Australian Muscle Car

King of the Apple Isle

David ‘Skippy’ Parsons is a driver who needs little introduction. Co-Bathurst winner with Peter Brock with the HDT in 1987; second with John Harvey in ’84 in that classic HDT VK Commodore ‘Last of the Big Bangers’ 1-2, and not forgetting some early explosive performances in the championship sprint rounds as a youngster in an unsponsored virgin-white Commodore.

But he’s not the only touring car racing ace from the Parsons family, because when David Parsons was making a name for himself in the early ‘80s as driver of obvious talent, he was merely following the footsteps of his father, Graham.

It certainly was a case

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