V8 Supercar Chassis Histories

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Originally Posted by William Dale Jr

From what I understand, there were at least four, possibly five Sierra that ran in Mobil colours.

001 - Brock's car from 1989. This car was the ex-Rouse Silverstone TT-winner from 1988. Brock ran this car in the ATCC and Oran Park 250 before debuting the brand new Dencar-built Sierra for Sandown and beyond. The car was then passed to Brad Jones and Paul Radisich for the enduros and NZ races. This is probably the car that Miedecke used for the bulk of 1990.

002 - Brad Jones' 1989 ATCC car. Another ex-Rouse car from the 1988 BTCC, but I'm not sure which one (he only ran about 6!) This car was written off by the late Barry Sheene during a test session at Winton after the ATCC round, forcing Brad to miss Oran Park. Not sure if this car was ever ressurected.

003 - This was the new Dencar-built chassis debuted at the 1989 Sandown 500 and the car that sat on pole for that year's 1000. I think this is the car that Brock used all through 1990.

004 - Tony Noske's 1990 car. After Miedecke's car was pulled for a rebuild mid-season, Miedecke ran this car. Unfortunately, his first race in the car was at Mallala where he rolled it after a clash with John Bowe, writing the shell off.

I don't know if any of the damage shells were ever repaired, and I don't think there were any other cars used by the Brock operation at that time (I doubt they would have built another new car for Bathurst 1990 as they were getting rid of them at the end of the year, but if they did, this is the fifth car).

As to there whereabouts now? At the end of 1990, Gerald Kay set up an auction of several automotive-related items including several cars. IIRC, Kay's Commodores were up for sale as were the two 1990 Brockmobiles.

Where they went after this I don't know, but in an issue of Unique cars last year there was an ad for a rolling AU Falcon V8 Supercar shell from Ford, and the car in the background of the picture looked suspiciously like a Brock Sierra...

Hi WDJR,
I was wondering if you knew any more about the Noske #4 chassis? Was it a new car and is this the the one miedecke rolled or was it the Rouse #2 shell?