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Posted 13 April 2021 - 08:29 AM

Great photo.

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Posted 13 April 2021 - 08:42 AM

Thats that QT prefixed engine spitting fire. 



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Posted 13 April 2021 - 08:46 AM

Those HJ 5.0L are the most powerful!



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Posted 13 April 2021 - 08:55 AM

Those HJ 5.0L are the most powerful!

True that got a spare one sitting in my garage 



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Posted 13 April 2021 - 11:09 PM

HZ16644R was advertised for sale in January 1988. The car was stolen from the Lithgow RSL not long after. I believe the engine was still in it.

The article you were reading Andrew, has many mistakes in it. It never had a 350 Chev.

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Posted 15 April 2021 - 12:22 PM

Dave. There are seven R numbers. Only two are confirmed to be stamped into blocks, but I am on the trail of a third.

Not all of them have a second (same) number recorded, but we are missing 24 of them.



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Posted 15 April 2021 - 12:24 PM

Dave. There are seven R numbers. Only two are confirmed to be stamped into blocks, but I am on the trail of a third.

Not all of them have a second (same) number recorded, but we are missing 24 of them.

Cool, thanks Laurie. Keep digging. :spoton:
 



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Posted 15 April 2021 - 03:25 PM

Could be another clue here too. It looks like Brock rego'd the car in W.A.

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Posted 15 April 2021 - 03:36 PM

Yep, because I'm sure Peter Brock needed extra "driving practice"... :driving:

 

So are there any additional details to be found from a WA registration?

 

Actually, it doesn't specifically say it was WA rego, it may have been Victorian rego, or South Oz for that matter? How far did he drive to get to the track?



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Posted 15 April 2021 - 04:26 PM

Dave. There are seven R numbers. Only two are confirmed to be stamped into blocks, but I am on the trail of a third.

Not all of them have a second (same) number recorded, but we are missing 24 of them.

 

Are the 7 you have the ones that have been found Laurie? Of are the 7 from the microfiched report out of the VML?



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Posted 15 April 2021 - 04:37 PM

So how could you do a past rego check on chassis # ALH439565M?



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Posted 15 April 2021 - 06:15 PM

Could be another clue here too. It looks like Brock rego'd the car in W.A.

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Posted 15 April 2021 - 06:26 PM

So who wants to tell him the bad news


You should do it Gene. In person. Reckon you two might have a bit in common recreationally speaking lol

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Posted 15 April 2021 - 06:34 PM

So how could you do a past rego check on chassis # ALH439565M?


The VIN on that car was 8D69ZD J439565H

 

They only made sixty one thousand (and change) LH's all told.

 

I don't have the chassis number recorded for that car but I'd guess it should have been in the high thirteen thousands.


Edited by Bigfella237, 15 April 2021 - 06:38 PM.


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Posted 15 April 2021 - 06:41 PM


The VIN on that car was 8D69ZD J439565H

 

They only made sixty one thousand (and change) LH's all told.

 

I don't have the chassis number recorded for that car but I'd guess it should have been in the high thirteen thousands.

Are you sure about that Andrew?

I thought the PSN matched the Body number not the chassis number.
 



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Posted 15 April 2021 - 06:48 PM

I thought the PSN matched the Body number not the chassis number.


Correct. From the CAMS documents posted by Peter earlier, the vehicle was identified by the body number...

 

 

Found this info on FB which also includes pics of the car when converted back to a road trim. Cams Log book pictures below when it was raced by Citizen Watches:

 

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Posted 15 April 2021 - 06:59 PM

You should do it Gene. In person. Reckon you two might have a bit in common recreationally speaking lol

Have another drink ya drunk 



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Posted 15 April 2021 - 07:07 PM


Correct. From the CAMS documents posted by Peter earlier, the vehicle was identified by the body number...


Ok, it was Brads post where he lists the number as a chassis number that threw me.



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Posted 15 April 2021 - 08:27 PM

Sorry. Was that the wrong number? Maybe the admins can delete my post to avoid confusion.

Edited by hanra, 15 April 2021 - 08:28 PM.


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Posted 16 April 2021 - 01:00 PM

So is this the same car after it finished it’s racing career? Can you do a historical rego search in NSW to determine the chassis number?

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Posted 16 April 2021 - 01:09 PM

Ahhhh is this the QT engine going in? Lolz!

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Posted 16 April 2021 - 01:50 PM

If Vasko Talevski can be found he would have first hand info of the vehicle as he lived down Wollongong NSW: 

 

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Posted 16 April 2021 - 02:10 PM

This fella?

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Posted 16 April 2021 - 02:26 PM

Can you do a historical rego search in NSW to determine the chassis number?


Just tried all the usual sources but "LMB772" comes up as non-existent. And I can't seem to find anywhere to check an engine number by itself.

 

EDIT: According to Wikipedia, that number plate should have been issued in 1981, do we know when the L34 was supposed to have been stolen?

 

Ahhhh is this the QT engine going in? Lolz!


*IF* it was, and the car was then stolen from Lithgow, wouldn't that mean QT671366 should also come up as a stolen engine?


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Posted 16 April 2021 - 02:34 PM

This fella?

 

Must be as the L34 pictures listed the car as being in Warrawong (suburb of Wollongong) and he went to Warrawong High School.

 

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