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[Potta]

So that means both '72 cars were totalled....bummer.....

[meanmachine72]

i think it was put on its lid in 73 ?. I remember watching it roll and the comentry was i think (a sad end to last years winner)

then this Car Has have been rebodied twice then???
once in 10/72 and then again in 3/4/73???

[WhaleOilBeefHooked]

I know where one of them is........

Wasn't it one of these cars that sold in 2006 for over half a million ??? I know it was one of Brocky's LJ's that did..

[frash da bucket]

I know where 28 C is,the same ownwer still has it.

Cheers.

[Potta]

Is it in good nick or cactus?

[frash da bucket]

The original 28C was rolled as most people know,all of the parts were fitted on to another shell,I meet the owner of 28C at xu-1's on the mountain in 2002, he all ready had owned for 15 years,so i don't know what happened to its a original shell,i never got that far to ask him,or what happened to the rest of it,but in those days were different,i suppose when it was done in those days,to the remove all the good bits onto the new shell,and take the old one to the tip.

Cheers.

[xu2308]

I thought the Glen Amos HDT 28c LJ XU-1 was the real deal,so its not then ?????????

[GML-31]

I believe it lives in northern nsw, but there are a few of group c cars that were completely reshelled. It is always a sticky one regarding racecar reshells. If it raced again after the new shell I dont see any problems at all. The shell was just a spare part from holden after all.

[frash da bucket]

When i spoke to glen in 2002,i ask him what was its colour underneath the HDT colours,it was silver,i took a lot of photo's of it and close up one's also.It was running alot of group 3 items,like the original 8 and 9inch magneisum wheels different fuel tank,its carbies were dual throats,and one of its throats were blocked off,so only 3 were working,it had a QL engine block with a 73 head,the interior was also stock and torana steering wheel,and its rollcage.It had its vin tag,its adr was 8/72,but its body id plate was in the glove box,because of the bonnet pins.On that sunday before the big race Peter Brock drove 28C for the first time since 1972,he led us all around the mountain on a parade lap,there was a 114 xu-1's behind peter brock, I was doing 90 mph around the track on that parade lap with our head lights on,if any of you got the issue 5 australian muscle mag you will see the photo's,there is a photo of my car on top of the mountain,with the lights on on the parade lap,it was one of the best events that i have been too and one that i won't ever forget.

Cheers.

[rodomo]

When i spoke to glen in 2002,i ask him what was its colour underneath the HDT colours,it was silver,

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[Redzone]

Thread resurrection!

My understanding is that it went 28C - T car 73 bathurst - Barry Nixon Smith rolled at Bathurst 74 - turret replaced & sold to Dick Johnson, car was the Peter Hill Menswear sponsored yellow LJ he raced - Dick blew the engine up then sold the car to my father Kerry Cox in 76, dad rebuilt the engine and most of the car and raced it in 77 & 78 in the qld touring car champs, won in 77, runner up to dick in 78, Dad repainted the car into the livery you see in my avatar, dad knew the turret had been replaced but that was all, he had the original cams logbook and the owners manual that had Harry Firth listed as the original owner, the chassis numbers matched when dad had it. The engine block could have been replaced by dad but i'll ask him.

dad sold the car to someone in townsville as a road car, dad heard it was crashed up there but we never heard what happened to it, i have since found out that Glen Amos bought the car from this fellow who wanted to get rid of it when he found out it was an ex racer.

Apparently Glen has recently stripped back layers of paint on the car to find underneath the paint described above, and should have the car at Bathurst this year, i'm hoping to go down and look at the car. Dad has told me about a couple of identifying markings on the car that should identify the shell...

[REDA9X]

My opinion. Brock races a car, crashes it, it's reshelled he continues to race it in that new shell, and still exists today, original HDT car.
Brock races it, sells it, a year later rolled by another team, reshelled and continued to be raced, it's no longer the Brock car. The fact is however it probably continued to use the same logbook.
If this car has only had a turret change though, thats nothing really and is essenially still the same car.

[Redzone]

yeah and by turret i mean only the outer skin, not the structural panels, he found evidence of that when he painted it in late 76..

[crabba67]

Looks to be silver first 28c a first month 72................. with LGN347 ADR tag 8 month 72 ALJ107##A which got hit from behind in Shepparton in October 1973

Cheers