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Title: Solved NIC#767 - 1973 Valiant Charger Repco of John McCormack
Post by: nicanary on March 04, 2017, 06:21:16 AM
Some interesting shopping on the passenger's seat. What is this car, and who built it?
Title: Re: NIC#767
Post by: nicanary on April 18, 2017, 10:28:42 AM
Experts?
Title: Re: NIC#767
Post by: tobytwirl on April 18, 2017, 09:28:53 PM
Is it a saloon car?
Title: Re: NIC#767
Post by: Willie McCrum on April 19, 2017, 02:52:58 AM
Some sort of special saloon in unassembled form.  There's a chunky bit of Hewland visible on the back of the engine block, but it and its assorted bits wouldn't fit properly anywhere near where it's sitting in the picture.
Intriguing...
Title: Re: NIC#767
Post by: nicanary on April 19, 2017, 03:48:05 AM
Quote from: Willie McCrum on April 19, 2017, 02:52:58 AM
Some sort of special saloon in unassembled form.  There's a chunky bit of Hewland visible on the back of the engine block, but it and its assorted bits wouldn't fit properly anywhere near where it's sitting in the picture.
Intriguing...

It is indeed a saloon car, not a Special Saloon as we in the UK know it, but nontheless very much a one-off. TBH I don't know the exact configuration of gearbox and transmission, but the engine is where it is.
Title: Re: NIC#767
Post by: tobytwirl on April 19, 2017, 03:00:23 PM
Is it British?
Title: Re: NIC#767
Post by: nicanary on April 19, 2017, 03:59:50 PM
Quote from: tobytwirl on April 19, 2017, 03:00:23 PM
Is it British?

No.
Title: Re: NIC#767
Post by: Allan L on April 19, 2017, 05:23:39 PM
As it's not a British Super Saloon I'll guess it's Australian.
Spent a bit of time looking at the DFVW and Skoda Super Saloons before I remembered not to - quite interesting though!
Title: Re: NIC#767
Post by: nicanary on April 20, 2017, 04:06:20 AM
Quote from: Allan L on April 19, 2017, 05:23:39 PM
As it's not a British Super Saloon I'll guess it's Australian.
Spent a bit of time looking at the DFVW and Skoda Super Saloons before I remembered not to - quite interesting though!

Yes - it was built and raced in Australia.
Title: Re: NIC#767
Post by: tobytwirl on April 20, 2017, 07:17:15 AM
It is, I believe, the Valiant Charger Repco built by Elfin and John McCormack's team in 1973. It has a 495bhp Repco F5000 engine/ Hewland DG300 box alongside the driver (McCormack) and was very successful in 1974-5.
Title: Re: NIC#767
Post by: nicanary on April 20, 2017, 07:29:02 AM
Quote from: tobytwirl on April 20, 2017, 07:17:15 AM
It is, I believe, the Valiant Charger Repco built by Elfin and John McCormack's team in 1973. It has a 495bhp Repco F5000 engine/ Hewland DG300 box alongside the driver (McCormack) and was very successful in 1974-5.

That's the car! Well solved.

Presumably it was an attempt to create a mid-engined car for optimum weight distribution. I think (without checking) that it raced in GT events rather than saloon car races.
Title: Re: NIC#767
Post by: nicanary on April 20, 2017, 07:32:14 AM
Here's what it looked like from the outside.