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Vehicles were separated into various classes based on engine capacity. The ATCC used a two class system throughout the second Group C era with the field divided into Under 2000cc and Over 2000cc classes from 1973 to 1975 and then into Under 3000cc and Over 3000cc classes from 1976 to 1984. Favourable
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Today Group C touring cars are a spectator favourite at historic motor racing festivals, with leading drivers and cars from the era in high demand. Leading race cars are sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, whereas less than a decade ago you couldn't pay someone enough to take away your old
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Group C racer, with a burgeoning support industry emerging including car clubs, professional magazines, parts and car care products. The largest race meeting specifically catering to historic touring cars is the Muscle Car Masters held at
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ceasing direct involvement with the manufacture of high performance production cars for Group E racing. Holden would continue support of touring car racing until the end of the 1970s. Ford closed their
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For 1973 CAMS introduced a new Group C Touring Car category to replace both the existing Group C Improved Production and Group E Series Production. The new Group C cars would contest both the
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points structures were used to encourage the smaller cars but it would take until 1986, after the abandonment of Group C, for a small class car to take outright victory in the ATCC.
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Group C Touring Car regulations in the period from 1 January 1973 to 31 December 1984. Only actual race vehicles, for which a Group C log book was issued, are eligible.
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was run to these new rules from 1965 to 1972, initially as a single race championship and from 1969 as a multi round series. Group E regulations defining rules for
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In addition to the Australian Touring Car Championship, Group C cars also contested the following national title series:
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The final three seasons of Group C (1982-1984), while seeing more manufacturer involvement from the Japanese with
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This article is about the Australian Touring Car category. For the International Sports Car category, see
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Group C Improved Production Touring Car regulations were introduced by CAMS in 1965 to replace the
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An Historic Group C category now caters for vehicles with a competition history in events run to
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To either of two sets of regulations for use in Australian touring car racing from 1965 to 1984
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CAMS Online manual of Motor Sport > Historic Touring Cars: Groups Na, Nb, Nc, C, A, U
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with one class for Group C cars and one for the new Group A cars to be raced from 1985.
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race the under 1300cc class was abandoned and a 1600cc class was introduced for the
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racing in Australia had previously been introduced with effect from 1 January 1964.
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at the end of 1973 and then provided technical and limited financial support of
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between 1976 and 1978, but Chrysler ended its involvement at the end of 1972.
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from 1965 to 1984. These are not to be confused with the FIA's
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List of Australian Touring Car and V8 Supercar driver records
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The leading cars of the Improved Production era included the
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refers to either of two sets of regulations devised by the
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List of Australian Touring Car and V8 Supercar champions
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sports car regulations, used from 1982 to 1992 for the
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List of Australian Touring Car Championship circuits
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race. After a one-off cylinder-based system used in
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Index

Group C

Holden Torana
Confederation of Australian Motor Sport
Touring Car Racing
Group C
World Endurance Championship / World Sports-Prototype Championship / World Sportscar Championship
24 Hours of Le Mans

Ford Mustang Boss 302
Allan Moffat
Super Falcon
Pete Geoghegan
Lakeside
Appendix J
Australian Touring Car Championship
Series Production Touring Car
Ford Mustang
Chevrolet Nova
Porsche 911S
Holden Monaro HK GTS327
Holden Monaro HT GTS350
Ford Mustang Boss 302
Chevrolet Camaro ZL-1
Ford XY Falcon GTHO Phase III

Ford Falcon
Australian Touring Car Championship
Australian Manufacturers' Championship
Bathurst 500

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