HDT - The Holden Dealer Team
$20.00
In the late sixties, a remarkable story in Australian motorsport began. It was a time when the Holden car was ubiquitous in Australia. But even though the car known as â??Australiaâ??s Ownâ?? was strongly represented on the race tracks, it was without factory recognition. To get around a world-wide ban by General Motors on motorsport, in 1969 Holden engaged the wily Harry Firth to manage a team called The Holden Dealer Team, supposedly supported by Holden retailers.
What followed was Australian motorsport legend. From the team’s first drivers, rising young stars Colin Bond and Peter Brock, in the Monaro GTS 350, through the Torana-dominated seventies and the Commodore-dominated early eighties.
In this DVD, we relive all the glorious moments â?? from the Mountain to the Island to the desert. We talk with all the main players, team managers Harry Firth and John Sheppard, drivers like Colin Bond, John Harvey and of course, Peter Brock, as well as mechanics and the money men behind the team.
From the mighty battles between the little Torana XU-1 and big Ford GT-HO Falcons, the domination of the Torana A9X, the stunning debut of the Commodore in the Repco round-Australia Trial in 1979, and the emergence of Peter Brock as an Australian icon at Bathurst â?? it’s all here in this â??must haveâ?? motorsport DVD.
Cat no. 105442-9
