Regarding Charlie O'Brien's ex-Sytner car that came to Australia:
This is from the book "BATHURST 1985/86";
"No. 22, the only righthand drive BMW in the field, was brought to Australia just before the running of the Castrol 500. Co-owned by former HDT driver Charlie O'Brien, and London-based Australian businessman/race patron Erle McRae, who were closely linked linked in O'Brien's Pacific open-wheeler days, this car was a Schnitzer replica campaigned for BMW GB in the 1984 British Saloon Car Championship and some rounds of the European Touring Car Championship by British touring car ace Frank Sytner.
Gold Coast based O'Brien had the car rebuilt for Australia by it;s usual British preparer, Ted Grace International, who lent the McRae/O'Brien team one of his British mechanics for Bathurst....."
The Castrol 500 at Sandown is held in September, which fits in with this quote earlier about the car coming to Australia after the '85 TT.
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Originally Posted by KA
...and the second goes to Charlie O'Brien in Australia- presumably post-TT, but in time for Bathurst.
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Also running at Bathurst in 1985 was an ex-Schnitzer 1984 car owned then (and now) by Simon Emmerling. He still races the car today, only it has a V8 engine in the front...............