1967 Surfers Paradise Four Hour
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The 1967 Surfers Paradise Four Hour was an endurance race for production cars held at the Surfers Paradise International Raceway
Surfers Paradise International Raceway
Surfers Paradise International Raceway was a motor racing complex at Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The circuit was designed and built by Keith Williams, a motor racing enthusiast. It was located opposite the Surfers Paradise Ski Gardens at Carrara...

 in Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 on 9 April 1967.

Class structure

Entries were divided into four classes, based on the retail price of the car:
  • Class A : Up to $1800
  • Class B : $1801 to $2000
  • Class C : $2001 to $2400
  • Class D : Over $2400

Official results were focused on class placings, however the Alfa Romeo driven by Kevin Bartlett
Kevin Bartlett (race driver)
Kevin Bartlett , often known by his nickname "KB", is an Australian former open wheel and touring car racing driver who won the CAMS Gold Star in 1968 and 1969, as well as the prestigious Bathurst 1000. Bartlett was named in Wheels magazine's annual yearbook in 2004 as one of Australia's 50...

 and Doug Chivas
Doug Chivas
Doug Chivas was an Australian rally and racing car driver. Chivas drove the first Lotus Mark 6 in Australia in the early 1950s winning many races....

 took line honours, having completed the most laps of any of the twenty one cars which started the event.

Results

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Position Drivers No. Car Entrant Laps
Class A
1 Scott, Bill Gates 13 Datsun Bluebird
2 Harry Cape, Ian Ferguson Mitsubishi Colt Fastback
Mitsubishi Colt
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3 Byrne, Hatton Ford Cortina
Ford Cortina
As the 1960s dawned, BMC were revelling in the success of their new Mini – the first successful true minicar to be built in Britain in the postwar era...

? John Roxburgh
John Roxburgh (racing driver)
John Roxburgh, was an Australian racing driver, and motor sports administrator.Roxburgh's career was highlighted by taking victory in the original 1960 Armstrong 500 , co-driving a Vauxhall Cresta with Frank Coad...

10 Datsun Bluebird Datsun
Class B
1 Hughes, Lucas Morris Cooper
Mini
The Mini is a small car that was made by the British Motor Corporation and its successors from 1959 until 2000. The original is considered a British icon of the 1960s, and its space-saving front-wheel-drive layout influenced a generation of car-makers...

2 Cray, Holland Morris Cooper
3 Thomson, Romano Ford Cortina
4 Arentz, Harrison Ford Cortina
Class C
1 Graham Littlemore, Peter Lefrancke 38 Morris Cooper S Janet McMenemy 131
2 Warren Gracie, Don James 36 Morris Cooper S
3 Joe Camilleri, Bob Moir Morris Cooper S
? Peter Brown, Bob Cook Morris Cooper S
? Lacey, Mike McGregor Morris Cooper S
? Digby Cooke, Mal Brewster Morris Cooper S Marque Motors
? ? Morris Cooper S
? ? Morris Cooper S
Class D
1 Kevin Bartlett
Kevin Bartlett (race driver)
Kevin Bartlett , often known by his nickname "KB", is an Australian former open wheel and touring car racing driver who won the CAMS Gold Star in 1968 and 1969, as well as the prestigious Bathurst 1000. Bartlett was named in Wheels magazine's annual yearbook in 2004 as one of Australia's 50...

, Doug Chivas
Doug Chivas
Doug Chivas was an Australian rally and racing car driver. Chivas drove the first Lotus Mark 6 in Australia in the early 1950s winning many races....

40 Alfa Romeo Giulia Super
Alfa Romeo Giulia
The Alfa Romeo Giulia is an Alfa Romeo automobile. Alfa was one of the first manufacturers to put a powerful engine in a light-weight car for mainstream production. The Giulia weighed about . The car was equipped with a light alloy twin overhead camshaft four-cylinder engine, similar to that of...

Alec Mildren Team 134
2 Frank Matich
Frank Matich
Frank Matich, born 1935, was an Australian racing car driver. A highly successful motor racing competitor in the 1960s and 70s, Matich built his own range of Matich sports cars and open wheel cars, mainly to support his own career, but some cars found success with other drivers...

, Harry Firth
Harry Firth
Harry L. Firth is an Australian former racing driver and team manager. Firth was a leading race and rally driver during the 1950s and 1960s and continued as an influential team manager well into the 1970s...

41 Ford XR Fairmont V8 Automatic
Ford Fairmont (Australia)
The Ford Fairmont is a full-size car which was built by Ford Australia as a more upmarket version of the Ford Falcon from 1965 to 2008. It was available as a 4-door sedan throughout its life, as a five door station wagon from its introduction through to 2002 and as a two door hardtop from 1972 to...

Ford Motor Co of Australia
Ford Works Team (Australia)
The Ford Works Team was a former Australian motor racing team that was supported by the Ford Motor Company of Australia. The team was formed in 1962 and was wound up when Ford withdrew from motor racing at the end of 1973...

131
3 Brian Lawler, Capps 42 Ford XR Falcon 500
Ford Falcon (Australia)
The Ford Falcon is a full-size car which has been manufactured by Ford Australia since 1960. Each model from the XA series of 1972 onward has been designed, developed and built in Australia and/or New Zealand, following the phasing out of the American Falcon of 1960–71 which had been re-engineered...

4 Kinsey, Finlay Ford Cortina GT
Ford Cortina
As the 1960s dawned, BMC were revelling in the success of their new Mini – the first successful true minicar to be built in Britain in the postwar era...

5 Lionel Williams Holden HR X2


Note : Riley, Les Carne, Cavanagh & Leffler each drove in a Morris Cooper S during the race. Driver pairings are not known at this stage.
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