Group A Volvo 240 - Info and pics thread - Page 15 - 10-Tenths Motorsport Forum

racer69 · 31 Mar 2011, 07:42

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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...

Probably only of use to Australian viewers, but this replica is featured on this weeks edition of "Inside Speed" from the Irace meeting at Queensland Raceway.

VolvoGroupA · 31 Mar 2011, 20:20

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Originally Posted by racer69

Its interesting that one of the ex-ATCC Volvo's was sold to SRS in 1987.

At the end of 1986, when the Australian "Valvoline Volvo Dealer Team" was shutdown, a deal was initially done for Lyndon Reithmuller & Phil Ward to buy the cars. However the cars were ordered back to Sweden by Volvo, and the deal didn't go through (the Reithmuller/Ward team ended up buying the AMG Mercedes 190s from Bathurst '86)..... did Volvo perhaps just lend the cars to SRS?

The SRS car that went to Mt Fuji in 1987 was also repainted in the '86 Nordica colours, looking exactly as the works cars in 1986 did.

Walkinshaw's public excuse for not driving the Volvo at Wellington was that the "International Touring Car Championship which was supposed to include Bathurst, Wellington, Fuji and Macau has been cancelled" .... quite what the "International Touring Car Championship" was, given the WTCC was running at the same time... i'm not quite sure.

I was aware of the Reithmuller/Ward deal with Volvo, but like the history tells, Volvo changed their minds and recalled the cars back to Sweden.

The Australian Volvo Dealer team was under contract that if anything would change, like what did happened, Volvo withdrew from racing and group-A, that Volvo would have first word of anything what was to be done with the cars. And the cars was recalled to Sweden as said before, Volvo was done in other words.

The AVDT Volvo #4 (A405), one of the cars that was recalled to Sweden.

The deal with Hans-Åke Söderqvist (SRS) was that he had quit his job at Volvo Motorsport and started the Söderqvist Racing Service company (SRS) instead. Then he bought the LH Australian Volvo #4 from Volvo Motorsport. He also bought Per Stureson's DTM Volvo (the same that he won the DTM-series with in 1985). Per Stureson delivered the Volvo to Tom Walkinshaw in England 1987 himself.

The Per Stureson Volvo in 1987, before he sold the car to SRS and TWR Partnership.

Since SRS and TWR had made arrangement of a partnership in 1987. Win Percy and Ulf Granberg tested the Ex. Stureson Volvo at Donington, and Tom himself tested with Granberg at Nogaro in France. And at Nogaro Granberg was about 1,5 second faster then Walkinshaw. AND thats the reason why Walkinshaw withdrew from working with SRS, he claimed that he had hurt his arms ans wasn't able to drive...Tom couldn't take that Ulf was faster then him, sadly

So when TWR left SRS, Söderqvist was standing without finances to compete at Wellington and in the WTCC series. So he let a couple of Italians rent the Ex. AVDT #4 Volvo, they competed in ETCC 1987, to get the finances together.

The Ex. AVDT #4 Volvo with SRS, that the Italians rented during 1987, their names was Giorgio Cipolli and Bruno Corradi.

So if we go back to what happened after TWR left SRS. The driver and Swede Stig Blomqvist joined the team! And he never had the chance to test the car, his testdrive was at Wellington!

They finished 12th at Wellington. An other SRS Volvo (Ex AVDT #4 Volvo) was present at Wellington to, they did not finish, drivers was Peggen Andersson and Ian "Inky" Tulloch.

Ulf Granberg/Stig Blomqivst in the SRS/U-BIX sponsored #16 Volvo at Wellington 1987, this is the Ex. Stureson Volvo. This was in1987/10/26.

SRS at Fuji Speedway with The Ex. Stureson Volvo in the Nordica colours. Drivers was Ulf Granberg/ Ian "Inky" Tulloch. And this was in 1987/11/15.

SRS at Macau 1987 with The Ex. Stureson Volvo in the Kamachi colours. Drivers was Ulf Granberg/ Gianfranco Brancatelli. And this was in 1987/11/29.

So this was little about the SRS team cars in 1987!

VolvoGroupA · 12 Jul 2011, 14:03

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Originally Posted by racer69

Probably only of use to Australian viewers, but this replica is featured on this weeks edition of "Inside Speed" from the Irace meeting at Queensland Raceway.

Who is the person behind the wheels in the Mark Petch replica and is it a 240T or a GT? Would like to get in contact with the owner!

Jesper OH · 8 Oct 2011, 21:48

http://www.ten-tenths.com/forum/show...3&postcount=16

Thought it would be more appropriate to continue the above issue here.

I found the production numbers of the Volvo 240 series from beginning to end here: http://www.volvoclub.org.uk/history/...ats_search.php

It seems that the 1983-1984 production run was the last for the 2-door version with a run of 7.887 cars - making up for only 3.5 % of the total of 226.720 240s produced. As I take it, this batch of cars would have been produced after the summer holidays of 1983 till the beginning of the summer of 1984. No wunder then that Kissling might have had problems sourcing even a standard 2-door 240 for their 1985 campaign.
I think that the Australian dealer team used a 1979 242 GT for their home grown car ..or was that the rarely seen Laurie Hazelton Turbo?

Jesper

VolvoGroupA · 11 Oct 2011, 21:42

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Originally Posted by Jesper OH

http://www.ten-tenths.com/forum/show...3&postcount=16

Thought it would be more appropriate to continue the above issue here.

I found the production numbers of the Volvo 240 series from beginning to end here: http://www.volvoclub.org.uk/history/...ats_search.php

It seems that the 1983-1984 production run was the last for the 2-door version with a run of 7.887 cars - making up for only 3.5 % of the total of 226.720 240s produced. As I take it, this batch of cars would have been produced after the summer holidays of 1983 till the beginning of the summer of 1984. No wunder then that Kissling might have had problems sourcing even a standard 2-door 240 for their 1985 campaign.
I think that the Australian dealer team used a 1979 242 GT for their home grown car ..or was that the rarely seen Laurie Hazelton Turbo?

Jesper

Correct, the Australian Volvo Dealer Team used a 1979 242GT.

The 1979 242GT that the AVDT built, in only six weeks, was based on a standard used car. The Laurie Hazelton is a different car.

But the AVDT 242GT Volvo still lives on today! The car is undergoing restoration in Norway today.

Spen Again · 20 Oct 2011, 19:09

Ah, Mark Petch, still the only mechanical seal company to sponsor a race team, to my knowledge. My industry is too underground...

**chunterer** · 11 Nov 2011, 19:44

Could this be of interest to any owners in Europe?

http://www.ten-tenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=130844

KA · 14 Nov 2011, 17:46

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Originally Posted by chunterer

Don't worry, it'll come i'm sure. There's plenty of Group A fans on 10-10ths!!

Well regarding the prospective British entry I seem to recall it being reported that one car was rumoured to be entering in either 1985 or 1986. I can't remember the exact detail of the stories but either John Maguire or Julian May might have been the names connected with possibly Patrick Watts or someone like that as a driver. The car wouldn't have been new but I believe sourced from Sweden, not Eggenberger.

However I suspect that the names of the entrants and drivers are not accurate!!

It may just have been speculation at the time as it never materialised - I was gutted as at that time the series struggled for quality and quantity so any additional competitive entries would have been brilliant!!

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Originally Posted by VIVA GT

I think you're wide of the mark here. I have a hunch that I know who it was, but would like to know EXACTLY what the magazines said at the time before I spill the beans here... Come on chaps, get the quotes from Autosport!

I tripped over the news item about this while looking through some old Autosports and MNs at the weekend- and didn't think to take a note of the date....

Next time I get a chance to look back through them, I'll take a note of the source and exactly what was said- it definitely mentioned Patrick Watts as the potential driver, and IIRC suggested support would come from one or more UK Volvo dealers- I think it also said the car was likely to be one of the ex-Belgian Dealer Team cars from 1984

VolvoGroupA · 30 Nov 2011, 10:54

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Originally Posted by KA

I tripped over the news item about this while looking through some old Autosports and MNs at the weekend- and didn't think to take a note of the date....

Next time I get a chance to look back through them, I'll take a note of the source and exactly what was said- it definitely mentioned Patrick Watts as the potential driver, and IIRC suggested support would come from one or more UK Volvo dealers- I think it also said the car was likely to be one of the ex-Belgian Dealer Team cars from 1984

One of the ex-Belgian Dealer Team cars from 84? Hmm I wonder since there are only one left that rest fully restored in Germany that a friend of mine owned, there car remains in his family (sadly he passed away in 2009). You can see this car in a earlier post in this thread.

So now I wonder if the car have been sold now. I must investigate!

Thanks for the info KA!