1974 Australian Rally Championship

Colin Bond and navigator George Shepheard in the Holden Dealer Team Holden Torana GTR XU-1 were the winners of the 1974 Championship.

The seventh Australian Rally Championship was expanded to seven events now venturing to the West with the first ever round to be staged in Western Australia.

This season consisted of two events in Victoria and one each in Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia.

[1] 1974 was to be the last year of domination from the Holden Torana GTR XU-1's.

Bond and Shepheard had four wins and a second to win the championship, but had increasing opposition from the Datsun 240Z's of Stewart McLeod/Adrian Mortimer and Ross Dunkerton/John Large.

1974 ARC winners Colin Bond and George Shepheard in the HDT Holden Torana GTR XU-1 .
Stewart McLeod and Adrian Mortimer led the challenge from the Datsun 240Z 's to take second place in the championship.
Third place went to West Australians Ross Dunkerton and John Large in the Datsun 240Z .