The 1987 James Hardie 1000 was an endurance race for Group A Touring Cars, staged on 4 October 1987 at the Mount Panorama Circuit, near Bathurst, in New South Wales, Australia.

The straight line speed of the new Sierras was comparable to those the Australian Group C cars were reaching by 1984.

The 1987 race was provisionally won by the Ford-supported Eggenberger Motorsport team, with Steve Soper and Pierre Dieudonné taking the chequered flag in their Ford Sierra RS500, two laps ahead of teammates Klaus Ludwig and Klaus Niedzwiedz.

Eventually the disqualifications were upheld and McLeod, Brock and Parsons were declared race winners.

The winning #10 HDT Commodore started the race in 20th position with a time of 2:25.12 set by Peter Brock.

Subsequently, when the wheel arches of the Sierras were declared illegal during practice for the final round at Fuji in Japan.

The Texaco team then made them legal before qualifying and the West German pairing of Ludwig and Niedzwiedz went on to win the race.

Class 2 provided a 1-2 result for the Australian-based JPS Team BMW, with the BMW M3 of Jim Richards and Tony Longhurst leading home the similar car of teammates Robbie Francevic and the team's engine builder Ludwig Finauer.

* Three time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Klaus Ludwig became the first Bathurst Rookie to take pole position for the race.

With the addition of the new "Caltex Chase" complex on Conrod straight, lap times were around 4–5 seconds slower in 1987 than before.

It was of an inferior grade and actually made the engines produce less power than normal, but the penalty stood.

* Countering the myth that only Bathurst regulars could be fast on The Mountain, 5 European based drivers qualified for the shootout.