RE: You Know You Want To: Brock's Holden Commodore

[andy rob]

mat205125 said:

Racing unsuitably large barges will always be more fun and spectacular than any formula car.

I agree

[PAUL. S]

Even Brockie had to have an RS500 in the end, but had all the Ford badges removed.

Here she is at the Siverstone classic this year



and if you fancy a rather special RS500, mine is now up for sale for a bit, so a shameless plug

www.cybersourced.com

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/4191355.htm

Edited by PAUL. S on Thursday 30th August 09:47

[PAUL. S]

double post

[Reardy Mister]

PAUL. S said:

Even Brockie had to have an RS500 in the end, but had all the Ford badges removed.

Here she is at the Siverstone classic this year



and if you fancy a rather special RS500, mine is now up for sale for a bit, so a shameless plug

www.cybersourced.com

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/4190159.htm

That was this year?! Would love to have seen those two cars running together.

BITD, Johnson actually took his Sierras and displayed them, bonnets up and doors open at shopping centres in QLD, to prove he wasnt cheating with them.

Lovely car Paul.

[405dogvan]

Veeayt said:

Was that a Peter Jackson LotR King Kong Sierra racecar overtaking?

Peter Jackson are a brand of cigarettes - or at least they were!?

Peter Jackson the film guy is from NEW ZEALAND wheras that is AUSTRALIA

Don't worry too much, it's just like them mixing up Austria and Africa...

[Blackpuddin]

garypotter said:

Dave Hedgehog said:

lovely car but i would prefer the cossie

Agree, but what a noise from the V8, long live youtube so the world will know what they sound like in a few years time when we are all buzzing around in casio powered peds!

This every time. Quite sad to hear the V8 giving its all so heroically with no reward.

[CapriV6S]

I want that V8 Monza in Reardy Mister's post SO SO MUCH!!!!

[Dave Hedgehog]

PAUL. S said:

Even Brockie had to have an RS500 in the end, but had all the Ford badges removed.

Here she is at the Siverstone classic this year



and if you fancy a rather special RS500, mine is now up for sale for a bit, so a shameless plug

www.cybersourced.com

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/4190159.htm

im winning the lotto tonight so i will have it off you

[PAUL. S]

Reardy Mister said:

That was this year?! Would love to have seen those two cars running together.

BITD, Johnson actually took his Sierras and displayed them, bonnets up and doors open at shopping centres in QLD, to prove he wasnt cheating with them.

Lovely car Paul.

Yes DJR1 and the Brock Rouse were in the pits on display all weekend, and about 5 other original RS500 touring cars raced as well. The Brock car was at Ford Fair a few weeks later as well. Yours for £150k apparently

[Oddball RS]

I'm not sure i'd spend a quarter of a million on that................

[morgrp]

If I was spending a quarter of mill on a vauxhall carlton it'd be this one:



and with the change i'd buy Rod Birley's old GAA cossie powered RX7 in the picture too

Edited by morgrp on Wednesday 29th August 15:51

[magician]

Reardy Mister said:

That looks great

[GC8]

My uncle imported and raced one of Peter Brocks Holdens, quite successfully. He didnt pay ANYTHING like £250,000 for it though!

[dbanes]

I was lucky enough to meet Peter Brock when he was competing at Targa Tasmania one year, he was just a nice ordinary bloke, at least until he came past you on a special stage, in the wet half way up a mountain. Then you realised he was in the same league as people like Walter Röhrl.

[Shadow R1]

andy rob said:

2 years ago when I was there @ goodwood the similar era perkins/ingall commodore was there

I got some pic's from that, not sure if its the car your thinking of.






The sierra was my favorite.

[s m]

mat205125 said:

Reardy Mister said:

Oddly, thats actually a VK Calais.

Here's a VH SS Grp 3



and HDT's modern incarnation:

That's a fantastic homage, especially the wheels.

I recall when I was young, my "modifier" uncle had a Capri with those fins running along the wings to "channel the airflow up and over the car to push it into the ground" .... as a primary school lad, they were the coolest addition to any car, and I made some recreations from platicine for my RC car

Very 80s Irmscher all that kit.

I remember looking at the catalogues in Steve Thompson at Lichfield

[Reardy Mister]

GC8 said:

My uncle imported and raced one of Peter Brocks Holdens, quite successfully. He didnt pay ANYTHING like £250,000 for it though!

Which one? I'd be interested know some more on that.

[Reardy Mister]

Shadow R1 said:

andy rob said:

2 years ago when I was there @ goodwood the similar era perkins/ingall commodore was there

I got some pic's from that, not sure if its the car your thinking of.






The sierra was my favorite.

Ah, haven't been for the last year or two. Sorry to have missed that line up. The DJR 17 car is a pretty regular fixture, as is the TWR jag. Not seen the Moffat/Bond(?) Flacon there before though, or that VC 05 Commodore. Seen the Perkins VR/VS before though.
Nice selection, that.

[SteRB5138]

PAUL. S said:

Wish I had seen the RS500's at the Silverstone classic.

[jnoiles]

Much about the one for sale doesn't ring true to me. The engine doesn't look like the twin throttle body homologated one. The dash looks very non VN/VP. The front lights and body kit look more VP than VN, although I'll concede that the cars were uprated while running at the time. It appears to be rolling on 16" HSV road wheels from the VN era (SV3800). The Group A brakes wouldn't fit under them. I smell a rat. Or a significantly modified car from when it ran professionally.