MICHELLE JELLICOE

NO MOTORSPORT event has had as profound an influence on Australia's automotive culture as the Bathurst 1000.

- CARLY DALE

Over the past six decades and counting, the Great Race has fired the imaginations of millions of Aussie petrolheads, including that of Goulburn's Michelle Jellicoe. Her young heart was captured back when square-bodied Toranas terrorised the track, so she was always destined to own a Bathurst-style steed of her own in the form of this tidy LX SL/R 5000.

Tell us about your early revhead influences.

Other than our yearly gathering around the TV to watch Bathurst with family and friends, it was my primary school teacher's LX SS hatch. I'd chat with him about the Torana whenever I could, and the love of Toranas never left me.

When did this LX enter your life?

I bought my SL/R 5000 in 1991 for $5700 — I still have the