Jack. The '93 Bathurst winner is a vitally important race car, as you well know. She book ended a proud period in Australian Motor Racing History where Holden powered production based sedans beat all-comers at Bathurst which began when Harry, Ian & Peter Brock beat the best local 351 GTHO Falcons and 265 Hemi R/T Chargers at Bathurst with a comparatively tiny Holden 202 6 cylinder production based engine in a diminutive Torana. Prior to 1972 & after 1993 all other "Holden" victories at Bathurst were Chev powered. This dazzling run of Holden engined success is worth expanding & many of us are hungry for even the tiniest of details. The history of the 1972 Bathurst winning GTR XU-1 LJ Torana is a tad blurry & littered with conflicting claims. Many stories & legends have emerged around all of the LJ Toranas sent to Bathurst by Harry's Holden Dealer Team. We know "Tricky" (Dick Johnson) acquired one of these exHDT LJ XU-1s and rebuilt it & raced it with significant success long after the HDT & other front running teams had upgraded to L34s. This patchy & scattered history of "Giant Killer" XU-1s continuing to demonstrate their staggering potential to race on successfully way beyond any reasonable expectation is hard to track down & should have been gathered up into a 10 volume set of glossy magazines & videos 20 years ago & before so many of the genuine heros involved lost track of what transpired. You are right now nearing the completion of the very last car which completed this amazing tract in Holden Motor Racing History. As the very last Holden powered car to win at Bathurst, the '93 Perkins Engineering Castrol Car is the very last of her kind & every speck of her entire history is of paramount importance to all of us who have watched on over the decades while our beloved Holdens powered to victory in thousands of races here in Australia & overseas. It's pretty much too late to recover all of the true & correct History of the HDT XU-1s. However, I envisage someone capable & motivated like yourself could track down all of the race history of the '93 car & I ask you if you might devote the time needed to such a project. The '93 Bathurst Winner is "Movie Star" material & her life story should be told. You are now completing the final chapter in that history by giving her a "Fairy Tale Ending" as an immaculately reclaimed & restored living & breathing example of her former fabulous self. I understand the mammoth amount of time required to bring this car back to life virtually exactly as she was when she earned her rights to her entries in the history books. I can only estimate the total financial outlay... Probably 10 times the cost to build her in the first place. I believe this car could star in a full feature movie depicting the life of such a car. Such a documentary/drama would no doubt showcase some nail biting chapters in the long life of this car. You will no doubt know; Shane (SVG) recently carried his Australian V8 SuperCars talent to Chicago in the USA & demonstrated to motor racing fans the world over, how hard Aussies & Kiwis work & have worked to develop our local motor racing cars & skills. The entire world is now primed & hungry for all things Australian Motor Racing & the US has recently adopted much of what we've enjoyed here for decades & they've reconfigured NASCAR lately to accommodate cars & tracks very similar to ours. What we here in Australia built into our own unique motor racing format is good & desirable & now in global demand. The '93 car is a beautiful time capsule representing the dawn of the V8 SuperCars period which all started in 1993. You have the basis of a block buster movie right there in your workshop & a window of opportunity has opened hugely. The entire history of that car from beginning to today & all the effort Larry & his team invested in the build & success of that car is legendary stuff. Larry was a primary motivator in the original V8 SuperCars format which is right now gaining global attention like never before. I recommend gathering up as much of that history as you can including any of the original build process, prior achievements of Larry Perkins plus the later successes & taking the lot to a script writer. We were always on the right track here in Australia. People wanted to see what our locally available cars could do right from the very beginning of the Australian Touring Car Championships & the Manufacturers Championships all those decades ago. Shane Van Gisbergen has just proven this to the entire motor racing world. Our ideas of how motor racing should be & could be were damn good ideas. Your Ol' Man took his towering ability to International Formula One & came away empty handed. He returned to Australia & hooked up with some of our most enigmatic legends like the amazing Captain Peter Janson & built himself a very successful life & carreer around real grass roots motor racing adored by real people interested in what locally built cars could achieve. We were always ahead of the game & Larry was right at the front. Please have a think on this. You have the basis of what the whole world is keen on uncovering. The entire world is open to everything Australian Motor Racing & you have the best ingredients right there at your fingertips. Many thanks to you. Saving Larry's brilliantly constructed cars is absolutely monumental stuff. The fact the car even still exists is miraculous in itself. Your ability to restore them to such a high standard is truly commendable. I look forward to seeing & hearing the '93 car back on track where she really belongs. A full feature film is justifiable all things considered. The world is ready for this. Thanks for your efforts & devotion. The cars are beautiful.
Hi Jack. Are these windscreens original or are both of them brand new? If brand new, I didn't know that Pilkinton was still in business as I knew long before Holden shut down Holden were sourcing their windscreens from overseas.
Thanks! I cant speak on behalf of the 1994 car as that's owned by a private owner, but we need to get them finished, run them on track, make sure all is good and then you'll see them at various events hopefully!!
Another cracking episode today Jack, 1993 Commie is looking the Goods, hoping to, and looking forward to seeing Larry take it for a spin around Bathurst, all the best to Matty, and he does a fantastic job, catch you all again on the next 1👊😊 Cheers🍺🍻 KC 🇦🇺🤝🇦🇺😎👍✌
Thanks so much for providing these insights, I was 12 years old watching Larry’s legendary last to 1st and have followed bulletproof engineering ever since, awesome to now see how it all works behind the scenes, thanks again!!
It seals the screen in place underneath it and beside it. The foam tape is next to the urethane not on top. This then fixes the glass into place in one of the most rigid ways possible
Curious would original rear screens of had SS or Standard rear glass to suit rear spoiler? Definitely two different screens available as I believe 94 on video has an SS rear screen 93 doesn't. Eaither way awesome job would of been hard to source original front screen
@@perkinsengineering yeah ok I can't post photos but where the parcel shelf brake light would of been on a road car i can see heated lines curve around. On an SS the brake light was on rear spoiler so heater lines run straight across. If you see the two side by side would know what I'm looking at.
@@neilgrayson1723 they do curve, it’s that the 94 car has a black parcel shelf and you can’t see it like you can on the 93 car with a white parcel shelf. Both screens are identical 👍
@@perkinsengineering The Dipper is a ton of fun for spectators. There's another spot where you get severe spine tingles because you see the whole field roaring straight at you under full power at the beginning & after every safety car restart. They drag race right past you & you can hear valve trains & pump drives screaming for mercy on approach, then exhaust notes change on upshifts as they power away. You hear the engines flare as the back tyres leave the ground plus the engines groan when those back tyres re-attach to planet Earth. When only one or two cars rip past, you can hear the exhaust note under full power again as cars fight for power down grip leaving Griffins & starting the climb up to the Cutting & anything with a crisp note like a 1993 Bathurst winner can still be heard, exhaust blasting, on the climb out of the Cutting. The sound echos & reverberates off the mountainside straight down to you & even though a car has disappeared out of view, you can still hear it all the way to the very top. That spot is beside the first hump on Mountain Straight. It's private property & prior arrangements must be made. I spent the entire Wednesday to Sunday night there in 2007 & the most stunning car up that part of the circuit throughout the entire meeting was Tilley's XY Falcon running in MuscleCar Masters. The Lowndes/Whincup Falcon which won on the Sunday sounded like a vaccuum cleaner compared to that screaming hot old tech 351 Clevo on insufficient rubber. If you can swing it... Make the prior arrangements & spend an hour or so at that spot on the Friday or the Saturday if your Sunday's commitments do not permit. This vantage point is right behind the infield camping area & the first private property on Mountain Straight. You can see the carnage of Hell Corner & the mad brake testing into Griffin's and the soundtrack is simply awesome. I stood no more than 2 metres from the track surface & every time a bunch of V8s came hurtling at me, I found myself instinctively taking 2 steps back. You're that close to the action & it blows your mind.
Lexan/polycarp windshields are the worse, having glass is waay better.
There's an argument both ways, not having shattering glass in a race car is a positive to me.
Jack.
The '93 Bathurst winner is a vitally important race car, as you well know. She book ended a proud period in Australian Motor Racing History where Holden powered production based sedans beat all-comers at Bathurst which began when Harry, Ian & Peter Brock beat the best local 351 GTHO Falcons and 265 Hemi R/T Chargers at Bathurst with a comparatively tiny Holden 202 6 cylinder production based engine in a diminutive Torana. Prior to 1972 & after 1993 all other "Holden" victories at Bathurst were Chev powered. This dazzling run of Holden engined success is worth expanding & many of us are hungry for even the tiniest of details. The history of the 1972 Bathurst winning GTR XU-1 LJ Torana is a tad blurry & littered with conflicting claims. Many stories & legends have emerged around all of the LJ Toranas sent to Bathurst by Harry's Holden Dealer Team. We know "Tricky" (Dick Johnson) acquired one of these exHDT LJ XU-1s and rebuilt it & raced it with significant success long after the HDT & other front running teams had upgraded to L34s. This patchy & scattered history of "Giant Killer" XU-1s continuing to demonstrate their staggering potential to race on successfully way beyond any reasonable expectation is hard to track down & should have been gathered up into a 10 volume set of glossy magazines & videos 20 years ago & before so many of the genuine heros involved lost track of what transpired.
You are right now nearing the completion of the very last car which completed this amazing tract in Holden Motor Racing History. As the very last Holden powered car to win at Bathurst, the '93 Perkins Engineering Castrol Car is the very last of her kind & every speck of her entire history is of paramount importance to all of us who have watched on over the decades while our beloved Holdens powered to victory in thousands of races here in Australia & overseas. It's pretty much too late to recover all of the true & correct History of the HDT XU-1s. However, I envisage someone capable & motivated like yourself could track down all of the race history of the '93 car & I ask you if you might devote the time needed to such a project.
The '93 Bathurst Winner is "Movie Star" material & her life story should be told. You are now completing the final chapter in that history by giving her a "Fairy Tale Ending" as an immaculately reclaimed & restored living & breathing example of her former fabulous self. I understand the mammoth amount of time required to bring this car back to life virtually exactly as she was when she earned her rights to her entries in the history books. I can only estimate the total financial outlay... Probably 10 times the cost to build her in the first place. I believe this car could star in a full feature movie depicting the life of such a car. Such a documentary/drama would no doubt showcase some nail biting chapters in the long life of this car.
You will no doubt know; Shane (SVG) recently carried his Australian V8 SuperCars talent to Chicago in the USA & demonstrated to motor racing fans the world over, how hard Aussies & Kiwis work & have worked to develop our local motor racing cars & skills. The entire world is now primed & hungry for all things Australian Motor Racing & the US has recently adopted much of what we've enjoyed here for decades & they've reconfigured NASCAR lately to accommodate cars & tracks very similar to ours. What we here in Australia built into our own unique motor racing format is good & desirable & now in global demand. The '93 car is a beautiful time capsule representing the dawn of the V8 SuperCars period which all started in 1993. You have the basis of a block buster movie right there in your workshop & a window of opportunity has opened hugely. The entire history of that car from beginning to today & all the effort Larry & his team invested in the build & success of that car is legendary stuff. Larry was a primary motivator in the original V8 SuperCars format which is right now gaining global attention like never before. I recommend gathering up as much of that history as you can including any of the original build process, prior achievements of Larry Perkins plus the later successes & taking the lot to a script writer.
We were always on the right track here in Australia. People wanted to see what our locally available cars could do right from the very beginning of the Australian Touring Car Championships & the Manufacturers Championships all those decades ago. Shane Van Gisbergen has just proven this to the entire motor racing world. Our ideas of how motor racing should be & could be were damn good ideas. Your Ol' Man took his towering ability to International Formula One & came away empty handed. He returned to Australia & hooked up with some of our most enigmatic legends like the amazing Captain Peter Janson & built himself a very successful life & carreer around real grass roots motor racing adored by real people interested in what locally built cars could achieve. We were always ahead of the game & Larry was right at the front.
Please have a think on this. You have the basis of what the whole world is keen on uncovering. The entire world is open to everything Australian Motor Racing & you have the best ingredients right there at your fingertips.
Many thanks to you. Saving Larry's brilliantly constructed cars is absolutely monumental stuff. The fact the car even still exists is miraculous in itself. Your ability to restore them to such a high standard is truly commendable. I look forward to seeing & hearing the '93 car back on track where she really belongs. A full feature film is justifiable all things considered. The world is ready for this.
Thanks for your efforts & devotion. The cars are beautiful.
Cheers and much appreciated!
Hi Jack. Are these windscreens original or are both of them brand new? If brand new, I didn't know that Pilkinton was still in business as I knew long before Holden shut down Holden were sourcing their windscreens from overseas.
Unfortunately not brand new, they are from the donor road cars we used for parts!
Love these videos Jack, what's the long term plan once they are finished, display somewhere or sell them off ?
Thanks! I cant speak on behalf of the 1994 car as that's owned by a private owner, but we need to get them finished, run them on track, make sure all is good and then you'll see them at various events hopefully!!
Awesome! What's the purpose of the center stay for the front screens when they're not polycarbonate so don't flex?
Good question, safety and a little bit of rigidity. Remember when HRT tried chucking a bucket of water at one of their cars at Sandown?
Another cracking episode today Jack, 1993 Commie is looking the Goods, hoping to, and looking forward to seeing Larry take it for a spin around Bathurst, all the best to Matty, and he does a fantastic job, catch you all again on the next 1👊😊 Cheers🍺🍻 KC 🇦🇺🤝🇦🇺😎👍✌
Cheers KC!
killer job matty looks factory getting there Jack hope dad gets a chance to belt down conrod one more time
Yeah that would be sweet!
@@perkinsengineering And you need to bolt the camera down to this time , remember what happen with the VW .
Great job, but you may want to do something about the mice in the shop lol
Hahaha nah no mice ;)
😜👍🇦🇺
Cheers!
That 1993 car is my favourite car love watching Bathurst that year and lots of times since thanks to youtube
Cheers, i also spend hours on here watching cool old videos!
Looks better than the road car rubbers
Agree!
Looks awesome! Where the hell did you find NOS Pilkington screens? I need some!
I wish they were NOS! They came out of road cars.
At least 3 tenths in that.. love the Vids
And the rest!!!! Cheers
Hey Jack. Love your work 👍
Many thanks, cheers!
People like matty are true unsung heroes of motorsport
Absolutely right!
Plus he’s the nicest guy you’ll ever meet! Salt of the earth!
Better than factory 👍
Not bad hey!
Jack I still have the original screens in my LX Toranas. Definitely would be better than the original screen rubbers. Great job 😂 Gettin closer Jack.
Nice one! Cheers!
Thanks so much for providing these insights, I was 12 years old watching Larry’s legendary last to 1st and have followed bulletproof engineering ever since, awesome to now see how it all works behind the scenes, thanks again!!
Cheers for the note!
Looks awesome Jack, these cars will be like works of art when they’re done. Are they standard road car glass, or something special for racing?
Standard Pilkington Road Car glass
ACI Pilkington Glass Has Class. Or so the add went.
Crikey they are coming up a treat. Can’t wait to see him. Hit the track bring back the old days
Arent they!!! Cheers!
Great work boys! Matty is certainly one of my favourite blokes at the track.
Yeah he's a legend! Cheers!
Wow not a bad job looks better than oem rubber anyway 👌
100% Cheers!
The VN/VP didn't use rubber to hold in there windscreens.
Well there you go!
Great job with the windscreen's very neat
Matty does a superb job! Cheers!
Fantastic stuff, thanks Jack!
Cheers!
How does the urethane add rigidity if it’s only applied on top of foam tape? Or did I missunderstand the process?
It seals the screen in place underneath it and beside it. The foam tape is next to the urethane not on top. This then fixes the glass into place in one of the most rigid ways possible
@@perkinsengineering makes sense, cheers.
Awesome work Jack.
Cant wait fir the track day episode! Hopefully some good footage of yourself and LP giving her a workout!👍🏻
Yes thats the plan!!
Curious would original rear screens of had SS or Standard rear glass to suit rear spoiler? Definitely two different screens available as I believe 94 on video has an SS rear screen 93 doesn't. Eaither way awesome job would of been hard to source original front screen
93 and 94 have identical rear screens 👍
@@perkinsengineering yeah ok I can't post photos but where the parcel shelf brake light would of been on a road car i can see heated lines curve around. On an SS the brake light was on rear spoiler so heater lines run straight across. If you see the two side by side would know what I'm looking at.
@@neilgrayson1723 they do curve, it’s that the 94 car has a black parcel shelf and you can’t see it like you can on the 93 car with a white parcel shelf. Both screens are identical 👍
Thanks from England.
Thanks for tuning in!!
whats under the red car cover Jack ?
2015 HRT Holden Commodore VF
What an art form. The final Uri looks like the factory moulding
Looks ace doesn't it!
@@perkinsengineering bloody terrific
awesome stuff Jack..cant wait to see em back on track...
Cheers!
All 3 wheels through the corkscrew.
@@mrwolsy3696 you mean the dipper?
@@perkinsengineering thanks yes Jack, i got mixed up with Laguna Seca.
@@perkinsengineering
The Dipper is a ton of fun for spectators.
There's another spot where you get severe spine tingles because you see the whole field roaring straight at you under full power at the beginning & after every safety car restart. They drag race right past you & you can hear valve trains & pump drives screaming for mercy on approach, then exhaust notes change on upshifts as they power away. You hear the engines flare as the back tyres leave the ground plus the engines groan when those back tyres re-attach to planet Earth. When only one or two cars rip past, you can hear the exhaust note under full power again as cars fight for power down grip leaving Griffins & starting the climb up to the Cutting & anything with a crisp note like a 1993 Bathurst winner can still be heard, exhaust blasting, on the climb out of the Cutting. The sound echos & reverberates off the mountainside straight down to you & even though a car has disappeared out of view, you can still hear it all the way to the very top.
That spot is beside the first hump on Mountain Straight. It's private property & prior arrangements must be made. I spent the entire Wednesday to Sunday night there in 2007 & the most stunning car up that part of the circuit throughout the entire meeting was Tilley's XY Falcon running in MuscleCar Masters. The Lowndes/Whincup Falcon which won on the Sunday sounded like a vaccuum cleaner compared to that screaming hot old tech 351 Clevo on insufficient rubber.
If you can swing it... Make the prior arrangements & spend an hour or so at that spot on the Friday or the Saturday if your Sunday's commitments do not permit. This vantage point is right behind the infield camping area & the first private property on Mountain Straight. You can see the carnage of Hell Corner & the mad brake testing into Griffin's and the soundtrack is simply awesome. I stood no more than 2 metres from the track surface & every time a bunch of V8s came hurtling at me, I found myself instinctively taking 2 steps back. You're that close to the action & it blows your mind.
noticed you have the fuel fillers set to opposite sides on each car
Negative. There’s a fuel filler in both rear quarter panels on both cars