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Great work anthony81901!
A couple of comments questions... Graham Moore ran at Bathurst in 1992 with Wayne Gardner as co driver and on the strength of that drive Gardner picked up the HRT gig for 1993 (until Tom Walkinshaw told him candidly what he thought of him later in 1993!). One of the Lansvale ex WGR Commodores went to the Sydney Star Truck and Bus team, to be driven by Grant Elliott in the Development Series, before it was sold to NZ. I had a feeling Richard Mork may have acquired the other shell at some stage. The car that went to Forbes was sold to Phonsy Mullan, who also ran it a few times in the then Konica series. He may also have tried to qualify for a few main game races (back when you could do that sort of thing). David Skillender had 2 Commodore VSs. The ex Trimble car was rebuilt and run by Tim Sipp at Bathurst one year but I think the car Dean Canto crashed at Bathurst in 1999 (and which was rebuilt in to the green machine raced by Wakefield a few times in 2001) was the ex Price Attack VR/VS. I think Clive Wiseman owned the team Michael Donaher drove for. The ex Morris car was PE#021, the car Morris crashed before Bathurst 1994, and which was subsequently sold to Peter Field. It went to Tony Evangelou and I think Mal Rose now runs it as one of his hot lap cars. The Wiseman Ultratune team then had an ex Gibson ex Garry Rogers VS for a while before they acquired an ex Perkins VT (PE#031). This car appeared a bit later with Stephen White driving in a once off, in a team with Paul Romano. Does Bap own this car now? |
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24 Jan 2008, 05:34 (Ref:2112418) | #1828 | |
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The car that Phonsy Mullen had for a while is now owned by Tony Floriani who has raced in a couple of rounds of the Vic Sports Sedan Series.
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From my records, the Skillender car raced in the 99 enduros by Canto & Wakefield was the ex Trimble car. This car didn’t reappear until 00 when Wakefield drove it at the Lakeside & Bathurst dev series races. The ex Heffernan car 1st raced at the Eastern Creek dev series race in 01 and after being driven by Wakefield throughout the series and at the Queensland 500 with Ryan McLeod, was driven by Tim Sipp & Shane Beikoff at Bathurst. Sipp then raced it at the dev series at Bathurst in 01.
Clive Wiseman did own the Ultra Tune team. Wiseman purchased the VS that had been driven by Garth Tander in 98 and Steven Richards in 97 for Garry Rogers, having previously been Mark Skaife’s 95 Gibson car. The VT (PE032) was purchased from Perkins and debuted at the 00 Queensland 500. It last appeared at the Clipsal 500 in 02 with Stephen White driving. It was entered using the 2nd Romano franchise, but run by Wiseman. Both this and the Romano ex HRT car carried Ultra Tune sponsorship at this event, but I don’t think Bap ever owned it. PE021 is a bit confusing. PE021 was built at the beginning of 94 for Paul Morris. It was badly damaged in a testing accident at Lakeside just before Bathurst. At the end of the year it received a new Perkins shell and became PE024, this was then sold to the Alcair team for 95, but kept the logbook from PE021. Then to complicate matters, after Donaher crashed the ex Schembri car at Bathurst in 97, it was reshelled with the shell that had been damaged at Lakeside, so not sure if should be referred to as PE021 or its Finnigan number? |
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From my recollection, the red car in '99 was the ex-Heffernan car. It was first raced by Wakefield/Canto at the QLD 500 before Bathurst, where it was shortened. Wakefield earlier in the year had driven for John Trimbole, Charles Ryman, and had a steer of a Gary Baxter owned white Commodore at Sandown.
For the start of the '00 Konica Series, Wakefield was abaord the rebuilt Mezera/Trimbole 'white' car, which went on to be raced by Beikoff/Sipp et al. The 'green/gold' car which was debuted by Wakfield at Lakeside was the rebuilt ex-Heffernan car. Which car did Skillender himself drive at the Mallala Development Series round one year, and what running gear wound up in the Skillender VH Commodore Improved Production car? |
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The plot thickens! No wonder AMC couldn't definitavly identify what happened to the Percy/Grice 1991 Bathurst car. With all this re shelling buisness how canyou ever know which cars which. (Unless it has a defining feature, eg Lowndes/Murphy Bathurst 1996 Roll Cage design)
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Wakefield ran in the ex Trimble car in 2000 in the Konica series but did the Qld 500 and Bathurst that year with Ryan McLeod in the JFR ex HRT VS McLeod had raced that year, in Chiko roll colours. Tim Sipp and Shane Beikoff did Bathurst in the Graphic Skills car. Where is the Ultrtune VT these days? |
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Moore raced often in Europe as did many other Aus drivers in the Group A era - the disinterest in Europe in the performances of V8 Supercar performances appears to have resulted in significantly less opportunities for Aus drivers on the international stage.
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How about This for a DJR fan's museum piece??
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[QUOTE=GTRMagic]There might be some optimism in the price of This one
Depends if the transporter is included. It seems to be so you get 2 bits of history...the ex Bill O'Brien VR/VS and the ex GRM Valvoline trailer. |
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28 Jan 2008, 05:36 (Ref:2115239) | #1839 | ||
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It comes with the transporter. Can anyone tell me what ever happened to Mark Larkhams first V8Supercar, Mitre 10 Falcon 1995, and what ever happened to the Dunstan/Harrington Quix Commdore from Bathurst 1993 ?
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28 Jan 2008, 08:13 (Ref:2115297) | #1840 | ||
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The bloke I know in Bathurst that has a car from Morky doesnt have the log book for it. It was sold to him as an ex hrt car, but word has it that it isnt an ex hrt but a chasis that Mork built, with some help. So that would probably make it Morky's first car, the v8racing.com car.
this same person has just bought another vs which i am trying to find out its origins. It has the "larry bar" roll cage and the last lot of sponsors on the car had Red Lion racing on it. |
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A great car with good history given it was originally a Brock Mobil 1 VN Group A. The current owner is currently toying with the idea of selling it. |
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The Red Lion car sounds like the VS run by Bruce Oaklands in the TCC, which was built originally by Mike Quinn ( I think) for Ron Searle in about 2000 or 2001. |
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29 Jan 2008, 12:12 (Ref:2116225) | #1844 | ||
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The original Colurscan Falcon was the orginal Longhurst Falcon, run by Tony in 95 and Steve Ellery in 96. Was sold to Osborne at the end of 96 who raced it up until Waneroo 98.
At Hidden Valley he moved to the ex Larkham car until it was destroyed in an accident at the Clipsal 500 with Lowndes in 99, so the Longhurst car was wheeled back out until a new AU was debuted at Indy, the pig that Rodney Forbes would end up driving for Gibson Motorsport. The Quix car was rebuilt by Perkins Engineering in 94 and sold to Phil Ward, who last raced it at the Adelaide GP in 95. He eventually sold it to Rod Salmon who ran it a few times in 99. |
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Does anyone know the histroy of the ex Shell Helix Bowe car with the red roll cage in it?
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was there ever a Shell Falcon with a red cage ? I cant recall one - all the shell fords had either yellow or later on, silver insides... a EB/F/L with a red cage... hmm.. a teaser !
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Yes! But not driven by Bowe.
The first AU built by DJR and debuted by Paul Radisich in 1999 (Bowe having left the team) was DJR AU#9. The interior and cage were yellow. This car made its way to Ross Halliday and then to the HMS outfit, where Peter Gazzard ran it in the 2003 Konica series. At that time, the interior was resprayed red to match the exterior paint scheme. The car was owned by Ross Tebbs (Sydney Star) and was run at Bathurst in 2004 by Garth Walden and Grant Elliott. It is now owned by Aaron McGill and was driven by him in last year's Fujitsu series. Last seen for sale but hardly an original DJR weapon anymore! |
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Sorry folks, I forgot to mention EL model. It does exist, I've seen it. It has a Shell Helix label on the floor near the pedal box with the number 18 on it. It is appropriately aged and looks to be the genuine item.
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Off the top of my head, I can't think of any ELs built with an original red cage..plenty of white, yellow and blue!
Maybe it's a respray?? Of the surviving DJR ELs, all have a yellow cage. One of the first EBs later went to Mike Conway with a white cage but it was written off |
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