AMC’s legend columnist Bob Morris explained in issue #103 how with the offer of Ford support from Al Turner not transferring across to the subsequent Howard Marsden stewardship, he ran a Phase III in late ’71 as a privateer, including at Bathurst. By early ’72 had “run out of money”.
“I didn’t race much at all that year,” Bob explained of 1972. “But I did go to Bathurst that year helping out a couple of guys, the Gulsons. They damaged an engine in practice, and Ray Gulson said, ‘Oh well, that’s it then, and he went off to dinner. But I said, ‘Look, let’s go and talk to Ford and see if we can get an engine. So we did, and they said, ‘Okay, wait till 8 o’clock tonight after…