Part one of Forbes and Moore, where we talk to these privateer racers who are not only both ‘characters’ of the most interesting kind, but were both without doubt ‘the best of the rest’ in the Torana-era!

Starting as true amateurs paying their own costs, their careers were often parallel but they never managed to team-up, always being fierce competitors on-track and friends off-track.

Both drove cars at Bathurst with Dick Johnson - Bob shared his Torana XU-1 in 1971 finishing fifth outright and Graham shared with Dick in a Ford Capri V6 in 1976 finishing 10th outright.

Part one tells of them as drivers – Part two will follow, taking up their stories as team owners and ‘movers and shakers’ in the world of Muscle Car racing!

Warwick’s race-winning record is second to none in the fearsome Formula 5000 era! The only Australian ever to win the Tasman Series against all comers and the AGP joining Sir Jackie Stewart, Jim Clark, Sir Jack Brabham!

He raced against Frank Matich, Niel Allen, Alan Jones, Mario Andretti, AJ Foyt and many others. His second-by-second retelling of the horrendous crash in the Lola T300 at Surfers Paradise Raceway in 1973 that almost took his life is chilling to hear. He says, ’99 times out of 100, I should have died that day!

He happily admits to only occasionally being a Muscle Car driver in the terms of road-car-based racing cars, but if an F5000 isn’t a real Muscle Car then what is?

Before regular TV broadcasts, we relied for race reports on the written word published by newspapers and magazines.

The Australian motor racing media in the 1960’s and ‘70’s were trail blazers for today’s TV and social media ‘talking-heads’. The written word had to convey fact and emotion to the reader in a way that could be understood by the millions who read their reports and opinions.

Two of the best exponents of this ‘black art’ are Phil Christensen and Peter McKay. Now both ‘retired’ from their previous occupations, their memories of racing, drivers, cars, overseas trips to Grand Prix, le Mans and more, plus numerous controversies will keep you entertained and enlightened!