Holden Monaro

[Bruce302]

It looks much better there, it fell a long way in 3 short years, but I don't recall the Rod Coppins and Johnny Riley drives. Can someone refresh my memory.

Bruce.

[Steve Holmes]

I think thats one of Gerard Richards' own photos above. He wrote an article on Spinner Black recently. Did Coppins race the car when it was still in Cambridge colours? My understanding was that Spinner didn't much care for the Camaro, so Coppins drove that, and he had the Monaro built for himself to drive alongside, but rarely ever found the time for it, and eventually passed it on to Thompson. From memory the Monaro was fitted with a 350ci Chevy, which was too big for the 5.5 litre engine limit, so what was it built for? Only thing I can think of was for the international saloon races that took place each year with promoters (usually Bay Park) importing cars and drivers from Australia, US etc.