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Hmmm....wonder if these are left overs from the lightweight falcons of the mid 90's? Or were they EF's?
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Weren't there 3 lightweight A9X shells made?
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or was that 6 ...
In recent times I heard Bob Jane questioned about the so called lightweight
A9X by Miles Johnson (aka Thunder road, restorer of the ZL1 etc) ".. is it urban myth, you rolled up to GM in Adelaide with a trailer load of lightweight steel & out popped a lightweight A9X?" " It was a truck load of lightweight steel & out came 6 x A9Xs" Can verify the conversation, not the facts ... |
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Thanks Henry, just a bit of earwigging.
I am not an A9X student but are these the GMP & A shells sometimes referred to ? |
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I doubt that anybody would know how many of each model were built as most cars (excluding Toranas) were converted to the next model, so I'm guessing only a few new ones would come on stream each year. I have a VK, and Holden have no records of who it was first sold to as these cars have no VIN number. |
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Search for GTR R32 bathurst in youtube.com and you will find the bathurst GTR doing a few laps at Wakefield.It was at a track day I was involved in this winter.
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in 82 - 16 VH Bodyshells were produced by GMH, the body plate had RACING 1 to 16 instead of a chassis #
They were built as rollers all painted white, No sound deadner,Velour covered brown back seats- no front seats, power steering rack, all panels(dont know if they were light weight ones) & Glass Unsure who got them all, I do know of RE-Car x 2 Roadways x 2 MHDT x 2 ? Any one know of the others Warren Cullen x 2 Maybe |
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Hi GC
Did these cars have any Chassis # Stamping? |
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8 Oct 2006, 08:33 (Ref:1731521) | #1190 | ||
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Not that I can remember auzziemonza , only the build plate
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And the BUILD plate which reads "Model VK19 RACINR SHELL Body No 9202310 Trim Paint NO PAINT Built Eng LV2 Trans M39 Axle It also has a number stamped into the left front strut tower. AVL044847M. (This is a VL number because it had a major shunt in the front and had the strut towers replaced.) Unfortunately, neither the Body No. on the build plate, or the one stamped on the strut tower is the VIN number, therefore Holden have no records of them. |
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1 Nov 2006, 11:13 (Ref:1755165) | #1196 | |
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Aussie Production Racers - Where are they now??
I know we have the Gp C and Gp A thread, but this isnt really in either category - apologies if there already is a thread like this, but I couldnt find one after doing a quick check.
Inspired by, amongst other things, the MIA section of this month's Australian Muscle Car (profiling the Akubra Commodore Ute Allan Grice ran at 1992 Bathurst 12 Hour). There are a number of ex-production cars that have 'dissappeared' but have a bit of history. The Akubra Ute DJ's Mazda RX7 (or RX 7's teher were 2 at one stage werent there? a black one and a white one?) A number of Cars Brocky raced over the years aswell. Does anyone know where these, or any other Bathurst 12 hour/production cars of the late 1980's/1990s? it seems even more applicable now than ever, with the 12hr being revived next year. So come on, what is out there? someone has to know something about some of the more 'historic' production cars of Australian Motorsport! Last edited by M-Kart; 1 Nov 2006 at 11:16. |
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You will find a lot of them went back on the showroom floor where they were sold as "company demonstrators"...............only driven on sundays.
I did the signwriting on quite a few proddy cars from the 90's and I know thats where they ended up. There are still a few floating around in Improved production and combined touring cars in the state championships |
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I thought thats where a few of them finished - 'ex-dealer demos' (with a good 12 hrs plus of race miles...(just sweep that one under the carpet)..
What are some of the ones running in improved production/combined tourers? (I do know the ex-production Volvo 850 is running as an Improved Production car now) |
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DJ's RX7? He was a guest gun driver brought in by John Bowe to the Horsley run team. The white car that won the Eastern Creek 12 Hour for Dick and JB was on sold to Terry Bosnjak who went on to win a few more races in the car in SP2 trim, including a Bathurst 3 Hour with I think Tomas Mezera. The car still appeared in GT-Production car races until about '03 I think.
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Was there not also a Black triple M car (sister to the white car i think- i saw them together on the front row at the support race at Indy in 95), as there was a silver/blue Mazda Sponsored one which DJ/Bowie won the Bathurst 12 hour in as well? ( i have a pic of it floating around somewhere i think) - or did this become one of the MMM cars?
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