Auction bids for Peter Brock’s road car pass $1 million, record set to tumble

The auction record for an Australian-made road car is set to be broken, as online auction bids for one of Peter Brock’s personal road cars eclipse $1 million just 24 hours before the hammer is due to fall.

An immaculate 1985 Holden Commodore HDT VK Group A – number 05 of 500 built – was owned and driven by the late motor racing legend.

As this article was published, bids had reached $1,050,009 (not including auction fees).

The previous records for Australian-made road cars were $1.15 million for a Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III sold at auction in February 2021, $1.05 million for a Holden Special Vehicles GTSR W1 Maloo ute in January 2021, and $1.03 million paid for a Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III in June 2018.

According to auctioneers Grays Online, the Holden Commodore HDT VK Group A – also known as the “Blue Meanie” due to its Mobil blue paintwork (Brock’s motorsport sponsor at the time) – build number 005 of 500 road cars made for motor racing regulations was “Brock’s personal car that he drove during the build and release of the now highly collectable VK Group A Commodores.”

The auction house says the car “still belongs to the same family that Peter Brock sold it to” and has “never been repainted or restored and has been driven only on special occasions over the years”.

The seller says all HDT paperwork is included “to prove the authenticity” of the vehicle, in addition to a letter from the late John Harvey (Peter Brock’s right hand man in the HDT days).

The vehicle shows 78,000km on the odometer and is due to go under the hammer in an online auction at 9:30pm Sydney time on 25 May 2021.

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