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DJR Mustang for Sale
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XYGTReplica
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Cool. Probably have to sell the garage and the house to afford it though!
I wonder what the reserve will be for it? This is the car that Ross Donnelly owns.
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John
screw the display garage! Lakeside's fifteen minutes from my place!
http://www.motorsportretro.com/2010/06/johnson’s-‘greens-tuf’-mustang-in-shannons-motorex-sale/
Can we all pitch in lol[bw]
Can we all pitch in lol[bw]
Car61
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"Johnson was not surprised that the car is expected to fetch between $180,000 and $220,000 at auction. "
From Here: Tuf For Sale
Just add 20% to your figure Ross... & you can buy two !!! [crackup] [crackup]
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ROB17
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It doesn't explicitly state which Mustang this is, but my gut feel is that it is the one Dick campaigned during the 1985 ATTC that finished runner up to Jum Richards in the 635 Bimmer. After the August 1 homologation, Dick debuted a newer Mustang (don't think it was brand new) at the Castrol 500 at Sandown. Dick also raced this car at Bathurst that year and it was the winner of the Touring Car support race at the 1985 Adelaide Grand Prix. It also raced throughout the 1986 ATCC season.
The car going to auction has been put back into it's 1985 Bathurst 1000 livery complete with white Momo's. The only difference in livery is the white strip below "Johnson/Perkins" on the windscreen. The 17 car never ran like this, however the 18 car that Larry Perkins qualified and ran in Hardie's Heroes in 1985 did. The 18 car was later withdrawn and did not start the race.
Although it didn't have much success, the Mustang is a person favourite and both looked and sounded mean for a small block V8.
The car going to auction has been put back into it's 1985 Bathurst 1000 livery complete with white Momo's. The only difference in livery is the white strip below "Johnson/Perkins" on the windscreen. The 17 car never ran like this, however the 18 car that Larry Perkins qualified and ran in Hardie's Heroes in 1985 did. The 18 car was later withdrawn and did not start the race.
Although it didn't have much success, the Mustang is a person favourite and both looked and sounded mean for a small block V8.
4EVER17
New member
Oh! Yeah!
That would be a nice ride there Henry! especially on the new bituman.
I could handle that once a month on a Sunday.
That would be a nice ride there Henry! especially on the new bituman.
I could handle that once a month on a Sunday.
Hardies Hero
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Rob, Just looked through "The Great Race" 1985 and noticed that the 85 Mustang campaigned in the ATCC had a different nose so not sure.
ROB17
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HH, yes the 1985 ATCC car had more of a 'grille' on it but as part of the August 1 Homologation package, the Mustang received a different shaped nose as well as a slightly bigger front spoiler and some goodies for the engine. DJ only ever campaigned 2 Mustangs. The 1985 ATCC car was the white 71 car Dick and Frenchie used in practice for he 1984 James Hardie 1000.
IIRC, the white car used in practice at Bathurst in 1984, and during the 1985 ATCC was ready-ready from Zakspeed with racing history (Niedzwiz?), and the other one was a brand-spanker, but race-prepped. The initial homologation was for the 1983-spec Mustang which explained the grill and the hump in the bonnet... the actual 1984-5 Mustang had the letterbox grille we saw introduced following the August 1985 homologation upgrade which was introduced six months late due to a missed deadline. If one talks in what-ifs, imagine- given the little green car's pace during the 1985 enduros - how the 1985 ATCC may have been had the paperwork been done on time...
IIRC, the newer car was the one that went into the 1985 enduroes as #17, and the original car was used variously as the spare, or in NZ, crashed, sold to Robbie Ker.
Steve Johnson said to Col and I a couple of years ago, that the one now in the hands of the Bowdens was the later car, although it had been repainted white in the hands of Ian Love, and had been cobbled together when DJ bought it back, hence the wrong bonnet, the wrong dash, and the white paint in the cockpit.
Either car would do me, and Donnelly's car is immaculate.
A lovely little car, the spare was almost raced at Bathurst in 1985 in the hands of Allan Moffat and Michel Delcourt, when a deal was initiated on the Friday, after Moffat had thoroughly enjoyed the little car during his laps for Ch7. Larry Perkins ultimately vetoed the deal on the grounds that the exhaust system was a development one and not legal... given that it had already passed scrutineering, the more likely rationale behind LP's actions was a desire to focus the efforts on #17 (he had banned all non-essential personnel - including Ross Palmer! - from the workshop), which up until the split oil cooler at least (not to mention the wheel drama) was a Contender.
The thing handled beautifully, but another 50bhp would've transformed her.
I still remember a mate and I talking to Dick at a local show he got roped into after that Bathurst. My mate and I could not believe
that the oil cooler damaged in practice had been repaired for the race, especially as they had a complete car that could be pulled apart for perfectly good spares. We put it to Dick and he replied: "The guy who made that decision no longer works for me..."As it had been rumoured that Larry would drive the second DJR Mustang in 1986, we always had a sneaking suspicion he meant Larry.
ROB17
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Therefore it appears the Donnelly car for sale is the original 83-spec 'Klause driven' Zakspeed Mustang that competed in the 1985 ATCC, now fully restored in the 1985 Bathurst livery that was adorned on the new August 1985 spec. second DJR Mustang
ROB17
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Henry this is a fair question as I have no doubt that an August 1 spec. Mustang would have easily won the 1985 ATCC. If you review some RaceCam footage from the 1985 ATCC versus the Bathurst car, the Mustang hardly revved yet it sounded mean at the Mountain and revved much harder [drive].
ROB17
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Mid 1986 and the Mustang really started to feel the pinch in a straight-line against the Nissan Skyline's and the new-spec VK Commodore's. In the lead-up to the 1986 Bathurst, Dick and the boys did some of their own engine development and managed to extract another 50-60bhp from the Mustang which improved it dramatically, but it was still no match up and down the Mountain for the frontrunners. Unfortunately the 86 spec VK Commodore was light years better than the 85 version after it's own Homologation package. Even Richo struggled for pace in the BMW...
well, it would be in the correct #17 livery if they took the white stripe off the bottom of the windsreen sunstopper... it would be in the CAR's correct livery if they renumbered it #18...Therefore it appears the Donnelly car for sale is the original 83-spec 'Klause driven' Zakspeed Mustang that competed in the 1985 ATCC, now fully restored in the 1985 Bathurst livery that was adorned on the new August 1985 spec. second DJR Mustang
ROB17
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This is something i have always wondered and it has been well documented in a number of Motorsport publications also. Even after losing the better part of 2.5 laps after extracting the 'repaired-failed' oil cooler and another lap whilst Larry coaxed the car back to the pits from the top of Mountain Straight in all but 3 wheels, the 17 car still managed a 7th placed finish, 4 laps down. A brand new oil cooler on Saturday afternoon and a bit of luck could have seen a totally different result for DJ & LP. I consider Bathurst 1985 as one that got away [hb]My mate and I could not believe