Perkins Engineering Chassis Histories... A Detailed Review

[groupnxu1]

Originally Posted by William Dale Jr

Fantastic work, Anthony!

On PE004, I have Lansvale using the car for the final AMSCAR round, Bathurst and the Nissan 500 at the Creek. I don't have full footage or results of the AGP support races, but from what I do have, I didn't see the car there.

On PE006, so did Jones use this as his primary car for 1990 onwards, or did he alternate between it and the second Lambden VL? It makes sense that he would stick with PE006. In that case, would the #31 Tic-Tac Commodore from Bathurst 1992 be the Lambden VL?

I think you will find that PE 006 was the Tic Tac car, The second Lambden VL (Beaurepairs) became the Ampol Max car, Bob sold the car after he upgraded to the VP ( ex renter car shell) The Ampol Max VL was sold to a club racer by the name of Noel and wound up in the hands of Steve Tate (son of Ian) after Noels passing. It then changed hands to Milton Seferis and once again was sold to Mark the current owner of Larry's 1997 Bathurst winner, Mark sold the VL mid last year to another Melbourne Collector who is now in the process of getting it ready for Historic's.

This shell is not PE 006

[pete60]

Originally Posted by groupnxu1

I think you will find that PE 006 was the Tic Tac car,

I think this must be correct. I recall seeing the ex Tic Tac car on the Gold Coast in 93 or 94....the name Mike Twigden rings a bell here. I remember the car had the trademark Perkins switch tower in it.

[Group'C']

[QUOTE=groupnxu1]I think you will find that PE 006 was the Tic Tac car, The second Lambden VL (Beaurepairs) became the Ampol Max car, Bob sold the car after he upgraded to the VP ( ex renter car shell)

were does the (ex renter car shell) story come from groupnxu1?
I was told by Bob that he was doing all the paint work for Advantage and he did a deal on the third car they were building before Dencar had finished it. He then got the shell and built the rest of it.

[Noonz1]

GrpNXU1, would you presume that the Suharto VN that is now in Mobil colours was actually used by Brock in 1992 in Advantage Racing rather than in 1991? Is that feasible?

[Camaroz]

I was at Mal Rose's workshop today and checked the Chassis #'s. Mal has PE 20 and PE 21. He also has a Dencar Commodore (ex-Pinnacle) and the last Longhurst EL.

[GTRMagic]

Is the Longhurst EL the ex-Holt/ex-Willmington car?

Is the Longhurst EL the ex-Holt/ex-Willmington car?

Since Willmington is still racing it in the TCC, I don't think so!

[pete60]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

Is the Longhurst EL the ex-Holt/ex-Willmington car?

No it's the ex Jones Komatsu car later raced by Alan Heath and then John Scotcher.

[pete60]

Originally Posted by Camaroz

I was at Mal Rose's workshop today and checked the Chassis #'s. Mal has PE 20 and PE 21. He also has a Dencar Commodore (ex-Pinnacle) and the last Longhurst EL.

PE021 must be the original Diet Coke car crashed by Morris ( sold to Clive Wiseman and finished up in the hands of Tony Evangelou) as opposed to the repacement Diet Coke chassis (PE024) which was run by the Alcair team for while.

Is this right? Does anyone know where PE024 is these days?

[Noonz1]

pete60 - you are right - I spoke with ric shaw recently and he told me that PE 024 was destroyed after it was used to get parts for the VS the late Bob Tindal built for him in 2001.

[ndp286]

Might have missed something but I thought a Jagparts car in the late 80,s early 90's was a larry perking car.

[Vanilla Dice]

Does Perkins Engineering even exist any more? Or does the ex-Mrs Perkins now own it?

They seem destined to become but a memory very very soon...

[Group'C']

have you got anything itelligent to say VD

[Beatcha]

There is a car for sale on My 105 and it claims to be No 18 Perkins built, any ideas on this car, it is in WA.

[GTRMagic]

Originally Posted by Beatcha

There is a car for sale on My 105 and it claims to be No 18 Perkins built, any ideas on this car, it is in WA.

Originally Posted by anthony81901

PE018 VP 07/93. Debuted at Waneroo round of 93 ATCC by Ian Love, who raced it until 95. Raced by Shaun Walker in 96/97, being upgraded to VR specs along the way. Sold to Mike Imrie in 99 who raced it until debuting a VT at Bathurst 00. Raced at Bathurst Konica round in 01 by Dean Croswell, before being sold to Shane Beikhoff to race in the Konicas in 02 and 03.

It seems to be the ex-Beikoff car... which was ex-Perkins... well kinda.. LP's mob built the shell.. not sure if they made all the underpinnings currently in the vehicle...

[GTRMagic]

Originally Posted by Vanilla Dice

Does Perkins Engineering even exist any more? Or does the ex-Mrs Perkins now own it?

They seem destined to become but a memory very very soon...

Scary that based on the noise around at the moment in the press, Vanilla Dice may actually be correct on this one

[alanhp]

perkins chasis numbers of the 002 and 003 are reversed as the second VK was built after the Vl

[John Turner]

Alan, well done for digging this one out. A great piece of work by the original poster, Anthony, and an excellent candidate for the Chassis Archive. I have copied it across to there with a couple of posts deleted:-

http://tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=100520

Some pictures to go with some of the chasss nos. would be good.

[TWR VL]

Can anyone tell me where the Perkins chassis numbers were stamped or marked?
I believe I have finally identified the Walkinshaw spec chassis I have as being PE008 only I have found other numbers and markings all over the vehicle and most of the parts that came with it.
I have found numbers on the chassis ranging from:
PE 989008
PE 9.89.008
PER 989008
PER 9.89.008
PE 8
PER 8
08
8
Those sort of markings throughout the vehicle.
Every part is marked in some way.
The problem I have now is not which car it is but which number would have been recorded on the log book with CAMS.
When I called CAMS Keith said to send him all the numbers but if I can find the actual spot for the chassis number then I will know which number Perkins used for the log book.
Can anyone help?