2012 Australian Muscle Car Masters

[Steve Holmes]

This years Australian Muscle Car Masters, held at Eastern Creek, Sydney, promises to be a big one. Formula 5000s are making their MCM debut, after years of trying to lure them to the event. Also, this years event marks Bob Janes last visit to the Masters, as he scales down his travel plans beyond 2012. Included in the line-up of Bob Jane race cars, will be his famous 1962, and '63 Australian Touring Car Championship winning MkII Jaguar, his 1971 and '72 ATCC winning ZL/1 Camaro, plus his mighty HQ Monaro Improved Production racer.

As well as this there will be races for Group C and Group A Touring Cars, the Touring Car Masters, plus Group Na, Nb, and Nc, and the New Zealand Muscle Cars, plus all the other muscle car related attractions of the MCM.

The 2012 MCM is held on September 1-2.

[bry3500]

Waiting for the day when the Sports sedans get a run Steve.

[Steve Holmes]

Yeah, I know they'd like to run them, and I think they even tried a couple of times. Just a matter of being able to assemble enough cars though I guess Bry.

I wish I was going to this years event, just to see Bob Janes HQ Monaro. One of my favourite cars.

[bry3500]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPL_UYW3Vqc&feature=g-u-u

[Steve Holmes]

Good piece of footage thanks Bry.

[Steve Holmes]

These pics have been supplied by Bruce Moxon (Roaring Season member Moxo). Should be more to come. Also, Luke West (Australian Muscle Car magazine Editor) is supposed to be sending me some too. So stay tuned:

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[neale]

Great pics & video guys.

Heres a couple of mine from the day.

http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i401/Neale_Bayliss/mcm2012/IMG_6726.jpg
http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i401/Neale_Bayliss/mcm2012/IMG_6468.jpg
http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i401/Neale_Bayliss/mcm2012/IMG_6620.jpg
http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i401/Neale_Bayliss/mcm2012/IMG_6495.jpg
http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i401/Neale_Bayliss/mcm2012/IMG_6504.jpg
http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i401/Neale_Bayliss/mcm2012/IMG_6507.jpg

[neale]

http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i401/Neale_Bayliss/mcm2012/IMG_6514.jpg
http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i401/Neale_Bayliss/mcm2012/IMG_6583.jpg
http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i401/Neale_Bayliss/mcm2012/IMG_6619.jpg
http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i401/Neale_Bayliss/mcm2012/IMG_6666.jpg
http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i401/Neale_Bayliss/mcm2012/IMG_6683.jpg
http://i1092.photobucket.com/albums/i401/Neale_Bayliss/mcm2012/IMG_6760.jpg

The rest of them are here
http://s1092.photobucket.com/albums/i401/Neale_Bayliss/mcm2012/

[kiwi285]

Thanks for the photos Neale. As always there were some great looking cars there - they always attract great fields of historic cars (mainly saloons) and drivers to give them a workout. It is great to see the older cars cocking a wheel in the corners - lets you know the driver wasn't out for a Sunday drive. I see a Sierra RS500 look alike sitting in the paddock.

Keep them coming for those of us who couldn't make it.

[Steve Holmes]

Neale, beautiful shots! Many thanks. Is that Monaro at the top one of the 24 hour Bathurst cars?

[Steve Holmes]

Neale, I just grabbed this off your photobucket page. What is the history of this car? I'm guessing Mike Imrie, but when did it race etc?

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[bry3500]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji-hCTySYhc

[neale]

Neale, I just grabbed this off your photobucket page. What is the history of this car? I'm guessing Mike Imrie, but when did it race etc?

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I found a little info on it here:
http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?p=4429974#post4429974

From what I can gather it is the ex Mike Imrie XD #49 which raced in the 1983 Castrol 400 @ Sandown also entered at Bathurst but never ran.
Now owned by Ian Ross, purchased from "unknown" in late 2009, and a full resto late 2011. It has raced at a few meeting already this year.

[neale]

Neale, beautiful shots! Many thanks. Is that Monaro at the top one of the 24 hour Bathurst cars?

Thanks Steve, the monaro is a replica of the 24h car. It looks great but theres a few little give aways like the 5 stud wheels, vented bonnet, & uses what looks like a V8 supercar front bar not a monaro one.

Its great to see some replica's out there though, Its amazing to see how much work some people put into them.

[neale]

Thanks for the photos Neale. As always there were some great looking cars there - they always attract great fields of historic cars (mainly saloons) and drivers to give them a workout. It is great to see the older cars cocking a wheel in the corners - lets you know the driver wasn't out for a Sunday drive. I see a Sierra RS500 look alike sitting in the paddock.

Keep them coming for those of us who couldn't make it.

No probs kiwi,
They definatly werent holding back. I'm glad there are events like this because I'm not old enough to have seen this type of racing in its heyday, this is the next best thing. It was like stepping back in time.

The sierra was a genuine RS500, but it was stickered up to look like one of the Texaco Sierra's. It was on display with the RS Owners Cub that had about 16 sierras on display & most of them were RS500's heres a pic of them lined up

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[Murray Maunder]

The Kiwis were in the action, not in the best meaning of the word...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1v1MJuk5pg

[Steve Holmes]

Murray, yeah that looks like typical CMC!

[Steve Holmes]

I found a little info on it here:
http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?p=4429974#post4429974

From what I can gather it is the ex Mike Imrie XD #49 which raced in the 1983 Castrol 400 @ Sandown also entered at Bathurst but never ran.
Now owned by Ian Ross, purchased from "unknown" in late 2009, and a full resto late 2011. It has raced at a few meeting already this year.

Thanks for that info Neale, I thought I knew of most of the XD/XE Group C Falcons, but that one I'd not seen before. Nice looking car!

[Steve Holmes]

No probs kiwi,
They definatly werent holding back. I'm glad there are events like this because I'm not old enough to have seen this type of racing in its heyday, this is the next best thing. It was like stepping back in time.

The sierra was a genuine RS500, but it was stickered up to look like one of the Texaco Sierra's. It was on display with the RS Owners Cub that had about 16 sierras on display & most of them were RS500's heres a pic of them lined up

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Actually I'm surprised there weren't more RS500s in the Group A races. This years MCM marked the 25th anniversary of the Sierra Cosworth/RS500 in Group A.

[Steve Holmes]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji-hCTySYhc

Bry, I actually saw this piece of footage on the Touring Car Masters Youtube page yesterday. Its an absolute blast!

[Haga]

More Photos: http://www.boostcruising.com.au/forums/index.php?showtopic=2129000

[Steve Holmes]

Haga, thanks for the link, nice pics!

[Steve Holmes]

My thanks to Luke West, Editor for Australian Muscle Car magazine http://www.musclecarmag.com.au/ for organising these photos. Photos are courtesy of Chris Currie/CLCcreative:

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[nigel watts]

TV One - 2.00PM

[Shano]

Thanks for the tip Nigel. The TV channels show a generic mash of motorsport as if enthusiasts like all forms of it (I find drifting, jetboating, stock cars etc boring to watch on TV - great live but they don't make good TV).

They don't put up any form of programme information so we can sort out what we want to watch. Then they complain that there are no viewers for their motorsport programming.

TV3 has made a total hash of its Aussie V8 coverage. To me the taxis are the opposite of the above. A pain to go to the event because it's expensive, over-crowded and held at poor facilities (here in NZ). The sightlines are invariably blocked by advertising hoardings or corporate box areas. I love watching it on TV, but not at 11.40 on a Sunday night. Who the hell is going to watch it then? I suppose we're all meant to record it for later viewing - but of course ratings don't take that into account.

I can't think of a better way to kill off viewership than making programme times competely innacessible.

I think one of the reasons I like classic racing, both cars and motorcycles, is the more relaxed atmosphere at the track. And as classic racing has grown the on-track action is better than the "tier 1" events. I admire the guys who have historically valuable cars and bikes,with the immense amount of work and money that goes into them but who peddle them hard on race day. No holding back.

That's true commiment. Enough rant, normal programming resumes.

[TonyG]

Watched it on TV here yesterday at lunchtime. Nice to put a face to Myles name when they did the interview with him on the Jane Camaro. Too many bloody adverts though.

[bry3500]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGSTiEQEyFg

[Rod Grimwood]

Thanks for the tip Nigel. The TV channels show a generic mash of motorsport as if enthusiasts like all forms of it (I find drifting, jetboating, stock cars etc boring to watch on TV - great live but they don't make good TV).

They don't put up any form of programme information so we can sort out what we want to watch. Then they complain that there are no viewers for their motorsport programming.

TV3 has made a total hash of its Aussie V8 coverage. To me the taxis are the opposite of the above. A pain to go to the event because it's expensive, over-crowded and held at poor facilities (here in NZ). The sightlines are invariably blocked by advertising hoardings or corporate box areas. I love watching it on TV, but not at 11.40 on a Sunday night. Who the hell is going to watch it then? I suppose we're all meant to record it for later viewing - but of course ratings don't take that into account.

I can't think of a better way to kill off viewership than making programme times competely innacessible.

I think one of the reasons I like classic racing, both cars and motorcycles, is the more relaxed atmosphere at the track. And as classic racing has grown the on-track action is better than the "tier 1" events. I admire the guys who have historically valuable cars and bikes,with the immense amount of work and money that goes into them but who peddle them hard on race day. No holding back.

That's true commiment. Enough rant, normal programming resumes.

Could not agree more, TV3 have stuffed it. Poor Shaun's hands are tied I think when it comes to time and real live broadcast.
Can't wait to watch the 3hours of Bathurst between the 4hours of adds.
Maybe tape it and then spend 3 hours that evening watching it as we fast forward the adds.

[bry3500]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9HY6UT6yXk

[bry3500]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnll375gPn0

[bry3500]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdW6HimP-jc&feature=channel&list=UL

[bry3500]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNgPqGJt39o&feature=related

[Steve Holmes]

Thanks for that Bry, awesome! So great to hear Mike Raymonds voice again.

[Shano]

Thanks for that Bry, awesome! So great to hear Mike Raymonds voice again.


Ditto to Mike Raymond's voice. I always liked his commentaries. Him and Barry Sheene together were outstanding.

[david5]

Ditto to Mike Raymond's voice. I always liked his commentaries. Him and Barry Sheene together were outstanding.

I didn't think they had done commentary together ?

[Shano]

I thought they did some Bathursts together, but there's always an alzheimers possibility there. Good excuse to look at my Bathurst dvd collection again as 'research."

[david5]

I thought they did some Bathursts together, but there's always an alzheimers possibility there. Good excuse to look at my Bathurst dvd collection again as 'research."

Off the top of my head Baz was on TEN & MR on Ch 7, but by no means am I saying that's 100 % right.