NEW CLASS / SERIES; Historic Sports Sedans. formation meeting.20/04/13 ACC

[superford]

And a couple more;

This one scanned from the 1986 Bathurst Program I think;



And another from when it first arrived back in aussie after the Nissan Mobil series;

[superford]

Hey Dave, Here is the car at the end of conrod straight. the only difference is that instead of Johnson /French on the windscreen banner its going to say Sheweiry / Johnson . A nice touch , dont ya think!!

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Hi George, is Clive's Mustang one of the genuine DJR Mustangs or is it a replica? The photo you posted looks awesome by the way and I hope to get to HD to see it!

[George Sheweiry]

Wow superford those shots are just awesome, thanks for that , now I think the signwriter will have enough shots to be able to dress the black mustang up. Yes, Clives car is a replica. He always does a good job of getting things right with good attention to detail. He did a Greenstuff falcon that he was going to run in production muscle cars but sold it when he did a stint in Australia for his job. Paul Urquhart raced it in PMS then Justin Butcher bought it from him and races it in Northern Muscle.

[superford]

Wow superford those shots are just awesome, thanks for that , now I think the signwriter will have enough shots to be able to dress the black mustang up. Yes, Clives car is a replica. He always does a good job of getting things right with good attention to detail. He did a Greenstuff falcon that he was going to run in production muscle cars but sold it when he did a stint in Australia for his job. Paul Urquhart raced it in PMS then Justin Butcher bought it from him and races it in Northern Muscle.

No worries George! - I should also have noted that the first two shots had been posted in other Roaring Season threads in the past.

I've also just found some more shots of the 1984 DJ Mustang in its white clothing - will need to scan them first, but i'll do that this afternoon. One particularly good shot from the rear so will help with the sign writing should you not already have that angle.

By the way, I love what you've done to the Sidchrome Mustang. My all time dream car and the sole reason I'm trying to get to HD next week!!

[nigel watts]

Here are the JPS Mustang shots that I have saved;

I think these were taken by the late Southspeed? Please correct me if i'm wrong.

These are my shots taken at the 1986 Nissan Mobil at Pukekohe.

[superford]

These are my shots taken at the 1986 Nissan Mobil at Pukekohe.

Hi Nigel, please accept my sincere apologies for my mistake. I wasn't sure and shouldn't have guessed.... Those photos you took of all of the 86 Nissan Mobil cars are absolutely fantastic and I applaud you for sharing them with the Roaring Season community. Cheers, Jarrod

[superford]

1984 Bathurst Practice shots of DJ's Muzzy.

Photos scanned from the 'Bathurst' Annual and the 'James Hardie 1000' Annual from 1984

[George Sheweiry]

Yes I agree, thank you all who have contributed photos to this site, you know I often find myself thinking, Hey I was at that meeting, I wonder if I am lurking in the background of one of those photos!! lol

[George Sheweiry]

We have another unexpected welcome entry in the form, of Robert Jack in the ex Brennan Escort/Chev which is good as it will give some competition to Roger Williams Mercedes coupe. The ACC did a 5 minute spiel Sunday on Radio Live. for those of you who would like to hear it you need to go to Radio Live website under Audio-Sunday 4:15 slot and about 3 1/4 of the way through the time slot. Also keep an ear open from thursday on for the ACC adverts for HD on Sunday on The Rock radio station 90.2

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[Rod Grimwood]

We have another unexpected welcome entry in the form, of Robert Jack in the ex Brennan Escort/Chev which is good as it will give some competition to Roger Williams Mercedes coupe. The ACC did a 5 minute spiel Sunday on Radio Live. for those of you who would like to hear it you need to go to Radio Live website under Audio-Sunday 4:15 slot and about 3 1/4 of the way through the time slot. Also keep an ear open from thursday on for the ACC adverts for HD on Sunday on The Rock radio station 90.2

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Be great to see this car again, one of the originals.

[Rod Grimwood]

Couple of photos from original days


Top photo is later on with flares tidied up

[John McKechnie]

George- can you please put up the program for Sunday please, need to know what time to be there. And as I still dont have an engine in my car, I will be a spectator.
Will have Barry Algie with me as too many things to complete his Monaro- radiator, floor, front clip etc. Really wanted to be there on the grid with the guys.
Will definitely be there later .
People will recognise us by our envious looks.

[Rod Grimwood]

Got a rough idea what Barry looks like, and as for you, we won't miss you guys. Be good to see you and catch up.
I aim to be there Saturday, Morning Maramarua, afternoon HD and Sunday for fun and off home after.

[Steve Holmes]

White car only practiced @ Bathurst 84, Johnson used XE for race, following year (85) mustang was green with Larry Perkins as co-driver. That is why frosty5 wont have seen it run in white.

Yep thats right, it was white when it appeared at Bathurst in 1984, as thats the colour it was supplied to Johnson, from Zakspeed who had been racing it in Europe. It also appeared in late 1984 at a Queensland event (maybe Surfers Paradise?), but I think was only doing demonstration laps, to show the local supporters what their favourite son would be driving in 1985. It was entered for Bathurst as a back-up, should anything happen to the Falcon, even though it wasn't anywhere near being as quick as the Group C cars, but there was a Group A class created for that years race. Johnson did some practice laps in it, just to see how it felt, but spent most of his time in the Falcon, understandibly, so photos of the Mustang are quite rare.

[CUSTAXIE50]

Thanks Custaxie50 I rang straight away and the people at the workshop were able to give me his ph # so I rang but he is away till this weekend, so I shall ring him on monday and try my best to get him there for you. I just received the following photo from my brother Clive of his DJR Mustang at the sign writers, having just been painted the week before. I called in and had a look the day before and I have to say the car looks absolutely gorgeous. Its going to be a fantastic looking grid!

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How did you get on about getting the custaxie 2-to run at this meeting.

[bob homewood]

Thanks to George for putting this altogether ,I had originally have hoped to be there as well ,but in reality with what I have on outside getting the car ready, it is just not possible ,hopefully if the opportunity is still there it might be there in the future

[George Sheweiry]

How did you get on about getting the custaxie 2-to run at this meeting.

Just got off ph with Robert and unfortunately he is busy this weekend however he would like to run in the class, He says they have done a whole lot of improvements to the car to make it more reliable including 6 pot brakes to help make it stop. I will be interested to see what times he gets around HD in. Robbie put it around in a 1.22.2, my Comet (with virtually the same brakes he just took off) 1.15.5. Its not too difficult to get the best out of what ever brakes a car has and I'm positive we could get his originals to work ok.

[CUSTAXIE50]

Just got off ph with Robert and unfortunately he is busy this weekend however he would like to run in the class, He says they have done a whole lot of improvements to the car to make it more reliable including 6 pot brakes to help make it stop. I will be interested to see what times he gets around HD in. Robbie put it around in a 1.22.2, my Comet (with virtually the same brakes he just took off) 1.15.5. Its not too difficult to get the best out of what ever brakes a car has and I'm positive we could get his originals to work ok.

Still needs some more work done to it to run some fast laps.

[9lives]

Do you have a final entry list of cars that will make it there this weekend... great job on starting this class and it can only grow from here.

[nigel watts]

Hi Nigel, please accept my sincere apologies for my mistake. I wasn't sure and shouldn't have guessed.... Those photos you took of all of the 86 Nissan Mobil cars are absolutely fantastic and I applaud you for sharing them with the Roaring Season community. Cheers, Jarrod

No worries Jarrod. TRS is a great place for us to put our photos so other enthusiasts can see them too.
Cheers
Nigel