flag in first, 40 seconds clear of the field. It was not a Mustang at all. with local sourcing bringing the Australian content of the vehicles to 85 per cent.
I will be adding a fair few more slot car reviews soon.

Buy, sell or hire new and used trucks, buses and equipment at Australia's No. He didn’t ask me to sit. You’d be dead wrong if you thought that Allan George Moffat, as focussed as he was on staying afloat and, ultimately, winning, didn’t have the time or energy for the fairer sex.


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