Thanks for your input gents. Any reminiscing about the Group C era would not be complete without celebrating the mighty Holden Commodores, which between 1980 and 1984 won an ATCC title, four Sandown 500s and four Bathurst 1000s. Brock (HDT) was first to blood the new VB Commodore in 1980 and cleaned up in the ATCC with patchy opposition. The VB’s touring car career was short-lived, though, as it was replaced by the facelifted VC later that year in time for the endurance races. The VB and VC Commodores had to run with the standard Commodore V8 road car’s 'anti-pollution' small-valve heads (L31) as CAMS would not allow homologation of the big-valve L34-type heads on the HDT ‘special vehicle’ road cars due to a bitter dispute over build numbers, kerb weights etc. The ugly feud finally ended with approval of the cop car-based big-valve VH SS in 1982, which served as the basis of Holden’s VH racer. In HDT's hands it won consecutive Bathurst 1000s in 1982 and 1983. The VH SS carried over into early 1984 before HDT’s stunning mid-year reveal of two brand new VK models finished in dazzling day-glo red Marlboro war paint to send Group C out with a bang at Bathurst. In fact, Holden’s PR man Tim Pemberton appropriately called them ‘The Last of the Big Bangers’ which was warmly received by Holden fans. There were other VKs at Bathurst too but the HDT cars were in a class of their own, finishing a resounding first and second and finally giving Holden the formation 1-2 Bathurst finish it had craved since Moffat and Bond did it for Ford seven years earlier. It was the end of an unforgettable era.