The yank car should be a caddy, something aircraft carrier sized and gets several gallons to the mile, that or a big SUV, besides you inflicted that on the rest of the world.

Yeah I had a couple too, I know you yanks got a different subset of models to where I am (Australia) but there are a few models I’d say meet the criteria for a classic.

Maybe we’ll just have to agree to disagree on that one.

First year of E30 Production was 1982, so 30 years old is very possible for an E30.

I remember back in the ‘90s when they had the cannonball race in the NT, I heard Kevin Bartlett talking about why he would do the Targa Tasmania but not that race, he said in Tassie you had to worry about wallabies, wombats and tassie devils, all of them will put you out of the race but you’ll survive, you can’t say…

The matra had 3 seats side by side, or am I thinking of something else ?

No E24, No care :P

The problem with GT1 specifically and Motorsport rules in general is to get manufacturer interest and still maintain some kind of "fairness".

But it's all so much worse than just that, these people are exporting that kind of thinking along with their oil.

The 12 Hour is fantastic racing, last years finish was awesome too.

AFAIK Acceleron is a division of Monsanto, the less said about the better & also a theoretical sub atomic particle related to dark energy.

If you are interested in the history there is a great documentary made at the time called "This Time Tomorrow" the DVD copy I have also came with another Doco called "Target 200" about the development of the GT40 in the 60s.

Yeah it's bad to see them damaged, but it is far better than have them sit in a glass box in a museum and never perform the task they were designed for ever again.

The 911 GT1 like most of its contemporaries should never have been allowed to run, they never sold enough cars to customers to qualify, but somehow they ran anyway.

Absolutely, I spent the past long weekend watching a couple of hillclimb events in the town I grew up in.

To understand the Ford Laser you have to cast your mind back to late 1970s Australia, Ford was moving from making the Falcon and some locally assembled British Fords (though with engines I doubt were sold in the UK) to building the Falcon and some locally assembled Mazdas, this all behind a very very high wall of…

Where have I seen that before ..... oh yeah

Plenty of emulators available that will run on more or less anything

There never was a homologation rule for prototypes, there was for GT cars. For a while in the 90s the sets of rules governing the two classes made building a GT car a worthwhile option for outright victory, but subsequently the rules have diverged, a GT car hasn't won outright since '98.

My first car was a '73 beetle so these things are close to my heart even now.

I think this is being described by the reputable press as them building a new car, few if any parts will be from the crashed chassis.