Australian Sports Sedans Database - Histories And Whereabouts

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Initially entering Drag Racing, Maurice Rissman built and raced highly modified cars & bikes taking many victories and twice breaking national class records. His engineering creativity attracted interest from the circuit racing fraternity for whom he designed, built, and modified, several avant-garde sports-sedans, During 1978 the engineering freedoms afforded to this field of racing lead to the design and construction of what was arguably Australia’s first full space-framed racing sedan, based upon a 1979 Ford Falcon.

Maurice built the Alfa for Peter Cross

"it had full tunnels fluted into the underside and running rearward from
a high pressure area under the front axle. I tried a few variations of
sliding skirts but the rough surface of Lakeside, combined with inferior
dampening of poor quality shocks made it impossible to maximise the
potential.
In the end we settled for heavy poly carbonate sacrificial
strips under each side.
It was a fabulous little car and out performed a lot of it's bigger competition, but suffered up high. The small block Windsor just can't breathe enough to satisfy the high rev nature of the bore & stroke.
That's why Ford developed the Boss cylinder heads on the later variation of the same engine we developed way back then."

It did several races at Surfers & Lakeside and also Mt Cotton hillclimb .
The fate and current whereabouts unknown