[quote]We all know about the great Supercar scare of 1973 that stopped cars like the Phase IV Falcon & LJ Torana V8. What I would like to know is, if Series Production racing had continued instead of Group C & the Supercar scare didn't happen, what do you think Chrysler, Ford & Holden would have done to top the LJ V8 & Phase IV? A Charger with a 426 Hemi? An LH Torana with a 350 small block or, a 427 rat motor? XB Coupe with a 429? Discuss.[/quote] The 'Scare' actually took place in June-July 1972 ... the immediate wash-up was the cancellation of Holden's 5.0 litre LJ Torana GTR XU-1 V8 and Ford's 5.8 litre XA Falcon GT-HO. I haven't read anything substantive as to what negative effect the scare had upon Chrysler, as they managed to squeeze out the VH Charger R/T E49 in time for Bathurst that year. If things had carried on through as if the 'Scare' never took place, then I'd surmise the racing into 1973 would have continued as a two-horse race between the XU-1 V8 and the XA GT-HO ... Chrysler was already starting to suffer from financial and other woes, and the actual management changes that did occur in the company would have resulted in the same outcome : cancellation of its motorsport activities ... the big question I reckon is whether Ford would still have pulled the pin on its official activities at the end of 1973 ... ?? Bathurst in 1973 would have seen an improved version of the XU-1 V8 stacked up against a potential XA Falcon GT-HO Phase V hardtop ... that would have been a grand event, but oddly enough probably no different visually to what we did get to witness with the coming of Group C ... except of course for the exhaust note from the Toranas !! The next hurdle would have been ADR 27 that came into effect for cars manufactured on or after 1st January 1974 ... this item related to the next stage of Vehicle Engine Emission Control legislation and I believe it to be the reason for the demise of Chrysler's Six-Pack engine option and the reason why Ford punched out those RPO83 GTs in the third quarter of 1973. Of the three big local manufacturers, only Holden explored things further in 1974 by developing the L34 road car option for the LH Torana SL/R 5000 sedan ... even then, Holden was careful to market the L34 with a standard camshaft and carbie setup, with the High Output package as a separate entity. As emissions legislations tightened, I'm not confident that the road cars would have improved ... certainly by the time ADR 27A hit home in 1976, Holden's engines in particular were not easily complying with the new rules ... racing engines in road cars would not have happened and I reckon the creation of a category such as Group C was therefore inevitable, regardless of the 'Supercar Scare' of 1972.