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Samuri History - LAL
- Thread starter Rob Gaskin
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JK240
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Hi Steve,
No sorry I've no idea where the Capri is or even if it still exists..?
I'm sure the Samuri Celica was found a few years ago and even mentioned on here somewhere, but I did search the forum and couldn't find anything...?
JK
SeanDezart
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Man, I'd love that !I'm sure the Samuri Celica was found a few years ago and even mentioned on here somewhere, but I did search the forum and couldn't find anything...?
Not classified:
No. Drivers Car Entrant Laps Distance Km/h Reason Gr. Div.
47 Richardson / Walton Datsun 240Z Samuri Conversions with B & W Motors Ltd. 158 Laps GT Div.2
49 Marshall / Lanfranchi / Williams BMW 3.0 Si Mayfair Magazine 157 Laps ser.T Div.2
58 Poole / Tjan / Handley Datsun Sunny Janspeed Engineeing Ltd. 128 Laps Gr.5 Div.1
22 Hamilton / Preece Aston Martin AM V8 Robin Hamilton Aston Martin Specialists 115 Laps Gr.5 Div.3
datsfun
Club Member
And we have a Capri , Celica and now Sunny being discussed.
@ Rob, can you self moderate and tidy up the thread
And we have a Capri , Celica and now Sunny being discussed.
@ Rob, can you self moderate and tidy up the thread
I've moderated Post 2.
Albrecht
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It is indeed a great story, but there were many factors that made it possible. Its hard to imagine such a scenario being possible in the last 30 years, so the end of the Seventies was perhaps the last time for such an extreme example of local 'garagistes' being allowed to take part in their local rounds of a true World Championship series.
Think of it; The car was a well-used example of a road car that Nissan had stopped selling four years earlier. Its race preparation was fairly perfunctory (certainly for the Silverstone round, perhaps less so for the better-prepared entry in the Brands Hatch round) and whilst running in FIA Group 4 it wasn't even prepped to the full potential of the 1977 Group 4 standards. To be blunt, it was always going to outgunned from the get-go.
They - obviously - had no budget, let alone intention, to enter the full championship. I can't imagine they ever dreamed they might win their class and on paper they would have to be very lucky indeed - benefiting from the misfortune of others - to even place well in that class. At Silverstone in Class B they were up against a gaggle of 3-litre Capris and Porsche Carreras/RSRs with a 3-litre BMW thrown in for good measure. At Brands they were up against six Carreras, a lone Mazda RX5 (light and fast) and no less than a factory-entered BMW 320 Turbo in their class.
Rain was a big leveller, and they certainly got it at the Brands Hatch round.
Yes agreed and I realised all that but we should admire the endeavour and wouldn't you tell the story if you had done similar.
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SeanDezart
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Finished in front of an Aston
