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Bathurst Trivia
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Hardies Hero
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spot on Bartman
Seeing how things are a little quiet, and I was browsing through the '81 Great Race book as I packed the house last week....
Dick's first Bathurst win came under unusual circumstances, as the Great Race was red-flagged prematurely, for the first time in its history.
Dick Johnson has a connection to both of the cars involved in the original incident which caused the red flag: one more direct than the other.
Name the two cars and drivers.
What was the DJ connection to the first of the cars involved?
Dick's first Bathurst win came under unusual circumstances, as the Great Race was red-flagged prematurely, for the first time in its history.
Dick Johnson has a connection to both of the cars involved in the original incident which caused the red flag: one more direct than the other.
Name the two cars and drivers.
What was the DJ connection to the first of the cars involved?
Well the first part is easy... Bob Morris in the George Sheppeard-built 7 Falcon and Christine Gibson in the King George Tavern Falcon.
So, I'd have to plump for the fact that snaggle-toothed George later became DJ's team-manager for the Greens Tuf XE? As for the other Falcon, I thunk it were owned by Joe Moore, and Fred Gibson had a hand in building it. He was chasing Allan Moffat for advice and parts prior to Bathurst '80. That was the spur to AM slapping together the Federation XD, which had an engine built by Ivan Tighe, IIRC. Did Tighe do an engine for Moore in '81. I think he was connection of DJ's? (struggling...)
So, I'd have to plump for the fact that snaggle-toothed George later became DJ's team-manager for the Greens Tuf XE? As for the other Falcon, I thunk it were owned by Joe Moore, and Fred Gibson had a hand in building it. He was chasing Allan Moffat for advice and parts prior to Bathurst '80. That was the spur to AM slapping together the Federation XD, which had an engine built by Ivan Tighe, IIRC. Did Tighe do an engine for Moore in '81. I think he was connection of DJ's? (struggling...)
Hardies Hero
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didn't Dick drive the King George's car in a once off at Surfers? she overheated IIRC
Ivan Tighe was very famous back in the day 60's thru the 80's for their engines and especially their camshafts (well in Brisbane at least anyway).
New Question....
Next door to Ivan Tighe was another famous engine builder/engineering shop that played a key role in the early 70's with Moffatt and Mick Webb, and DJR also used their machine shop services, I guess before they became self sufficient in that area.
Who were they?
New Question....
Next door to Ivan Tighe was another famous engine builder/engineering shop that played a key role in the early 70's with Moffatt and Mick Webb, and DJR also used their machine shop services, I guess before they became self sufficient in that area.
Who were they?
Pretty close for mine...
Joe Moore offered the loan of the King George Tavern XD to DJ for the 1980 Surfers enduro; DJ fitted the Tru Blu Bathurst donk (the 411hp one), and while he didn't particularly rate the car, he jumped well and ran strongly, until a faulty radiator cap set the thing to overheating and he parked it. This car was built by Fred Gibson (who also built the Moore XE for 1982), and his wife Christine was at the tiller at McPhillamy on lap 121 in 1981, moving inside of David Seldon's Gemini... annd chopping across the bows of the Morris Falcon...
The Morris car was comprehensively trashed... but George Shepheard used what he could in the construction of the 7-Seiko XE for 1982... which became Kermit Mk2 in 1983, post-Hardies Heroes...
Nascar, you've got me with that one... I know that Moffat and the Bryan Byrt team used Peter Molloy engines here and there, and that DJ had his diffs done by Col Campbell's Differential Services until 1984... but dunno who did his machining...
Well, how about that Car61 - stumping Henry is almost up there with the "fall of the Roman Empire" ehhhh??
Bryant Engineering was the business, formally owned by Bryant Schuster, whom, I've been told, did the machining and engine building for Moffat in the 70's. Moffat had a very high opinion of Bryant and the quality of his work.
They put out a lot of quality work and built many engines, and even Bryant himself would personally build the top shelf units up until he retired, after selling the business to others a few years back.
As for DJR using them, well years ago I was getting my EB cyl head surface ground and there was a conspicius AU ute painted like a carton of VB and Shell yellow doing pickups there on the day.
Still in business today with the new owners (and new location) and still putting out good work, although engine building has stopped.
XYGTReplica
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a conspicius AU ute painted like a carton of VB and Shell yellow doing pickups there on the day.
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That ute is still going today. It is in Maryborough and still in the same livery. It was for sale last year on Ebay, but I don't think that he sold it.
Cheers
John
a conspicius AU ute painted like a carton of VB and Shell yellow doing pickups there on the day.
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That ute is still going today. It is in Maryborough and still in the same livery. It was for sale last year on Ebay, but I don't think that he sold it.
Cheers
John
Hardies Hero
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Pineapples and peanuts and I think maybe banannas, maybe 1978?
Hardies Hero
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was I correct with the produce?