martinrs500labatts

i seam to have cornered the ex btcc sierra market atm


that add with the two cars is five years old!

and the same guy had over 20 touring cars including my DTM merc

the only cars i have sean cheap ish are not worth buying i.e not original in any way, and needing to much work.

maybe i should stop hogging them all.

whot you have to remember is these cars are nearly 20 years old and as race cars most have seen a hard life.

in australia they are making as much or more money than here in the uk!

glenn seaton car is around 75k!

dave brodie wonts 50k for his car

brookland car is 45 to 50k and has not run for many years and needs completely going though.

there is one i know off in chesher which is around 30k but its very modded and not very nice i looked at it and decided it was not worth restoring, also not run for eight years and needs a full rebuild, owner wont take a bid! so again not worth considering.

if i hear of anything that is right for you i will let you know.

Nick.

As far as i am aware martin.. Andy Fisher is currently pricing up how much it would cost to get the Brooklyn touring car up and running again.. apparently the guy who owns it is going to have to sit down when he gets the final cost

Mr RS500

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Cheers for the reply Martin

I would love your Labatts car , but sadly a little more than i was looking to spend , altho am i trying to get somthing cheaper than is possible

we shall see

Paul

gus

iTrader: (1)

not a rs500 but very very nice all the same




came from touring car spares site



if only she would let me

martinrs500labatts

HOW ABOUT THIS ONE PAUL,

ANOTHER CAR FROM MY COLLECTION,


GGR001












YOU WONT GTE ANY BETTER HISTORY THAN THIS

GRAHAM GOODE
MIKE NEWMAN
SEAN WALKER
DAIMON HILL


ALL HAVE DRIVEN THIS CAT IN THE BTCC

Tony Ryan

Im not selling that now , got an engine /gearbox package for it going in next week .

Mr RS500

iTrader: (6)

I have kept an eye on this car Martin a great car with great history ,,but there is just somthing about the labatts car

Pm me a price for the GG car tho please

jacko

at least if you get the labats car you have black white and blue

TG91

I HAVE THE FIRST EAVER RS500 BTCC ,
IT WAS OWEND AND BUILT BY GRAHAM HATHAWAY , IT HAS A COMISHION PLATE WITH THE FIRST EAVER 00001 NUMBER ON IT ALSO IT WAS THE ONLY BTCC THAT WAS BUILT FROM LIGHT WEIGHT STEEL .
I AM RESTORING IT AT THE MOMENT , BUT THE SHELL IS VERRY SOUND ,[/color][/b][/b]

Ryan

please post pictures of the restoration if you can?

Many thanks

Ryan

Lambchop

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1st BTCC 500 eh? Bloody hell

As per ryan, get some pics up

Tony Ryan

do you mean the Plate that says
Sierra cosworth motorsport RHD 00000001 ?

martinrs500labatts

In August 1987 Graham scored the first ever BTCC win for the Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500. In the following two years, more cars were built and run from Graham Goode Racing's Leicester premises. In 1988, GGR ran a second BTCC RS500 for Mike Newman and prepared many customer cars for other championships, again with many successes.

Graham's expanding company ran no fewer than three RS500s for the 1989 season, for himself, Mike Newman and Sean Walker. The Sean Walker GGR RS500 was driven by, none other than, 1996 World Formula One Champion, Damon Hill - who was then a Touring Car debutant. More successes followed in 1990, the final year for the turbocharged RS500.

damion hill drove GGR001 (my white listerine car)

the 87 car which goode had the first win in was the gun metal grey listerine car,

sadley writen off in testing late 87,

he then built the his first rs500 race car chassie GGR001 (my white listerine car. history above.

andy rouse used his own chassie numbers and was building group A three door sierra right back to 86 straight after the merker ( xr4t)

eggenberger used ford chassie number from 99260 to 99269
for there works cars and again there own numbers for there customer cars like for alan moffot ect


sounds like you have graham hathways first rs500 race car,

i dont remember the car i would have to check the btcc from 87 for info,

get some pics up of it.

PAUL S

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Every team will claim to have built the first, but the first 500 spec ones were actually converted 3dr touring cars uprated to 500 spec once homologation was complete on 1st August 1987.

At a guess the first completed car will have either been by Eggenberger or Rouse as both had backdoor factory support.

Ford never ever built a 500 touring car themselves, they just supplied parts so there will not be a definative 1st car.

GARETH T

i hate this thread,,, i want the texaco car badly

Tony Ryan

Wrong Graham Martin !

I think the guy has Graham Hathaways 88 car, it came back from Malaysia a year or so back and sold overnight on e-bay recently .
i may be wrong of course but its a nice co-incidence that i was discussing the car with graham H the other week .
The chassis plate for the Ford Motorsport shells all have 0000001 on them , by the way .

martinrs500labatts

tim harveys labatts





eggenberger texaco





lawrence bristow labatts (now thundersalooned by him)

martinrs500labatts

yer but as you say tony its just a chassie plate from ford for a group A shell.



even my old rouse ANZ car was an 87 car from wtcc




so not quite the first rs500

GARETH T

if i was in a better position,,, that car would be sitting in my collection

martin please do not post anymore

martinrs500labatts

any excuse to post pics up. lol

PAUL S

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Tony was that the one ATM brought back. I also heard one came back with a tree growing through it

By the way I hear we have produced a new offspring between us - my lovely body and your hardcore suspension - sounds like its going to be a beast

Tony Ryan

yes, Yes & yes, lol , sounds like Harry Met Sally

BRIGSPORT

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Martin;
If you can afford to buy and restore these dream machines,i think your fookin mental for selling them! If i win the lottery,you won't own any btcc sierras,as they'll all of emigrated to lancashire! (yeah,like fook )

martinrs500labatts

trouble is i keep buying them,

and now have four rs500 race cars and this merc 92 dtm evo2







i have ran out of room to store them all.

Mr RS500

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Martin

I have rrom if you need to store one of the 500"s

snow*

There's a couple of ex touring RS500s here in New Zealand, along with a couple of the Datapost RS1600i's
Most of them have come from the ATCC / Bathurst days and the Nissan, Mobil Wellington Street race (NZ)
Here's the #7 Eggenberger car that won Bathurst, but then 1 month later was disqulified

COMEDY DAN

I am sure Martin even knows the name of the guys cat, who changed the oil at the btc in 1988 at silverstone.

dojj

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some blokes cat changed the oil back in 1988 at silverstone?
just goes to show, anone could get a job in motorsport back in the day

Big G

And I would put money on Martin knowing which kebab house bought the cat after it had died

carlo

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Very intresting these cars & i would love to have one sat bye in the garage

snow*

Tell me about it mate.
I think my favourite is the Dick Johnson Shell sponsered RS500.
The red one that won Bathurst in 1989

carlo

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Yeah i want them all really like the listerine car can mind it & the black on on tele years ago

p.s nice saph in sig

TimC

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why was it disqualified?

RSCossieGaz

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the eggenberger sierra RS500's have without doubt gotta be the most iconic cosworths ever produced.

just love em

1:18 scale is as close as i will get to owning one

carlo

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What hapend to the black listerine car? is it still about

kev 3dr

iTrader: (1)

If i remember right they had the fire extinguisher nozzle aimed at the intercooler and there were reports that they had a secret co2 bottle spraying on to the intercooler lowering the ACT's hence giving more power where needed mainly on the straights

XRT_si

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Texaco cosworth sticks in my memory from a very young age.

But the Labatts Cosworth above looks sooooo cool

Intersting thread

jason_nike

This is great, so much history to look at.
1:18 models for me too.

TG91

I HAVE DECIDED TO SALE MY RS500 GP A BODY SHELL .
TAKE A LOOK ON E-BAY 170113020357

Paulo P

That item number doesn't work for me

This thread has reminded me that I saw this up at Donnington on good Friday, it sounded amazing but got black flagged in the end for noise