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[S pack]

Colin Bond's XU1 had cloth inserts in the front seats for the 1973 Hardie Ferodo 1000.

F or F.

[Indy Orange]

Colin Bond's XU1 had cloth inserts in the front seats for the 1973 Hardie Ferodo 1000.
F or F.

And soon turned BROWN after he crashed.

[Indy Orange]

Or was that 72?

[S pack]

      Hi, I'll admit I had to go searching for an answer & I reckon it's fact

  Colin Bond did use cloth inserts for Bathurst in '73. 

  I based my answer on a photo of what was left after a trailer accident,

  the car was in a work shop being pulled apart & there it was, a front

  seat with what looks like a cloth insert. I'm sure some people know

  which pic I saw. 

  Cheers.

Yes it is fact.

 

The cloth front seat inserts can be seen when Leo Geoghean pulls in for a pit stop in Bond's XU1 in the Bathurst 1973 footage on the Chevron XU1 DVD.

Edited by S pack, 21 February 2016 - 08:04 PM.

[wot179]

Fact or Fiction.



I am really Spiderman.

[S pack]

Fact or Fiction

 

The HDT, or any other team or competitor for that matter, if they had wanted, could have campaigned an LC GTR XU1 fitted with a Trimatic transmission and 2.78:1 ratio differential in Group E 'Series Production Touring Cars' in 1970 without GMH being required to build the required minimum number of 200 cars.

[madtoranajzedded]

I'll say Fiction

[Shiney005]

In later times I would have said fiction for sure. But 1970? I don't know enough about the subject matter.

Question. Were any LC GTR XU1s fitted with a trimatic and 2.78 diff?

[Bigfella237]

I know that the Trimatic and the 2.78:1 diff was homologated for the LH so it wouldn't surprise me...

 

[Indy Orange]

I'll say Fact.

[rodomo]

I'll say fiction? Although, I believe, the Trimatic was available, I think? XU-1's were never produced in auto.

[Shiney005]

There was one A9X, so could be possible.

[Ice]

Rodomo is a old poof nothing fiction bout that ✌️

[Indy Orange]

Fiction! He's not that old.

[Ice]

Fiction! He's not that old.

Ok not that old

[S pack]

I'll say Fact.

Yay Paul, you got the job.

[Shiney005]

So the homologation documents were similar to the SL/R 202 one that Andrew posted above?

[Bigfella237]

I have CAMS "H2-3" for the LJ XU-1 and it only lists the one gearbox (2.54/1.83/1.25/1.00) and two diff ratios (3.36 & 3.08).

 

 

I don't have a copy of "H2-2" for the LC

[S pack]

A clause exists in the rules that allows the use of an automatically controlled transmission without the requirement to build any cars with an auto transmission.

Unfortunately GMH did not list the trimatic on the Recognition documents as the trimatic was not an option in an XU1.

 

[madtoranajzedded]

I still thought manufacturer had to build so
many production vehicles in group e to race as
is the case in group c ??..these were less modified yeah..

[S pack]

I still thought manufacturer had to build so
many production vehicles in group e to race as
is the case in group c ??..these were less modified yeah..

Correct, but there are modifications and additions explicitly authorised under Clause 3. Mountings and Modifications Authorised:    Paragraph (F): Transmission.

 

Group C had more freedoms than Group E, the auto transmission was not one of them though.

[Shiney005]

Off the topic for a minute, but how did Ron Dickson get his HQ into races, including Bathurst?  

 

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