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Originally Posted by Jesper OH
Would that have made the Johnson-Mustang blue? From the early 1986 Wellington 500 highligt video I remember a blue Ford Escort RS1600i - production car by the look of the wheels - in what I remember as John Andrew Ford sponsorship.
A John Andrew ex-Ruedi Eggenberger Ford Sierra XR4Ti made about half the 1987 ATCC rounds in the hands of both Chricton and Denny Hulme. I think that particular car made its southern debut at Wellington in early 1987, Steve Soper co-driving.
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There's a blue RS1600i pictured in the Nissan-Mobil 500 chapter of the '86 Bathurst annual- IIRC it's described as a production car.
The Wellington result includes 4 RS1600is:
#35 Phil Mhyre/Graham Lorimer- finished 11th
#48 Jim Clark/Paul Mabee- DNF
#64 Andrew Bagnall/Paul Radisich- DNF
#84 Chris Toms/Rex Rattenbury- DNF
We looked at these in the RS1600i thread- I don't have the Bathurst book to hand, but the #35 car was blue, sponsored by Lakeland Ford.
Apparently, the other 3 were all ex-BTCC Group A cars of Richard Longman origin-
#48 ex-Alan Curnow Datapost car, (resprayed yellow),
#64 ex-Richard Belcher John Jeffeys Engineering car (still in the red/blue/white Jeffreys colours)
#84 an ex-Longman/Curnow Datapost car, (still in Datapost red- now back in the UK, see pics in the RS1600i thread)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8021817...7606882601980/
There are more pics from the 1986 Nissan-Mobil races in that Flickr set.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8021817...th/2788592820/