The SR4 would never have been over 5-litres anyway...

Mark, you have picked up the pieces well there. Repco had a very long history of helping drivers, way back to the early fifties if not before.

They supplied stuff for cars like the Maybach (built by Charlie Dean, one of the Repco Directors IIRC), the Ausca of Paul England (who worked there), for Stan Jones beyond the Maybach and more. They put wheel balancing machines into pit areas to help look after that aspect for competitors, they did a lot for the sport.

Just who was paying, or at what rate, might have varied over the years. But one incident which shows that Repco were peeling off some of their profits to pay for racing ventures was the Repco-headed Holden raced by Stan Jones. If memory serves, something about the relationship wasn't right and they took the car back and either sold it at a good price, or gave it, to Bob Holden.