Group A Volvo 240 - Info and pics thread

[Jespersrs]

Originally Posted by brendonwood1

Hi. It would be one of the two Soderqvist Racing cars that competed in the Nissan Mobil 500 at Wellington. The driver would have been either Garry Croft or Inky Tulloch - but I don't have the results to hand unfortunately.
One of the two cars went to Japan after Wellington for the Fuji 500. The other one remained in NZ where it was driven by Tulloch and Croft in the Pukekohe 500 the week after Wellington and remained in NZ for the New Zealand Touring Car Championship over the summer of 87/88.

It is worth noting that Per-Gunnar Andersson, who shared one of the two cars at Wellington, was a regular competitor in NZ between 1986 and 1989, initially with the Volvo 240T and later with BMW M3s.
Interesting to note that while Andersson competed regularly in New Zealand, he did not to the best of my memory race in Australia, or in Australia's premier race the Bathurst 1000. I wonder what the attraction of NZ was over the Bathurst 1000? I see Per-Gunnar has posted in this thread. Maybe he can pass on some memories of his New Zealand campaigns if he has a chance.

Hello, I'm new here as well..

Regarding Wellington nissan mobil 500 1987.
Both car #4 and car #16 were Söderqvist cars, where #16 were driven by granberg/blomqvist and #4 by peggen/tulloch.
Car #16 went on to Fuji with Tulloch and Granberg as drivers.

#4 were left in NZ to Moller Volcorp, I have a "receipt" signed by Greg Lancaster that says they bought it.
Where the #4 car is today is something that I really would like to know as I'm trying to trac down all the SRS cars.
I spoked to Ian Tulloch a couple of weeks ago about where the car might have been going and he had talked to Greg Lancaster who says that the car went to Australia??

Anyone who knows more than this?


// Jesper Söderqvist