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Originally Posted by VolvoGroupA
Thats correct yes, The AVDT had 3 cars, two RH and one LH. The LH car was the former Mark Petch Volvo from 1985. RH car no1 (#10,#42) was built by R.A.S in 1985 as a test car for trying out the RH for the R.A.S Belgium team but didn't come to use then sold to AVDT, and RH car no2 (#44), as you said was built locally based on a 242GT shell actually.
Yes they took over these two cars, mostly to save time! There wasn't enough time to build two brand new cars in such short time in time the ETC 1986. And if I should be totally correct with the detail about the #26 car that Peggen Andersson and Mauro Baldi drove on Estoril -86, they didn't driver under the R.A.S team but under Volvo Motorsport itself, some kind of cooperation between the two teams so to say. And this was the 1985 Magnum Racing car. Details like the rollcage can tell this.
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Can't find the article, but Bob Constanduras (?) tested the Andersson/Baldi car at Estoril in connection to the late season race itself. As I remember the article the car featured some kind of traction control. Surpriced this was allowed in 1986, but the governing body probably didn't even considered this to be an issue.
Forgot to say it in previous posts, but some teams and manufactures surprises me with how many cars they build and some by how few they build. Volvo seems to fit the second description.
Jesper