Hi Nigel, please accept my sincere apologies for my mistake. I wasn't sure and shouldn't have guessed.... Those photos you took of all of the 86 Nissan Mobil cars are absolutely fantastic and I applaud you for sharing them with the Roaring Season community. Cheers, JarrodOriginally Posted by nigel watts
1984 Bathurst Practice shots of DJ's Muzzy.
Photos scanned from the 'Bathurst' Annual and the 'James Hardie 1000' Annual from 1984
Yes I agree, thank you all who have contributed photos to this site, you know I often find myself thinking, Hey I was at that meeting, I wonder if I am lurking in the background of one of those photos!! lol
We have another unexpected welcome entry in the form, of Robert Jack in the ex Brennan Escort/Chev which is good as it will give some competition to Roger Williams Mercedes coupe. The ACC did a 5 minute spiel Sunday on Radio Live. for those of you who would like to hear it you need to go to Radio Live website under Audio-Sunday 4:15 slot and about 3 1/4 of the way through the time slot. Also keep an ear open from thursday on for the ACC adverts for HD on Sunday on The Rock radio station 90.2
We have another unexpected welcome entry in the form, of Robert Jack in the ex Brennan Escort/Chev which is good as it will give some competition to Roger Williams Mercedes coupe. The ACC did a 5 minute spiel Sunday on Radio Live. for those of you who would like to hear it you need to go to Radio Live website under Audio-Sunday 4:15 slot and about 3 1/4 of the way through the time slot. Also keep an ear open from thursday on for the ACC adverts for HD on Sunday on The Rock radio station 90.2
Be great to see this car again, one of the originals.
Couple of photos from original days
Top photo is later on with flares tidied up
George- can you please put up the program for Sunday please, need to know what time to be there. And as I still dont have an engine in my car, I will be a spectator.
Will have Barry Algie with me as too many things to complete his Monaro- radiator, floor, front clip etc. Really wanted to be there on the grid with the guys.
Will definitely be there later .
People will recognise us by our envious looks.
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Got a rough idea what Barry looks like, and as for you, we won't miss you guys. Be good to see you and catch up.
I aim to be there Saturday, Morning Maramarua, afternoon HD and Sunday for fun and off home after.
Yep thats right, it was white when it appeared at Bathurst in 1984, as thats the colour it was supplied to Johnson, from Zakspeed who had been racing it in Europe. It also appeared in late 1984 at a Queensland event (maybe Surfers Paradise?), but I think was only doing demonstration laps, to show the local supporters what their favourite son would be driving in 1985. It was entered for Bathurst as a back-up, should anything happen to the Falcon, even though it wasn't anywhere near being as quick as the Group C cars, but there was a Group A class created for that years race. Johnson did some practice laps in it, just to see how it felt, but spent most of his time in the Falcon, understandibly, so photos of the Mustang are quite rare.
How did you get on about getting the custaxie 2-to run at this meeting.
Thanks to George for putting this altogether ,I had originally have hoped to be there as well ,but in reality with what I have on outside getting the car ready, it is just not possible ,hopefully if the opportunity is still there it might be there in the future
Just got off ph with Robert and unfortunately he is busy this weekend however he would like to run in the class, He says they have done a whole lot of improvements to the car to make it more reliable including 6 pot brakes to help make it stop. I will be interested to see what times he gets around HD in. Robbie put it around in a 1.22.2, my Comet (with virtually the same brakes he just took off) 1.15.5. Its not too difficult to get the best out of what ever brakes a car has and I'm positive we could get his originals to work ok.
Still needs some more work done to it to run some fast laps.
Do you have a final entry list of cars that will make it there this weekend... great job on starting this class and it can only grow from here.
No worries Jarrod. TRS is a great place for us to put our photos so other enthusiasts can see them too.
Cheers
Nigel
the entries to today are;
Graeme Addis Charger/chev cosworth 366
Calvin Andrew Commodore 308
Peter Benbrook Falcon SVO 351
Ricky Cooper Datsun 240Z
Roger Davis Torana/chev 350
Mike Dias Mustang DJR JPS 302
Paul Dunkley Escort/pinto 2.3
Adrian Dobbe Viva/HDT 202
Robert Jack Escort/chev 366
Dennis Running Mazda RX8/chev 366
Ivan Seliac Escort CosworthYB
Clive Sheweiry Mustang DJR 302
George Sheweiry Boss Mustang/Gurney Wesklake 366
Roger Williams Mercedes/chev 366
That's a great start! Congratulations for achieving this, and thanks for all the effort.
Just remember that the first grid of E30 BMWs had a total of 8. Now look at them.
YeeHa.
Yes pretty strong list for the first event.. can only grow from here. Thanks for the update George.
That is looking pretty good, can't wait to see the cars. Great job Graeme getting the Charger up, also Roger with the Torana and name sake with Merc. Robert Escort great,the Dobbe gang beware, Paul neat Escort all good, Dennis great to see the RX again,Calvin,Ricky, Ivan have not meet yet but will this weekend welcome,Mike in the little Mussie and last but not least l Big effort George Sheweiry congrates chap and I will pat your back for you champ, and good to see Bro in Mussie as well.
On my way down now, and if anyone needs a hand there just yell out and will do what can be done.
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Going to rally Sat morn then to HD
Well done George..... have you got the Pantera ready for me yet? Can't wait to see all you guys again....hope Jim Shorty turns up for a gander. Now Rodney....are you staying at HD Sat night? or do you wanna throw ya head down at my place...(Cindy in Aussie ). We could have a bevvie and reinvent the wheel.......? I will try and find some pix and guff for ya George....got lots to pick from....(may still have some of the Secretarial stuff from SSA..... ) John McKechnie....where's ya XA mate. See ya'all at the week end....I'm running Supercharged XR8 in all the races! Kindest regards, Tony Rutherford.
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