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Greens tuf returns???
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Yes Rob it's been mentioned here. http://www.djrclub17.com.au/cm/frm/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8&whichpage=5
Don't know that the car has actually changed hands, but it will be good to see her again. Apparently, the Bowdens rate Greens-Tuf as the most complete, and best-preserved race car that had come to them, bar none.
Certainly, in all my previous visits to Emeri St, prior to the Bowden purchase, the XE got my vote as the best thing in there: however,I cannot wait to see the XD returned to the glory of her best years; she is truly one of the great race cars of Australian motor sport.
Certainly, in all my previous visits to Emeri St, prior to the Bowden purchase, the XE got my vote as the best thing in there: however,I cannot wait to see the XD returned to the glory of her best years; she is truly one of the great race cars of Australian motor sport.
IIRC Henry, after it finished it's last race at Surfers, it never turned another wheel in anger so I guess basically, it raced the 7 or 8 ATCC races in 84, 1 round of the Amscar series at Amaroo, Oran AEC, a few short laps at Sandown before she broke, 100 or so laps at Bathurst & probably 30 or 40 laps in it's last but troubled race at Surfers. Don't think it even had one scrape that year either so she should be perfectly straight also.
Certainly a far cry from the chassis Jnr has been pedalling since 2004 which has probably done 20 times as much racing as the 84 XE when you consider how much racing they do these days not to mention a few wall bangers along the way.
Even for a 1 season old chassis, she has just sooooooooooooooooo many admirers the old XE.
Certainly a far cry from the chassis Jnr has been pedalling since 2004 which has probably done 20 times as much racing as the 84 XE when you consider how much racing they do these days not to mention a few wall bangers along the way.
Even for a 1 season old chassis, she has just sooooooooooooooooo many admirers the old XE.
The only damage I recall was the smashed rh headlight on Bathurst Friday (which is why the XMO labelling is a different size on that side), when someone flicked a rock thru it...
It was certainly a little-used device when compared with the XD...
It was wheeled out for parade duties at Lakeside in 1989 IIRC, in celebration of the year that was...
It was certainly a little-used device when compared with the XD...
It was wheeled out for parade duties at Lakeside in 1989 IIRC, in celebration of the year that was...
XYGTReplica
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That would be about right Henry. Dick told us that it hadn't been driven for 18 years and that was in 2007 when the car first went to Bowdens. It has only been looked over mechanically and given a good detail and polish. The paint etc has not been touched at all. It would definitely be the most original race car in their collection.
Cheers
John
Yeah, she's a real peach... always loved hearing Dick tell the stories about the old rear crossplies popping the cords in the belts as he powered on under the old Dunlop bridge at Surfers...he reckoned she'd go "brrrp brrrp brrrp", shake like an old chook, and then the rear view mirroe would fall off the screen...
XYGTReplica
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That thing is awesome. The only reason that I didn't compare the XE to the A9X is because the A9X doesn't have the exact engine that it won bathurst with. David does have this engine, so maybe one day it will be reunited with the car. The 79 Brock / Richards Torana has a legendary following amongst all of us.
Here is food for thought, imagine how awesome it would have been if the 84 Palmer Tube Mills XE had won Bathurst that year!?[drive][dance]
Cheers
John