Originally posted by Steve Holmes
Thanks Ray, I actually said it had an F5000 (5 litre) Chevy, not a 350. Thanks for the Repco-Holden correction though.

And you're right, given it raced as a Kingswood, a 350 Chevy, or any Chevy for that matter, wouldn't have been allowed. However, if he'd raced it as a four door Monaro instead, a 350 would have been OK.
The 4-door Monaro didn't appear until either the HX or HZ model, the latter I feel sure, so there was no 4-door Chevy option there. Though a 307 Chev was used in the HK sedans.

Boy oh boy there were some rumours around about those 'Super' Falcons at the time... I remember overhearing someone in the pits (like someone from the Geoghegan camp) saying about how Ford had outsmarted themselves with technology, "...chrome bores..." was a part of the conversation. This was, I think, in the wake of some smokescreens they threw at, again I think, Calder or Sandown.

Whether it was true or not, I don't know, but the stories were certainly abroad. And didn't 'old man' French nurse them to the line well?