The Roaring Season

by **Roger Dowding** » Fri Oct 01, 2021 4:24 am

Thank you Milan,
I have not been back to Ian Tilley yet. will note the photos for the future !!
Cheers
Roger

by **Milan Fistonic** » Fri Oct 01, 2021 3:45 am

Those photos are from the 1987 event.

by **Roger Dowding** » Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:36 pm

The Ian Tilley photos ;
Have yet to confirm the year,but remember the Jaguars at Bathurst in 1985 - in fact have a 1;43 scale model of the Goss Hahne Car from Bathurst in my collection; The only non- Australian car in my Bathurst Collection - even the Cortina was a locally built version of the Cortina GT Mark One.

The photos of the crash BMW 3 series versus a Ford / Lazer - Laser !!

The Harvey Lowe Commodore squeezes through

An Alfa showing a bit of nose damage gets past

Another BMW drives past

The Jaguar driving past BMW is left and being pushed.

The Lamont BMW in the pit area;

by **Roger Dowding** » Thu Sep 30, 2021 7:41 am

Have just been sent a few photos from one of the Nissan Mobil 500 races - not sure which year.
Will ask the photographer [ Ian Tilley ] and post on here - all taken at the same corner, mainly.
Ian has the programme so hopefully can get images from there too !!

More to come : Will bring the thread forward !!

Cheers

Roger

by **Frosty5** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 3:18 am

Mark Petch wrote:Ha Ha LOL. Hi Dave, you always liked the big juicy home made Hamburgers the girls used to make, which is why Randle nick named you "Hamburger Dave" way back in the Volvo day's

Bobi wants me to share that Utube clip so I am just about to do that.

If you are down at the last Central Muscle cars meeting at Taupo on the 2nd May, Jacko and I are going down to support Peter and Andrew Knight's new Chevy Monza that we built for them so we might catch up with you as reckon I owe you a few beers! It will be touch and go to get it finished but its in the paint shop today so should be finish painted by Wednesday and a big big weekend of work should see it all finished by early next week, then the long haul up the Island.

Cheers,

Mark.

Not sure if I will be able to get down there as I will be at HD (May 1) for a test day driving a MB 190E Cosworth built as close to DTM specs as time and $$$ allowed. Hoping to get it all sorted for the endurance series, time will tell.

Cheers

Dave

by **Mark Petch** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 2:34 am

Frosty5 wrote:Why, thank you Mark. Apologies accepted. Age is a funny thing really, I guess we all have lapses from time to time. I recall Robbie had a blistered right palm as car was LHD. But you did get one thing correct, my name!!! Great days then. And the guy who got hit with the delaminated tire at Puke asked you if he could take it home as a memento. He certainly had a good shiner and was incredibly lucky that it wasn't worse.

Cheers
Hamburger Dave

Ha Ha LOL. Hi Dave, you always liked the big juicy home made Hamburgers the girls used to make, which is why Randle nick named you "Hamburger Dave" way back in the Volvo day's

Bobi wants me to share that Utube clip so I am just about to do that.

If you are down at the last Central Muscle cars meeting at Taupo on the 2nd May, Jacko and I are going down to support Peter and Andrew Knight's new Chevy Monza that we built for them so we might catch up with you as reckon I owe you a few beers! It will be touch and go to get it finished but its in the paint shop today so should be finish painted by Wednesday and a big big weekend of work should see it all finished by early next week, then the long haul up the Island.

Cheers,

Mark.

by **Frosty5** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 6:33 am

Mark Petch wrote:I caaan hardllly speeak, myy moouthh is sooo fuull offf huuummble pppie!!

Seriously i have not watched the race video for more years than I care to remember, so no wonder Robbie was so keen to have Michele double stint in the middle so that he could bring the car home.

Profuse and very sincere apologies Frosty, I was wrong. Funny how ones memory plays trick's on you which why eye witness are so notoriously unreliable.

Cheers,

Mark.

Why, thank you Mark. Apologies accepted. Age is a funny thing really, I guess we all have lapses from time to time. I recall Robbie had a blistered right palm as car was LHD. But you did get one thing correct, my name!!! Great days then. And the guy who got hit with the delaminated tire at Puke asked you if he could take it home as a memento. He certainly had a good shiner and was incredibly lucky that it wasn't worse.

Cheers
Hamburger Dave

by **Mark Petch** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 5:32 am

Frosty5 wrote:Check out this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXb1znBECGI

I caaan hardllly speeak, myy moouthh is sooo fuull offf huuummble pppie!!

Seriously i have not watched the race video for more years than I care to remember, so no wonder Robbie was so keen to have Michele double stint in the middle so that he could bring the car home.

Profuse and very sincere apologies Frosty, I was wrong. Funny how ones memory plays trick's on you which why eye witness are so notoriously unreliable.

Cheers,

Mark.

by **Frosty5** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 3:26 am

Mark Petch wrote:Not sure who you really are Frosty, maybe Dave Graham? but I would like to make a bet with you, but I wont because it would be equivalent to "taking candy from a kid" as you are 100% wrong wrong wrong!

And I might add a bit flippant with comment about me watching another race!

In fact it was Robbie who slammed the door shut on Michele, just before he gunned it out of the pits.

Cheers,

Mark.

Check out this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXb1znBECGI

by **Mark Petch** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 2:45 am

Frosty5 wrote:Must have been a different race that you were watching!! Robbie certainly took the chequered flag at Wellington

Not sure who you really are Frosty, maybe Dave Graham? but I would like to make a bet with you, but I wont because it would be equivalent to "taking candy from a kid" as you are 100% wrong wrong wrong!

And I might add a bit flippant with comment about me watching another race!

In fact it was Robbie who slammed the door shut on Michele, just before he gunned it out of the pits.

Cheers,

Mark.

by **Frosty5** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 2:02 am

Mark Petch wrote:Steve, as I have said before it was Delcourt that double stinted and took the checkered flag.

Must have been a different race that you were watching!! Robbie certainly took the chequered flag at Wellington

by **Jac Mac** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 1:13 am

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Mark Petch wrote:Cario,

If I knew your real name Cario, I might well need to thank you, and happy to do so.

Cheers,

Mark.

by **Mark Petch** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 1:09 am

touringcarfan wrote:All I know is that the Volvo was an ex works ETCC car. After Wellington the car was shipped to Oz for the 85 ATCC where Francevic finished 5th. For 86 the car was run by the Volvo Dealer Team and this was the year Robbie won the ATCC.

Anthony

Touringcarfan,

I think you unintentionally do me a disservice in your brief comments, the deal with the Volvo dealer team was not done until after my team won the both Amaroo and Symon's Plains, I also oversaw the team AVDT right up to the second to last race at Oran park. The AVDT, inherited a well honed winning package through my teams efforts, despite this fact, John Sheppard managed to F.... it up and the whole AVDT team folded, less than one season old.

by **Mark Petch** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 12:53 am

Steve, as I have said before it was Delcourt that double stinted and took the checkered flag.

by **Mark Petch** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 12:51 am

Steve, 100% bolted together Aluminum tube roll-cage.

by **Mark Petch** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 12:49 am

Steve,

I made that decision on the Friday before the race as it was impossible to be in two places at once, as I had to be in Auckland to clear the car and supervise getting into the Bristol freighter, etc.

by **Mark Petch** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 12:46 am

Cario,

If I knew your real name Cario, I might well need to thank you, and happy to do so.

Cheers,

Mark.

by **Mark Petch** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 12:43 am

ERC,

That is exactly what the Stewards did, and as you say it was virtually impossible to fake the teams own hand written lap scoring, so all these years later people are still debating this issue, which given the fact's is somewhat disappointing.

Cheer's,

Mark.

by **jimdigris** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 12:49 am

Nice to see a reply from the person who knows for sure the history of the car. One can guess whose delicate ego was bruised

On a different topic, look how small the falcons discs are! Obviously this car is not built to full group A specs, very hard too tell but it appears to be running standard discs and calipers!

by **Steve Holmes** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 11:01 pm

Some great info here by Mark Petch regarding the Volvo 240T, after I'd asked him on Facebook the history of this car prior to his ownership:

My car was indeed the ex Pierre Dieudonne car, one of the two GTM Factory works team car's that Volvo AB owned,as well as a spare factory Shell the GTM were building into a third car. When Volvo pulled the plug on GTM in favour of running with Eggenburger in 1985 Delcourt's car and the new unfinished chassis and 3 engines went to Rudi Eggenburger, who had just won the 1984 ETCC for BMW, but was not happy with BMW for a number of reason's. mainly because BMW could not see the threat of the Turbo era.

I purchased the car to drive myself, and it was not until Pierre suddenly demanded that he wanted to be paid to come out to NZ that I changed tack's and instead bought Michel out. With all the drama of Pan-Am 'losing the car' at Frankfurt airport for over 2 week's, when it finally arriving on the Saturday in Auckland, and having to then fly it down to Wellington in a Bristol Freighter, I decided that to attempt to race after that marathon effort, would be fool hardy, and so had Robbie on standby, who had also managed to do some laps in the Anderson's Pine Pack car on Saturday morning.

When I met Michele for the first time and saw what a huge man he was, I was jolly clad I didnt have to try to drive were he had the seat and steering wheel positioned, fortunately it was near perfect for Robbie, so that was it really. There was no purpose in me replacing a succesful driving combination at Puke the week after, nor when I decided to take the car to Australia, because as Robbie was already a New Zealand Saloon Car Champion, it was a hell of a a lot easier to get sponsorship for him than myself.

I bought John Bowe into the team for the Enduro's because we needed somebody as fast as Robbie, which I was not, and John was an excellent choice because straight away he was as quick as Robbie, which lead to some bruised ego's which was not easy to manage.

The Roaring Season

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