Grp C/Grp A/V8SC 'Where are they now?' continued...

[dougcharli]

Here is the reply I got from DJR regards the sierra pic:

Hi Doug,

The car in the photo you have sent to us is being displayed in our merchandise tent at Amaroo Park in 1988. It is a Left Hand Drive car, so was the car used by the team as #18 (driven by Gregg Hansford) in the 1987 series. The team took this car over to New Zealand for the races at Wellington and Pukekohe in late 87/early 88, where it ran with DDB Needham sponsorship (In place of the Shell Ultra Hi logo on the side of the car). The small Shell logo on the back of the rear guard was in this place for the NZ event. when the car returned from NZ, it became the team's spare car and show car for 1988. The Needham Logos were removed, and the team quickly put a small Shell Ultra Hi logo on in its place, this is why it doesnt appear as the race cars ran in the 1988 ATCC. Also, the banner across the windscreen also only says 'Johnson' as opposed to 'Dick Johnson' like the ATCC cars had that year. In short, the team just changed the car back to Shell signage as quickly as possible for the season, so the spare/show car did not appear exactly the same as the race cars used by Dick and John Bowe in 1988.

I hope this answers your enquiry! Any more questions please feel free to contact us.

[racer69]

Originally Posted by NewsStalker

Didn't Shiel have a huge accident at one of the pre Aug AMSCAR rounds which nearly, so I am told, stopped him racing at the Calder Enduro event?

Yes, it was in the Hardie Irrigation 100 a week before Calder, he came out of the loop and hit the Ashby/Reed Commodore sitting in the middle of the road. He looked pretty groggy getting out of the car

[rdmdog]

Originally Posted by racer69

Not to take the spotlight off the Roadways car,

I came across this pic of a DJR Sierra, out of curiosity where is it at? (its got XMO rather than Ultra Hi on the side...)

There is a DJR SHell Sierra at the Motor Museum that I drove past on the way to Baskerville a few years ago, I just cant remember the name of the Tasmanian town it was in (Will try to find and let you know). The story there was that it was a Race car, and is now owned by Shell Australia. Looked pretty complete, bit of a waste in the shed there!

Might have been a Bowe car, hence the Tasmanian location of it?

May be related in some way?

[Group'C']

Originally Posted by rdmdog

There is a DJR SHell Sierra at the Motor Museum that I drove past on the way to Baskerville a few years ago, I just cant remember the name of the Tasmanian town it was in (Will try to find and let you know). The story there was that it was a Race car, and is now owned by Shell Australia. Looked pretty complete, bit of a waste in the shed there!

Might have been a Bowe car, hence the Tasmanian location of it?

May be related in some way?

It would have been at the National Motor Museum in Launceston which was also the resting place oh the SR5 Matich until it went off for its resto. I understood the Sierra was on loan from DJR its self and was there for ages.

[Group'C']

The first Roadways STP Car August 82, This car was already painted in the Yellow & White that Roadways had been running and was painted after hrs by the painters fron Re-Car. The Roadways workshop was in the Re-Car complex in Sunshine next door to the Re-Car race team.

[Group'C']

First test of new car Aug 10th Calder, Garth Wigston drove the only laps and dunked the car in the mud hole going into the esses

[Group'C']

First race meeting Oran Park atleast I got some pics before it got shunted into the wall at the end of the Main straight, still looking for a pic of it smashed up


Head spannerman was John McCarthy (seated in car) and then me the apprentice and a part time labourer named wally (in passengers seat)

[racer69]

great pics Group'C'

There are a few b&w pics of the car in the Chequered Flag magazine report of the race, however all are from before its accident

How good was the STP livery!


On another note.. at the Oran Park historics the #46 Schnitzer M3 from Bathurst '87 was in attendance (this car may have come up before from memory), who is the current owner and whats its story (i presume it is the shell that got crashed during practice, and stayed at the Bathurst museum for years afterwards)?

[Camaroz]

Originally Posted by racer69

great pics Group'C'


How good was the STP livery!

Would have been better if STP had paid!

[Group'C']

[QUOTE=racer69;2491803]great pics Group'C'

How good was the STP livery!

you should have seen what the advertising company had in mind , it had more stripes and colour changes than could be imagined, would have been a blur on the TV so between John McCarthy, myself and the painters we came up with that, pretty basic and to the point but looked good. Remember that the car was already painted in it's Roadways yellow and white when the STP sponsorship came along as can be seen when you look at any pics when it was crashed the yellow was under all the flares


Would have been better if STP had paid! Not sure what you mean here Camaroz

[Fast_Eddie]

This is what it looks like now

[rogered]

cant get your pics open edward
is it just me or not?

cheers

[Camaroz]

[QUOTE=Group'C';2491817]

Originally Posted by racer69

great pics Group'C'

How good was the STP livery!

Would have been better if STP had paid! Not sure what you mean here Camaroz

My recollection is that Ian Harrington had to take STP (or the Distributors) to court for payment. I'm not sure if he was successful?

[Camaroz]

For those that do not have access to the bertiestreet site, it has been confirmed that the identities of the two MHDT 1984 VK Group C's has finally been sorted.

Lets hope (the other #05) real 25 can now join 05 for the 25 year celebrations of the famous 1984 1 - 2!

Fantastic History.

[Camaroz]

Can one of the Moderators please correct the spelling of the title!!! I can't.

[Fast_Eddie]

Originally Posted by rogered

cant get your pics open edward
is it just me or not?

cheers

I must admit I am struggling with the photos. I'll try again.

[chavez]

Originally Posted by Camaroz

For those that do not have access to the bertiestreet site, it has been confirmed that the identities of the two MHDT 1984 VK Group C's has finally been sorted.

Lets hope (the other #05) real 25 can now join 05 for the 25 year celebrations of the famous 1984 1 - 2!

Fantastic History.

Of course to really confirm the result the same test as applied to the car at the Bathurst Museum needs to be done on Peter Champion's car.

[Fast_Eddie]

Originally Posted by chavez

A couple of screenshots from the '83 Silastic 300.

Note the Elvis sticker on the dash.

Which lasted many years on the dash. This is a photo from the restoration in 2006

[DAVID PATERSON]

Originally Posted by racer69

On another note.. at the Oran Park historics the #46 Schnitzer M3 from Bathurst '87 was in attendance (this car may have come up before from memory), who is the current owner and whats its story (i presume it is the shell that got crashed during practice, and stayed at the Bathurst museum for years afterwards)?

The current owner is Bill Cutler from Victoria. Bill's first meeting in the car was the weather plagued Phillip Island Classic in March of this year, where Bill went exceptionally well. Previously, Bill drove a very quick BMW 2002 in Group Nc. Sadly, I have no idea of the M3's history from 1988 - 2008.

[David Towe]

The M3 wound up in WA rebuilt as a club car. Bill did a wonderful job of restoring it, but had a bad weekend with two or three touches resulting in spoiler, guard and bonnet damage. Binding in the widest XD Falcon won two of the races and I managed to get the other one. Binding's car was so wide this weekend, my team have renamed the model as an XXXD not just an XD.
It was a fairly poor meeting with some silly delays, but big cheers for ALL who worked there to overcome these problems to get us racing.

[Group'C']

[QUOTE=Camaroz;2491846]

Originally Posted by Group'C'

My recollection is that Ian Harrington had to take STP (or the Distributors) to court for payment. I'm not sure if he was successful?

I will have to talk to the company acountant and see what the story is on this , they must have paid up some Dollars as it lasted a cpl of years and the agent was Repco/Woodhill

[anthony81901]

I am trying to work out which cars were/are being used in the 08 and 09 Shannon’s V8 Touring Car series. As per the rules for this series, all must have been registered as V8 Supercars, so no new builds are permitted. All the info is at: www.v8touringcars.com

I think I have these correct:

• 15 Steve Ingwersen Model: VS Built: Sep 01: ex R Searle

• 26 John Vergotis AU: ex Glenn Seton Racing but not sure which one

• 38 Ben Ecceleston VX PE033 Mar 99: ex D McDougall ex W Gardner

• 39 Chris Smerdon AU SBRAU6 Oct 02: ex G Ritter ex B Tilley ex M Winterbottom ex D Besnard

• 49 Terry Wyhoon AU SBRAU3 Feb 00: ex K Mundy ex D Besnard ex T Longhurst

• 50 Mark Shepherd AU SBRAU4 Mar 01: ex D Neville ex P Scifleet ex M Zukanovic ex T Wanless ex M Ambrose

• 62 Adam Wallis VX PE037 Sep 00: ex T D’Alberto ex M Porter ex P Dumbrell ex R Ingall ex L Perkins

• 68 Jonathon Beikhoff AU Sep 00: ex C Bastian ex R Salmon

• 98 Darren Formosa / Steve Owen VX one of the ex Mike Imrie cars

But I cannot identify the following:

• 13 Peter McNiven VX

• 18 Leigh Moran EL

• 31 Paul Stubber VX, presumably ex Perkins as it is painted in Castrol 2001/02 livery

[GTRMagic]

I think you will find that the #31 Stubber car is:

[PE 030]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

I think you will find that the #31 Stubber car is:

Chassis No PE 038.

I believe it was purchased direct from Perkins by the HiTrans team and then purchased by Paul Stubber to give Clayton Pyne a run in the Fujutsi series.

It sat idle last year and then underwent a thorough freshen up prior to getting a run in the Shannons Touring Car Series.

[bondy_racing]

the Peter McNiven VX was the ex Imrie VT built in 2000

Leigh Morans car is ex DJR used by John Bowe in 97/98?