felt would serve them better than outright
horsepower on most of the circuits on the
championship calendar. One of the biggest
improvements came with the switch to a Holley
carburettor.
“They’d been running twin 48mm Webers but
they were hopeless, way
too big. I put a little four-
barrel Holley on it, which
was much more suitable
for an engine of that size,
and it gave it so much more
acceleration.”
A feature of the Hodgson
team that year was the fact
they ran two cars across
the season. It wasn’t a
necessary component
of their success, Molloy
thinks, although it did
make life a lot easier.
But the luxury of having
a spare car at the ready
back red on Molloy at
the second round of the
AMSCAR Series when Ron Ho g
decided to race both cars – with none other than
Moffat lling the spare’s seat!
“I wasn’t too impressed with having to have
Moffatin thecar.I justsaidto RonnieMissen,
Top left: Molloy was not best pleased with having to host
Allan Moffat in the second Hodgson A9X at an AMSCAR
round in ‘79 – his main reason for joining Hodgson had
been the chance to beat former employer Moffat!