Russ you acjually have a friend Jamie
My understanding is that the Rorstan is all Cooper under the skin, apart - as you mention - from the widened cockpit section
I believe the car Peter Bruin built for Bill Clark may have had the original single-seater bodywork, but everything else (including the chassis) was new
Not true David, I built that car for Bill and it the CS 5 gearbox,fuel and oil tanks, wheels and many more parts. What it lacked was a continuing racing history. It is more a Cooper than Leuch's Lister was a Lister.
Here are some photos of the last Bagnell Sierra being built at Meidecke Motorsport in about August 89.
The tuesday of Bathurst week 1989. Ross (Stone) has just given the Bagnell car its maiden voyage around the block. Team photo( 8 Kiwis and 1 Pom) and in the truck to Bathurst.
We drove all night, even had snow, unloaded, practiced, Crosby qualified the car in the top 10.
Bagnell drove the car in the shoot out and put it in the wall at the cutting. There was front and rear damage, the tailgate overlapped the rear pillar by about 12 inchs, the rear crossmember had torn one end off. This was repaired after a latenight trip to the carpark, with a hacksaw, where a Hertz truck had its exhaust shortened. The truck exhaust was sleeved inside the crossmember. It was another big night (after the other big nights) finally finishing the car in pit lane and started from pitlane. After a couple of hours the car was back up to eighth when the injector rail broke which was the final touch.
Hi Conrod,
I started there in mid 89, there were 3 then.
I'm not sure of the others, there was Andys fire at Lakeside which was another. And there were the OXO cars before that, I don't know were they came from but think they were built in Sydney. These shots are from the Nerang QLD workshop.
Hi Marty, always good to see pics like these, especially by someone who was involved with the cars back in the day. Must have been gutting to have the new car badly damaged first time out! I saw it had a fairly good hit at Wellington in 89 or 90, when Bagnall hit the wall on the LH side when negotiating slower traffic. I am guessing the yellow car in the pic is the Kevin Waldock car? If so, that races in NZ and is owned by a guy in Nelson.
This is the car at Hampton Downs in January.
Conrad
Yeap....Waldock car. Owner Brett Stevens...Motueka
I need to correct some details about the Rorstan. I bought it off Bob Moore in 1978. Bob put on a wider front chassis and I have the original Cooper chassis in good condition. The Rorstan still retains the original brakes, suspension, steering, radiator and rea chassis. It has Elfin rear wheels and Brabham fronts. I have spares for both. It has a Hewland HD5 gearbox coupled to a strong Vauxhall motor.When Bill Clarke built his replica he came and took photos of the Rorstan so he should know that it still has many original parts along with it's history. I did not actually pay that price for the Rorstan. it has been a great car for me. I don't know the Kerry Pennell connection.