brocks 1975 Sampson/Brock Torana

[Tubby]

Could someone let me know the history of the 1975 Brock/Sampson Torana.
How many races it had and the history after Bathurst.

[Group'C']

The car won the big 3 Races, Sandown, Bathurst and Phillip Island
The Gown/Hindhaugh L34 first ATCC race was Symmons plains unsure if the car had run before this.

Brock ran the car at Baskerville in dec/75 and then Bruce Hindaugh ran it there in Febuary.Bruce ran it in a few rounds of the 76 ATCC

The car was then sold to Roger Stanley A pub owner from Hobart, He ran it a couple of times in Tassie and had intentions of running on the mainland but unsure if he ever did.

The car was road registered and was sold to a speedway driver in the north of the state and was crashed into a tree and written off.

[Tubby]

Thanks for the info, now I know a little more on this missing torana.

[racer69]

Brock used the car during the ATCC that year as well did he not, running the #1, using various skightly different liveries during the year.

The Sandown enduro win was also the first time he ran number .05

[MalcolmC]

It seems the Torana had a New Zealand holiday after its Bathurst win.
The following photo is from a postcard for the Manfeild circuit that I've had for a while:
http://i1179.photobucket.com/albums/.../Brock-L34.jpg

... and I've just stumbled across this article in a Jan'76 Manfeild race programme which reminded me of the postcard:
http://i1179.photobucket.com/albums/...ion-Travel.jpg

Since the car was back in Australia by December '75 it must have been a short trip. I had wondered if it was brought over for publicity reasons, perhaps visiting a few Holden dealerships with a ride-day at Manfeild, but the article says the car was raced.

I wonder if Mr Tander will have his V8 Supercar at Manfeild next weekend.

Malcolm.