Quote Originally Posted by T332 View Post
Gentlemen, you omitted the fact that John McCormack also used the 2.5 Repco V8 in a Tasman race in 1971. It was shoehorned into an Elfin 600C chassis number 7011, where he finished in 10th place in the Warwick Farm 100 in 1969. Garrie Cooper himself (Mr Elfin)also used the engine once in an Elfin 600D chassis 7012 in the non championship 1971 Australian Grand Prix in November where he was a retirement. John McCormack was a non starter in 7011 in the same race. Then we move on to the 5 litre Repco V8 that started life in Frank Matich's McLaren M10 in practice only for an Australian Gold Star race at Oran Park in June 1971 , debuting in the Tasman series in January 1972, but that is they say another story for another day.
The point of my post # 17 was to note how the Climax engine went out of fashion, and therefore the market for engine support became redundant. Basically there were no front runners using it.
Then many years later it had a second life in Historics around the world.
This was in NO way an attempt to have a definitive list of those who used the Repco V8, even if years later. That is a completely separate subject.