Some might remember Gemini racer Jim Faneco, who established the Country Dealer Team (CDT) the same year as Brock’s equally new HDT Special Vehicles Pty Ltd in South Melbourne. Faneco had the backing of some regional Holden dealers not aligned with Brock's operation. CDT’s first road car offering was based on the latest TE model Gemini in top shelf SL/X trim. This mirrored Brock’s choice of the premium SL/E Commodore as the basis of his HDT special. The CDT Gemini included uprated suspension, wider alloy wheels and lower profile tyres, sports steering wheel, extra instrumentation, spoilers and wheel arch flares, finished off with bold body striping and decals. It was also available in two states of engine tune denoted by Stage One (S1) and hotter Stage Two (S2). However, what Faneco could not have foreseen was legal action in the form of an injunction taken out against him by HDT in the Supreme Court prior to the 1980 Bathurst 1000. Brock wanted CDT to be legally restrained from using its logo on Faneco's Gemini race cars, as he felt it looked too similar to the famous HDT version created in 1972. The CDT logos were later redesigned to avoid any visual link with the HDT version. Faneco also could not have expected that both his CDT Isuzu Geminis would end up crashing out of the 1980 race in spectacular fashion, as a direct result of being hit by larger V8-powered cars. One of those was Brock's, storming through a slower pack of lapped cars in his HDT Commodore. He clipped the tail of the CDT coupe causing the Gemini to trip and roll before coming to rest in a crumpled heap beside the track, fortunately without driver injury.