1996 Gibson Motor Sport VR/VS Commodore GMS 005
Concourse restored and ready to race SEGA spec Gibson Motorsport Commodore. Known as GMS 005, this car was originally raced by Mark Skaife in 1996 and subsequently raced by Jim and Steven Richards, Jason Bright, Garth Tander and other Aussie motor sport legends. GMS 005 debuted at the opening round of the 1996 Australian Touring Car Championship at Eastern Creek and continued racing in various liveries until 2001 coming second at Bathurst in the hands of Richards in 1997. Now ready for the Australian Five-Litre Touring Car Association's race series. Melbourne car. Please call Mike Selby on 0414 278 604 for more information.
Price:
$160,000
Vin/ID:
GMS 005
History:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT324XqI3BQ
http://www.v8supercars.com.au/news/championship/saturday-sleuthing-skaife-s-sega-commodore
Chassis GMS 005 debuted at the opening round of the 1996 Australian Touring Car Championship at Eastern Creek. GMS 005 returned for Bathurst, where it took on a new livery and increased backing from Holden's Network Q Used Car program. Skaife shared the car with Scottish ace John Cleland and the duo finished seventh.
Gibson sold the car to Garry Rogers Motorsport for 1997, who updated it to VS specification and it became Steven Richards' #34 Valvoline car. Jason Bright made an impressive debut in wet conditions at Symmons Plains in the car. Richards was joined by his dad Jim for the enduros at Sandown and Bathurst, and the pair recorded history by finishing second at Bathurst. This marked the first time a father-son combination stood on the podium in The Great Race.
GRM continued with the chassis for 1998 with Richards contesting the opening three rounds before he headed to England to join Nissan as a test driver in the British Touring Car Championship. This paved the way for a 20-year-old Garth Tander - then the reigning Australian Formula Ford Champion - to make his championship debut at Phillip Island.
Tander's entry was numbered #134, but reverted back to the traditional #34 for Sandown and Bathurst where Cameron McLean joined him. For the next two years GRM retained ownership of the car but leased it out to privateer outfit Ultra Tune Racing. Mick Donaher drove the car during the 'sprint' rounds before Dean Lindstrom and Melinda Price shared it for the Queensland 500 and Bathurst 1000 enduros.
There were reportedly plans for the Lansvale Smash Repairs team - led by current Brad Jones Racing engineer Wally Storey - to take over the running of the car for 2000, but this didn't eventuate and the Ultra Tune team ran it once more with Donaher returning to the team.
Donaher moved up to an ex-Perkins VT Commodore mid-year, allowing Formula Ford driver Tyler Mecklem to step into the VS at Winton. Lindstrom and Price paired up again for Bathurst only.
The car returned to GRM in 2001 and it was soon put up for sale. It was then stripped of most of its major race components, which went into the unique Thunder Ute that GRM built as a ride car and marketing exercise for Holden.
The shell was sold to David and Travis Langman in the early 2000s, and they began a major project to restore the car to its 1996 Skaife SEGA livery.
With assistance from former Gibson Motorsport and GRM staff, they completed a fantastic restoration of the car some years ago.
The re-born Sega machine has been displayed at race events around the country in recent years and was sold last year to Milton Seferis, who has added this car to his growing collection of Commodore racecars.
It will return to on-track action on the August 9/10 weekend at Winton as part of the Australian Five-Litre Touring Car Association's demonstration runs at the Winton Festival of Speed Historic event.
There's nothing better than seeing a memorable V8 Supercar being returned to its former glory, and this old racer looks just like it did back in 1996.
GMS 005 represented a new chapter for Gibson Motorsport, who would endure a lean period in the following years before bouncing back to win Bathurst with Greg Murphy and Steven Richards in 1999.
It's a car that did a fair bit of racing in its life, with no less than five Bathurst winners - past and future - all racing this chassis at some point.
Call Mike on 0414 278 604 or Nicholas on 0499 577 997 and let us assist you with your inquiries. Also please note if you have a quality Muscle or Classic car you wish to list or have valued please give us a call. We will be happy to assist you.
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