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Originally Posted by chunterer
Mark great story thanks for posting.
I assume you plan to do the Historic GrpC/GrpA series this year?
Peggen has has a similar car now doesn't he? Sure he was talking about racing it in a suitable European series.
Trouble is the only one at the moment is the Peter Auto Historic series which features Ulf Granberg's Luna car.
Or he could do the MRL Historic Touring Car Trophy in the UK as I believe it was a 1985 build.
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Yes 'Chunterer' I am planning on racing the car both here and in Australia in Historic racing events that have GpA categories. My first event is on the 5/6 February next, at the biggest of these NZ event's, The SKOPE meeting at Christchurch's Ruapuna Park raceway. The Historic circus will then travel to Invercargill's famous Teretonga Circuit 2 weeks later, which is a favourite of mine, so really looking forward to these two weekend's.
The plan is then to do the Muscle Car Masters at the end of October at Sydney's Eastern Creek raceway, with John Bowe and Alfi Costanzo as the principle drivers.
I would also like to take the car back to Sweden in 2017 and do something in Europe with Ulf and Peggen, and maybe Gianfranco Brancatelli, who will also drive my car at the two NZ events as a guest drive.
Peggen and Ulf are both keen on building up new-old GpA 240T car's for the European and British Historic races, and I believe that there is a extensive rebuild of one of the genuine historic cars happening in Britain right now, with racing in mind also.
I can see were Peggen and Ulf are coming from because the genuine historic cars with great history are very expensive and almost to risky to race, but here in NZ and in Australia, replica racing is not popular and has little credibility because most if not all of these cars are modified beyond their "period" and as such have no residual value.
I will post some pictures on here after my first race meeting, but will need some help as I have never ben able to work out how one does that with any ease, its not like Facebook, which is all very logical, but never the less I will try.