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All the drama
surrounded series points leader Allan Moffat who had his Ford
works Falcon GTHO racecar stolen the night before the race. Running
his familiar red Falcon GTHO Moffat had set fastest time in practice
on the Saturday and had retired for the evening with the racecar
securely locked away in the workshops of BS Stillwell Ford in
Adelaide.
However during
the night thieves forced the lock on the workshop doors, filled
the car with petrol and bold as brass drove the racecar, complete
with numbers and decals, away through the streets of suburban
Adelaide. Up till press time no trace had been found of the car.
In order that
Moffat could race, Victorian driver Murray Carter offered his
Falcon GTHO to the Ford works driver and it was his car that Moffat,
after starting from the back of the grid, eventually finished
second in the race.
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