30 years ago George Fury slipped behind the wheel of this very Nissan Bluebird Turbo and held it together at breakneck speed long enough to become the fastest Group C touring car to lap Bathurst, everIn this video produced in-house by Nissan Australia, we see Fury back behind the wheel of the car in which he so famously took that pole position at the 1984 James Hardie 1000 – known today as the Bathurst 1000.
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The clip sees Fury tear around Winton in the little 1.8L turbo Z18 beast, perhaps not at the same pace at which he traveled on that day in 1984. A hand-grenade of a car in it’s heyday, the Nissan Bluebird Turbo remains a reminder of a terrific era of touring car racing.
The famous lap in 1984:
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