What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
Jim Richards car. As a 4 year old in NZ dad would walk us to the garage at the end of the street where he used to build his racecars then out to the track to watch him on weekends. After we moved to Australia he'd then take us out to watch a kiwi killing everyone in the Australian driving chanpionship driving that BMW. Made a pretty big impact on a 14/15 year old seeing another kiwi beating the Australians on their turf. Then the Australian grand prix started so automatically I was drawn to the F1 car in the JPS livery that was was having the wheels driven off it by the bloke with the yellow helmet. Fwiw after that Jim Richards moved on to Nissan and was the first driver to start winning in the R32 GTR.
But basically my whole love of motorsport and driving starts with that 635CSI. Just a beautiful racecar.
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Yeah, the 635csi made such an elegant race car
John Player Special livery.
Jim was a great driver - still is, he does the occasional event!Originally Posted by IMOA
2nd in Bathurst 1000 wins (and his son has 5 - they shared a podium a few times)
Won with the GTR and gave the infamous "pack of arseholes" line.
But that was a great car and great livery.
Oh and "TAA" - an airline that is no more (got merged with QANTAS). Had a cousin who worked for them and she featured in some of the tv ads.
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