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From the 1985 Bathurst annual:
'The Roadways team, run by former Grice mechanic Les Small for Tasmanian road-surfacing company owner and racing enthusiast Ian Harrington actually ceased at the end of 1984. In it's place was Roadways Racing Services,a company co-owned by Small and Harrington, which had to pay it's way in 1985. That it did by taking in a lot of race preparation and car construction business from other teams starting out in Group A.
For 1985, the new Roadways operation took the practical step of joining forces with Warren Cullen's nearby K-Mart racing operation. Cullen was at a loss about Group A in the long-term, but saw the short-term benefit of joining forces, ensuring that a good car would be built and getting a co-drive with Grice...
...A large proportion of Small's time prior to Bathurst was building and rebuilding cars and building race engines for other people...That put the new operation in direct competition with the HDT which offered to supply part or fully built-up Commodores to privateers.....The Roadways customers [at Bathurst] were Tony Kavich in Commodore No25 and NZ duo Graeme Bowkett/Wayne Wilkinson in Commodore No39. Peter McLeod in car No4 used Les Small engines
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