{"id":351030,"date":"2025-12-16T05:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/351030\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T05:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:10:15","slug":"iconic-moffat-machines-present-for-state-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/351030\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Moffat machines present for state memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THREE of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-290-Allan-Moffat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Allan Moffat<\/a>\u2019s best-known race winning cars have been brought to Melbourne for his public memorial.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian motorsport giant was farewelled on Tuesday with a state memorial at Melbourne Town Hall hosted by Mark Larkham.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the hundreds of attendees that included family, friends, dignitaries and motorsport identities was a trio of touring cars that were parked beneath the Town Hall stage.<\/p>\n<p>LIVE STREAM:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/live-stream-allan-moffat-state-memorial-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Allan Moffat\u2019s state memorial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To the right of stage was his famous Coca-Cola Ford Mustang Trans-Am, brought down from the Sunshine Coast by custodians the Bowden family.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/600240599_1492617098892791_8783565382262280808_n-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-244095\"  \/>Pic: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>To the left was the Ford Falcon XC that delivered arguably his most famous victory, the #1 Moffat Ford Dealers machine from the 1977 Bathurst 1000.<\/p>\n<p>Its presence at the state memorial marked only its second trip to Victoria since Moffat donated it to its long-term custodian, the National Motor Racing Museum at Bathurst.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/598127099_1492617105559457_2300907193421632527_n-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-244096\"  \/>Pic: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>Joining the iconic Fords was a Holden, the Rothmans-sponsored VL Commodore that Moffat and John Harvey used to win the opening round of the inaugural World Touring Car Championship in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the Falcon and the Mustang, the Commodore still makes regular appearances in historic races in the hands of its long-term owner, Melbourne collector Milton Seferis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THREE of Allan Moffat\u2019s best-known race winning cars have been brought to Melbourne for his public memorial. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-351030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}