Grp C/Grp A/V8SC 'Where are they now?' continued... - Page 56

David Towe · 12 Apr 2007, 10:45 (Ref:1889623)

I spoke with Michael Speis today and he confirmed the damage was only minor, talk about chinese whispers!
I know someone looking for a good Group C dunnydore if anyone knows of one for sale.

Camaroz · 12 Apr 2007, 12:22 (Ref:1889681)

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Originally Posted by David Towe

I spoke with Michael Speis today and he confirmed the damage was only minor, talk about chinese whispers!
I know someone looking for a good Group C dunnydore if anyone knows of one for sale.

Ring me!

Camaroz

pete55 · 13 Apr 2007, 02:53 (Ref:1890135)

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/HOLDEN-TORANA...QQcmdZViewItem

This would look ok sitting in your garage.

A9X05 · 13 Apr 2007, 07:03 (Ref:1890194)

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Originally Posted by pete55

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/HOLDEN-TORANA...QQcmdZViewItem

This would look ok sitting in your garage.

Your not wrong there! (As I drool!) Wouldnt I love to have that in my garage next to my bed! -A9X05

**GTRMagic** · 14 Apr 2007, 13:07 (Ref:1891063)

Here's an interesting toy thought lost

mountainstar · 14 Apr 2007, 16:43 (Ref:1891179)

Chance of a Lifetime. Well not exactly.

Driver TBA · 15 Apr 2007, 07:32 (Ref:1891574)

Is'nt that an ex Seton FTR car?

And here's one of Longhurst's old AU's. Complete with 99 spec front splitter.

http://www.my105.com/classified.asp?id=7036

**GTRMagic** · 15 Apr 2007, 07:52 (Ref:1891587)

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Originally Posted by Driver TBA

Is'nt that an ex Seton FTR car?

Its chassis PWR1

pete60 · 15 Apr 2007, 09:12 (Ref:1891629)

I believe the Seiders team purchased it as a spare chassis.

The Lohghurst car for sale...is it the ex Heath car or the ex BJR machine?

**GTRMagic** · 15 Apr 2007, 09:17 (Ref:1891631)

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Originally Posted by pete60

The Lohghurst car for sale...is it the ex Heath car or the ex BJR machine?

Not sure where the BJR car ended up... interestingly that if it is one of the pair of AU's that Mr Longhurst's team built... at one stage they were property of the TKR equipe.... funny how things turn full circle eventually...

Driver TBA · 19 Apr 2007, 12:24 (Ref:1895458)

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Its chassis PWR1

Cam McLeans car in 2000?

I think I had it mixed up the first 'Chance Of A Lifetime' car was a GSR EL?

Speaking of GSR cars, where are the 93 and 97 championship winning cars now?

Bullett · 19 Apr 2007, 12:38 (Ref:1895467)

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Originally Posted by Driver TBA

Speaking of GSR cars, where are the 93 and 97 championship winning cars now?

Not sure which car it is and not sure how many EL's GSR made but Victorian Rod Smith owns and races an ex-Seton EL Falcon which he has campaigned since 2000. still has the GSR colour scheme but different sponsors etc. Anyone know how many GSR EL's there were?

Sultan · 19 Apr 2007, 22:14 (Ref:1895867)

I think there may have been 2. One was owned by Charles Ryman, who had Wayne Park drive it for a few meets & showed some great speed in it. Ryman himself ran a few rounds in it - let's just say he made Thexton look competitive...

He wrote it of at a test session at Lakeside (spun at the kink, backed into the emankment on the right IIRC). There's a very interesting side bar to that story as to what alleged cause of that accident (according to the owner). It was during the time of the tyre wars when Dunlop, Bridgestone & Yokohama were all involved & Yokohama had a 'privateer' spec tyre. Thankfully common sense prevailed... you guys can pm me if you want the full story...

Anyway, he then bought Claude Giorgi's ex GSR car, which then went south. Could this be the Smith car?

I also seem to recall an EL in FPR colours? Seton in an AU & Cromley in an EL? Anyone else recall that? Perhaps there were 3....

mtpanorama · 19 Apr 2007, 23:42 (Ref:1895907)

There is a GSR EL in sydney that was run in the touring car challenge when it first started. I have a feeling that this was Setons championship winning car.

pete60 · 20 Apr 2007, 01:38 (Ref:1895928)

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Originally Posted by Bullett

Not sure which car it is and not sure how many EL's GSR made but Victorian Rod Smith owns and races an ex-Seton EL Falcon which he has campaigned since 2000. still has the GSR colour scheme but different sponsors etc. Anyone know how many GSR EL's there were?

There were 8! This is my spin on them all...feel free to correct!

#1 was written off by Seton pretty early on..in '92/93.
#2 then went to Claude Giorgio and was then written off by Charles Ryman.
#3 was written off in a testing crash...may have been Drew Price at the wheel?.
#4 went to Vince Hislop in Tassie and was last seen in Victoraia owned by a guy called David (?) Bruce.
#5 was the one run by John Sidney for Max Dumnesy and was then used by Toll Racing. Dunno where that shell is now.
#6 was acquired by Charles Ryman to replace #2, then went to the Seiders team and is the one now run by Rod Smith in sports sedan trim.
#7 is the '97 champoinship winner. It went to Simon Emerzidis, then onto Chance of A Lifetime. Don't know where this is now.
#8 was the last EL and driven by Crompton....it was bought by Terry Steer and run by Dean Canto for a while but was then crashed at Lakeside by Aaron McGill. I think this is the car restored by Andy Cantrell and run in the TCC a few years ago.

Over to you!

mtpanorama · 20 Apr 2007, 01:43 (Ref:1895929)

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Originally Posted by pete60

There were 8! This is my spin on them all...feel free to correct!

#7 is the '97 champoinship winner. It went to Simon Emerzidis, then onto Chance of A Lifetime. Don't know where this is now.
#8 was the last EL and driven by Crompton....it was bought by Terry Steer and run by Dean Canto for a while but was then crashed at Lakeside by Aaron McGill. I think this is the car restored by Andy Cantrell and run in the TCC a few years ago.

Over to you!

Andy Cantrell, thats who I was talking about. I think he might own both of these cars.

William Dale Jr · 20 Apr 2007, 04:04 (Ref:1895962)

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Originally Posted by pete60

#1 was written off by Seton pretty early on..in '92/93.

That was the car built in '92, appeared at the Bathurst Media Day, the Drink/Drive 500, Tooheys 100 and AGP meeting. IIRC it was written off at this meeting, but the crash didn't look that bad, so possibly not. Of course, I don't build touring cars, so who am I to say

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Originally Posted by pete60

#2 then went to Claude Giorgio and was then written off by Charles Ryman.

I believe this is the car Glenn used to win the '93 Winfield Triple Challenge and SATCC. #2 was driven by Alan Jones for the final round at Oran Park because...

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Originally Posted by pete60

#3 was written off in a testing crash...may have been Drew Price at the wheel?.

Yep, Drew was at the wheel, and the crash was at Phillip Island. IIRC the crash was the reason he didn't drive for them in the endurance races.

Jones took over Seton's car, whilst Seton drove the brand new and relatively unsorted #4, as Jones needed a good result to lock up 2nd in the championship.

johnh875 · 20 Apr 2007, 04:51 (Ref:1895969)

Would they have been racing at Calder back in March? There were 2 Falcons there that looked like ex-GSR cars. From memory both were running carby engines, and one a Chev!

Driver TBA · 20 Apr 2007, 04:56 (Ref:1895971)

Does Bob Gill still have any pre AU GSR Falcons? He's bought a few of Seto's old cars.

pete60 · 20 Apr 2007, 06:34 (Ref:1895992)

I thinkGill has the ex GSR AU #9 (FPR#1), crashed at Phillip Island by Glenn Seton.

There were 3 other AUs built...one is now the Youlden "BA" ride car, one is run by John Vergotis in the TCC and the last one, "Silver Streak", is run by Aaron McGill in HPM colours in the Fujitsu series.

Bullett · 20 Apr 2007, 08:27 (Ref:1896068)

Bob Gill has a Ford V8 6000cc carby fed and in standard position ex GSR AU. His car has around 630+ hp.
Bob was selling off a fair bit of ex-supercar stuff last year, mainly spares not cars though

Rod Smith has converted it to fuel injected Chev 6 litre power. Smith's car also had modifications elsewhere I think including weight. This is the drivers profile...
http://vmrc.alphalink.com.au/control...rs/smithr.html

Camaroz · 20 Apr 2007, 10:50 (Ref:1896162)

This is all interesting stuff and believe me, will be very important documentation for the future.

Can we change the post to include V8 Supercars - but limit it to cars that have run Konica/Fujitsu?

So, Thread heading: Group C/Group A/Group Tony - where are they now?

Sultan · 20 Apr 2007, 22:59 (Ref:1896722)

I'm a dead set dill, I completely forgot about some of those...

drbob · 21 Apr 2007, 00:24 (Ref:1896763)

I am looking into the history of the Graham Storah/ Terry Ryan Group C Mazda RX7 that ran at Bathurst in 1983
Does anyone have any info on it particularly before and after Storah ( or at any time really)
Thanks

Driver TBA · 21 Apr 2007, 00:41 (Ref:1896766)

Ok the V8 years EB/VP to EL/VS where are they now.

93 Championship winner: GSR EB Falcon ??
93 Bathurst Winner: Perkins VP Commodore. Tim Rouse’s car in the TCC??

94 Championship winner: Gibson VP Commodore. Owned by Peter Champion and still in 95 VR spec.
94 Bathurst winner: DJR EB Falcon. Written off at Phillip Island 1996 by Bowe.

95 Championship winner: DJR EF Falcon. Was the 94 Bathurst winner and converted to EF spec. Written off at Phillip Island 96.
95 Bathurst Winner: Perkins VR Commodore recently restored to 95 spec and livery then sold. Owner?? (Was owned by a pro golfer once)

96 Championship winner: HRT VR Commodore. Now a bare roll cage out the back of HRT’s workshops.
96 Bathurst winner: Same car as above.

97 Championship winner: GSR EL Falcon. Rod Smith?? ‘Chance of a life time’??
97 Bathurst Winner: Perkins VS Commodore. Recently restored to 97 spec and livery then sold. Owner??

98 Championship winner: HRT VS Commodore (before upgrade to VT) same car as the 96 car?? Or the one written off by Morris at Oran Park in 2000??
98 Bathurst winner: SBR EL Falcon. Sold to Greg Crick then to Craig Harris who has now restored it ti 98 spec.

Feel free to correct me.

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