This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Australian Touring Car Championship

The ‘60s lay the groundwork for the championship we have today, evolving from a one-race title for modified production cars into a multi-round series where the front-runners all drove expensive, highly-developed, purpose-built machines.

That inaugural race in 1960 was the very first event to be run in Australia under a new set of technical rules known as ‘Appendix J’, marking the first common set of touring car regulations to be used across the country