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It was still racing in 1984, caused an interesting extra corner for the last few laps of the ATCC round at Sandown that year when it went off the road at turn 1.
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The Fiat has appeared a couple of times since hasnt it.. in the Wanneroo 300.... there were actually two of them, one was ratted for spares...
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Ray Bell did an "Odd Jobs" feature on the Fiat in MRA a few years back, i have it somewhere.
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Hmmmm this little box you all talk of.
It is still around. was still leaking oil every touque trophy weekend and also still pushing its way through traffic. Not a car with a good feeling about it in WA streetcar racing anymore. |
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I had no idea a Colt raced at Bathurst or the ATCC. Does anyone have a photo I could see of it ? As for the Uno, I'm sure MRA did a feature on it a couple of years ago. From what I can remember it should still exist.
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20 Dec 2007, 06:53 (Ref:2092462) | #1759 | |
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As far as I can see, a Colt appeared in the 1981 race only.
It was an American 1.6 litre, two door version. The drivers were lan Burrell & Rob Shute - it lasted 83 Laps. I recall from somewhere the sponsorship on the back of the Colt was 'Cheeky Colt'. |
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That's a bit scary seeing the frame around the drivers door so bent!!
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21 Dec 2007, 08:48 (Ref:2093207) | #1762 | ||
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The Optima car is back.. Here
Wasnt it advertised around this time last year, promising a reshell in early 07? |
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21 Dec 2007, 10:38 (Ref:2093249) | #1763 | ||
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Thanks for those pics. Not one of the best looking, or as Chatters pointed out, one of the safest race cars ever built but still history. One question about the Optima car, I always thought that the ex Ellery Bathurst crash car was being scrapped and an all new car was to be built from scratch, but i'm looking at the ad and it shows the original car. Please explain ???
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21 Dec 2007, 11:14 (Ref:2093269) | #1764 | ||
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The new shell is yet to be finished, so no point taking pics of a pile of bits in the corner...
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22 Dec 2007, 10:03 (Ref:2093697) | #1766 | ||
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Back in the middle to late eighties there was a Colt parked outside on JC Automotive, on Canterbury Road, Vermont in Melbourne's east.
It has flared guards, a full roll cage and slick tyres. From memory it was painted in grey primer. Could this have been the Colt in question or even a sports sedan? |
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As posted in the "Historic Racing Today" - Where are Brock's racecars thread...
The Historic Touring Car Eligibility Committee (HTCEC) has deliberated on my CoD Application for my car as the 1980 Bathurst winning VC Commodore and, based strongly on the advice of one of its members, has decided that it is the Benson-Brown car (as of Friday 21 December). So there you go! I no longer lay claim to having the 1980 Bathurst Winner. It was the same member of the HTCEC that advised me that he had been contacted by the owner of the mystery NT car who told him he had an ex-Keogh car in its original (1984) condition but he didn't get a name or contact number, hence my ads in the NT Times, my ad on the North Australian Motor Sports Club (www.namsc.org.au) and countless phone calls to lots of racers in the NT looking for this car this enquiry then led to the article by the NT Times on December 13. Almost by a miracle, a poster on the brockcommodores forums (who has very close tie's with a very wealthy Queensland collector) tells us all that he believes the car that is (was) in the NT has been found! This car could be the missing Keogh car that means that it could be the 1980 Bathurst Winner (that I and past owners and crew thought I had) and is now with a very "private person" who doesn't want to be inundated with questions!!!!! In time, no doubt, it will end up in Queensland, I look forward to reading all about it in Australian Muscle Car magazine and the CAMS HTCEC verifying this most significant car. All in all - it is a miracle! Don't you agree? |
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Is that like the "he said-she said" thing with the #05 and #25 Marlboro VK's?
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The car's DNA is #1. It was rebuilt/repaired with a new shell (GMH Part No.) from car #1 after the Bathurst crash!!!! However, despite the CAMS HTCEC having recognised other cars in similiar situations, (some have even been reshelled out of the period) the CAMS HTCEC have strongly stressed to me that at this stage, as far as they are concerned with my car, for a CoD it can only be the Soundwaves 1983, NT 1984, or 1985 - 87 Keogh - Ellis Group A car. No reference to its 1982 configuration where all I would have to do is change the paint! The rules are changing all the time! What was once general policy for an "Historic Racing Car" CoD is not always for Group C. |
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The only two other Group C cars of a similar vintage that I can recall off the top, as having been re-shelled, but continuing on their original logbook, would be DJR's XD & XE... and given that John Donnelly's XD was built from the original Tru-Blu shell, what did CAMS think of issuing a second logbook concurrently for the same shell? |
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I'd like to know how the whole thing works. What was HTCEC reasoning? I'd say if the car has a new shell I'd consider it a new car too. Doors, guards, engines, suspension etc are consumables. The big bit that makes the car "The Car" would be the body.
You did say the shell used was the MHDT #1. So I'm thinking you'd have every right to call it MHDT#1. Last edited by MPA; 29 Dec 2007 at 00:37. |
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