The Roaring Season

Muscle Car Events wrote:Steve, just to confuse things even more this car belongs to John Anderson (based in Queensland) and is a rebodied Series Production car driven by Bond in 1972 AS 24C...it had a double double life and in the last few years has been displayed as the 72 Bathurst car (with Mawer wheels??>>??) forgive me I don't know why.
It spends considerable time at Ian Tate's workshop and at the wheel you'll find Stephen Tate (son of) who was campaigning the car in (from memory) regularity at this years Phillip Island event with number 24 being obviously already taken. The 'C' has just been left on instead of being removed for Regularity..I have the 40C car as pictured above...... while i'm on to you - what's the update on the Cossack Warrior has/is the restoration underway of my hero car when growing up over there in NZ....Cheers TM.

Steve Holmes wrote:Perhaps someone could explain to me the significance of this car? I'm a bit confused by it. The name on the door says Colin Bond, but it has the race number 7, with its class designation next to the number. Class designations were only displayed in Series Production until the end of 1972, and were dropped for Group C in 1973. Also, in Series Production, car numbers were based on the class they competed in, working upwards from Class D. So a Series Production Class C car wouldn't normally have such a low number. It'd usually be in the 20s, at least. However, the non-factory Mawer wheels suggest Group C, as these wouldn't be allowed in Series Production. Help! This is too confusing for my tiny brain.

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ITOW4U wrote:This is a shot of the March 741-1 when it arrived in the country earlier this year, even at 6'2" I can still get into it.

driftwood wrote:March 741 cars where crashed bashed written off many times by the Monza Gorilla that it has been hard to keep tabs on these cars
its well known he had 4 tubs on his car
I know of a man who has 1 of these tubs he had the idea to build up a car until i told him he was crazy and he saw logic and went an bought a proper real unmolested March F1 car

there is also another car in usa purporting to be a 741 but as time goes by it seems to be acknowledged by the owner the car is a "replica"
The 741 is one of the hardest cars to nail down although only 2 cars where built

Steve Holmes wrote:This is Les Wright in the Brabham BT21/23. Would love to know what motor this car runs. Race results say its 3.5 litres, which would fit with an Olds V8 or similar.

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