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I intend to make an amateur doco on the Gibson Motorsport Group A R32 Skylines

If anyone has any stories, anecdotes, gossip, histories, photos of the cars or team both on or off the track or home videos I would be grateful if you could email them to me or post them up here.

I already have the story from the Godzilla site, the 1990 Wheels article and seen the photos on the Chris Wilson thread .

The interest was sparked by this car coming back to Oz

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Good luck, it will interesting to see the results.

The owner of the ex Richards car is Terry Ashwood, and as a collector he has a wealth of information about the car, if he is willing to help out you will get some good stuff. Contact r31gun on these forums, he catches up with Terry regularly. The other Gibson car is in Lindsay Fox's collection at Phillip Island, and the GIO car has recently returned to Aus and is back on tracks again too. It looks like this one is the 5th one that disappeared to asia for a while?

There is also a thread on Skylines Downunder about the 91?92? season in the form of race reports including lap times, incidents etc etc for all the skylines, have a look for that too.

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The GIO car was recently purchased by Gavin Strongman in Victoria. He is on SAU but has only posted once to twice when ppl were debating whether the DR30 he owns is a genuine GMS car. Of course it is, only previous owners had tampered with it so that it was not completely original. My understanding he was going to be restoring it, but with the purchase of the GIO car i understand that the DR30 is up for sale.

I have only briefly chatted to Gavin, mostly about his mint 240Z (recently sold to another Victorian), he seems a great guy and if contacted would probably hep out. The Buzz off SAU knows him.

The car pictured above is the 1991 Bathurst winning car, which i undersant remains pretty unmolested and is returning to Aus.

lotus1, am i correct in saying that you purchased the Murray Carter DR30 a few years back?

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Not sure if you have this but has some usefull information, especially towards the end has a write up on the history of the Gibson Motorsport cars, event results, protests etc...

http://members.iinet.net.au/~robi/skylinebook.pdf

Enjoy...

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Not sure if you have this but has some usefull information, especially towards the end has a write up on the history of the Gibson Motorsport cars, event results, protests etc...

http://members.iinet.net.au/~robi/skylinebook.pdf

Enjoy...

Thanks. It looks like the same history as on the Godzilla.com site but I'll go through it carefully and compare.

Any photos out there?

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The GIO car was recently purchased by Gavin Strongman in Victoria. He is on SAU but has only posted once to twice when ppl were debating whether the DR30 he owns is a genuine GMS car. Of course it is, only previous owners had tampered with it so that it was not completely original. My understanding he was going to be restoring it, but with the purchase of the GIO car i understand that the DR30 is up for sale.

I have only briefly chatted to Gavin, mostly about his mint 240Z (recently sold to another Victorian), he seems a great guy and if contacted would probably hep out. The Buzz off SAU knows him.

The car pictured above is the 1991 Bathurst winning car, which i undersant remains pretty unmolested and is returning to Aus.

lotus1, am i correct in saying that you purchased the Murray Carter DR30 a few years back?

A doco sounds like a great idea, I do know Gavin, he would be more than happy to help out I'd imagine, you can generally find him most months at the NDSOC monthly club meeting.

I took a heap of pics of the GIO car at Phillip Island earlier this year which I will put up on the net soon.

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a man after my own heart ! :D

do you have the 91 & 92 bathurst highlights pakage. There is quite a bit of hype in those races mainly from the media, Mike Raymond in paticular )Chan 7(. They are seeded in one of my posts ... i will dig it up if it will help!

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This looks to be a great project. I wish you luck with it!

Is this car recently imported from Asia? Is this (one of) the Gibson cars that was sold? I know nothing about this vehcile at all.....

Sure is

Would it be rude to ask what sort of $$ that set you back, always intrested to see what these old race cars with history worth.

Good luck with it as well hope you keep up updated with pics.

Ah GTR32G I can only say it cost a motza, sorry I can't be more forthcoming

A doco sounds like a great idea, I do know Gavin, he would be more than happy to help out I'd imagine, you can generally find him most months at the NDSOC monthly club meeting.

I took a heap of pics of the GIO car at Phillip Island earlier this year which I will put up on the net soon.

Thanks I look forward to seeing those pictures. I will give Gavin a call Can you pm me his number if you have it

a man after my own heart ! :)

do you have the 91 & 92 bathurst highlights pakage. There is quite a bit of hype in those races mainly from the media, Mike Raymond in paticular )Chan 7(. They are seeded in one of my posts ... i will dig it up if it will help!

I have the The Great Race videos. If they aren't the same would you mind digging it up

Does anyone have the full TV telecast of the 90,91 and 92 Bathurst 1000 races. Any chance of getting a copy or where can I find copies

I have spoken to Terry Ashwood and next job is to give him a call and arrange to go and see his R32 and talk to him about the history Nice bloke

Jetwreck I will sort out those piccies tonight

I have spoken to Fred Gibson He is going to have a look at the car when it arrives and I'll get some good history then.

I think I will include the restoration of the car in the doco. One problem is what year do I restore it to

The colours at the moment are Winfield red/white as it was in 92 and as run by the previous owner in the Asian TCC So if I kept those colours I would not respray but keep the original patina inside and out

Then again in the 90 or 91 Nissan colours it ran without restriction. In the 92 Winfield colours it would have to have weight and turbo restrictions and would be down a fair bit on the power that made it Godzilla

Any comments guys

Thanks for the help so far

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go the 91 livery, there is already 2 Winfield cars out there. If it won the ATCC why not paint it in the colours that it won in, plus i like the old nissan motorsport livery :)

And if the decision is just too hard, i'll more than gladly take it :)

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