A bespoke race automobile and distinctive quantity plate, every owned by two members of an Australian racing dynasty, are heading to public sale and have been tipped to go for strong coin.
Lloyds is internet hosting each Steven Johnson’s ‘Tru-Blu’ tribute Ford Falcon XD race automobile which competed within the Touring Automobile Masters championship, in addition to his father Dick’s ‘Q17’ Queensland heritage quantity plate.
The elder Johnson – a three-time Bathurst 1000 winner – has owned Q17 since at the very least the Nineteen Eighties, when it appeared in a number of books and commercials on his Ford Sierra RS500 highway vehicles, reflecting the well-known quantity #17 he used to win 5 Australian Touring Automobile Championships.
First registered to a Studebaker owned by Alfred L. Stewart in 1929, the Q17 plates at the moment are set to depart the Johnson household for the primary time in nearly 4 many years, with bidding already as much as nearly $90,000 earlier than charges on the time of writing.
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In the meantime, second-generation racer Steven is promoting the Tru-Blu tribute automobile which debuted within the 2020 Touring Automobile Masters championship, and pays tribute to Dick’s Falcon XDs which he campaigned within the 1980 and 1981 ATCC, which resulted in a title win in 1981 together with a Bathurst 1000 victory.
The tribute automobile isn’t as wild because the Group C-spec XD of the Nineteen Eighties, however it has taken benefit of recent developments to be an arguably extra full package deal, with modifications by PACE Improvements to its 351 cubic-inch (5.8-litre) V8 engine.
Its competitors historical past was sadly restricted on account of COVID-related restrictions from 2020 to 2022, although the Falcon has to this point racked up three TCM victories, which included two wins at Bathurst in 2021 – 40 years on from its forebear’s victory.
On the time of writing, bidding for the XD Falcon is as much as $66,000 earlier than public sale charges.
Each auctions are on account of shut on Saturday, October 27 at 12pm AEDT.
The sale of the objects comes as Dick Johnson Racing (DJR) – the household’s Supercars Championship group – prepares to welcome 2023 sequence champion and 2024 Bathurst 1000 winner Brodie Kostecki to the squad subsequent 12 months.
DJR is sitting on 10 driver’s championships (1981, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1995, 2010, 2018, 2019, 2020), and hopes Kostecki can ship an eleventh, alongside veteran team-mate Will Davison.
