1990 bathurst winning walkinshaw driven by win percy/alan grice does anyone out there know if the kit on this car would have any identifying marks/imprints on it or any history on it from after it won bathurst? the reason i ask is that my bumper and bonnet have been moulded off the kit from the bathurst winning walky anyone know anything????

I read (a long time ago now) in a series of "Where are they now?" articles about all the Bathurst winning cars that the 1990 winning car was in Tom Walkinshaw's collection/museum in the UK. Now that TWR has gone to the wall and all the assets sold off I wonder where it is now?

some pommy is probably driving it around the UK.. eating all the 4cyl beamers...

I don't think you'd be driving something like that on the road, and it was probably privatly owned by Tom, not by TWR, so its prolly still safe in his hands.

hmmm, just think of it... you're taking a holiday in the UK and all of a sudden you hear a rumble and a Walky goes flying past.... that would make my holiday perfect...

**** yeah... now that would be kool!!

I'm pretty sure they have got one or two over there, every now and then some rich guy imports a HSV just to be different.

the percy/grice bathurst winner is in nz! my mates boss loooked at buying it for track racing it. not sure what the history of it is but it has been painted yellow! what an injustice to a legendary machine!

Thats just wrong, it should be back here on display at MHRT.

I have the 1:32 version of it......lol....

The Grice/Percy Bathurst car is now owned by Peter Champion who also owns numerous other bathurst winning commodores. It is in mint condition throughout - I have witnessed it first hand. Walkinshaw Wagon - your mates boss was pulling himself when he busted out that story

This is what I read in an article about this car: In 1988 there were two HRT cars at Bathurst. One was built by Perkins in Aus and the other by TWR in England. The TWR car lasted a very short time, while the Perkins car was doing pretty well until Walkinshaw himself took it over and flogged it until it died. The 1990 winner was the 1988 English TWR car. It didn't compete in the 1989 Bathurst 1000 but was entered and won in 1990. After more than a year doing promotional work in Aus it was taken to England to Walkinshaw's museum. I got most of this info from "Motor Racing Australia" May 1993.

For those that watched the Bathurst race last year then you would have seen the 1990 Walkinshaw driven by Grice around the mountain in the '25th anniversary of the Commodore' parade lap. Corsa

roger that "the great one" must be in aus then. 10-4 mental note: stop telling people that my bumper is moulded off the actual one that won bathurst! coz it cant have been thanks for the info guys!

Walkinshaw wagon, even if it was, i verry much doubt it would have any markings to say it was from that car. i have a mould of an orig walky kit, and i dont have the stamp, or any other marks like that.

This is only a guess on my part, but back when they were Holden's front-line weapon in the Group A races, and for years later when they were still being raced by privateers, I'd bet that the kits on the race cars were made up cheaply by the hundred for endless replacement on cars that suffered race damage. I don't reckon they'd be genuine HSV parts that the owner of a road-going Walky would buy over the counter at the Holden dealer, and as such the race car kits wouldn't have HSV or any other kind of id on them.

Check out the latest issue of Australian Muscle Car as they have a great article (20 or so pages) on the 1990 Bathurst winner. It now lives at HSV/HRT headquarters in Melbourne after being sold off when TWR went into liquidation. Luckily HSV/HRT bought it and shipped it back to where it belongs. It is still exactly as it was when it won Bathurst back in 1990.

sweeeeeeeeeeeeet ill be waiting keenly for that one being nz it mnay be a week or 2 before i see it thanks for the heads up!

And the intersting thing to note about this car is that it still has the original HSV build plate attached to the firewall. Corsa Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

love to see it - are you able to see this. do hrt/hsv have a museum?