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Old 16 Jan 2005, 10:13 (Ref:1202079)   #35
Camaroz
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Camaroz should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
84 MHDT VK's. Someone is playing with the truth here. All records of the time say that the 05 VK donated to the museum was the actual race car. I have even heard that Holden paid for it to be donated but that is just a rumour. Stories that they swapped the doors on the cars is a bit farscial because there has been no mention of the roof number being changed. Again stories that the rear view mirror on the Bathurst museum car is not the way the 05 car ran at Bathurst doesn't swing because the 25 car didn't run a VK type rear view mirror either! Who lied to the Bathurst museum?
Farrell ran the 25 MHDT VK in WA as number 52 (wonder why not 50?)! Was this his favorite number or just the 25 number reversed? In all the articles about Clelland getting the VK in the UK, there have been no references to it being an ex-Bathurst winner! 'Champion Mining' logo's appear on the front guards of some Team Brock cars.

Unless someone owns up to dudding the Bathurst Museum, 05 is in Bathurst, 25 is in Mt Isa.

Roadways VK. Converted to Group A as Yokohama test car then sold to Tony Kavich and run as Yellow Pages car. Currently in private hands awaiting resto to Group C. Cullen VK Group C was converted to Group A and was the car the crashed with Grice on board up the top when Grice got involved in John Lusty's crash.

There were only 3 Group C cars converted to Group A. Roadways VK, Cullens VK and Keoghs (originally MHDT VC) VH.

This is a list I got hold of a couple of years ago.

Of the seven Marlboro HDT Commodores built, at this stage only five can be accounted for. As follows,

Car 1. 1980 VB/VC.
1980 VB, Brock ATTC (1st)
1980 VB, Endurance Champs, Adelaide – Harvey (2nd),
VC, Sandown – Moffat (3rd) Bathurst - Harvey/Harrop (DNF)
1981 ATCC Benson-Brown and Larry Perkins.
1981 Benson-Brown/Rogers Bathurst (4th)
Car in 81 ‘Big’ Bathurst Crash. Rebuilt*.
(*some suggestion re-bodied but not from reliable source or can be substantiated)
1982 Benson-Brown – Some ATCC.
1982 Benson-Brown/Charlie O’Brien. Bathurst.
1983 Benson-Brown/Garry Rogers – Some ATCC
1983 Benson-Brown/Garry Rogers Bathurst.
1984 Purchased by Jim Keogh. 2nd Northern Territory/FoxFM Car
1984 Sandown. Wayne Clift/Bernie Stack/Jim Keogh.
1984 Bathurst. Wayne Clift/Bernie Stack.
1984. Sold as Roller. Whereabouts unknown at this stage.

Car 2. 1980 VB/VC.
1980 VB, Endurance Champs, Adelaide - Brock (1st)
VC, Sandown – Brock (1st) Bathurst – Brock/Richards (1st).
1981 Brock ATCC. (2nd)
1981 Endurance Champs, Adelaide – Harvey (2nd), CRC 300, Amaroo Park – Brock/Harvey (1st), Sandown - Harvey/Schuppan (4th) Bathurst – Harvey/Schuppan (crashed)
1983 VH, Keogh ATCC, AMSCAR, Endurance Champs,
1983 Bathurst – Keogh/Leonard (6th).
1984 VH, Keogh ATCC, AMSCAR, Endurance Champs,
1984 Bathurst – Keogh/Shiel (DNF).
1985 VK Grp A. Keogh most ATCC Rounds.
1985 VK Grp A, Ellis/McClure. Sandown and Bathurst (DNF).
1986 VK Grp A, Ellis. Selected ATCC Rounds.
1986 VK Grp A, Ellis/Baily, Sandown (DNF) and Bathurst (16th)
1987 VK Grp A. Ellis. Selected ATCC Rounds.
(Last race, ATCC – Sandown June 7th 1987, DNF)
1987 – 2003. Storage
2003 Restoration started back to VC 1980 Group C Spec.

Car 3. 1981 VC/VH.
1981 VC, Endurance Champs, Adelaide – Brock (1st)
Sandown – Brock (1st) Bathurst - Brock/Richards (22nd) Surfers Paradise* – Brock (2nd).
* Brock first across the line but penalised 1 min for push start.
1982 Brock ATTC (5th), Brock & Harvey Selected AMSCAR Races.
1982 CRC 300, Amaroo Park – Perkins/Scott (4th)
1982 VH, Endurance Champs. Sandown - Harvey/Scott (4th) Bathurst – Harvey/Scott (3rd)
1983 (?) VH Show Car
1984 Lusty Family. ATCC, Endurance Champs, Bathurst.
1985 (Sold to southern NSW as rolling chassis, whereabouts unknown at this stage)

Car 4. 1982 VH.
1982 Endurance Champs, Sandown – Brock (DNF)
Bathurst – Brock/Perkins (1st) Adelaide – Brock (2nd)
1983 Brock ATTC (3rd)
1983 Endurance Champs, Amaroo Park – Brock/Perkins (2nd) Sandown – Harvey/(Phil Brock)/Brock. (3rd – Disq)
1983 Harvey/Brock/Perkins (Phil Brock) Bathurst (1st)
1983 Endurance Champs. Adelaide - Harris/Cooke (5th)
1984 Harris, ATCC, Endurance Champs.
1985 Wayne Clift.
2002 Peter Champion

Car 5. 1983 VH
1983 Endurance Champs, Sandown - Brock/Perkins (DNF) Bathurst - Brock/Perkins (DNF) Adelaide – Brock (1st)
1984 Brock ATTC* (2nd)
*Harvey subbed for Brock at Surfers Paradise and Lakeside rounds.
1984 Endurance Champs, Amaroo Park – Brock (DNF, Crash) Oran Park – Harvey/Parsons (DNF)
“Watson’s Display Car” (TBC).
2003 Peter Champion.

Car 6. 1984 VK
1984 Endurance Champs, Sandown Brock/Perkins (1st) Bathurst - Brock/Perkins (1st) Surfers Paradise - Brock, (1st), Calder AGP Supports – Brock (2nd)
1985 Donated to the Bathurst Museum

Car 7. 1984 VK
1984 Endurance Champs, Sandown - Harvey/Parsons (3rd)
Bathurst - Harvey/Parsons (2nd) Surfers Paradise – Harvey (6th), Calder AGP Supports – Harvey (4th).
1985 Farrell (WA) and then the UK
2001 Willy Van Wersch (Benalla)
2002 Peter Champion.

Any further info out there?
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