Procar was founded in 1994 by Ross Palmer,[1] a Brisbane based businessman and long time motor racing sponsor of childhood friend and multiple Australian Touring Car Champion and Bathurst 1000 winner Dick Johnson.
[2] Procar was the name of the organisational body running the Australian Production Car Championship prior to Palmer's involvement and had steered the category from the escalating costs of a series concentrating on Japanese sports cars like Toyota Supras and Mazda RX-7s into running sedans in the early 1990s, until finally transitioning to just front-wheel drive sedans in 1994 after a very poorly supported 1993 season.
Cameron McConville won a very hard-fought championship in the top class in his Porsche against Richards and Peter Fitzgerald with the component classes being won by John Bourke (Subaru Impreza), Sexton (Ford Falcon), Chris Kousparis (Mazda 626) and Pavicevic (Suzuki Swift).
Over time there was an increasing emphasis on the top class as more exotic cars, like Dodge Viper, Maserati Ghibli, Lotus Elise and Chevrolet Corvette arrived along with professional drivers like Richards, John Bowe, Neil Crompton and Paul Stokell.
An accident at the 1999 Poolrite GTP Bathurst Showroom Showdown race saw Wayne Park in a Ferrari F355 clip a back-marking Ford Falcon and was destroyed in a heavy crash.
The V8 BRute Utes were instantly popular and created a whole new genre of race fans, particularly with its aggressive panel-rubbing drivers.
V8 Utes dropped the Brutes moniker continued to develop its niche strongly and is now a mainstay of the V8 Supercar support program.
A new series was created for them, without the controversial Holden Monaros, based on international GT3 regulations and reviving one of CAMS oldest titles, the Australian GT Championship.