2013 Phillip Island Classic Motor Races

[Steve Holmes]

Thanks Dale.

[Steve Holmes]

Couple of nice Austin Healeys

[Steve Holmes]

Some nice detail shots in the pits:

[Steve Holmes]

[Steve Holmes]

[bry3500]

[quote="Steve Holmes"]Some nice detail shots in the pits:


That undressed Mclaren is pornographic

[Steve Holmes]

[Steve Holmes]

[ITOW4U]

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.

[Steve Holmes]

Wow, what a great photo! Thanks for posting.

[driftwood]

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

[driftwood]

741
http://www.britishracecar.com/SteveCook-March-741.htm

[Steve Holmes]

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

Thats a great point re Brambilla. You can see how, sometimes with old race cars (I'm not referring to the March in particular), two cars are built and four currently survive! Cars are crashed and bashed, and somehow people end up with retired damaged tubs which then in later years re-emerge as a complete car.

[driftwood]

March cars are classic to rebuild/replicate ( i know of 1 person good at making 761 cars!)
McLaren M8s are another car that have been crashed rebuilt in period and then the old tub 5-20 years later is rebuilt up as the car

[kiwi285]

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.

Are we referring to NZ here or some other country. If NZ what is your intention for the car ??

Be it original or replica it still looks smart and would make all the right sounds on track.

[Steve Holmes]

Mike, that March is in Australia, not NZ.

[Muscle Car Events]

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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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]

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.

Oh, brilliant! Yes that absolutely makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.

Re the Cossack Victor, I'm not too sure where Craig is at with its restoration. He is currently in Queensland, where he'll be racing his AMC Javelin at Lakeside this weekend, with the Historic Muscle Cars/Australian Trans-Am combined races. But he is a member on here, and will hopefully update us when he gets back.