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Chevy Monza
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Yes the Sandown track and it was extended for the World Endurance Championship. They added the extra length to the infield which included a lot of corners and short straights. The Sandown 500 was run on the extended circuit once or twice . If I remember correctly Dick blew the diff in his Green's Tuff XE Falcon and blamed it on all those twisty bits on the extended circut.
I was pretty sure the XE stripped out second gear, much to the disgust of the bloke at the wheel. From memory, she was a bit dinky with the extra couple of hairpins, although Neal Lowe did take the opportunity to perform a lurid doughnet down there in a race in 1986, in one of his incarnations as a rather competent race driver before he came on board the Shell Ultra-Hi Race Team as team manager -- for the triva nuts: WHAT CAR? And why was he driving it rather than the usual steerer?
Getting closer to the original topic... the Chev Monza in question had quite a history - from memory, Gricey cleaned up the Sports Sedan c'ship in 1984. However, it had previously been raced by another well-known driver, who inadvertently wrote-off one of his former co-driver's sports sedans in a crash the previous year, when an axle broke. Can you remember the track, the drivers and the other car? (the other car was re-birthed and ran in the Sandown sports car enduro as well)
Right again! I can still see the TV replay - the Monza turned hard left, totalling not only Jim Richards' BMW, but his old XC, in the hands of Tony Hubbard, as you say. They cobbled some of the leftover BMW bits into another 320 shell, which didn't really get too much work, unfortunately, as it was a pretty little car.
Allan Grice, who later drove the Monza of course, had previously driven the little Bimmer sports sedan in Craven Mild colours, back when he was the BMW man. His boss at that stage was of course Frank Gardner, who had built the Chev Corvair with which JR staged some memorable battles with his "Big M" Falcon in the late '70's... quite a love (and hate in one case) triangle going on there!
Allan Grice, who later drove the Monza of course, had previously driven the little Bimmer sports sedan in Craven Mild colours, back when he was the BMW man. His boss at that stage was of course Frank Gardner, who had built the Chev Corvair with which JR staged some memorable battles with his "Big M" Falcon in the late '70's... quite a love (and hate in one case) triangle going on there!
I am aware that this post has gone unanswered since 3/3/04 but heres the answer
in 1985 he shared a 635 bmw with kent baigent for a 5th place and in 1986 he shared the 2nd hdt commodoore with john harvey for a 2nd place finish so in all not a bad record
Bit of useless trivia for some ..... I saw this car , the Bob Jane TMarts Monza, a few months ago at the Champions Brock experience at Yeppoon just before it closed down, and they say this car was built by Jamie Whingecups father.
The Actual Bob Jane Monza was sold to Brian Thomson, and might have become a Supra Sports Sedan later as well... the car at CHampions - assuming it was Graeme Whincup's (uncle, not father) car, was another vehicle altogether.
Henry, I'd sooner take your word on this than the nice young lass lumbered with the tour guide duties on the day there - only saying what she said.
There were a few more details on other things that I knew she wasn't totally correct on as well.On the whole, the bulk of the genuine HDT race cars in that collection spent more time in John Harvey's hands than Brock's lmfao. One of them was the leftovers from Bond's '76 Amaroo shunt...Henry, I'd sooner take your word on this than the nice young lass lumbered with the tour guide duties on the day there - only saying what she said.
Can't rewrite history whilever there are memories of what actually happened...
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If anyone knows someone who has the time to go through them, I can get them delivered, but would like the end product back.
Some where on all these tapes here is that race with Brock crashing the Monza pluss a whole lot of similar stuff.
I can remember organising things to be able to watch a much antisipated race but Brock took em all out so there was dissapointment but at the time Peter Perfect wasn't so perfect and that was a good thing, I thought.
If anyone knows someone who has the time to go through them, I can get them delivered, but would like the end product back.
Some where on all these tapes here is that race with Brock crashing the Monza pluss a whole lot of similar stuff.
I can remember organising things to be able to watch a much antisipated race but Brock took em all out so there was dissapointment but at the time Peter Perfect wasn't so perfect and that was a good thing, I thought.