1071 S wrote:
"The outright winner was recognised from 1965 onwards..."
Note to self..... research more thoroughly.....
According to the aforementioned Mr Tuckey
"The 1967 rules also changed the system from starting the cars in separate classes to allocating grid positions throughout the field in the order of fastest practice times. There was also a trophy for the first car to cover 500 miles - a watering down, albeit a small one - of the ARDC's previous rigorous insistence that there was no outright winner for the big race, only class winners"
Although the bit I didn't bother to search for ... his report of the 65 race does note that " ...it was the first year that an outright winner was recognised - albeit only by a trophy... "
Maybe he saw a subtlety that we don't recognise - or just forgot????
Anyhow...".... if Ford could make the GT500 Cortina, Holden the S4, .." as every school boy knows.... anyone ever heard of a 1100 Cooper??? And, from what we all know of 1100s - maybe not a clever idea at all for a race engine??
However, when he describes BMC building 300 Mini Cooper 1100s he uses the terms "with a new short stroke engine".... Is this perhaps a reference to the 1071???? But why 300? They only needed to build 100 for homologation. Imports were banned but surely it would have been fairly easy to just bring in a hundred engine and brake kits and drop them into a local Mini Cooper B (for Bathurst).
If they had, surely some of those Bathurst specials would have popped up somewhere.
Cheers, Ian
Tuckey is kind of weird and I don't trust him as a source on his own without anything else to back it up. He also claims 1100cc Coopers in the 63 race as well.
The required number changed every couple of years, I thought it was 125 or 150 in 63/64/65 but I am not sure. I wondered if he got his 300 from 150 in 63 and another 150 in 64? Or maybe he is just wrong about the whole thing!
