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11 Jan 2011, 09:41
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Regarding the two photos courtesy of Peggen Andersson:
These photos bring back many fond memories of my time in Thailand and attending all the races at Bira Circuit with Sep and Del. I also have to agree, 'Peggen" was one hell of a driver, as was his team-mate, Khan Chi Hong (sic?) of Malaysia. Those were days I'll cherish for how many years I have left. I have many photos of the Volvos used by Zepspeed but, unfortunately, no way to convert them to digital and upload them.
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GBRISTOL, greeting!
Were you a part of the Zepspeed team? Can you tell us anything more about the Volvo racing in Thailand perhaps?
Sorry to hear that you can't convert the photos to digital. Do you still have the negatives by the way?
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7 Mar 2011, 08:33
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Hi guys, I am new.
I have a question regarding a Volvo 240T I saw race at the New Zealand Grand Prix meeting at Pukekohe in January 1988. Who was driving the car, where did it come from and where did it go. I have been wondering for 23 years now.
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7 Mar 2011, 12:27
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Warm welcome MPC, thanks for the 3 posts so far. 
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7 Mar 2011, 14:20
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Originally Posted by MPC
Hi guys, I am new.
I have a question regarding a Volvo 240T I saw race at the New Zealand Grand Prix meeting at Pukekohe in January 1988. Who was driving the car, where did it come from and where did it go. I have been wondering for 23 years now.
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A complete suggestion rather than an answer, but Inky Tulloch used to race a Volvo 240T about then, I know he used to drive with Ulf Grunberg in enduro events in one. He also drove with Garry Croft in a U-bix Copiers backed 240T at the Pukekohe 500 a couple of months prior to the NZGP meeting of Jan '88.
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7 Mar 2011, 15:23
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One thing I forgot to say was Mark Petch (who posts here) might be the best source of factual info, as he started the Volvo Ball rolling down under, albeit a couple of years before.
AFAIK he sold his cars to Volvo Aus and they (3?) went back to Sweden when Volvo gave it away after the 86 season.... where they were all redistributed to other Volvo Teams around Scandanavia (one to Finland where I think it won the TC Championship and another to Sweden (Steffansson Automotive).
What other perhaps locally built cars there were I have no idea, or what car / the story is behind the U-bix backed one Tulloch and Croft drove at the October 87 Pukekohe Benson & Hedges 500. Perhaps something to do with Soderqvist Racesport who Tulloch drove as I mentioned in Enduros for (ie Wellington 500 with Per-Gunnar Andersson also in October 87.
Last edited by E.B; 7 Mar 2011 at 15:35.
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8 Mar 2011, 00:17
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Not all the Mark Petch Volvos are overseas...
I took these photos at Drive Bathurst last year, and took my sweet time getting around to uploading them...
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8 Mar 2011, 02:37
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Originally Posted by bludvl_x19
Not all the Mark Petch Volvos are overseas...
I took these photos at Drive Bathurst last year, and took my sweet time getting around to uploading them...
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What are the chances of that being a replica, not the real thing?
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8 Mar 2011, 02:47
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Wouldn't have a clue tbh. The name on the back window is Veal, who I imagine is the owner, and on the front guard is three drivers names: Petch, Francovic and Bowe. I thought I had more photos of the car in the pits, but I can't seem to find them.
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8 Mar 2011, 08:44
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Originally Posted by E.B
One thing I forgot to say was Mark Petch (who posts here) might be the best source of factual info, as he started the Volvo Ball rolling down under, albeit a couple of years before.
AFAIK he sold his cars to Volvo Aus and they (3?) went back to Sweden when Volvo gave it away after the 86 season.... where they were all redistributed to other Volvo Teams around Scandanavia (one to Finland where I think it won the TC Championship and another to Sweden (Steffansson Automotive).
What other perhaps locally built cars there were I have no idea, or what car / the story is behind the U-bix backed one Tulloch and Croft drove at the October 87 Pukekohe Benson & Hedges 500. Perhaps something to do with Soderqvist Racesport who Tulloch drove as I mentioned in Enduros for (ie Wellington 500 with Per-Gunnar Andersson also in October 87.
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Thanks for that. I thought Tulloch and Granberg might be the most likely candidate. Would love to know for sure and know were the car came from and went to.
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8 Mar 2011, 11:30
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Originally Posted by MPC
Thanks for that. I thought Tulloch and Granberg might be the most likely candidate. Would love to know for sure and know were the car came from and went to.
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I won't swear to it without checking, but I think the Tulloch/Granberg Volvo in NZ was run by the SRS (Soderqvist Racing Services) outfit from Sweden, so would have probably gone back home after the NZ races?
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8 Mar 2011, 11:59
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MPC
Hi guys, I am new.
I have a question regarding a Volvo 240T I saw race at the New Zealand Grand Prix meeting at Pukekohe in January 1988. Who was driving the car, where did it come from and where did it go. I have been wondering for 23 years now.
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Hi. It would be one of the two Soderqvist Racing cars that competed in the Nissan Mobil 500 at Wellington. The driver would have been either Garry Croft or Inky Tulloch - but I don't have the results to hand unfortunately.
One of the two cars went to Japan after Wellington for the Fuji 500. The other one remained in NZ where it was driven by Tulloch and Croft in the Pukekohe 500 the week after Wellington and remained in NZ for the New Zealand Touring Car Championship over the summer of 87/88.
It is worth noting that Per-Gunnar Andersson, who shared one of the two cars at Wellington, was a regular competitor in NZ between 1986 and 1989, initially with the Volvo 240T and later with BMW M3s.
Interesting to note that while Andersson competed regularly in New Zealand, he did not to the best of my memory race in Australia, or in Australia's premier race the Bathurst 1000. I wonder what the attraction of NZ was over the Bathurst 1000? I see Per-Gunnar has posted in this thread. Maybe he can pass on some memories of his New Zealand campaigns if he has a chance.
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8 Mar 2011, 12:11
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What are the chances of that being a replica, not the real thing?
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It is not an ex-Mark Petch car. It is a genuine, locally built Group A car, that was raced just once at Oran Park in 1987 and crashed. I was built by Laurie Hazelton, but this car has been mentioned several times in various Australian Group A threads, including earlier in this thread here: http://www.ten-tenths.com/forum/show...on#post2771243.
It was rebuilt after its Oran crash returned to Australian race tracks to compete in the Historic Group A & C races about 3 or 4 years ago.
It is interesting to note that this Volvo found some spead at Bathurst in February, where it qualified 4th, finished 3rd in the first race and 4th in the second race and 5th in the third race.
It is worth noting that the Group A cars were running around in the 2m35-2m40m range, well short of what they were capable of their heyday around there, so it seems many drivers were not keen on introducing their now quite valuable cars to the concrete walls. The ex-HRT Commodores for example were over 20 seconds a lap slower than they were capable of lapping Bathurst back when they were current race cars in the late 80s/early 90s.
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8 Mar 2011, 12:24
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Originally Posted by brendonwood1
It is not an ex-Mark Petch car. It is a genuine, locally built Group A car, that was raced just once at Oran Park in 1987 and crashed. I was built by Laurie Hazelton, but this car has been mentioned several times in various Australian Group A threads, including earlier in this thread here: http://www.ten-tenths.com/forum/show...on#post2771243.
It was rebuilt after its Oran crash returned to Australian race tracks to compete in the Historic Group A & C races about 3 or 4 years ago. |
Brendon, are you looking at the same picture as the rest of us? The drive Bathurst picture above is of a car wearing Mark Petch livery. The ex-Hazelton Volvo is navy blue and almost devoid of signage.
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8 Mar 2011, 12:48
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David, going by what you said about it possibly being a replica, and having the possible owners last name, I did a bit of googling and came up with this (the first entry):
http://www.mumbomedia.net/blog/news/...cle%20Division
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9 Mar 2011, 02:11
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The ex-Hazelton Group A Volvo is owned by Richard Prince and it is still Navy blue, but no longer wearing the yellow tail stripes it wore in 1987.
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