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Early Bathurst winning Cortina coming to Adelaide

Ford Cortina MkI GT500

By Thomas Miles

Date posted: January 24, 2024

One of the earliest cars to conquer Mount Panorama, the Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500, will perform a starring role at the Adelaide Motorsport Festival.

The famous Ford Cortina nameplate scored a hat-trick of Great Race victories from 1963-1965 with the latest arriving with the updated GT500.

The new car featured several mechanical upgrades to the engine, gearbox and suspension as well as a larger fuel tank after strong input from Ford competition manager Harry Firth ahead of the 1965 Armstrong 500.

Armed with these updates, Bo Seton and Midge Bosworth led home Bruce McPhee and Barry Mulholland in a Ford one-two after 130 laps of racing.

The 1965 Armstrong 500 was dominated by two cars, the Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 and the Mini Cooper S which filled the top nine positions.

The Cortina that will be coming to Adelaide is in the same clean colours Seton and Bosworth drove with the #11 and Class D signs on the door.

It is the latest famous car to join the PremiAir Hire Bathurst winners’ category at the Adelaide Motorsport Festival and by far the oldest.

Other cars include Peter Brock’s Holden VH SS Commodore from 1982 and 1983, the Nissan Skyline GT-R R32 that went back to back with Jim Richards and Mark Skaife in 1991 and 1992, plus Shane van Gisbergen’s and Garth Tander’s Holden ZB Commodore in 2020 and 2022.

The 2024 Adelaide Motorsport Festival will take place on March 15-17 and more information can be found here.

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