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12-13-2003, 09:04 PM
I've just watched channel 10's coverage of the 7th "Classic Adelaide" targa held late last month. But they only displayed the results of the top ten placings. Does anyone know where I can view the full results?
It was a great line-up, a virtual car show to please almost everyone's tastes with a feild of $35 million worth of pre '80s classics.
Sorry I am unable to find much of the event online, neither the results nor the entry list but this (copied from www.classicadelaide.com.au) comes close.
A record entry of nearly 220 sports, classic and special cars spanning 83 years of motoring will take part in this year's 7th annual Classic Adelaide from 19-23 November.
This compares with the 191 enthusiasts who took part in last year's Rally and 136 in 2001.
Headed by motor racing legends Sir Jack Brabham, Sir Stirling Moss and Vern Schuppan in factory-entered Mercedes-Benz sports cars and seven-time Bathurst winner Jim Richards in a brand new Porsche 911 GT2, this year's entry included some of the rarest and most valuable sporting cars ever to participate in an Australian tarmac rally.
A brace of genuine racing D-type Jaguars and two rare Ferraris from the 1950s, a genuine ex-Le Mans factory GT 40 Ford from the 1960s, classic RS Porsches from the 1970s, a 2003 model Ferrari 360 Stradale are amongst the feast of fabulous cars.
Motor manufacturers are back in force to support the 2003 Classic Adelaide, with the Mercedes-Benz and Porsche Museums, Daimler Chrysler Australia, Smart and Mitsubishi all entering vehicles for driving legends or the media.
.............
Six time Targa Tasmania winners, Jim Richards and Barry Oliver, for example, are getting to know Jim's brand new 450HP Porsche 911 GT2, which only arrived in Australia late last month. The newly crowned 2003 Carrera Cup Champion and seven-time Bathurst winner will be using the 'Sport' as a recce run for next year's Classic Adelaide, when he plans to return with the replica 1974 Porsche 911 RSR he has been painstakingly putting together over the past months.
Jim will be in excellent company in the Thoroughbred Sport, sharing the road with three Porsche 911 GT3 models, the 1959 Lister Jaguar 'Knobbly' brought out by Britain's Nick Linney, the genuine ex-Le Mans factory Ford GT40 coupe owned and driven by the UK's Martin Colvill and the replica 1953 Jaguar C-type of New Zealand's Jim Wallace.
THE COMUNET COMPETITION
The Comunet Competition of the 2003 Classic Adelaide Rally is the business end of the Rally for the cream of Australia's tarmac rally drivers, where every second counts and reputations are won and lost over the event's 250km of closed-road special stages.
Unlike the three non-competitive touring categories that precede it each day, the Competition remains a true classic car competition, open only to cars built prior to 1982.
However, as in 2002, the Competition will have three winners sharing equal status. While outright victory in Classic Adelaide will again go to the fastest car and crew over the record 34 special stages, the parallel 'Heritage' competition takes into account each vehicle's age, engine capacity and its degree of modification to determine a handicap winner from amongst all Competition entrants.
At the same time, entrants in cars built prior to 1947 will race for the Shannons Historic Trophy, facing the same challenges as their modern counterparts over the full rally course.
2002 Classic Adelaide outright winners Rex Broadbent and Michael Goedheer in their replica 1974 Porsche 911 3.0RSR are the team to beat in this year's Competition, particularly as the Porsche has been totally stripped down and rebuilt for this year's Rally.
His competition will again come from Adelaide's John Beasley and Henry Lawson in Beasley's indecently fast 1972 Holden Torana XU-1 and Briton Edward Baker with Victoria's Paul Flintoft in Baker's potent V8-engined Sunbeam Tiger. But the dark horse on paper is Steve and Rachael Coad's 'new' 1972 megabuck Monaro GTS, which more than matches the Porsche if power-to-weight.
Add 15 other potent Porsches, 10 hot Falcons and Mustang, 10 Datsuns, 9 Holdens, half a dozen rally Escorts, a brace of V8-engined Perana Capri coupes and numerous Alfas, Mini Coopers, Austin-Healeys, Morgans and Mazdas and it's really anyone's Classic - particularly in the Heritage (handicap) competition, where ultimate brute power is not the ultimate arbiter.
The competition for the Shannons Historic Trophy is equally fierce, with John and Andrew Lawson's very rapid 1938 Alfa Romeo SC 2000 Mille Miglia S roadster facing a bevy of other fabulous old-timers.
Look for and enjoy Michael Hipkins superb 1925 Vauxhall 30/98, Wes Wilkinson's 1920 Frontenac Indianapolis Special Martin Utber and John Felder in their 1930 Oakland 8 and Mark Burns in his 1924 Alvis 12/50SC.
Well, I can tell you that a Porsche 911 won and an Escort was also somewhere in the top five, 3rd I think. A 1971 Holden Monaro placed 5th and a beautifully restored '74 Munro rolled. Many other car-lovers hearts were broken with classics from almost all makes coming to grief in one way or another, mostly crashes into trees. =((
I have no idea where the GTHO Falcon or the GT40 placed and the XU1 Torana was looking pretty for the most.
http://www.classicadelaide.com.au/ca/images2/beasley_small.jpg (http://www.classicadelaide.com.au/ca/images2/beasley.jpg)
click pic to enlarge
For such a big event attracting collectors from all over the world the coverage was pretty lame. My Google search for "Classic Adelaide" Targa turned out pretty sad. :nope:
So if you have either the entrant's list or the full results in a magazine or know of a site that has 'em please do tell.
Thank you.
It was a great line-up, a virtual car show to please almost everyone's tastes with a feild of $35 million worth of pre '80s classics.
Sorry I am unable to find much of the event online, neither the results nor the entry list but this (copied from www.classicadelaide.com.au) comes close.
A record entry of nearly 220 sports, classic and special cars spanning 83 years of motoring will take part in this year's 7th annual Classic Adelaide from 19-23 November.
This compares with the 191 enthusiasts who took part in last year's Rally and 136 in 2001.
Headed by motor racing legends Sir Jack Brabham, Sir Stirling Moss and Vern Schuppan in factory-entered Mercedes-Benz sports cars and seven-time Bathurst winner Jim Richards in a brand new Porsche 911 GT2, this year's entry included some of the rarest and most valuable sporting cars ever to participate in an Australian tarmac rally.
A brace of genuine racing D-type Jaguars and two rare Ferraris from the 1950s, a genuine ex-Le Mans factory GT 40 Ford from the 1960s, classic RS Porsches from the 1970s, a 2003 model Ferrari 360 Stradale are amongst the feast of fabulous cars.
Motor manufacturers are back in force to support the 2003 Classic Adelaide, with the Mercedes-Benz and Porsche Museums, Daimler Chrysler Australia, Smart and Mitsubishi all entering vehicles for driving legends or the media.
.............
Six time Targa Tasmania winners, Jim Richards and Barry Oliver, for example, are getting to know Jim's brand new 450HP Porsche 911 GT2, which only arrived in Australia late last month. The newly crowned 2003 Carrera Cup Champion and seven-time Bathurst winner will be using the 'Sport' as a recce run for next year's Classic Adelaide, when he plans to return with the replica 1974 Porsche 911 RSR he has been painstakingly putting together over the past months.
Jim will be in excellent company in the Thoroughbred Sport, sharing the road with three Porsche 911 GT3 models, the 1959 Lister Jaguar 'Knobbly' brought out by Britain's Nick Linney, the genuine ex-Le Mans factory Ford GT40 coupe owned and driven by the UK's Martin Colvill and the replica 1953 Jaguar C-type of New Zealand's Jim Wallace.
THE COMUNET COMPETITION
The Comunet Competition of the 2003 Classic Adelaide Rally is the business end of the Rally for the cream of Australia's tarmac rally drivers, where every second counts and reputations are won and lost over the event's 250km of closed-road special stages.
Unlike the three non-competitive touring categories that precede it each day, the Competition remains a true classic car competition, open only to cars built prior to 1982.
However, as in 2002, the Competition will have three winners sharing equal status. While outright victory in Classic Adelaide will again go to the fastest car and crew over the record 34 special stages, the parallel 'Heritage' competition takes into account each vehicle's age, engine capacity and its degree of modification to determine a handicap winner from amongst all Competition entrants.
At the same time, entrants in cars built prior to 1947 will race for the Shannons Historic Trophy, facing the same challenges as their modern counterparts over the full rally course.
2002 Classic Adelaide outright winners Rex Broadbent and Michael Goedheer in their replica 1974 Porsche 911 3.0RSR are the team to beat in this year's Competition, particularly as the Porsche has been totally stripped down and rebuilt for this year's Rally.
His competition will again come from Adelaide's John Beasley and Henry Lawson in Beasley's indecently fast 1972 Holden Torana XU-1 and Briton Edward Baker with Victoria's Paul Flintoft in Baker's potent V8-engined Sunbeam Tiger. But the dark horse on paper is Steve and Rachael Coad's 'new' 1972 megabuck Monaro GTS, which more than matches the Porsche if power-to-weight.
Add 15 other potent Porsches, 10 hot Falcons and Mustang, 10 Datsuns, 9 Holdens, half a dozen rally Escorts, a brace of V8-engined Perana Capri coupes and numerous Alfas, Mini Coopers, Austin-Healeys, Morgans and Mazdas and it's really anyone's Classic - particularly in the Heritage (handicap) competition, where ultimate brute power is not the ultimate arbiter.
The competition for the Shannons Historic Trophy is equally fierce, with John and Andrew Lawson's very rapid 1938 Alfa Romeo SC 2000 Mille Miglia S roadster facing a bevy of other fabulous old-timers.
Look for and enjoy Michael Hipkins superb 1925 Vauxhall 30/98, Wes Wilkinson's 1920 Frontenac Indianapolis Special Martin Utber and John Felder in their 1930 Oakland 8 and Mark Burns in his 1924 Alvis 12/50SC.
Well, I can tell you that a Porsche 911 won and an Escort was also somewhere in the top five, 3rd I think. A 1971 Holden Monaro placed 5th and a beautifully restored '74 Munro rolled. Many other car-lovers hearts were broken with classics from almost all makes coming to grief in one way or another, mostly crashes into trees. =((
I have no idea where the GTHO Falcon or the GT40 placed and the XU1 Torana was looking pretty for the most.
http://www.classicadelaide.com.au/ca/images2/beasley_small.jpg (http://www.classicadelaide.com.au/ca/images2/beasley.jpg)
click pic to enlarge
For such a big event attracting collectors from all over the world the coverage was pretty lame. My Google search for "Classic Adelaide" Targa turned out pretty sad. :nope:
So if you have either the entrant's list or the full results in a magazine or know of a site that has 'em please do tell.
Thank you.