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[slr5640]

With the help of another forum member (urkss) i have contacted a guy who says he has an ex Harvey or possibly Brock VK from 1984 or 85.
urkss found this car years ago sitting in a shed doing nothing much at all. Now it seems it may be rebuilt.
I ended up going over and seeing the car and took heaps of pics.
The owner says he acquired it off Brock years ago and converted it to a rally car.
It was a bare shell with no hanging panels.
It has no ID tags as far as I could see but he assures me it used to have the Australian flag on the roof (with lots of body filler)before being stripped and resprayed.
It has been seam welded and has extra stitch welding around the strut towers to give extra strength.
Without the log books it is going to be very hard to prove its authenticity.
I sent an e mail to the Muscle Car Magazine to see if they had any contacts who may be able to help.
This guy wants to rebuild it back to its previous livery however I have been told by a certain member of the group C association that without proof all he has is an old race shell.
Could be this car or similar

How it looks now. It has been a rally car for 10 years or so and is rough.

[slr5640]

Yes it has the chassis number. Hopefully some one has access to cams data an be able to check it but the owner tells me the cams info is not all catalogued and very hard to cross reference.
The diff is not original as he is chasing up the correct diff at the moment.
From what I can gather the only original things on it is the shell and the cage.
You can see were the inboard jack's used to be.

[Collo]

interested to know if they ran pollution gear or not. they were production based so...

[Collo]

didnt brock have to run the vc or vh? with all luxury stuff cause it was based on the sl/e? just wondering...

[rodomo]

An empty canister would have sleeved nicely over that in-board jack.
With all the hoses connected (and blocked ) of course.

[arrimar]

on LPG too.

[TerrA LX]

Someone has gone thru a lot of trouble to disguise this car

[slr5640]

it was converted to gas correct and it took him ages to get it road registered he knew some one at cams with a lot of influence.
The car was rally driven by him for ten years or so so I suppose a lot of the old car has been "disguised" but I would assume unintentionally. There could be photos of it somewhere but I haven't come across any yet. The rego number is the same when he rallied it.
He used to work in the group C touring car industry . He made a lot of roll cages for the L34/A9X race shells. I spoke to him at length and he had many interesting stories to tell. Like having a heap of Ron Hodgeson cars at one location all getting cages fitted.
He also knew Brocky for years. Something he said about him which could be interesting is that Brock had a Morris with a grey motor in it (I think he said a Morris) race car before the A30?
I would assume the info he gave me is correct.
I can only go by this guys word as I wouldn't know any different!

[Collo]

interesting bout the morris...

[micklx]

My info on Brock suggests he may have 'unofficially' taken his hot '48 series Holden out on the track a few times, but the A30 was the first race car. Would be interesting to hear more about the Morris.

Even if that Commodore wasn't a Brock car, it could have an interesting story behind it. How many cars have on-board jacks ?

[sagman]

well its certainly got an interesting past. never say never because there is a fair chance it could well be one of his old cars or an under construction spare shell that never got used for whatever reason.....i had a lot of people tell me and the previous owner that my car was nothing. brockies advice was to keep looking, it was obviously something because of the parts it had....i took the advice!
pm me if you want to discuss more, will help if i can...........laz

[slr5640]

His initials are AM but " every one calls me SM "