#94 AUTO ACTION '74 - Moffat wins 250; Bathurst guide

• Magazine: "Auto Action"
• Issue: #94
• Date: 20 September 1974
• Cover pic: Allan Moffat's BX falcon GT winning the Sandown 250
• Magazine condition: 8/10 Very Good ... very good for its age ... remember that these are printed on newsprint, so tend to yellow with age ...
• Poster:
  • No poster ... instead a 4 page lift-out TV guide to the Hardie Ferodo 1000 at Bathurst
• News:
• Bob Watson to drive the Renault Alpine in the Southern Cross Rally
• Insight: the oil issues plaguing the new L34 Torana & what this might mean for their reliability at Bathurst
• Graeme Blanchard stops work on building an L34 Torana for Bathurst, instead buying the old HDT XU1 to race
• Bob Morris to stick with their XU1 for Bathurst?
• Murray Carter excluded from the Sandown 250 after scrutineering ... rear suspension radius rods outside production touring car rules
• New Elfin 620B ready
• Report on the specially homologated bits for Moffat's Falcon XB at Sandown ... other Falcon drivers like Murray Carter were unaware Ford had done the paperwork!
• "Action cars" double page fature ... all about the L34 Torana ... the road going version is described as "very fast, but no super car" (don't want that fuss again!) ... details the L34 upgrade items
• Race reports:
• Sandown: Allan Moffat's updated XB Falcon GT wins the 250 race over the Torana XU1 of Bob Morris & John Leffler, with Murray Carter 3rd (until later excluded), then the XU1 Toranas of Bob Forbes & Noel Edwards, with the Charger of Brian Ovenden 6th ... both HDT Torana L34 had issues: Peter Brock had gear selection problems (but finished 10th) & Colin Bond's engine failed (the oil issue)
• Oran Park: John McCormack's Charger wins 5 in a row, to become the unofficial Australian sports sedan champion (he won the Grace Bros / Toby Lee series) 
• State rallies: Tas; SA
• Collingrove
• Columnists: 
• John Leffler
• John Sheppard
• Bob Watson 
• Peter Janson
• Classifieds include ... 
• Max Steart's March 722 for $POA
• ex-Bill Fanning Waggott TC4V Escort (tested RCN May '72) for $3,500
• "Miss Edwards" selling her SLR 5000 Torana for $5,300
• Mollison Motors selling the rolling chassis of ex-Colin Bond (Bathurst) HDT XU1 Torana "ideal for rallies" $POA

One of many issues of the then bi-weekly "Auto Action" magazine I will be listing as I have surplus from collecting them for myself.  I will be listing other issues in date order, plus a wide range of other car & racing magazines (primarily Australian) - please check out my other auctions.

These early Auto Action magazines are very difficult to find as most people threw them away after reading. However, they contain very detailed race reports (unlike today's car racing magazines!) and fantastic black & white photos.

This early 1970s period featured the emergence of extremely strong "tin top" racing. In the last years of "improved production" were the legendary driver/car combinations like Norm Beechey (Monaro), Allan Moffat (Mustang), Bob Jane (Camaro), Ian "Pete" Geoghegan (Mustang, then Falcon). The emerging "Series production" races saw battles between the Falcon Phase III GT-HO (Moffat, John Goss, Fred Gibson, etc) and smaller XU1 Torana (Peter Brock, Colin Bond, etc) - with a few Chrysler Chargers (Leo Geoghegan, Lawrie Nelson, etc) thrown in. And "sports sedan" racing was just starting to take off.

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