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Old 13 Jun 2002, 12:28 (Ref:312566)   #10
William Dale Jr
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William Dale Jr should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
Life-Like released a set of cars a few years ago, IIRC they included the 2 Shell-FAI Falcon of Johnson and Bowe, Max Dumsney's Valvoline Falcon, Larkham's Mitre 10 Falcon, the Alcair Commodore, Kevin Heffernan's Commodore, the 2 Coke Commodores of Gardner and Crompton and several others that I can't remember. They also made the 2 HRT cars from 1997 and put them in a set. The body styles were inaccurate; the Commodores had Chevy Monte Carlo NASCAR bodies, and the Falcons had Ford T-Bird NASCAR bodies.

At around the same time, Scalextric released the Dick Johnson sets, and, from memory, they made the two DJR cars and Phil Ward's Nokia Commodore. They both had Ford Mondeo bodies.

A few years before that, the Peter Brock 'Bathurst 1000' set was made by Tomy AFX. They released 2 real V8's which were Peter Brock's Mobil Commodore VP (of course) and Larry Perkins' Castrol Commodore. Both cars had Nissan GTR bodies

Before that, Scalextric had Dick Johnson's Shell Sierra and Peter Brock's Mobil Sierra. They also made John Bowe's Sierra, but it was yellow instead of red!?! Around the same time, they released a Thunderdome set that included Dick Johnson's Redkote T-Bird NASCAR and the #22 Bob Jane T-Marts Pontiac NASCAR that Andy Miedecke once tested. Both cars had Chevy Corvette bodies.

Pre-dating even those, Scalextric released a Bathurst set with Brock's Holden Dealer Team Commodore and Johnson's Greens-Tuf Mustang. Both cars had Ford Escort XR3i bodies...

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