RACING LEGENDS
The Group A era wasn’t suited to locally made cars, yet Holden defied the odds at the Bathurst with two wins for the VL Commodore.
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he mid 1980s were a tumultuous time for Holden. There was the arrival of the Group A international regulations to Australia, which suited imported cars more than the local product.The effects of the fuel crisis were still in flow, rival Ford had dropped the
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