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Originally Posted by Tim Wilkinson
This probably won't help any, but the info I've got is that this car went to JQF / Fina and was run for the first part of the '89 BTCC season, then passed to Stuart Donnan for a few outings in '90 and then onto Thundersaloons. I'm pretty sure the Donnan TS Sierra was ex-van Kouwen, (although there was two of them - nothing I've seen about the Donnan car mentions it being "active" like the second van Kouwen car), and I'm working on someone else's research that the Sands Crystal / CC car went to JQF for van Kouwen.
At the end of '88 it was up for sale for £60k. More than the slightly newer (reshelled) and similar (Rouse) spec CAM Shipping car of Lawrence Bristow! (which also ended up in Thundersaloons, iirc).
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Stuart Donnan's RS500 was certainly the ex Van Kouwen JQF car.
From what I rememeber from attending the JQF 'Closing Down Sale' (who were based at Easton Neston - originally the home of Hesketh), this car was complete, then there was another prepared (or semi-prepared) RS500 bodyshell.
The much talked about 'active suspension' was (again IIRC) not full active suspension, but used conventional steel springing, the active part was for the anti-roll bars. This whole package was sold (in a series of boxes!) seperately at the auction.