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Originally Posted by GTRMagic
1x Roadways car - the #27 VK for Grice/Bailey/Delcourt/Others.... was the same chassis that went thru the entire European campaign for Mr Small's team, rebuilt and updated with new bits developed locally in Australia during the year (and after the crashes...  )
It was always thought this car stayed in Europe but where and how is not known |
Stayed, as mentioned earlier, with ADR and was driven by Mike O'Brien in the 1987 BTCC (in VK trim) & in 1988 (updated Brock VL spec for half the season, then updated again to TWR VL spec for the end of the year). In the 1989 BTCC they followed the crowd and ran a Sierra RS500.
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Originally Posted by GTRMagic
For the 1987 WTCC series, there were 2 VLs that made it to Europe.
VL Brock - #5 Rothmans Mofffat/Harvey/Mulvihill car was an ex-HDT chassis, sold to the Moffat equipe when HDT could not afford to run it locally after splitting with Holden.
This chassis is in Melbourne, still in Rothmans colours, owned by a collector
VL Brock - #3 Mobil Brock/Parsons/Crichton car was an HDT chassis (rumoured to be an updated VK) which only did Spa '87... till the engine broke anyway.
This car made it back to Melbourne, and was the team's spare for the domestic series that year.
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Two made it to Europe for Australian teams, but where did the likes of the Serge Power Commodore's come from? Could they have purchased them of TWR (who had a brace of VK's & VL's at the start of 1987 in anticipation of a WTCC assault until Bernie stepped in)