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RACE CARS FOR SALE |
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GROUP C BATHURST GEMINI COUPE |
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This is a group c gemini coupe
and one of only four left in exsistance (I,m lead to believe). It is one one those
lost and found, cant believe it! I freshened up and acually race it. No mueseum
for this car, not yet anyway.
It started in the hands of Mr Bernie McLure. in 76 and was a big part of the 'gloweve
Gemini racing series" at calder park melb in 77 and 78 among other meetings. It
was in 78 it was taken to bathurst and raced as a 1976 TX gemini coupe in the 1600
class. It was taken back to the hill in 79 and pedaled by McLure and Langman again
and ran all day, It finished the race coming second in class 128 completed laps
and 22nd outright.
It was shortly after this it changed hands and was successfully run for years by John White,then changed hands again to a Mr Les Szrgniawski. He ran the car a little
before the radical changes, IE: Colour change from white to the blue you see, the
late model(TE) front fitted, the zzr tail lights, the front air dam, the wheel arch
flairs, it went from the 1600 four speed to 1800cc five speed, got 9 inch wheels
and was prepared and entered at the sandown 'castrol 500' in 84 (Entry in the
log book)..and that is the meeting its current livery depicts for the C of D .
After that meeting it went to the Australian Grand Prix held at calder park in november
84 and then group c was over and the car was sold again... The story goes on...
it then was sold to a gemini enthusiest who never raced it so to speak apart from
car club stuff, sprinting and the like for years before the car was parked for approx
8/9 years due that owners ill health.
Then we found it,bought it in july 05 freshened it up from front to back and raced
it at the november historic meeting at sandown the same year and almost every other
historic (southern states) meeting ever since.
In feb 06 at the island qualified the fastest under two litre car. It is an amazing
little car thats has a watts links, detroit locker centre, bilstiens all round and
handles like its on rails.
Some lap times..Phillip island 1.59s Sandown 1.29s Wakfield park golburn 1.11s Calder
1.12s Symonds plains 1.29s and eastern creek 1.59s. She is a recognised "historic
group c" race car with a current CofD and ready to race...right now !!!
Contact Trevor at Racing Heritage 0418
288 466 sales@racingheritage.com.
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