Help Required Info on BOB JONES Ampol Max 3 walkinshaw 1992

[groupnxu1]

Looking for any information anyone has on photo's, history, etc on the Bob Jones Ampol Max 3 Walkinshaw, The current owner is going through the
Certificate of description process for Historic Group A at the moment.

The car started life as the 2nd Beaurepairs Chris Lamden car and had all the
parts transfered into it out of the Bathurst winning Brock car from 1987 after
the upgraded Bathurst winner was crashed.

any info, photo's, etc between 1989 and 1992 of the car as the log book with the car is the continuation book and only has its 1992 history in it.

thanks in advance

[GTRMagic]

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[Tourer]

Be worth calling Bob himself.

He's very easy to get on with.

Probably best to call his company - Re-car in Mulgrave (or thereabouts) and ask for him - he loves talking race cars.

He's pretty busy (Re-car have quite a few branches) so he may have to talk to you out of hours but he is very approachable.

[GTRMagic]

Or see him at the Phillip Island round... when son Robbie runs his Commodore in the development series

[PE 030]

Having owned the car for a few years and looked into the requirements of the COD there shouldn't be too much that is not correct for the 1992 spec.

Items that come to mind -

- Remove the 'fat' crank.
- Replace the HRT spec Morrison manifold with a Larry slide manifold.
- Replace the M48 Sequential ECU with the earlier Group fired ECU.
- Remove the Accusump.
- Stand the Radiator back up
- Install correct air intake.


Once done should all be fairly close and I did spend a lot of time chasing the history including speaking to Bob Jones on numerous occasions.

Hope this helps.

Cheers Mark

[kosher_pig]

Bob Jones.....only driver to run a Group A touring car in the Winton 24 hr race and received the EPA award....The blackboard his car number was displayed on for being too noisy during the event esp at night.

[groupnxu1]

Thanks so far for the posts above.


The owner of the car spoke with Bob today and also spoke with Chris Lamden yesterday,both very helpful gentleman.


any other info that the general public have would be great.

[Matt H]

Originally Posted by GTRMagic

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great pics of the vp, shame he is after the vl

[GTRMagic]

Originally Posted by Matt H

great pics of the vp, shame he is after the vl

If that's a VP I'll eat my hat... it is clearly a VL TWR even if the description beside it suggests it is a VP.....

[pete60]

Your hat is perfectly safe GTR..a VL it is. And I would think Captain Peter Janson would not be amused to be shown as "Jenson"...

[Suttory]

Originally Posted by pete60

Your hat is perfectly safe GTR..a VL it is. And I would think Captain Peter Janson would not be amused to be shown as "Jenson"...

Their just making sure no one copy and pastes the title

[rogered]

i have a couple, somewhere, of the car at manfield nz around 1990. drivers on the day were bob jones and robbie kerr. if i am talking about the same car let me know. i will dig out and post the photos.

[pete60]

That may be a different car. Jones also had a Perkins built VL (Ex Noske?) which I think was run by Ker at Bathurst in green Tic Tac colours..