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Originally Posted by Jesper OH
I have heard this part of the story before, but with 13" rims on Jaguar bodies intended for the South American market! This from a Danish article about the 1983 European Touring Car Championship.
But what was the eventual course of Steve Soper being stripped of the 1983 title? My current superficial knowledge says bodywork infringements, but..
Jesper
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I've got an article and track test from a Classic Cars mag of one of the '84-season TWR XJSs (the car kept in Walkinshaw's collection and later sold to the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust) which tells pretty much the same story- TWR wanted to use the widest possible rear tyres, but the rules said they had to be within the original bodywork. According to Don Law, the Jaguar specialist who maintained the car for the JDHT at the time (2004)
'they moved the chassis rails in an inch. Jaguar produced drawings that showed that for off-road specifications in Africa, there was an XJS with wider inner wheelarches, but with less boot space. It's all b******* of course'