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J.Hardie 86-87 p69
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J.Hardie 86-87 p21
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Tue, 08 November 2005 16:25
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J.Hardie 86-87 p57
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Tue, 08 November 2005 16:28
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J.Hardie 86-87 p103
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Though not Toyotas I am quite fond of these things, DR30s, much prettier than the HR31s I think...
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Tue, 08 November 2005 17:20
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Tue, 08 November 2005 17:24
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J.Hardie 86-87 p206
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Tue, 08 November 2005 17:27
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J.Hardie 86-87 p170
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Tue, 08 November 2005 21:51
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/me votes best toymods thread evar! 
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Tue, 08 November 2005 22:45
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| bathurst-91 wrote on Wed, 09 November 2005 08:51 |
/me votes best toymods thread evar!
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i was just about to say that
top work tofu!
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Wed, 09 November 2005 05:06
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Top work!
Ah, the good ol' days of group A...
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Wed, 09 November 2005 11:51
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[quote title=no_tofu_speed wrote on Wed, 09 November 2005 01:10
Wow could be worse of a fright, could have been working under it hehe.
The whole airjack systems. How much extra weight would thye add to the car?
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Not much weight and it is down low. Just the pressure of the air hose pressures the stand down, then a metal sleeve is put around each one to prevent the car dropping unintentionally.
I just went to have a look through my photos, but there are a lot there so I looked in the first packet only. First pic was the GTR on the back of the tow truck! The driver called me an arsehole.. 
I don't have a scanner though...
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Thu, 10 November 2005 02:06
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THANKS!
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Thu, 10 November 2005 02:14
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awesome work mate!
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Fri, 11 November 2005 04:14
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Far out awesome thread!.. keep em coming.
On the JH 1000 note, can you get the race's from each year on dvd/video? .. or are they out of production?
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Fri, 11 November 2005 04:17
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| Driftspec wrote on Fri, 11 November 2005 15:14 |
Far out awesome thread!.. keep em coming.
On the JH 1000 note, can you get the race's from each year on dvd/video? .. or are they out of production?
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I have a set that is 6 videos (DVD set was sold out), it has all the years of bathurst and the early phillip island races up to 2001 or 2002. Basically it has the highlights of every bathurst race maybe 20-30 mins of each race depending on how good they were.
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Fri, 11 November 2005 04:27
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| Corona RT142 wrote on Fri, 11 November 2005 14:47 |
| Driftspec wrote on Fri, 11 November 2005 15:14 |
Far out awesome thread!.. keep em coming.
On the JH 1000 note, can you get the race's from each year on dvd/video? .. or are they out of production?
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I have a set that is 6 videos (DVD set was sold out), it has all the years of bathurst and the early phillip island races up to 2001 or 2002. Basically it has the highlights of every bathurst race maybe 20-30 mins of each race depending on how good they were.
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Worth the purchase?
Damn would love to get whole races not just highlights 
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Fri, 11 November 2005 04:34
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It was a present well I told them i wanted it and yeah I guess its worth the money especially when most of the stuff I wasn't alive for or just too young to remember a lot of. It's entertaining and you don't necessarily have to get the whole set.
You can by certain era's ie turbulent years (mid to late 80 to early 90's) out of the series but they are 30 bucks a tape/DVD vs 90 odd bucks for the 6 tape series.
I enjoyed watching it especially the early days which i had only really heard of or seen small snippets of.
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Fri, 11 November 2005 04:48
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| Corona RT142 wrote on Fri, 11 November 2005 15:04 |
It was a present well I told them i wanted it and yeah I guess its worth the money especially when most of the stuff I wasn't alive for or just too young to remember a lot of. It's entertaining and you don't necessarily have to get the whole set.
You can by certain era's ie turbulent years (mid to late 80 to early 90's) out of the series but they are 30 bucks a tape/DVD vs 90 odd bucks for the 6 tape series.
I enjoyed watching it especially the early days which i had only really heard of or seen small snippets of.
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Time to make the purchaes I think  .. found the dvd set for $112 + postage.
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Fri, 11 November 2005 05:00
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Before doing that i'd check your local K-mart store cos thats where i got mine from and paid 90 bucks less staff discount woot, but they may not stock them anymore as it was quite I while ago that i got mine.
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Fri, 11 November 2005 05:03
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| Driftspec wrote on Fri, 11 November 2005 15:48 |
Time to make the purchaes I think .. found the dvd set for $112 + postage.
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can you post a link to it. im thinking of buying it too.
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Fri, 11 November 2005 05:14
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| illuminatus wrote on Fri, 11 November 2005 15:33 |
| Driftspec wrote on Fri, 11 November 2005 15:48 |
Time to make the purchaes I think .. found the dvd set for $112 + postage.
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can you post a link to it. im thinking of buying it too.
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Ok I will check the local stores first
Here is the link I found
http://www.clickdvd.com.au/?titleid=3934
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Fri, 11 November 2005 05:32
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Corona any in-car footage in those bathurst races?
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Fri, 11 November 2005 05:59
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| Arch wrote on Fri, 11 November 2005 16:32 |
Corona any in-car footage in those bathurst races?
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Fuck have to ask the hard questions don't you, to be honest NFI it'd be 2 years since i have watched most of them only recently watched one would be the turbo one and that'd be six months to a years.
I'd say there would be at times possibly the one from where they are talking to Gardener i think then he puts it into the wall. 
What exactly are you after i might pull and out and have a squiz next week (after my last exam on wednesday).
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Fri, 11 November 2005 14:36
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| Arch wrote on Fri, 11 November 2005 16:32 |
Corona any in-car footage in those bathurst races?
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There is a bit.
The first car to have it was Peter Williamsons Celica (about '79?). It was a huge camera with no pan, but you see him hounding the back of Bartletts Camaro from Skyline through the Esses. Another bit has him doing a bit of commentary, and he misses a gear- you can see the tacho needle shoot very high !
The best was Neil Crompton driving Brocks M3. Brock went to the commentary booth and they were firing one liners at each other. Then Brock was giving him pointers as he drove !
You must see the in car of Glenn Seton in the Skyline in the wet in '87 (see the pics of the crashed ae86s). Great car control.
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Sat, 12 November 2005 04:10
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Bugger it im buying those DVDs 
wait, ill get someone to buy it for me for christmas! yey
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Sat, 12 November 2005 05:03
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I have the DVD set. Gotten pissed watching the group A era many a time.
Well worth the purchase.
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Fri, 18 November 2005 04:35
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Few more then Im through........
Aust Motor Racing 86-87 p260
Aust Motor Racing 87-88 p189
Aust Motor Racing 87-88 p248
Aust Motor Racing 88-89 p169
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Fri, 18 November 2005 04:40
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My personal prized find.
Aust Motor Racing 86-87 p204 & 205
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Fri, 18 November 2005 04:43
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Hmmm wonder if the a70 was an m or jz?
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Fri, 18 November 2005 04:45
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| no_tofu_speed wrote on Fri, 18 November 2005 15:13 |
Hmmm wonder if the a70 was an m or jz?
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I belive they were 7M's as the JZA70 never came here...ever
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Fri, 18 November 2005 09:14
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| EMP-2TG wrote on Tue, 08 November 2005 16:48 |
if u ever get the chance to ask bob holden himself he will tell you that the 2 door ae82 handled the best
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Owned!
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Fri, 18 November 2005 13:09
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| drifthax wrote on Fri, 18 November 2005 20:14 |
| EMP-2TG wrote on Tue, 08 November 2005 16:48 |
if u ever get the chance to ask bob holden himself he will tell you that the 2 door ae82 handled the best
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Well its tru that, Theres more pics of Ae86 crashed than ae82s hahaa..
Those pics are just DROOLO of the ae82..
There was a pic further up about a sprinter, 150kw engine at 8300rpm, thats some serious power back then. Would be a bunch of fun!!!! What sort of work would they have done?
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Fri, 18 November 2005 14:08
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nice
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Sun, 20 November 2005 02:54
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Great pics guys! The air hose is the compressed air jacks as has been answered, the Corollas ran 3 jacks rather than 4 to save weight and cost (they are REALLY expensive for what they are). There were quite a few Corollas in Gp A, although as you say many are repainted and most of the TTA ones were sold off to privateers later, some of them have done 4 Bathursts. 1 in the museum as you have found, Bob Holden still has one, John and Brad Stratton up here still have their car (which is an ex TTA car), Scott King has an ex TTA car in Syd which gets bought out for Group C/A historic events, Terry O'Beirne up here has 2, one in WA club racing which is ex Bob Holden - that is at least 7 Corolla Gp A cars left, no doubt there are others too. There was a Group C Celica which was converted to Gp A and run occasionally, parts of that car still exist but I don't know how much. My Supra still exists, as do at least 2 of the MA70's, so that is 10-11 of the Toyota Gp A cars still around.
JA
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Sun, 20 November 2005 09:23
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i'm in the process of printing out all these pics and putting them on the fridge
cheers mate!
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Mon, 21 November 2005 06:03
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| ART Racing wrote on Sun, 20 November 2005 13:54 |
Great pics guys! The air hose is the compressed air jacks as has been answered, the Corollas ran 3 jacks rather than 4 to save weight and cost (they are REALLY expensive for what they are). There were quite a few Corollas in Gp A, although as you say many are repainted and most of the TTA ones were sold off to privateers later, some of them have done 4 Bathursts. 1 in the museum as you have found, Bob Holden still has one, John and Brad Stratton up here still have their car (which is an ex TTA car), Scott King has an ex TTA car in Syd which gets bought out for Group C/A historic events, Terry O'Beirne up here has 2, one in WA club racing which is ex Bob Holden - that is at least 7 Corolla Gp A cars left, no doubt there are others too. There was a Group C Celica which was converted to Gp A and run occasionally, parts of that car still exist but I don't know how much. My Supra still exists, as do at least 2 of the MA70's, so that is 10-11 of the Toyota Gp A cars still around.
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Ah thanks for that filler on where all the cars are sleeping.
btw what is TTA?
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Mon, 21 November 2005 06:23
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Toyota Team Australia at a guess
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Mon, 21 November 2005 07:48
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Yeah, TTA = toyota team australia, TTE = toyota team europe. What ever happened to Group A racing in Australia?
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Mon, 21 November 2005 08:07
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| no_tofu_speed wrote on Mon, 21 November 2005 14:03 |
Ah thanks for that filler on where all the cars are sleeping.
btw what is TTA?
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I'm guessing, but perhaps Toyota Team Australia?
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Mon, 21 November 2005 08:15
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Oh well... I wouldnt have realised.
Heck I cant even read half of those fully sick numberplates lol.
Irrelevent I guess...
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Mon, 21 November 2005 11:01
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Group A died because it required manufacturer support to homologate parts for the cars. That support existed in the early days, but once everyone started exploiting the turbo rules (only penalised 1.4 times the engine capacity for a turbo to start off with, later 1.7, and unlimited intercooler size) you could basically only win with a turbo. As no-one was selling too many turbo cars as standard road cars except Nissan (and to a much lesser extent Ford in Europe) the manufacturers withdrew their support, and it died. The M3s and Commodores etc did have their wins in the later days (88-92), but few and far between in the end, Sierras, GTS-Rs and GTRs ruled, and apart from the 100 R32 GTRs that Nissan bought in you couldn't buy them in Australia, you couldn't even buy the M3 here till much later.
I have some original TTA publicity shots of the 1988 TTA cars, I need a volunteer to put them somewhere where they can be viewed though, send me a PM. All black and white sorry.
JA
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Mon, 21 November 2005 22:48
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| no_tofu_speed wrote on Fri, 18 November 2005 15:43 |
Hmmm wonder if the a70 was an m or jz?
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The MA70's raced were 'turbo A' supra's which were limited production models which had factory extra's for racing. There were only 500 turbo A's made
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Mon, 21 November 2005 22:54
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| Corona RT142 wrote on Mon, 21 November 2005 20:02 |
| smashed_wombat wrote on Mon, 21 November 2005 18:48 |
Yeah, TTA = toyota team australia, TTE = toyota team europe. What ever happened to Group A racing in Australia?
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Got dropped as the GTR was pwning the locals too hard. And the bogans created an up roar over the 1992 Bathurst when Skaife and Lowndes won after they carshed in the red flagged rain marred race .
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The 1992 GTR's was Skaife & Richards, cmon, remember? Thats when Richo called the crowd a pack or arseholes.
Lowndes came into touring cars a few years later i believe, well 1996 i think it was actually caus he won the championship in his debut year! legend.
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Mon, 21 November 2005 23:00
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| zork wrote on Tue, 22 November 2005 09:54 |
| Corona RT142 wrote on Mon, 21 November 2005 20:02 |
| smashed_wombat wrote on Mon, 21 November 2005 18:48 |
Yeah, TTA = toyota team australia, TTE = toyota team europe. What ever happened to Group A racing in Australia?
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Got dropped as the GTR was pwning the locals too hard. And the bogans created an up roar over the 1992 Bathurst when Skaife and Lowndes won after they carshed in the red flagged rain marred race .
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The 1992 GTR's was Skaife & Richards, cmon, remember? Thats when Richo called the crowd a pack or arseholes.
Lowndes came into touring cars a few years later i believe, well 1996 i think it was actually caus he won the championship in his debut year! legend.
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Yep i know don't know why the fuck I wrote that, I knew what I wanted to type but just didn't type it. Brain fade, need more sleep I'll stick to that excuse .
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Mon, 21 November 2005 23:39
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SHOW US THE GROUP A AE92s!!!
well the closest thing i have is a link to the AE92 SX promotional video, it has some group A racing footage of the AE92's where you can see an MA70, AE86 and a couple of other cars too
Careful, it's about 80meg!!
http://www.rollamods.com/videos/rolla3ivx.avi
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