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19 Aug 2024, 02:38 (Ref:4223086) | #8 | |||
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Bond did the right thing. Followed his orders and endeared himself to Ford. Surely he knew any disobeying of orders would potentially hurt his running of the Escort rally team.
Was it Bonds promised Bathurst prizemoney (for first?) not being paid that caused the court action against Moffat in 1978? Despite some memories, it wasn’t the rosy relationship between Moffat and Ford in 1977, perhaps that’s the reason for the measly “$1000” bonus he got from Ford after 1977? Ford didn’t pull the pin on touring cars initially after the dreadful 1978 season for the Moffat Ford Dealers Team, but their 1979 plans didn’t include Moffat’s team running the cars. The Ford plan was to run a works 2-car team of new XD Falcons for 1979, with Bond as lead driver and likely his team in Sydney prepping them (the other option was an in-house Ford team akin to Lot 6). There was a chance Moffat would be offered a role as driver only, but the Malvern workshop wasn’t going to be involved. Ford couldn’t work the XD into CAMS regs/CAMS wouldn’t work with Ford for 1979 though so Edsel Ford II pulled the pin completely…. Quote:
Moffat was every bit the professional team boss running the works ford team, he hired the best driver he could for the second seat. Quote:
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