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Old 17 Sep 2011, 12:32 (Ref:2956839)   #35
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Unless we did it in another thread, we seem to have stopped short of looking at the two Nissan-Mobil races at Wellington and Pukekohe- though Jesper linked some Youtube video a page or so back, and there have been a few mentions through the thread. Results are on Frank de Jong's site, but incomplete- particularly for Pukekohe.

The Nissan-Mobil series is interesting because it's the last series contested purely by the 'old-school' Group A cars before the Sierra Cosworths and M3s arrived- particularly the Jaguar XJS, as TWR brought the big cat out of retirement for a last tour of duty, taking in the Fuji race in Japan and the two NZ races (running under a dispensation in NZ, as the homologation expired a few weeks earlier)

Found a few pics on 'The Roaring Season' forum and dug out the 1987 Bathurst annual to get an idea of the entry.

To kick off with TWR, two cars appeared at Wellington (Walkinshaw/Percy and Hahne/Hulme) sponsored by Strathmore Group- neither finished at Wellington, and just a single car for Hahne/Percy at Pukekohe- IIRC one car was shunted at Wellington?
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/q...PercyHahne.jpg

The main BMW entries were 635-mounted; the black Archibalds car for Trevor Crowe and Jim Richards
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/q...weRichards.jpg

and a pair from Charlie O'Brien
the State Coal car for O'Brien & Glenn McIntyre
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/q...tyreObrien.jpg
..and a second car leased to Christchurch drivers Allan Milligan and Avon Hyde
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/q...nMilliganb.jpg

Nissan were represented by the Nissan NZ cars of Kent Baigent and Graeme Bowkett (although I think they only raced one of their two cars) and one of the Australian Peter Jackson cars made the trip for Fury/Seton
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/q...entBowkett.jpg
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/q.../FurySeton.jpg

The Ford presence was a mixture of Sierras and Mustangs. The Sierras, a pair of XR4Tis- Neville Crichton had imported a 1986 Eggenberger car and Steve Soper
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/q...htonSierra.jpg
while Andrew Miedecke and Michael Hall leased the ex-Andy Rouse car that had gone to NZ at the end of '85
The main Mustang entries were the ex-Dick Johnson car of Robbie Ker, joined by Johnson- although this would be out of contention before the action started, getting caught up in a someone else's shunt during second practice at Wellington...
http://tentenths.com/forum/showpost....postcount=3407
The Anderson Brothers seem to have had two Pinepac cars, Anderson/Francevic and Anderson/Robertson
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/q...ustang32sm.jpg
http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/q...ustang33-1.jpg

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