Please add what you KNOW
This makes it a bit hard.
If I ever win lotto I will fly Wayne, Joe, Grant and whoever else has a database of info to one spot so we can collate what we have collected over the years.
There were 33 A9X race shells... all hatches ? ... or was it really 52 GMP+A shells... 11 sedans and 41 hatches ?... where are they now ?
Are these numbers correct... do they account for prototypes and promo cars ?.... were they real cars of mock ups ?
I have never really been that interested in the A9Xs, but written accounts from club members seem to point to the 405 road cars, (plus the prototype / homologation car coming up for auction) and the 52 GMP&A racing shells. Then there were also a few GMP&A non racing shells built as spare parts for road cars. There could have been as many as 460-470 built all up. The promo cars were the standard road going versions of the A9X.
Graeme Hooleys hatchback race car was an SS 5000. The Brabham's A9X sedan was a GMP&A road (not race) shell.
Everything written below is L34 specific only.
Many L34's went on to race.... how many ?
I don't know. If you can find a reference to every race at every track in Australia and New Zealand from '74 to '77 you would come close to finding out. I have 69 different race cars in my files, but they are only the ones who competed at the bigger events apart from a few priveteers from WA. I know of two road cars in WA that have had a roll cage at some point, but the current owners have no clue as to their racing history. The total number would have to be close to 100.
How many crashed and we're not rebuilt ?
How many were reshelled with Nasco bodies.... or factory road car bodies ?
I need a whole day to go back through my records. I just don't have the time to be thorough right now, but just relying on my (terrible) memory I can think of three that were repaired using bodies from GMH spare parts. Two of these cars were repaired with the same new body. i.e. cut and shut. I don't know what tags they had fitted. The first GMP&A race body to be walked down the production line was also an L34 owned by Bob Forbes. This car was built for Bathurst 1975 after Wayne Negus ran out of brakes at Sandown, destroying the car in the process.
How many survive in race trim ?
There are eight or nine at the moment, but at least five of those have been a road car at some stage of their lives. In fact I can only think of one that has never been road registered.
How many were converted back to road cars and sold off by the teams?
Pretty much every one that wasn't converted to A9X specs, the most famous being Brock's 75 Bathurst winner which ended up with the front half being used to keep a speedway car going and the rest went on the tip. Don't forget that to convert an L34 racecar to a road car meant not much more than bolting on an exhaust, some skinny wheels and a milder cam.
Of those road cars... how many still have L34 engines... considering the teams took the engines out to put into their new A9X's ?
Probably more than you think. Most race teams would have had plenty of tired parts to get rid of by 1977. You would think that a few would be around with NZ blocks, but I've only seen one.
DISCLAIMER>>> Don't take any of the above as gospel. I don't know what I'm talking about.