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.
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