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Originally Posted by Kingair
In issue 133 of Australian Muscle Car, there is an article on the birth of Supercars back in 1992 and the politics involved at the time.
It was a wonder that the Confederation against Motorsport, didn’t go with everyone having to run Russian Lada’s running Leyland V8’s
They make mention of the DJR Falcon EB, that had been built for Bathurst 1992 and then scrapped by the team.
Seemed to be an expensive exercise to scrap a race car?
Was it sold off an ran as a Sports Sedan, or sold to some punter as a road car?
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It was actually banned. There is an account of the car history and story, based on info in Aaron Noonan's book detailing every DJR car built.
It seems it was never scrapped as such, and spent much of its life as a show car, before nearly 15 years later heading to a club racer in WA where it indeed finally became a Sports Sedan.
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EB1 was used as a show car throughout the life of the E series Falcon in Supercars, with panel conversions to EF and then EL spec.
Years later the car was sold to a club racer in Western Australia, which led to it finally making its racing debut as a sports sedan in 2006.
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The article, titled "The banned DJR Falcon" explains how....
"Dick Johnson Racing once built a V8 Falcon touring car that was banned before it could turn a single racing lap."
Full article, with a pic of the car:
https://au.motorsport.com/v8supercar...n-eb1/4801665/