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Another daily driver previously owned by the late motor racing legend Peter Brock –
a 1982 Holden Commodore VH SS Group Three – is up for auction a month after another of his road cars fetched
more than $1 million.
$1.057 million, a record for a Holden road car.
Now the auction house Grays Online has unearthed one of Brock’s earlier road cars – a 1982 Holden Commodore VH SS Group Three – which even has his details listed as the first owner in the vehicle’s instruction manual.
The car also featured on the cover of
Modern Motor magazine in January 1983, photographed at Holden’s high-speed test track at Lang Lang alongside the Holden Commodore race car Brock drove to Bathurst victory the prior year.
When Ford motorsport legend and Bathurst winner Allan Moffat first saw the Falcon GT sedan that would take him to victory in the early 1970s, he scoffed at the price. “No-one’s going to pay $5000 for .
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The Holden Commodore V8 had been driven by the late motor racing hero Peter Brock as his company car. It was number 05 of 500 built, a reference to the champion driver’s racing number.
For enthusiasts and financial speculators who can’t afford to spend $1 million, there are slightly more affordable options.
A 1982 Ford Falcon ESP – which was the last Ford V8 car manufactured in Australia until the company reintroduced the V8 option in 1991 – sold at the same Grays Online auction this week for $355,000, a record for that model.
“In most cases people are buying cars they dreamed about when they were growing up, but couldn’t afford at the time,” said classic car expert, Christophe Boribon, from the Shannons auction house and insurance company, which specialises in rare motor vehicles.
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