History
Car was built as a race car in 1983 by Lloyd Cleaver in NSW and the car started its racing career. It was built up from a 240 2 door body and was built to GT specifications with the remote shifter and larger GT brakes. Stainless steel panel mouldings from a four door GT were then adapted to suit the 2 door and applied. Car started life as white with a blue stripe.
Lloyd raced the car for 4 years and raced it at Amaroo, Oran Park, Lakeside, Sandown, Winton and Surfers before selling it in 1987 to Rhys Davies in NSW who raced it at Amaroo and Oran Park during 1987 and 1988.
In 1989 Rhys sold the car to Ian Wells in Victoria who then proceeded to race it at Winton in 1989 and then sold it to David Segal in Victoria.
David ran the car from 1989 through to 1995 at Calder, Phillip Island, Winton, Sandown.
David sold the car in 1995 to Dominic Leo (son of Tino Leo) In the mid nineties colour was changed to white with a gold stripe. Dom ran the car from 1995 through to 1998 and raced at Phillip Island, Sandown, Winton before selling to myself Paul Atkins in 1998 from South Australia
Since 1998 I have raced at Mallala, Bathurst, Phillip Island, Canberra V8s, Barbegello, Sandown, Melb Grand Prix, Oran Park, Winton, Eastern Creek, Adelaide Clipsal 500, Wakefield Park, Morgan Park, Mount Gambier, Targa Adelaide. and Collingrove.
All up I have raced the car at 80 race meetings since 1998. In 2013 it was repainted as all white and retaining the GT moulds as a point of differernce.
All up based on the 5 log books that have been issued to the car, the car has competed at 181 race meetings in its 38 years of racing.
Modifications
The car runs a 1500 cc Kent block bored out to 1598cc with a Datsun steel crank, Wade camshaft forged pistons and lotus rods. Induction is from a pair of 45mm Weber carburettors and the engine puts out 148HP at 7800RPM
Gearbox is a ford 4 speed with a set of close ratio Quaife straightcut gears and steel synchros. This runs back to an original style differential with a Quaife LSD that runs either 4:4 ratio or 4:7 ratio depending on the race track.
Shockers are Koni fully adjustable with a 25mm sway bar at the front and a panhard bar at the rear
Car runs on original style 13 x 6 inch Hustler mags running 205 x 60 Yokahama A048 tyres. Race weight 840kgs
