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1983 Sports Sedans Challenge (Calder Park, Australia)

Started by _ChaosWeaver_ , Mar 02 2015 07:42 AM

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#1 _ChaosWeaver_

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Posted 02 March 2015 - 07:42 AM

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#2 Rockoz

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Posted 02 March 2015 - 11:55 AM

Guessing the Hatch is ex Garry Rogers

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#3 _duggan208_

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Posted 03 March 2015 - 12:15 AM

Nothing gets the blood pumping like a sports sedan.

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#4 N/A-PWR

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Posted 03 March 2015 - 12:35 AM

Is that a BP Start and Finish Line Sign.

I better watch.

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#5 _ChaosWeaver_

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Posted 03 March 2015 - 06:24 AM

And Bob Janes XU-1 Bathurst car, still looks standard, and still racing in 1983 ............ :spoton:

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Posted 21 March 2015 - 04:03 AM

Great Video

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Posted 21 March 2015 - 08:22 PM

Bloody sensational. I have much love for sports sedans.

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#8 _duggan208_

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Posted 21 March 2015 - 10:55 PM

I was luckly enough to help do some work on the Jeff Barnes Trans Am a couple of years ago. Terrific bit of kit that car is.

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#9 Rockoz

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Posted 21 March 2015 - 11:08 PM

Miss the period when Sports Sedans were nearly as popular as Touring Cars.

Loud and colourful.

The Sports Sedan Championship was as important to some teams as the Touring Car Championship.

Maybe the conspiracy theorists can come up with a reason for the big crash that took out most of the top cars.

Calder wasn't it? Memory getting worse.

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#10 _duggan208_

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Posted 21 March 2015 - 11:30 PM

Some strange cars found their way into sports sedans. I remember as a kid watching my favourate race of the sunday afternoon tv coverage, featuring the voice of Will Hagen, a HR sedan stuffed full of V8, probadly a small block chev, a type 3 VW, so much better than watching every day current model Falcons and Commodores.

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Posted 22 March 2015 - 08:35 AM

And I always remember Mick Monterosso pedalling an Alfa Romeo stuffed with something large & loud.
Come to think of it, reckon he had a blue escort with a v8 also? Will have to check...

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#12 Rockoz

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Posted 22 March 2015 - 02:00 PM

FJs Heaps of LC LJ Toranas. Some with 6s a lot with 8s.

Mike Griffen with his 120Y

Noel Delforce punting a P76

Gricey with Corvair Torana and BMW

Edmondsons Alfa

Janes Monza

Richos Coupe

Rogers Hatch used to go well. He had nowhere near the budget of the bigger boys.

Heap of Bargwanna cars.

There was a mix of current at the time Touring Cars at times too. So the drivers could get a bit of extra track time.

Escorts with 302s were common

They were a varied mix and always fun to watch

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Posted 22 March 2015 - 11:38 PM

A work colleague recently showed me his Torana sports sedan (now sold) which apparently had a race history.

Some photos which certainly follow the trend; "stuffed with something large & loud"

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#14 _duggan208_

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Posted 24 March 2015 - 01:00 AM

Wow I like that, I remember Edmonsons Alfa, i also remember the name 'Alf Constanzo' can't remember what he drove and a black Saab.

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#15 Rockoz

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Posted 24 March 2015 - 10:23 AM

Alf was mainly in open wheelers. F5000 and Pacific.

He had a couple runs as co driver in Touring Cars

Think he did a GT series at some stage.

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Posted 24 March 2015 - 10:47 AM

A few more: Pete Geoghegan - Craven Mild Monaro, Bryan Thompson - VW Chev, ex-Norm Beechy Monaro

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Posted 24 March 2015 - 10:20 PM

Ok so this being Monterosso's escort, not totally blue but...

And the Recar weapon.

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#18 Rockoz

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Posted 24 March 2015 - 10:44 PM

And what we have now as Touring Cars are more Sports Sedan than a lot of cars that raced as Sports Sedan

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#19 _duggan208_

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Posted 24 March 2015 - 10:47 PM

I can sort of remember the Escort, looks like Edmonson's Alfa in the background. great pics.

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Posted 25 March 2015 - 05:17 PM

If group u in historics gets enough old sports sedans together for some races it will be interesting which ones have survived from these earlier years.

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Posted 01 April 2015 - 07:00 AM

And what we have now as Touring Cars are more Sports Sedan than a lot of cars that raced as Sports Sedan

Yes, to some extent that's true, but it's a little out of context. It depends which era of 'Sports Sedans' you refer to. In 1973 Sports Sedans were little more than Improved Tourers with modifications, but by the late 70s they had become very lightweight, space-framed monsters with big blocks set back a few feet. Many of them were unrecognisable from their vehicle of origin.

While I'm not defending the current Touring cars, they are not lightweight nor do they have big blocks with massive engine set-back, they are are built to a very rigid set of rules.

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