VK Group A Touring cars where are they?

vkracer · 19 Oct 2006, 12:22 (Ref:1742055)

Does anybody know of the whereabouts of any VK Group A touring cars

VK that i have accounted for so far are:

Tony Kavich, Yellow Pages 85-87
Ray Smith Gold Bullion 85, Crosby 86
Gerald Kay, Jagparts 85-89
Steve Masterton, Masterton homes 85, Fred Giesler 86
Tony Mulverhill 85,86,87
Steve Williams Holton Spares, 87 -88
Larry Perkins Enzed 87
Brock/moffat 86 bathurst
T car bathurst HDT 1985 ?, Graham Moore 86-87
05 HDT Bathurst 1985,
Peter Mcleod 85-86

Can anybody ad to this list?

Sultan · 19 Oct 2006, 22:39 (Ref:1742523)

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Originally Posted by vkracer

Does anybody know of the whereabouts of any VK Group A touring cars

VK that i have accounted for so far are:

Tony Kavich, Yellow Pages 85-87
Ray Smith Gold Bullion 85, Crosby 86
Gerald Kay, Jagparts 85-89
Steve Masterton, Masterton homes 85, Fred Giesler 86
Tony Mulverhill 85,86,87
Steve Williams Holton Spares, 87 -88
Larry Perkins Enzed 87
Brock/moffat 86 bathurst
T car bathurst HDT 1985 ?, Graham Moore 86-87
05 HDT Bathurst 1985,
Peter Mcleod 85-86

Can anybody ad to this list?

The Masterton car is still around, running in Gp A spec,

The Mulvihill car was converted to VL Walkinshaw specs, but was recently converted back to '86 specs & for sale,

The McLeod car was another converted to Walkinshaw spec, not sure what happened to it though...

IIRC the 05 '86 HDT car became the VL that Gary Scott wrote off at Lakeside in '87.

Was the Kavich car was repaired after its '88 Bathurst practice crash (I think), not sure where it went after that.

ALSO ADD, the fastest ever Gp A VK, the Grice/Baily Chickadee car. Grice 'borrowed' it fro a few races in '87 with Bob Jane sponsorship, then may have done a few local sports sedan meets. It's still owned by Graham Bailey & thankfully restored to it's former glory.

FalconEL · 19 Oct 2006, 23:06 (Ref:1742538)

The ex-Graham Hooley VK (I think this was also a Les Small built car - circa 1986) is in Sports Sedan spec in Brisbane, but would be easily converted back to original.

Sultan · 20 Oct 2006, 00:05 (Ref:1742571)

That's right Falc, it didn't do many races in it's original spec.

Also other VK's - remember the Lester Smerdon GP C/GP A hybrid from '84?

BlueMax · 20 Oct 2006, 00:19 (Ref:1742580)

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Originally Posted by vkracer

Does anybody know of the whereabouts of any VK Group A touring cars

VK that i have accounted for so far are:

Ray Smith Gold Bullion 85, Crosby 86

Where is this car now VKRACER. Wasn't this looked after by the stones when Crosby ran it.

Sultan · 20 Oct 2006, 10:10 (Ref:1742983)

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Originally Posted by BlueMax

Where is this car now VKRACER. Wasn't this looked after by the stones when Crosby ran it.

I thought Les Small prepared it...

Henry · 20 Oct 2006, 10:29 (Ref:1742998)

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Originally Posted by Sultan

I thought Les Small prepared it...

LP built it, didn't he?

vkracer · 20 Oct 2006, 11:14 (Ref:1743048)

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Originally Posted by BlueMax

Where is this car now VKRACER. Wasn't this looked after by the stones when Crosby ran it.

Car resides in melbourne, Yes the Stone Bros did look after the car when Croz campained it, was restored back to Bob Jane colours in 1991-92 by my dad and then sold, i purchased it back in 1997 and sold it to it's current owner in 2002 car will hit historic racing soon.

Car was HDT built customer car, although was finished off by Denny Hulme's old F1 crew for Sandown 1985, Larry did build a few motors for it, as well as Les Small

BlueMax · 20 Oct 2006, 11:16 (Ref:1743051)

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Originally Posted by Henry

LP built it, didn't he?

It was orginally built by HDT for Ray Smith and made it's debut at the Oran Park enduro in 1985 if my memory serves me correctly.

BlueMax · 20 Oct 2006, 11:20 (Ref:1743053)

Thanks for the info VKRacer.

vkracer · 20 Oct 2006, 13:25 (Ref:1743147)

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Originally Posted by Sultan

The Masterton car is still around, running in Gp A spec,

The Mulvihill car was converted to VL Walkinshaw specs, but was recently converted back to '86 specs & for sale,

The McLeod car was another converted to Walkinshaw spec, not sure what happened to it though...

IIRC the 05 '86 HDT car became the VL that Gary Scott wrote off at Lakeside in '87.

Was the Kavich car was repaired after its '88 Bathurst practice crash (I think), not sure where it went after that.

ALSO ADD, the fastest ever Gp A VK, the Grice/Baily Chickadee car. Grice 'borrowed' it fro a few races in '87 with Bob Jane sponsorship, then may have done a few local sports sedan meets. It's still owned by Graham Bailey & thankfully restored to it's former glory.

The kavich car from 88 was a new car built from a VL shell, Lather became the Reda Awadawa (spelling) Blue haven pools car, the Kavich VK was the Roadways Group C car from 1984

The Mcleod car was sold to Matt Wacker (the Grunt in the Hunt) and is currently in Sydney, was sold a while ago but heard that it is possibly on the market again

rdmdog · 21 Oct 2006, 15:21 (Ref:1744165)

Is it Reda Awodalla, sure he has L's in his surname?

drbob · 21 Oct 2006, 23:56 (Ref:1744453)

What happened to the VK's that went to Europe for the WTCC.
I came across a group A car that was called a commodore but it seems to be an Opel that was raced in the French championship in 1986. Strangely its chassis no. is AVK......A. Does that mean it is an Australian chassis or doesnt it matter.

**GTRMagic** · 22 Oct 2006, 00:05 (Ref:1744464)

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Originally Posted by rdmdog

Is it Reda Awodalla, sure he has L's in his surname?

Reda Awadallah... who at the time was the boss of Blue Haven Pools

Sultan · 22 Oct 2006, 00:36 (Ref:1744486)

What about the Brian Callahan red VK? Is it the same car that was converted to VL (carby) specs?

mtpanorama · 23 Oct 2006, 02:56 (Ref:1745702)

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Originally Posted by GTRMagic

Reda Awadallah... who at the time was the boss of Blue Haven Pools

And didn't he sink the pool company by using it's money to run the racecar???

cornermsport · 23 Oct 2006, 12:11 (Ref:1746129)

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Originally Posted by Sultan

What about the Brian Callahan red VK? Is it the same car that was converted to VL (carby) specs?

Thats correct, the VK was converted to VL carby spec for 1990 Bathurst. This was the the car that Jason Bargwanna had his first Bathurst start in, along with Brian Callaghan Jnr and John Gerwald.

This car was later sold to Paul Neilson for sports sedan use, then sold again.

Not sure of its location, but would love to know!

**GTRMagic** · 24 Oct 2006, 09:52 (Ref:1747283)

I am sure I read on here somewhere that Mr Callaghan had the red VK in the shed somewhere, awaiting restoration?

racer69 · 24 Oct 2006, 17:51 (Ref:1747893)

Wasn't it the yellow VL Walkinshaw he still had, along with the old Group C Falcon.

pete60 · 24 Oct 2006, 22:01 (Ref:1748202)

I think it is the VK. The yellow VL ended its days at Bathurst, in the hands of Bill O'Brien, after connecting with Dick Johnson's EB Falcon. You may recall DJ was not amused.....

Sultan · 25 Oct 2006, 17:55 (Ref:1749211)

Was the yellow VL the former Perkins built powder blue O'brien VL?

rdmdog · 25 Oct 2006, 19:12 (Ref:1749292)

I think you might be correct there Sultan, was there a Callaghan car in the wall at forrests in the rain with Jim and others in '92?

pete60 · 26 Oct 2006, 03:09 (Ref:1749546)

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Originally Posted by Sultan

Was the yellow VL the former Perkins built powder blue O'brien VL?

No, that car was sold by Bill O'Brien to Chris Smerdon. The Callaghan VL was the replacement. After it was trashed, the running gear was put into the Les Small built VL which caught fire in the hands of John Trimbole.

Sultan · 26 Oct 2006, 07:13 (Ref:1749639)

So what happened to that O'brien/Smerdon VL? I remember it being a Perkins built car that Larry himself co drove with Bill at it's debut race at Calder in '87- (Anyone remember the enduro where they combined the race circuit with the oval? Awesome!!)

It was certainly quick in the right hands....

anthony81901 · 26 Oct 2006, 08:07 (Ref:1749685)

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Originally Posted by Sultan

So what happened to that O'brien/Smerdon VL? I remember it being a Perkins built car that Larry himself co drove with Bill at it's debut race at Calder in '87- (Anyone remember the enduro where they combined the race circuit with the oval? Awesome!!)

It was certainly quick in the right hands....

At the end of 93 the mechanicals were transferred into Smerdon's new VP and it was sold to Scotty Taylor who raced it at Bathurst in 94 and at the Symmons Plains round in 95. It was sold to Gary Cannan who raced it in the Amscar series in 97.

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