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#1 rodomo

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Posted 10 March 2007 - 07:06 PM

Rory's next project? :blink:

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Posted 10 March 2007 - 07:42 PM

Le mans never happened no, it was Bob Forbes that was going to do it, but never did, the cars only got half finished.

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Posted 10 March 2007 - 07:57 PM

dam :cry: woulda been cool

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Posted 10 March 2007 - 07:59 PM

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MATE!..Keep up!! I was out driving it today!!!
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Posted 10 March 2007 - 08:05 PM

The quick and the dead huh? :spoton:

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Posted 10 March 2007 - 08:06 PM

Sure you were Rory lol.

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Posted 10 March 2007 - 08:22 PM

I'd like to buy a set of those flares.

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Posted 10 March 2007 - 08:53 PM

theres an A9X in birdwood motor museum here in SA that was meant to be raced at lemans, for some reason it never got there, i wonder how it would have gone against the eurotrash :spoton: :spoton: :spoton: oh and it doesnt look anything like that car at the start of the thread, but it does look real nice :spoton:

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Posted 10 March 2007 - 09:01 PM

the two cars that were meant to be raced at Le mans are still around, one is an orange hatch in Canberra, the other became Jansons 79 bathurst car. I think the one you are talking about in Birdwood is the factory aquarious car that belonged to a Holden designer, it was never a race car, it's a factory production car, and the only one in that colour.

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Posted 10 March 2007 - 10:29 PM

The Canberra one:-

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As for going to Le Mans, the roll cage is as far as they got. Would to nice to see one like in the pics done.

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Posted 15 April 2007 - 05:02 PM

Wasn't there a similar plan a few years later to race Commodores there ?

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Posted 15 April 2007 - 08:01 PM

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Posted 15 April 2007 - 10:49 PM

When was that advertized? And whats the light weight crap about?

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Posted 15 April 2007 - 10:59 PM

When was that advertized? And whats the light weight crap about?

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I'm sure RED will clarify, my understanding was they were specially made by holden and they used lighter guage metal to press the body and guards, making it lighter. They were so light that just leaning on the guards could bend them!

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Posted 15 April 2007 - 11:50 PM

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37 G's I'll take 2

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Posted 06 May 2007 - 08:49 PM

The Canberra one:-

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As for going to Le Mans, the roll cage is as far as they got. Would to nice to see one like in the pics done.

Im sure this car was drag raced in Sydney in the late 70's,early 80's
by a bloke called John Coxhead.
And even then it was called a light weight shell.

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Posted 06 May 2007 - 08:57 PM

Im sure this car was drag raced in Sydney in the late 70's,early 80's
by a bloke called John Coxhead.


alias richard cronin

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Posted 30 August 2007 - 05:08 PM

Jon is a good mate of mine and he built the car with a Group C spec engine, gearbox and diff and then ran it at the drags for a while - Skinny fronts, floppy front suspension. I had a couple of runs in it at Castlereagh in about 1980 - I think it ran mid to low 12's which wasn't bad back then.

I hear it will be up for auction in a couple of months.

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Posted 01 January 2008 - 12:43 PM

read an interesting article somewhere two LH's got part way into develoment for le-mans.

they were twin turbo's apparantly.

anyone confirm or deny this?

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Posted 01 January 2008 - 07:03 PM

No but interested to find out more :P

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Posted 01 January 2008 - 08:26 PM

one of the car dealers in newcastle ( steve mason ) has a 253 twin tubo hatch many years a go and sold it to someone down south. he found out later it was a ex le mans or someting like that.

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Posted 01 January 2008 - 09:11 PM

one of the car dealers in newcastle ( steve mason ) has a 253 twin tubo hatch many years a go and sold it to someone down south. he found out later it was a ex le mans or someting like that.

I was talking to Steve (Mason) about that a few weeks back.

He sold it really cheap then found out later what it was and tried
to buy it back off the bloke but with no luck!!

I will find out if he knows who owns it now.

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Posted 01 January 2008 - 09:14 PM

No but interested to find out more :P

AMC a couple of issues back.
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Posted 02 January 2008 - 10:32 AM

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MATE!..Keep up!! I was out driving it today!!!
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Hi guys, 1st post. Only found out about this forum this-morning....... :spoton:

That photo appears to be of the LH Repco V8 'Beast MkIII' Sports Sedan, which is currently being restored and hopefully will be at this years AMCM.

Also Bob Jane had 2 'light-weight' A9X's made for Sports Sedan racing, but bought and raced the Monza instead. One of the bodies was used for 'Pete' Geoghegan in '77-'78 for Bathurst and ATCC. They were so light it only required 2 people to carry the shell around.

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Posted 19 January 2008 - 02:54 PM

the two cars that were meant to be raced at Le mans are still around, one is an orange hatch in Canberra, the other became Jansons 79 bathurst car. I think the one you are talking about in Birdwood is the factory aquarious car that belonged to a Holden designer, it was never a race car, it's a factory production car, and the only one in that colour.

correct red ,, complete with wind splits,, i so druuuel over that beast every time im there :spoton:
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