It was the Janson/Perkins car
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Posted 04 August 2013 - 09:48 PM
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Posted 04 August 2013 - 10:00 PM
Get out of my way I am coming past or I will knock you off the bloody track (attitude of Gricey). He was definitely in the mix in practice but so was Morris. I don't remember anyone except Grice and Morris that looked slightly threatening to Brock. After the Sandown 500 1/2 finish MHDT looked pretty good on the Bridgestones.
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Posted 04 August 2013 - 10:19 PM
It was the well documented UC 202 turbo dealer fitted package retro fitted to an LX.
Too quick and they wouldn't let it race. 
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Posted 04 August 2013 - 10:27 PM
It was the Janson/Perkins car
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Don't remember them being fast in practice. Just had a look at the records and they where 17th on the grid. But the captain and the ever consistent Perkins certainly had a good race finishing a few laps ahead of Radburn.
Interesting if in fact Red is saying its them that he is referring to.
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Posted 04 August 2013 - 10:45 PM
No it wasn't Janson.
Both Morris and Grice had fingers pointed at them in 79. Anyone who has seen the Morris car will know why. But it wasn't Bob having the finger pointed at him at Bathurst, and he wasn't the one with the interesting decal on the back bumper.
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Posted 04 August 2013 - 10:48 PM
Well bloody tell us ffs who was fastest
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Posted 05 August 2013 - 12:18 AM
he wasn't the one with the interesting decal on the back bumper.
So now I have to find photo's of rear bumpers.
Talk about a tease.
So its not Grice or Morris (or Janson)?
Guess I have to pull out the VHS and watch the full lead up commentary. 
I am starting an L34 vs A9X thread to let off some frustration on taxi drivers...... LOL
Come on mate, a Bog stock off the showroom floor L34 was apparently good for 350HP and easily reved to 7000, but only if you had the optional 10000RPM tacho
What about the optional 300kph speedo?
Those MHDT boys should have just left them standard and saved themselves a fortune.
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Posted 05 August 2013 - 12:21 AM
Man - I am tempting to open up the VHS Bathurst Set
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Posted 05 August 2013 - 01:36 AM
268.8 kph would be right, I thought it was 278 kph or 268 kph from what I remember from the 1979 Bathurst race call on TV
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Commentator claims approaching 165mph for Grice around 1:20 here, during the race
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Posted 05 August 2013 - 10:22 AM
I never said it wasn't Grice
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Posted 05 August 2013 - 10:41 AM
165 mph = 265.542 kph for the Gricey A9X Beast, so Brocky doing 268 kph would be spot on and in that time frame they used speed guns at the end of conrod straight, love how they are still talking in MPH the commentators lol
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Posted 05 August 2013 - 10:46 AM
I never said it wasn't Grice
Unreal Red and I all ways thought Brocky's 05 HDT A9X was the fastest A9X at the 1979 Bathurst weekend
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Posted 05 August 2013 - 10:54 AM
I said fastest down Conrod in practice, I didn't say fastest lap times or fastest in the race.
Grice was pulled up after it was suspected he was getting a little...assistance. It's not a well known fact.
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Posted 05 August 2013 - 10:58 AM
yeah I know u said in practice down Conrod straight, just hard to think he was faster than brock, but I believe you
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Posted 05 August 2013 - 11:34 AM
Yeah well you get that when you cheat
I believe he was accused again in 82 of the same thing
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Posted 05 August 2013 - 12:29 PM
Probably unrelated, I recall a commentator once saying a driver was signalling the pits with the windscreen wipers. We reckoned at the time it was more like the Wiper washer making a convenient switch for injecting. An early version of "push to pass".
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Posted 05 August 2013 - 12:50 PM
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I was there as a 17 year old so maybe have a distant residual memory of it.
There are some shots of the back of the car here but very blurry:
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=eYCaTKO5Yus
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Posted 05 August 2013 - 07:10 PM
one of the videos ive got shows Grice passing Brock down Conrod..not drafting either just cruised up an boom straight past early in the '79 race!
i reckon any faster than 265 klicks an the doors would fall off..well not fall off really but.. mine flap in the wind at 210 kph!!!
its a well known fact ..i know another bloke who used to have a v8 hatch said he could "stick his fingers in between the window frame an body"
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Posted 05 August 2013 - 09:32 PM
I think you're thinking of the 77 race. Brock was never passed in 79.
Early hatch shells did that, not the A9X shells
one of the videos ive got shows Grice passing Brock down Conrod..not drafting either just cruised up an boom straight past early in the '79 race!
i reckon any faster than 265 klicks an the doors would fall off..well not fall off really but.. mine flap in the wind at 210 kph!!!
its a well known fact ..i know another bloke who used to have a v8 hatch said he could "stick his fingers in between the window frame an body"
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Posted 05 August 2013 - 10:10 PM
mine flap in the wind at 210 kph!!!
Nothing that a knee in the door and two hands on the window frame can't help solve.
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Posted 06 August 2013 - 09:52 AM
one of the videos ive got shows Grice passing Brock down Conrod..not drafting either just cruised up an boom straight past early in the '79 race!
i reckon any faster than 265 klicks an the doors would fall off..well not fall off really but.. mine flap in the wind at 210 kph!!!
its a well known fact ..i know another bloke who used to have a v8 hatch said he could "stick his fingers in between the window frame an body"
The 1976 Hatch Shells did that, The 'H' and the HDT boys found that problem on his Black 1976 SS Hatch and Harry would of told GMH, my 1977 SS L31 Hatch never did it, it was a 9/1977 built one so by 1977 the problem was fixed as Red said with the A9X
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Posted 06 August 2013 - 10:17 AM
I guess bracing on the door hinges I would think
or stronger door hinges, or Red might know
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Posted 06 August 2013 - 10:28 AM
I think the intrusion bars fixed it, as my LH doors flapped at the top and when a unused set of A9X doors were put on it never happened again, the new hinges went on to so that may have helped.
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