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 Black A9X 4-Door tas car.jpg   461.26K   6 downloads

 

Black A9X

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Where we had car parked, came across these beasty's

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Some nice cars

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Red SS Hatch, I spotto when leaving, nice SS

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Looked very Beasty this Yellow Car, was a 1973 model LJ

[a9x868]

Came acoss these cars on way out.jpg
 
Where we had car parked, came across these beasty's

my aunty had one of these
lc XU-1 same colour
remember playing in it as a kid
accelerator stuck and she drove it through a brick wall
wrote it off!
replaced it with a LH gpac

Edited by a9x868, 10 December 2013 - 10:24 PM.

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There were two Zodiac Blue LJ XU1's there, here is one

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The other Zodiac Blue XU1 and my young bloke Charlie

[WhiteA9XS]

it could be the car the Bowdens had for a while, the Stanley car, but it's been changed a lot

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Don't think its the Stanley car Red , why would you change the master cylinder as it had an IH type .let alone the extra webers and bonnet mod.
The Stanley car had a GMP&A shell , this one has 3 tags .

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REDA9X

In this photo, the guy in Black t shirt in front of the A9X Hatch, u can see the board behind him, only photo I have of it, a bit to far away sorry. Someone that owns a A9X that was there, should know more about it maybe

 

AL

Edited by xu2308, 11 December 2013 - 01:59 AM.

[REDA9X]

Yes, I picked up on that earlier, I just figured someone may have added tags. Not to mention the Bowdens spent a lot of time making the car presentable, if thats the same car it's gone downhill a lot. It's also got tan trim and the chrome strips around the windows. There was one the same for sale a few years ago the guy claimed was a genuine GMP&A but couldn't tell me which team car it was, then he told me he had been racing it only in the last few years and written it off and had to reshell it. So exactly whats left?   I don't believe it is or ever has been a group C car from what I can see in those pictures.

 

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Don't think its the Stanley car Red , why would you change the master cylinder as it had an IH type .let alone the extra webers and bonnet mod.
The Stanley car had a GMP&A shell , this one has 3 tags .

[WhiteA9XS]

Red , I do have some pics of the Stanley car , from when the bowdens owned it , just need to find , I,m sure it used to have 10x15 hotwires also . anyway if its the car your right , a lot of the original stuff has gone.  

 

hey Al  , thanks for sharing the great pics , and good to see the boys out with them and not garage queens . 

Edited by WhiteA9XS, 11 December 2013 - 09:15 AM.

[xu2308]

No worries White A9X

Next time I will take a photo of the boards better, if the yellow A9X turns up again will get more pics of it etc, bit hard on the day, as baby needs have to be met, and was a very warm day in Hobart, so had to keep bub out of it best I could, cause of that, I didn't spend 100% of the time to suss the cars properly, will lift my game next time REDA9X 

 

AL

[REDA9X]

Yeah buddy get your priorities right ok

No worries White A9X

Next time I will take a photo of the boards better, if the yellow A9X turns up again will get more pics of it etc, bit hard on the day, as baby needs have to be met, and was a very warm day in Hobart, so had to keep bub out of it best I could, cause of that, I didn't spend 100% of the time to suss the cars properly, will lift my game next time REDA9X 

 

AL

[REDA9X]

No, it doesn't, however only a certain number of GMP&A race shells were made, and only a certain number of people drove them. It's not hard to pull up the results from every group C race between september 1977 and the end of 1979 to know who drove A9X Toranas around the country. Combine that with the cars we already know still exist, and those we know are well and truely gone and then you have a few people popping up around the place claiming to have cars. These things are worth good money these days, so it pays to do your reseach before you hand over your hard earned cash. Anyone can paint a car up and take it to car shows and say it's Brocks race car from bathurst, but once you start making money from it, thats fraud.

come on guys , it doesn't need to be a big name mainland racer to have been a grp c race car ? does it

[WhiteA9XS]

 I think it was Latham and Reed ? certainly not big names from mainland , just privateers ... red might correct me if I,m wrong .

 

nice car though .

[REDA9X]

Yeah, thats them, but I'm sure it was originally ordered for Stanley in Tasmania, hence the yellow colour.

[xu2308]

On the Board that was there for the car, it said Group C, unless I read it wrong and it was Group C spec, Motors Hobart sold a brand new A9X Hatch in the same yellow as the one in these photos, so might be the same car

[GMHAz]

A9X Nationals Hobart 2013 18.jpg
 
Torana Hatch in Cherry Ripe Colour

NICE Cherry Hatch very clean & different to the normal factory colors you see,
Very nice yes I like
Looks to have been an awesome day at A9X Nats. Gotta clean the drool off my iPad now. Ha ha

Az

[xu2308]

Was a great day AZ

was very warm in Hobart on that Day, and great Cars, next time I will get more Sleuth like with the camera if the Yellow A9X Hatch turns up with its Board.

 

AL

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The Yellow A9X

Has turned up on the Muscle Car Web Site for sale, it was a Targa Car and not a Group C Car, sorry for any Confusion that have caused.

 

AL