1977 Triumph Dolomite Sprint Group C race car (SOLD)
Ready to go Heritage racing!!! Here is your chance to own a piece of Australian motor racing history!!! A genuine Bathurst race car!!! 1977 Triumph Dolomite Sprint Group C race car. Built by Ron Hodgson Racing. First CAMS Log book issued 25/7/1977; N3898. First raced at Amaroo 13/8/77. Later sponsored by JAGPARTS and raced in BTCC Group 1 specs for 1980 Bathurst 1000. Original logbook shows car was a regular competitor at Sandown, Calder, Winton, AIR, Symons Plains, and Oran Park, Hang Ten 500, Bathurst 1000, and Semperit Series. Historic Group C Log book issued in 2004 together with Certificate of Description. Matching numbers fresh 16 valve 1998cc engine and fresh close ratio overdrive 5 speed gearbox. Loads of spares. Includes double sided A Frame display board and bonnet stand. Regular Class winner. Top 10 consistent finisher. Original CAMS Log Book will be provided together with Historic Log Book and CoD. Adelaide, SA car. (Ref. 4420)
Price:
$25,000
Vin:
VA17977DLOS
Specification and History:
Built by Ron Hodgson Racing.
First Log Book issued 25/7/1977; Number:N3898.
First race Amaroo 13/8/77.
Original owner: Ralph Radburn.
Second owner: Gerald Kay 27/6/78.
Between 1988 and 1996 Clint Gipperich/P. Davis.
Historic Log Book issued: 8/4/2004. Current owner since April 2004.
Built by Ron Hodgson Racing based on the '75 BTCC 'Broadspeed' Group 1.
July 1978: purchased by Gerald Kay.
1980:BL sponsored Kay through JAGPARTS.
Car then upgraded to latest BTCC Group 1 specs for 1980 Bathurst 1000. Included were homologation of twin 48 DCOE Webers & big bore exhaust/CR O/D gearbox/LED ignition/flares for fatter tires/AP calipers (4-pot)/vented discs/spherical(rose) joints/additional location arms with optional Panhard rod & heavier front coils. Aluminium 100L (Bathurst) tank also fitted.
Over the period from August 1977, following its first race at Amaroo Park where Ralph Radburn finished 12th outright and 2nd in class, the original logbook signifies this car was a regular competitor at Sandown, Calder, Winton, AIR, Symons Plains, and Oran Park as late as 2001.
Major events included the Hang Ten 500, Bathurst 1000, and Semperit Series. In 1992 the car was used in category 2 racing from 1992 until at least 2000 and in 2004 an Historic Group C Log Book was issued together with Certificate of Description.
Engine retains cross-drilled crank/Cosworth pistons/double baffled sump/ground main caps/girdle plate/Freudenberger balancer. Fresh engine and gearbox. Some spares. Includes double sided A Frame display board and bonnet stand. Regular Class winner. And usually top-ten finisher in past ten years. Original CAMS Log Book will be provided together with Historic Log Book and CoD.
Current owner has receipts for loads of work to show the car is race ready condition. Has been raced recently in the Adelaide Festival of Speed.
Note:
Car 71 in Ron Hodgson photo is the Kay car, distinguishable from its unique steel roll-cage passing through rear parcel shelf. Car 70 (D. Seldon) has an aluminium cage behind drivers seat.
