But the sweet smell of success didn’t last long, with DJR failing to take another victory until the following season. ![]() The first round of the V8 Championship was held at Amaroo Park, with John Bowe taking victory in the Shell Falcon. The end of the ATCC coincided with the arrival of Ford’s latest rocket ship, the RS500, and this proved its worth with a win in the AGP race at Adelaide in November. While the Mustang years brought limited success, reliability enabled Johnson to claim runner-up in the 1985 ATCC and his one and only victory aboard the Mustang in the 1985 AGP support race.īut reliability problems let the team down considerably and only one win was recorded throughout the 1987 season. With no local Ford product suitable following a change in regulations at the end of 1984, Johnson turned to the US and imported a Mustang for the 19 seasons. ![]() While Johnson couldn’t repeat his Bathurst victory in 1982, he did go on to win his second ATCC title in the Tru Blu XD Falcon and in 1984 claimed his third national crown with an XE Falcon painted green in honour of Ross Palmer’s latest steel product, ‘Greens Tuf’. With Allan Moffat defecting to Mazda and Johnson fast becoming an icon of the sport, the Queenslander became Ford’s number one son in its battle with Holden’s own golden-haired boy, Peter Brock.
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