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The 1965 Armstrong 500 was the sixth running of the Bathurst 500 touring car race. It was held on 3 October 1965 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. The race was open to Australian assembled or manufactured vehicles and, for the first time, to imported vehicles, of which at least 100 examples and 250 examples respectively had been registered in Australia.[1] Cars competed in four classes based on the purchase price of the vehicle in Australian pounds. Prize money was on offer only for class placings however the Armstrong Trophy was presented to the entrant of the outright winning car, this being the first time in the history of the event that there had been an official award for the outright winner.[1]
The outright winning car was the Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 entered by Fairfield Motors and driven by Barry Seton and emerging young driver Midge Bosworth. Second was the Grawill Motors entered Cortina driven mainly by Bruce McPhee with one lap driven by Barry Mulholland. Third, and one lap behind the two Cortina was the factory entered Morris Cooper S of Brian Foley and Peter Manton.
Class A was for cars under £920. It was contested by Datsun Bluebird, Fiat 850, 1.5 litre Ford Cortina 220, Morris Mini de Luxe and Vauxhall Viva, although all the Datsuns were withdrawn prior to race start due to wheel cracking failures.
The £921 to £1,020 class featured 1.5 litre Ford Cortina 240, Isuzu Bellett, Morris Cooper, Renault R8 and Toyota Corona.
The £1,021 to £1,300 class was dominated by the Morris Cooper S, but also contained Chrysler Valiant, Ford Cortina GT and Holden HD X2.
The £1,301 to £2,000 class featured the first of what came to be known as the 'Bathurst specials', the Ford Cortina GT500 named for the race. The class also contained Fiat 2300, Humber Vogue, Studebaker Lark, Triumph 2000 and Volvo 122.
Pos | Class | Class pos |
No | Entrant | Drivers | Car | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | D | 1 | 11 | Fairfield Motors Pty Ltd | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 130 |
2 | D | 2 | 4 | Grawill Motors Pty Ltd | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 130 |
3 | C | 1 | 29 | BMC Australia | ![]() ![]() |
Morris Cooper S | 129 |
4 | C | 2 | 21 | L and D Motors Pty Ltd | ![]() ![]() |
Morris Cooper S | 129 |
5 | D | 3 | 12 | Hunt Bros. (Sydney) Motors Pty Ltd | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 128 |
6 | C | 3 | 30 | BMC Australia | ![]() ![]() |
Morris Cooper S | 128 |
7 | C | 4 | 18 | Marque Motors | ![]() ![]() |
Morris Cooper S | 128 |
8 | C | 5 | 19 | College Auto Parts | ![]() ![]() |
Morris Cooper S | 125 |
9 | C | 6 | 24 | Killara Motor Garage | ![]() ![]() |
Morris Cooper S | 125 |
10 | D | 4 | 7 | Australian Motor Industries | ![]() ![]() |
Triumph 2000 | 124 |
11 | C | 7 | 26 | Ford Motor Company of Australia | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT | 124 |
12 | D | 5 | 3 | British & Continental Cars P/L | ![]() ![]() |
Volvo 122S | 121 |
13 | D | 6 | 2 | Continental & General Distributors Pty Ltd | ![]() ![]() |
Studebaker Lark | 120 |
14 | A | 1 | 45 | Ford Motor Company of Australia | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Cortina Mk.I 220 | 119 |
15 | A | 2 | 54 | Ray Morris Motors Pty Ltd | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Cortina Mk.I 220 | 119 |
16 | D | 7 | 5 | British & Continental Cars P/L | ![]() ![]() |
Volvo 122S | 118 |
17 | B | 1 | 40 | Ford Motor Company of Australia | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Cortina Mk.I 240 | 118 |
18 | B | 2 | 39 | Australian Motor Industries | ![]() ![]() |
Toyota Corona | 118 |
19 | A | 3 | 53 | H and G Taylor | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Cortina Mk.I 220 | 118 |
20 | B | 3 | 41 | Australian Motor Industries | ![]() ![]() |
Toyota Corona | 117 |
21 | C | 8 | 22 | Advanx (Gosford) Motor Service | ![]() ![]() |
Chrysler Valiant | 116 |
22 | C | 9 | 31 | Smith Auto Accessories Pty Ltd | ![]() ![]() |
Holden HD X2 | 116 |
23 | B | 4 | 36 | Australian Motor Industries | ![]() ![]() |
Toyota Corona | 116 |
24 | B | 5 | 42 | BMC Australia | ![]() ![]() |
Morris Cooper | 115 |
25 | A | 4 | 43 | Griffith Barke Service | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Cortina Mk.I 220 | 114 |
26 | A | 5 | 52 | G. Shoesmith | ![]() ![]() |
Vauxhall Viva | 113 |
27 | D | 8 | 10 | Needham Motors Pty Ltd | ![]() ![]() |
Studebaker Lark | 112 |
28 | A | 6 | 55 | BMC Australia | ![]() ![]() |
Morris Mini de Luxe | 111 |
29 | A | 7 | 47 | Bamar Engineering | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Cortina Mk.I 220 | 111 |
30 | B | 6 | 32 | John Rhodin Pty Ltd | ![]() ![]() |
Isuzu Bellett 1500 | 109 |
31 | A | 8 | 50 | Vaughan and Lane Pty Ltd | ![]() ![]() |
Morris Mini de Luxe | 109 |
32 | B | 7 | 34 | Rex Emmett | ![]() ![]() |
Renault R8 | 108 |
33 | A | 9 | 49 | W and N Howes | ![]() ![]() |
Fiat 850 | 106 |
34 | D | 9 | 6 | Canberra Speed Shop | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 106 |
35 | A | 10 | 44 | BMC Australia | ![]() ![]() |
Morris Mini de Luxe | 105 |
36 | B | 8 | 37 | Vaughan and Lane Pty Ltd | ![]() ![]() |
Morris Cooper | 99 |
37 | D | 10 | 13 | R. Salter | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 94 |
38 | C | 10 | 28 | Toowong Motors-J. Thomas and Sons | ![]() ![]() |
Holden HD X2 | 84 |
39 | B | 9 | 35 | Vern Potts BMC | ![]() ![]() |
Morris Cooper | 81 |
40 | D | 11 | 8 | D. Walker | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 64 |
DNF | D | 23 | Alex Strachan Motors | ![]() ![]() |
Humber Vogue | 106 | |
DNF | D | 16 | Otten Motors | ![]() ![]() |
Fiat 2300 | 65 | |
DNF | D | 9 | K. Russell | ![]() ![]() |
Triumph 2000 | 60 | |
DNF | D | 14 | Ford Motor Company of Australia | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 58 | |
DNF | D | 15 | Belvedere Motors | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 54 | |
DNF | A | 56 | W. Burns | ![]() ![]() |
Fiat 850 | 54 | |
DNF | A | 58 | T. Kavanagh | ![]() ![]() |
Vauxhall Viva | 48 | |
DNF | B | 38 | Renno Motors | ![]() ![]() |
Renault R8 | 42 | |
DNF | B | 33 | M. Martin | ![]() ![]() |
Morris Cooper | 25 | |
DNF | C | 25 | BMC Australia | ![]() ![]() |
Morris Cooper S | 24 | |
DNF | D | 17 | A. Davis | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 14 | |
DNF | C | 20 | Vaughan and Lane Pty Ltd | ![]() ![]() |
Morris Cooper S | 11 | |
DNF | C | 27 | Vaughan and Lane Pty Ltd | ![]() ![]() |
Morris Cooper S | 10 | |
DNF | A | 59 | Rolls Motors | ![]() ![]() |
Fiat 850 | 6 | |
DSQ | D | 1 | Ford Motor Company of Australia | ![]() ![]() |
Ford Cortina Mk.I GT500 | 130 | |
DNS | A | 46 | Nissan Motor Distributors[2] | ![]() ![]() |
Datsun Bluebird[2] | ||
DNS | A | 48 | Nissan Motor Distributors[2] | ![]() ![]() |
Datsun Bluebird[2] | ||
DNS | A | 51 | Nissan Motor Distributors[2] | ![]() ![]() |
Datsun Bluebird[2] | ||
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