Try our daily email, The best way to get your news first, fast and free! We're currently making some improvements to the website. “During school holidays I would get past security and wander the plant,” he said. Marc learnt his new trade for two years at Holden’s Woodville apprenticeship school before moving back to Elizabeth where he eventually finished his stint with Holden in 1983. In the early 1970s Holden produced three Torana GTR-X prototypes, with a wedge-shaped fibreglass body featuring a hatchback rear access with the ability to reach a top speed of 210km/h. “At the apprentice training centre you could eat your lunch off the floor — it was just spotless. He finished in 1980 after 25 years and with a gold watch. The ballooning price of petrol in the 1980s saw him sell the Monaro for $2200 — $1500 less than its retail price at the time.

VIDEO: Kelly Racing teases fan tribute livery, VIDEO: What the Bathurst 1000 means for Team 18's crew, MSR planning three-car expansion for 2021, McLaughlin reveals Johnson tribute helmet for Bathurst, MECHANIC: Dilan Talabani, refugee to race engineer, Supercars fuel distributor outlines massive Bathurst haul, Erebus eyeing continued WAU relationship in Gen3 era, Kenny Habul confirms he bought Mount Panorama property, Championship battles tighten up at Rally Italia, WORLD WRAP: Aussie Hook gets first MotoE podium, Cameo effort sees Hulkenberg voted Driver of the Day, Ricciardo: Eifel GP result ‘feels like the first podium’. Race 26 starts at 1155 local time and the last race of the weekend gets the green flag at 1425, both running for 24 laps. They were not what everybody else was racing.”. He started working immediately in country Victoria in Mildura, retreading tyres at a local garage. Saved searches. Paolo built a steel shed on the block so he could finally move his family into the city with him in 1954. In some respects the story of the Percats is one that will be familiar to many generations of families who have worked for Holden — the company with heritage the stretches back to just 20 years after the first colonists arrived in the state in 1836. The fact he was already worked in the factory worked in his favour. 8 Holden ZB Commodore. The kids used to look forward to it every year.”. “It was always cars. But if it were not for a World War, communism, a South Australian Premier keen to industrialise the state and a tardy Canadian immigration office the Percats may never had spent decades working for the Holden name. On 9 October 2011, he partnered Garth Tander to win the Bathurst 1000 race for the Holden Racing Team. “I used to sit and have my lunch in it for years. Speedcafe.com reserves the right to deny any post that is abusive or offtopic. 97. It was beautiful.”, “Everybody was upset, because they all put their names down, but I got it.”. The Torana GTR-X looked similar to iconic sports cars of the era such as the Maserati Khamsin, Ferrari 308 GT4 and Lotus Esprit. His father Paoloa followed in his footsteps in 1957. Trackside she's the glamorous girl beside Brad Jones Racing driver Nick Percat, but behind the scenes Laura Corker is the owner of meal replacement service Bodi. Nick Snr started working for Holden, at Woodville, in 1955. In 2019 Percat took another step forward in the championship. Those in the know knew were to go to escape work — the scrap tunnels below the factory that that an underground city. Nick Percat last attended Nativity in the mid-90s and has gone on to follow his dream of becoming a professional racing car driver. A job at Holden became a family affair for many boys following in their father’s and grandfather’s footsteps. He did it in a Holden. Your email address will not be published. “We were refugees because of the war,” Paolo and Antonia’s second born, Nick, told the Sunday Mail. Marc said Holden employed people from all walks of life including his foreman — a Lithuanian who had fled Hitler during World War II. Supercar driver for Brad Jones Racing.

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