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Originally Posted by KA
There definitely were two VLs in 1987, as one of the pics on this link will show...
http://tentenths.com/forum/showpost....&postcount=124
As you say, presumably one of these became the UK-built 1988-spec 'batmobile' for Birmingham, the TT and Bathurst- but what happened to the other?
Going back to the 1987 TWR Holden(s), there was also a 2-car TWR entry supposedly placed for the BTCC round at the British GP at Silverstone in July (Commodore for Walkinshaw and one of the '86 Rovers for Jeff Allam), however this didn't show, as they took the VL to the Nurburgring WTCC round that weekend instead- the Autosport report of the GP support entries printed the previous week hinted that the Nurburgring appearance was a possibility (The headline was 'What's Tom up to now...?')
I quoted the report earlier in the thread here:
http://tentenths.com/forum/showthrea...te#post2673593
It was illustrated with a pic that confuses the issue even further- a testing shot of a plain white VK with a TWR logo on the windscreen sunstrip.
That raises a whole series of questions- where did this VK test hack come from?, was it presumably updated to become one of the pair of 1987 VLs? and what happened to it next? |
the herbie clips chassis that my friend has purchased is still in 1989 HRT colours it was purchased by its previous owner straight from Win Percy in the early 90's has all the European wiring in it and all of the herbie clips colours are still evident in the dry break filler holes in the boot lid from it previous non walkinshaw kitted days. The interesting part is that this car was the VK, it has VK chassis # and captive nuts in the windscreen pillars, the only confusing thing is that the floor pan is VL, there in the hump in the floor on the passenger side, this was introduced on VL due to the road cars having a cat converter for unleaded fuel. Can anyone shed some light on this vehicles VK history