Steve Holmes wrote:Thanks Ellis, great work! Yes I think the Brocklehurst car must be the Jewel Green one in your list. I believe its been returned to this colour once again.
This car was featured in either NZ Driver or Classic Car magazine a year or so ago.
Was green...then white.....then green. Located in Nelson area. Another mint P3......lucky owners!!
Haga wrote:The elec blue/saddle trim P3 (who the owner told me was ex JR) was in the lower South Island.
I know the location and owners name but will not publish them here on a public forum.
The car was in great original condition and was still being used. I would not think the owner (not Tom Grace) would sell it.
I am sure Jacmac probably knows whether it is still there, without quoting names/location?
Thanks Haga Its alive and well with only approx 42K miles as of couple of years ago. I have spoken with or mainly emailed the owner on quite a few occasions over the past years. He has an interesting XU1 as well or did have last time I was in contact with him.
Many thanks to those who have posted so far. and Ditto the privacy (Haga and John) the owners of the cars deserve.
I /We dont need to know where exactly they are housed ...just their history and see some old "happy snaps" of their glory days.
Its also great to see some pics of the cars at shows or doing demo laps whether restored or in as raced condition with a few old battle scars or replacement bits/panels etc
Someone may know the GTHO by its number plate FV6314 and sponsorship from Continental Car Services Ltd on the boot.
Tim Bailey bought the car (straight from from McMillans I think) and raced it for a few meetings before selling it as a road car. The Torana parked behind it is the ex Roy Harrington XU1 owned by Ray Olenius at the time.
Steve Holmes wrote:Thanks Ellis, great work! Yes I think the Brocklehurst car must be the Jewel Green one in your list. I believe its been returned to this colour once again.
Believe that's right Steve, and it lives in top of South Island.
The most photographed ones seem to be those that raced in the 1972 Castrol GTX series, from what I can tell. There were several that raced, and they were all competitive. But by the time of the 1973 GTX series, the E49 Charger had been released, which seemed better suited to production racing on NZ circuits, and these cars pretty well cleaned up. Pretty sure the Patrick Smith car raced in the '73 season, but not '72. The Anderson car had only limited outings. I think the only regular from 1972 who also ran in '73 was Brocklehurst.
In an article on Grady for the 1991 Nissan Mobil 500 Wellington street race -Grady will be racing a stock standard GTHO in the MVDI Classic Invitation race. Thats all I know of this car, it is Bronze with Gold stripes.I do know that there was 2 Bronze wine HO’s brought to new Zealand and the other one definitely went back to Australia, it had black stripes. There were a total of 18 Bronze Wine GTHO’s made.
