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Originally Posted by norrgard
This is the one I raced in 1998-2001...'ish. But it was also powered by a 13B PP, so certainly not traditionally Nissan.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/norrgar...7616971349427/
(check out the dork in the photo)
http://nmd.com.au/nmd/news/category/TinTops
I sold it to Brian Nightingale's son a few years ago, last I heard someone rang me saying they bought it from them and he was putting a Nissan engine back in for under 2L, haven't seen it since. If anyone has I would love to hear.
Vern |
Quote:
Originally Posted by norrgard
This is the one I raced in 1998-2001...'ish. But it was also powered by a 13B PP, so certainly not traditionally Nissan.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/norrgar...7616971349427/
(check out the dork in the photo)
http://nmd.com.au/nmd/news/category/TinTops
I sold it to Brian Nightingale's son a few years ago, last I heard someone rang me saying they bought it from them and he was putting a Nissan engine back in for under 2L, haven't seen it since. If anyone has I would love to hear.
Vern |
Hi all, my apologies for the epic forum bump. However, the car mentioned above is the car my father (Peter Cooke) built in the summer of 92/93. Dad built it as a reshell of his previous Escort rotary sports sedan with the view to building a better mouse trap. He was inspired to build a 120 Y after running in the 92 Eastern Creek 6 hour relay race with Bill Nabhan (RX3) and Silvestro Severi (spelling?) who was running a rotary 120Y sports sedan. I am unsure if this was the ex Mike Griffin car but could have been.
Dad bought two 120y's for $150 combined. My younger brother and I drove the car that eventually became the race car until it ran out of petrol around the car park at Dad's work in Thew Parade Dee Why West (where Brian Potts, Mike Dwyer and Tony Mulvuhill had there workshops at the time). The car was then built up into a sports sedan. It was always left hand drive as Dad wanted to sit on the other side of the car to where the exhaust ran due to the heat as it was built to compete in 6 hour relay races. (the Esort was also left hand drive for the same reason). The car was built by Dad and his mates including ex Tony Mulvuhill head mechanic Geoff Cordell who built the motor. The car was run in a variety of super sprints, state level sports sedan races, national level sports sedan races (support races for the touring cars) and 6 hour relay races at Eastern Creek. Dad was part of the outright winning team 3 or 4 times with Bill Nabhan and others. I believe his best lap times at Eastern Creek were low 1 min 40's. Something like 1 min 8's at Wakefield when it had the original tighter fishhook in the infield. I am unsure if it ever ran at Amaroo but the Escort did 55 sec's there.
Dad sold the car around 1998. We would love to know if it still exists and in what form. I'd love to see it on the track again. I would be partial to owning it if the price was right.
Does anyone know of its current whereabouts?
Regards,
Michael Cooke