They were, Sandown was the VK model's debut in Group C motor racing (they would only be eligible for 5 races)
Jim Keogh's Commodore was converted to Group A for 1985 (in time for rd2 of the 1985 ATCC), the JPS BMW driven by Richards/Longhurst was converted to Group A for 1985 (Keogh bought it for the '85 enduros) as well
Some of the dolomites were converted to Group A specs, running in 1985 in the ATCC, and Sandown, and also at the AGP. Isuzu Gemini's raced in the ATCC as late as 1988.
The Capri's had been racing in Australia since the mid-70s, and for years dominated the Sun 7 under 3-litre series at Amaroo Park (the pre-curser to the AMSCAR Series)
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| Pos. | Class | No. | Drivers (state) | Entrant | Class | Car | Grid | | Time | FL | Laps | Time | Notes | | 2. | 2. | 43 | Allan Moffat (Vic.)/Gregg Hansford (Vic.) | Peter Stuyvesant International Racing | Gr. C/+3000 cc | Mazda RX-7 | 5. | 5. | 1:47,5 | | 128 | | New car for the race |
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As per this post in the Australian section
http://tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123867
The Mazda used at Sandown was not a new car, its history dated back to 1982 Castrol 400
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Do you have any idea of what kind of time frame the Network team and Autodelta had for the conversion? Sandown was the second weekend of September and the Group E series had presumably ended some time before.
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I'd only be guessing, but the timeframe would have been somewhere between the Silastic 300 at Amaroo (traditionally early August, sometimes the same weekend as Spa) and the Sandown 500 for conversion
I say this because the two main Group E series in 1984 was the popular and well-televised Stallion Stables/2WS Series at Amaroo, and the Calder/Adelaide Group E Super Series, which all the big names ran in. There would definatly have been a Group E support race for the Silastic 300, it would have been the last round of the series, and one assumes Bond would have run in it.