Thought we needed a thread to discuss the mighty Group A Sierras.

As it turns out the guy I bought my road car from has a few other toys, including Colin Bonds #8 Sierra. Apparently it is the last Group A sierra ever built and last competed in the 1992 Bathurst 1000.

Glenn Seton is a good mate of the owner, and he'll be running the car at the 50th Anniversary Touring Car meeting in August at Lakeside, which will be the cars first official run since Bathurst. Brett will also be running the car at this years Muscle Car Masters.

Was told that the engine used to run about 30psi of boost in qualifying but they decided to detune it a bit when it made 664hp at the flywheel on the engine dyno!

Here are a few snaps I took at Bretts shed.

That car looks in fantastic condition. Please tell me you have more photo's especially under car?

The car is in great nick and a credit to the owner. Unfortunately I don't have any more pics at this stage but I'm sure I could get some more if need be

I have lots of photos, maybe we could have seperate posts about each car we find so not to mix them up.

I took these at Phillip Island Historics.

Owner - Robert Ingham.
Car - 1987 Bathurst

I have some photos of Longhursts Benson and Hedges car from the Bowdens Museum and one of the DJR cars from the DJR Museum......somewhere

Apparently Kosta owns the sister car to Bretts Colin Bond car?

Paul - trust me on this... you do not want to start looking at Sierra race cars all the time...

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Originally posted by LINCOLN

Paul - trust me on this... you do not want to start looking at Sierra race cars all the time...

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Haha...... mate I've been looking at them for 25 years, but as much as I'd love a Sierra track/race car, I could not afford one unless I won lotto.

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Originally posted by TCR

The car is in great nick and a credit to the owner. Unfortunately I don't have any more pics at this stage but I'm sure I could get some more if need be

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The car should be mint it only did 7 laps of bathurst and then GRP A was over.

The next owner Ron O'brien, who bought both Bond's cars (the first caltex sierra was never owned by bond and the 4th car was owned by Ken Matthews)let his son Peter use the car at Bathurst for a caltex commercial and that's about all its ever done.

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Originally posted by TCR

I have some photos of Longhursts Benson and Hedges car from the Bowdens Museum and one of the DJR cars from the DJR Museum......somewhere

Apparently Kosta owns the sister car to Bretts Colin Bond car?

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The car Kosta has is the first Bond built car and also the most used. It then spent time a sports sedan.

As it sits now.

The first Bond car that is the only surviving OXO car outside my workshop a few weeks ago, now at the panel beaters.