Image from Unique Cars magazine 

The iconic ‘Big Banger’ raced by the legendary car rally champion Peter Brock will no doubt stir emotions among Aussie car enthusiasts when it goes under the hammer later this year.

Brock drove the Day-Glo ‘Big Banger’, a Group C Commodore, to victory in the James Hardie 1000 in Bathurst, Sandown 500 and Surfers Paradise 300.

It will be one of 30 cars to be auctioned from the Brock collection, which was sold by the driver’s friend, Peter Champion, to a mystery buyer in June.

However, Champion did not part with the racing car in which his buddy was killed when he crashed during a Perth rally in 2006 – a Daytona.

The auction will be held on 6 October, onsite at the Bathurst Race weekend. Pundits expect the Big Banger will sell for more than $2 million.

Watch why the enormous grunt power of the Big Banger was able to outmuscle its rivals time and again, cementing Brocky’s reputation as King of the Mountain.

Some of the nine-times Bathurst 1000 winner’s cars to be sold, including the Big Banger, will tour NSW, South Australia and Victoria before heading back to their spiritual home in Bathurst for the auction.

The Bathurst rally is a 1000km touring car race held each year on the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, NSW.

In the past year, classic car prices have gone from strength to strength and started to attract a strong international investment appetite. More recently 1970’s Ford GTHO Phase III prices have echoed their status as the King of Australian Muscle, with two separate million-dollar sales in as many months including one previously owned by Australian Test cricketer Jeff Thomson. The Phase III car originally sold for just over $500,000 in 1971.

Ford and Holden enthusiasts keep an eye out on the Lloyds Auctions website for collectable Aussie classics at http://www.lloydsauctions.com.au/classic-cars.

Do you become sentimental over classic cars once driven by racing greats? Or do you think spending millions of dollars on a glorified pile of metal is a waste of money?