A sad day - Tom Walkinshaw dies

VGVIP · Post by **VGVIP** » Tue Dec 14, 10 11:52 am

http://theage.drive.com.au/motor-news/h ... 18uty.html

andyrob · Post by **andyrob** » Tue Dec 14, 10 11:56 am

not the nicest person about, 'conned' HRT off Mark Scaife a couple of yrs ago, but yes made a hugh contribution to motorsport over the years

Post by **MattH** » Tue Dec 14, 10 11:38 pm

Some of his own cars are over here, spoke to a VN Commodore SV5000 owner last week who owns Tom's old car, might be worth a tad more now?
He did do some good things for Aussie motorsport, Jag XJS 1-2 springs to mind at Bathurst in 1980 ish.

Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Wed Dec 15, 10 7:38 am

andyrob wrote:not the nicest person about, 'conned' HRT off Mark Scaife a couple of yrs ago, but yes made a hugh contribution to motorsport over the years

Could he have not got some 'HRT' from his own doctor.

VGVIP · Post by **VGVIP** » Wed Dec 15, 10 8:21 am

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu Dec 16, 10 11:10 am

MattH wrote:Some of his own cars are over here, spoke to a VN Commodore SV5000 owner last week who owns Tom's old car, might be worth a tad more now?
He did do some good things for Aussie motorsport, Jag XJS 1-2 springs to mind at Bathurst in 1980 ish.

Tsk, 1985. While the two Jags crossed the line side by side, they were actually 1 and 3, split by a 635CSi.

Apart from the 'Englishman' crack

, a great bit of footage.

Bringing 'Claaasss' to the mountain.

Never looked at an XJS the same again. Great looking race cars.

His SV5000 Commodore was advertised in Classic American back in the mid 90's and I was tempted to buy it. Isn't it an unusual colour?

He did a good job with HSV in the early days taking over from Brock, and the VL 'Walkinshaw', for all its plastic addenda is a great car. Grice and Percy did a fine job winning in 1990, although, it took the banning of the Sierras and GT-R's to really bring it back into contention.

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Thu Dec 16, 10 11:50 am

Yup ban the cars that can beat ya....Nice

dave

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Fri Jan 07, 11 11:55 am

Looks like his race transporter is for sale here:
http://brighton.gumtree.com/brighton/61/71083061.html
No pics through - got to be a piece of history!

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Fri Jan 07, 11 12:25 pm

Sandy wrote: Apart from the 'Englishman' crack , a great bit of footage.

Just watched that. Very good in-car footage.

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Fri Jan 07, 11 12:42 pm

DodgeRover wrote:Looks like his race transporter is for sale here:
http://brighton.gumtree.com/brighton/61/71083061.html
No pics through - got to be a piece of history!

Blimey, that's the road where I used to live.

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Fri Jan 07, 11 1:10 pm

Dave wrote:
Sandy wrote: Apart from the 'Englishman' crack , a great bit of footage.
Just watched that. Very good in-car footage.

have driven that bit of that track

at 40-60 mph its terrifiying never mind race speeds...

then hell for leather down the streight until you find a right angle at the end

or in my case a queue of chargers

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Fri Jan 07, 11 1:16 pm

like to know what top speed it was pulling along that straight, the car moves around real nice it has some suspension, i have owned severall xjs, they are a crackin car rust like hell but a very rewarding drive,
IF YOU WORK THEM,

Post by **MattH** » Fri Jan 07, 11 5:42 pm

The SV5000 owner is coming to get some bits from me this weekend, and said he would bring the car to the Ace Cafe on Sunday 23rd Jan for the Australia Day. I will take my Holden so a VN and VP can stand side by side, Charger off the road so no go with that.

VGVIP · Post by **VGVIP** » Mon Jan 10, 11 9:10 am

MattH wrote:The SV5000 owner is coming to get some bits from me this weekend, and said he would bring the car to the Ace Cafe on Sunday 23rd Jan for the Australia Day. I will take my Holden so a VN and VP can stand side by side, Charger off the road so no go with that.

Hi Matt.
What is the go with your charger? Shame it wont be at the Ace Cafe, I was hoping to have a look at it.
I plan to take the VG.... complete with freshly rusted bumpers (a couple of weeks of salted roads has taken its toll!)
Took the HQ to the Bathurst Bash so it's the Vals turn.

Post by **MattH** » Wed Jan 12, 11 2:49 pm

I SORN it every year because its a 73 and costs to tax it, it also needs some metal in the rear floors to stop the water leaking straight onto the floor from the rear screen seal. Holden only needs a rad, gearbox and axle !