The latest Head-to-Head comparisons generated for Allan Moffat. In 1982 he again competed at Le Mans in a factory RX-7-based sportscar, finishing sixth in class alongside Japanese co-drivers Yojiro Terada and Takashi Yorino. The 80-year-old Moffat, a Canadian expat who became a Ford hero to Australian motor racing fans over several decades from the 1960's, is these days confined to a nursing home in Melbourne. In 1971 he went into the 7th and final round at Oran Park only 4 points behind three-time ATCC champion Bob Jane in his 7.0 litre Chevrolet Camaro ZL-1. Hours after the race, the Rothmans sponsored Commodore was declared the winner after a protest by a private BMW entry from Hungary had seen the works BMW M3's (which had finished 1-6) disqualified for being underweight (as of 2016 neither Moffat, nor Harvey, have possession of the winner's trophy as they never received it). The following numbers are a summary of the more detailed information available in the Career details further below on the page. Moffat also continued to race his Monza in Sports Sedans to some success. Regular Members - Racing drivers who have participated successfully in major professional events, i.e. This was the first in a line of iconic Falcon hardtops and the last to tackle the Great Race under the official Ford Motor Company factory banner. In 1986, Moffat joined long-time rival Peter Brock's Holden Dealer Team to race a Holden VK Commodore SS Group A in the European Touring Car Championship and the late season Australian Endurance Championship races which included Sandown and Bathurst. Moffat ran the Mustang in Sports Sedans in 1973 and 1974, though he refused to follow the trend at the time of moving the engine back in the cabin, later stating in a 2004 interview he "was never going to contaminate such a jewel", though he did replace the bodywork with fiberglass to avoid damaging the cars sheet metal. Up against Geoghegan's more powerful, 5.8L "Super Falcon", Moffat, while being left behind on the long Mountain and Conrod Straights, was able to keep with the Falcon using its superior handling and brakes and again only lost by less than a second. Seasons spanning over two years (for example 2013-14 championships) have their race results accounted for in the year the championship ends. 1986 was notable in that Moffat had joined longtime rival and friend Peter Brock and the Holden Dealer Team (though he had previously driven for the team in the 1980 Hang Ten 400 at Sandown). With the arrival of Group A regulations in 1985 the RX-7 proved uncompetitive and Moffat sat out the season, racing only once in his Bathurst RX-7 at the 24 Hours of Daytona, although Moffat did test a Mazda 929 at Calder in late 1984, before Mazda decided to withdraw the cars due to uncompetitive times. The team also raced cars in other categories like Sports Sedans. James Moffat(born 18 June 1984) is an Australian professional racing driver who competed in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. Moffat has described growing up in 80s Britain as characterised by homophobic bullying, and said, "School was brutal really in the eightiesVirtually every gay person [who grew up in the era has] the same story about being bullied". For the 1994 Tooheys 1000, Moffat had his race engines supplied by Dick Johnson Racing and the team, with drivers Miedecke and Englishman Jeff Allam were more competitive, qualifying 16th and finished a well-deserved 8th, only four laps behind the winning Falcon of Dick Johnson and John Bowe. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Driven by Charlie O'Brien and Andrew Miedecke, the car qualified 18th but retired with gearbox failure after completing just 41 of the race's 161 laps. More racing: Classic . In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. This is an inclusive school that celebrates diversity. [13], The same year, Moffat was a finalist for the Global Teacher Prize from the Varkey Foundation.[11]. I taught 7600 pupils a no outsiders lesson and trained 1350 teachers. In 2014 teacher Andrew Moffat resigned from a primary school in Birmingham after parents complained they did not want . Shell Ultra Australian Touring Car Championship, NZ Saloon Car Championship - Unlimited class, Bank of New South Wales NZ Saloon Car Championship 0-6000cc, Bank of New South Wales 0-6000cc NZ Saloon Car Championship, Trans-American Sedan Championship - Over 2.0, Trans-American Sedan Championship - Under 2.0, International 6 Hour Touring Car Race - Sandown, Channel 7 Breville Racing, Federation Insurance - Unipart. Moffat made his dbut in the British Touring Car Championship with Finesse Motorsport in the Jack Sears Trophy for S2000 cars at the Knockhill round of the 2013 season at the age of 16 years, 10 months and 28 days, less than 12 months after racing in the Ginetta Junior series finale at Brands Hatch. The team's final appearance in the Australian Touring Car Championship was in 1990 with Gregg Hansford driving a Sierra. In a deal that involved Moffat agreeing not to race in Australia in 1967- and with assistance from Shell, the very powerful 180bhp twin-cam engine from Jim McKeown's Shell-Neptune Lotus Cortina was shipped to America and installed in one of the Mann cars- McKeown was Moffat's co-driver. The car hit a tree stump (hidden by grass) which saw Moffat suffer a broken hand, a fractured sternum and heavy bruising. Moffat's team entered two cars in the race, but only listed Moffat and Hansford as drivers, and had to fight with Bathurst race organisers the Australian Racing Drivers Club (ARDC) to be allowed to start both cars, as both drivers had qualified inside the top 10 (race regulations stated that the top 8 qualifiers were locked in to participate in the Hardies Heroes top 10 run-off, with Moffat 5th and Hansford 6th). Moffat and Harvey then drove a steady race (mostly in the rain) to finish 4th with 468 laps completed. With the help of Tom Hamilton and chief mechanic Lou Mallia, he would go on to win 101 championship and non-championship touring car races from 151 starts in this car between 1969 and 1972, including the first-ever win by one of the seven factory Boss Mustangs built for racing in its debut at the Southern 60 at Sandown in May 1969, yet his dream of winning the ATCC in the Mustang eluded him. "[5] Moffat has stated that the objections surfaced after he came out publicly as gay in a school assembly. Moffat, therefore, made his debut in that race in 1969 in a Ford works team entered Ford Falcon XW GTHO. Moffat and former Mazda co-driver Gregg Hansford campaigned the car in the 1988 ATCC in a low-key run while his team after years of racing rotary Mazda's and V8 Commodores and Falcons, got to know the sophisticated turbocharged car. The 10 greatest Auto Racing drivers. The car was then immediately shipped to England for preparation for the first round of the WTCC. However, with new sponsorship from Cenovis Vitamins, the team was able to carry on running the Sierra's (which by this stage were only seen at Sandown and Bathurst) until they and other turbo cars (such as the 4WD Nissan GT-R) were banned by CAMS at the end of 1992. Moffat's Mustang 1969 [2], In 2017 Moffat was given an MBE "for services to equality and diversity in education". To the amazement of Ford team manager Al Turner, Moffat's tyres were not as near worn as those on the lead Geoghegan brothers or the Gibson/Seton Falcons, showing that Moffat was a driver who could be kind to his car and still go fast. [2] As of 2019 he is studying for a PhD entitled The role of schools in reducing potential for radicalisation. Seasons spanning over two years (for example 2013-14 championships) have their race results accounted for in the year the championship ends. Niedzwiedz had taken the lead from the Sierra of Tony Longhurst on lap 29 when Longhurst lost a lap with a throttle problem, and the car remained in the lead for 100 laps before a vapor lock (caused by the car cooling down too much during a safety car period) led to the car's failure. Aiden Moffat nationality British age 26 years old born September 28, 1996 hometown Dalkeith, Scotland Racing highlights 2017 2nd 24H Series - SP3-GT4 Racing career summary Disclaimer: the data and summaries are all taken from the data available in the career details section further below on this page. Moffitt is the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion, a title captured driving for Hattori Racing Enterprises. competing against his half-brother Andrew . The race was still entered as driving for the Ford Works Team. Ford Falcon XA. Andrew Moffatt, 1850 - 1943 Andrew Moffatt 1850 1943. . 1984 would prove to be a frustrating year for Moffat. Regular RX-7 drivers Moffat, Hansford and McLeod all expressed how much more effective the 13B motor was without the CAMS imposed extra 20kg. Children: James Moffat, Andrew Moffat. "[11] Moffat also has responsibility for pastoral care of pupils and teachers within the school. It was driven to victory by Allan Moffat and Ian Geoghegan in the 1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, avenging . ADVERTISEMENT Allan Moffat (racecardriver) Wiki,Age,Birthday,Biography,Height,Net Worth .. Allan Moffat's About . Instead he managed to do something that very few had managed to do. Moffat's 351-cubic inch V8-powered Falcon title winner actually started its racing life the previous year in 1972. He has since worked as a TV commentator for Channel 7 and a spokesman for BMW. The race was the first of what would eventually become the Sandown 500. The lead car finished four places behind the team's second car, which finished in 18th spot. Before the 1988 Tooheys 1000, the Moffat team's last Australian win, and indeed Allan Moffat's last win on Australian soil, came in the 1988 Enzed 500 at Sandown driving the Eggenberger built Sierra. Moffat was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 1999. Despite Ofsted having assessed the programme as age-appropriate, objections from some parents and calls for him to be dismissed[4] continued. Listen to this article. Final Results. Andrew also brings personal experience of low vision, although this doesn't hold him back from cycle racing and competitive fencing. [15] Following continuing protests, the programme was temporarily halted at these schools in March 2019, whilst a resolution with parents and guardians was sought. Across NASCAR, F1, IndyCar, and others. Or perhaps both of them were. Other than his four wins at Bathurst, Moffat also won the Sandown Endurance race six times, being the only driver to win it under three different national regulations, these being Series Production (1969, 1970), Group C (1974, 1982, 1983) and Group A (1988). "[21], In 2020, the school announced Moffat had taken on a development lead position across the academy trust, in order to train more teachers to deliver the No Outsiders programme. 10.2L W. P SP. 20 June 2020. In his bid to win the 1983 ATCC, Moffat had to turn down a factory drive for Mazda at the 1983 24 Hours of Le Mans as the final round of the ATCC at Lakeside was held the same weekend as the French classic (the Mazda 717C he was to drive would win the races' Group C Junior class). Moffat himself also doubled as an expert commentator for Channel 7 during its motor sport telecasts during this time, including at Bathurst, where he had the dual role of commentator and race team manager. 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Facing pressure from the media and government not to produce this car, as entering it at Bathurst would also require at least 200 units to be sold at dealerships in Australia, Ford scrapped production of the Phase IV and forced Moffat and other Ford drivers to resort to year-old Phase III cars for Bathurst that year. While Moffat made the RX-7 a regular race winner on the shorter and generally flatter Australian tracks, he believes the extra weight in the car was what made it impossible to match the V8's at Bathurst. Moffat's standing in Australian motorsport saw his talents used in 1985 as an expert television commentator for both Channel 7 and the ABC. Seasons spanning over two years (for example 2013-14 championships) have their race results accounted for in the year the championship ends. Taylor-Smith is a four-time . Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Moffat moved to Australia as a 17-year-old college student with his parents when his father, who worked for Massey Ferguson, was transferred to Melbourne for work and in the early 1960s embarked on his record-setting motor racing career. Allan George Moffat OBE (born 10 November 1939 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Canadian-Australian racing driver known for his four championships in the Australian Touring Car Championship, six wins in the Sandown 500 and his four wins in the Bathurst 500/1000. Moffat continued as the team owner and manager of Allan Moffat Enterprises, which ran the RS500 Sierra's until the demise of Group A at the end of 1992. The programme addresses issues of inclusion, and covers topics which are protected by the 2010 Equality Act, including religion or belief system, race, gender reassignment and sex, not sexual orientation. Allan Moffat quietly retired from competitive race driving after the Fuji win, keeping a promise he had made to himself and his wife Pauline that he wouldn't race beyond his 50th birthday (the Fuji 500 was run 2 days after Moffat's 50th). [9] In a statement, the school said, "Theobjections were primarily voiced by those whose own religion took an opposing stance to homosexuality. Published: 2022-09-21. The car differed from its Australian configuration, a new rear wing was run on the car and 20kg of ballast was removed, bringing it down to its actual homologated weight of 930kg, while the engine was the same 13B that had carried Moffat and Hansford to third place at Bathurst the previous year. This significantly cut into the team's finances and plans to run the car in the 1991 Australian Touring Car Championship were shelved. Moffat's time in Trans-Am included competing with Kwech in the Trans-Am class at the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring and driving four Trams-Am races in a Mercury Cougar for Bud Moore Engineering. With Mazda not interested in Group A racing (he tested a Mazda 626 at Calder Park but it proved to be uncompetitive), Moffat was forced to sit out the 1985 Australian season. Contents As a result of the meeting, Moffat resigned. After the Sierra's were banned in their RS500 form at the end of 1992, Moffat decided to continue his long association with Ford and built an eye-catching Ford EB Falcon painted black and yellow in the colours of team sponsor Cenovis for the 1993 Tooheys 1000. Due to the wet conditions the Mazda slid off the road at high speed, took out an ABC television camera cable and slammed head on into a bush that was hiding a tree stump. In what was also his last Bathurst race, Klaus Niedzwiedz returned to the team, where he joined production car expert Ken Douglas in a strong run to finish 10th after Niedzwiedz qualified the older model (EB compared to the EF) and underpowered Falcon in 25th place. The two most successful drivers in Australia were immediately successful, winning the 1986 Wellington 500 in New Zealand in the brand-new Holden VK Commodore SS Group A. Moffat and Brock then went to Europe to race in the FIA Touring Car Championship (formerly the European Touring Car Championship) with two 5th placings at Donington and Hockenheim being their best on-track results. Moffat was 'the man' when it came to racing and winning in GT-HOs. </p> <p>If you have to cancel within 10 days, your spot will be offered to the waitlist. The Ford squad swooped to sign Moffat when he left Garry Rogers Motorsport at the end of 2017. Late in the race Moffat's car encountered serious brake problems due to Ickx's hard driving of what was to him an unfamiliar car and had to slow, allowing Bond to catch up for the cars to complete the final two laps of the race side by side and cross the finish line in tandem with Bond allowing Moffat to stay barely in front for a crushing 12 victory for Ford. Moffat was the first truly professional race-car driver in Australia and he was a ferocious competitor. [10] The programme does not address sex or sex education. Making way for Jacobson and Everingham is Zane . Moffat also races as a co-driver for Tickford Racing in the Pirtek Enduro Cup in a Ford Mustang GT, alongside Cameron Waters. Ford, smarting from the Phase IV controversy the year before, withdrew their factory teams from the competition at the end of 1973. Power Maxed Racing has announced the signing of Aron Taylor-Smith for the 2023 BTCC season to complete a new-look line-up for the Vauxhall squad. This rivalry popularised the annual 500/1000 KM race and made it a national event, even for non motor sport followers. He persuaded Swiss touring car tuning ace Ruedi Eggenberger to build him a customer Sierra RS500 that was identical to the works Fords that the Eggenberger team was using in the renamed ETCC. Andrew's school receives 'outstanding' Ofsted report, No Outsiders highlighted as a key strength. Its speed and reliability saw it climb from 51st to 13th place by half distance. The following numbers are a summary of the more detailed information available in the Career details further below on the page. He became the youngest driver ever to compete in the BTCC when he made his debut at the Knockhill round of the 2013 season. The 80-year-old, who is battling dementia, is in the middle of a heated tug of love between his estranged partner Susan McCure and his son Andrew and close friends. Moffat's last race, and indeed last race win, was in 1989 driving with Niedzwiedz. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. The Canadian got the class pole and led the first half . Give it another shot! Unfortunately the fuse for the overheating warning light had blown and Moffat's race only lasted until the hairpin on lap one before his rotary engine expired, handing an easy win to Brock. He became the youngest driver ever to compete in the BTCC when he made his debut at the Knockhill round of the 2013 season . [3] He is the assistant headteacher at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham, where he invented 'No Outsiders' - a . The deal proved a disaster for Moffat as the car was retired at both the James Hardie 1000 and the Calder 500 before Moffat got his turn to race. [2], Following the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack, and in response to his school children's questions, Moffat put together online resources for teachers covering terrorism and hate crime, particularly concerning refugees. Eggenberger and Niedzwiedz also managed to join Moffat for other Australian races, with Ruedi joining the team for the Phillip Island round of the 1990 ATCC which saw Hansford finish 5th,[4] and also the 1990 Sandown 500 where Niedzwiedz qualified 5th in his first look at the Sandown circuit, though he and Hansford would fail to finish the race. Complete with sponsorship from Rothmans, the team competed in the opening three rounds with Moffat and John Harvey winning the opening Monza 500 race, after the leading six factory BMW M3s were disqualified, before returning for round 5 to finish fourth outright and first in class at the Spa 24 Hour. The 1996 AMP Bathurst 1000 was the last time that an Allan Moffat-built or driven (in this case just built) car raced at Bathurst. Andrew's roles as Non-Executive Director and Chair, and in dispute resolution and academia, reflect his strong focus on optimising stakeholder engagement, especially in situations of profound conflict or disruption.<br><br>As a former Global Head of Equity Capital Markets in London and later Head of Corporate Banking of a big four Australian commercial bank, Andrew understands the entire . Aiden Moffat (born 28 September 1996) is a British racing driver currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship for Laser Tools Racing. In 2018 he drove for Wall Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship. Here, children learn more about the programme and visit other local schools to tell pupils about it. He also appears at various Ford club events across Australia, promotes his longtime backer GT Radial Tyres, and more recently (2009-) has been seen in television adverts in Australia promoting Ford Performance Vehicles GT Falcons. He also drove at the 1980 24 Hours of Le Mans, sharing a Porsche 935 turbo with future Indycar legend Bobby Rahal, where they were forced to withdraw whilst in fourth place. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [3] Then the HDT as a factory team fell apart after Holden cut all official ties with Brock over his public launch of the VL Commodore based HDT Director. Allan Moffat | Racing career profile | Driver Database Allan Moffat nationality Canadian and Australian age 82 years old born November 10, 1939 hometown Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Racing highlights Racing career summary Driver relations Father of James Moffat. Between them Moffat and Brock had won 14 of the previous 17 Sandown Enduro's. Ford's two factory Falcon XAs at Sandown in 1973. Moffat returned to Australia but also spent more time in the US, continuing to drive the Cortina as well as Ford Mustangs for Carroll Shelby in Trans-Am with various Australian co-drivers including Trans-Am regular Horst Kwech and Ford Australia's, and future Holden rival, Harry Firth. He currently drives the No. 2016. What a brilliant term- 15 conferences and 25 schools visited. James Moffat (born 18 June 1984) is an Australian professional racing driver who competed in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. At mid-race, Moffat was forced to slow in order to free a jammed gearbox but battled back to only be six-tenths of a second behind Jane at the finish. Since then Andrew has worked in a behaviour unit, a Nurture group, as an AST in behaviour management and inclusion, as manager of a behaviour resource in a primary school and, since 2014, as Assistant Headteacher at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham. Moffat also won the inaugural Australian Sports Sedan Championship that year, driving firstly a Chevrolet Monza and later a Ford Capri RS3100. Ford withdrew its factory team from motor racing after 1973 (during which time Moffat won his first ATCC and the first Bathurst 1000 for the factory team) and Allan Moffat Racing became the leading Ford team in Australian touring car racing, with Moffat winning the ATCC in 1976 and 1977, as well as the famous 1-2 win in the 1977 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 at Bathurst when he was partnered by multiple 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Jacky Ickx. On 21 March 1975, he enhanced his reputation as an international class driver when he drove a BMW 3.0CSL with West Germany's Hans-Joachim Stuck, British driver Brian Redman and American Sam Posey to win the 12 Hours of Sebring for the factory-backed BMW Motorsport with many considering this win to be the 3.0CSL's crowning achievement in racing. One of Australia's most iconic motorsport legends is Allan Moffat. Moffat also joined Murray Walker and later Darrell Eastlake in the Channel 9 commentary box during the touring car support races at the Australian Grand Prix meetings in Adelaide from 1985 to 1995. Qualifying at the famous circuit had been hit by the notorious Ardennes weather and while Mulvihill set a good enough time when the track was wet, he had not set a time on a dry track and towards the end of the final session the circuit dried and the Texaco sponsored Eggenberger Motorsport Ford Sierra RS Cosworth's significantly improved their times which left only Moffat and Harvey to drive the Commodore. Class: C-CLASS No NR. Despite the unhappy experience with Rouse machinery, at the Wanneroo Park round in 1988, Moffat debuted an Eggenberger Motorsport built RS500 with team principal Ruedi Eggenberger and driver Klaus Niedzwiedz often joining the team for the Bathurst 1000 over the next few years. [1], In 2016, Parkfield School, where he was at the time assistant head teacher, was rated as "outstanding" by Ofsted, and particular mention given to "the provision for pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is a strength and permeates the school's work. In 2019, it was reported that Moffat was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and had been moved to a specialist health care facility, with his friends and Bathurst legends Fred Gibson and Larry Perkins ensuring his will instructions to be carried out. During this time, Moffat also raced in the Australian Sports Sedan Championship, winning the inaugural national title in 1976 driving both a Ford Capri RS3100 and (in a shock to Ford fans), a DeKon built Chevrolet Monza. Mar 1, 2023, 12:21 AM. [1], In May 2019, Moffat led Birmingham Pride along with LGBT Muslims Saima Razzaq and Khakan Qureshi. Moffat returned to drive his XB Falcon GT Hardtop full-time in the 1976 ATCC and won his second title. The 1995 Tooheys 1000 saw the team struggle once more. Oct 4, 2022, 4:33 PM. [14] Although there were accusations that the RX-7 was a sports car and not a touring car (including Moffat's former Works Team boss, Howard Marsden, who by the 1980s led Nissan's racing program in Australia), Moffat was able to win the 1983 ATCC (his 4th and last title) as well as finishing second at Bathurst in 1983 and third in 1984, the last year of the locally developed Group C Touring Car rules. After only 15 laps of the second start (the first was aborted after the John Goss Jaguar XJS driven by European Touring Car Champion Tom Walkinshaw had stalled and was hit from behind causing the pit straight to be blocked), Moffat was forced to retire his car with terminal engine problems after only 15 laps and move into Hansford's, which had been originally intended to run about 20 laps, but lasted 161 (with Moffat himself only driving the middle 'lunchtime' stint and Hansford driving the majority of the race). He did it again the following year in the latest GT-HO Phase Two and three weeks later scored his first Bathurst 500 win. Career [ edit] British Touring Car Championship [ edit] The car was then a DNF at the next two rounds at Jarama and Dijon before Moffat and Harvey drove the Commodore to a sensational fourth place outright and a class win at the Spa 24-hour race. Moffat began to design the No Outsiders programme of learning prior to becoming assistant head teacher at Parkfield Community School, an academy school in Birmingham, UK. Brock lapped the field, the first time in ATCC history a driver had won a race by over a lap, while Moffat, who lead from pole (his 4th of the 8 round series) but gave best to the flying Brock on lap 2, simply drove for the points on a wet track which normally would normally have suited the RX-7 over the heavier Holden. Moffat was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 1999. The Top Ten. Allan Moffat and Jon Leighton drove a Ford Cortina Lotus to fourth place in the 1964 Sandown 6 Hour International at Melbourne's Sandown Park. This was the last Allan Moffat Racing Falcon to tackle Mount Panorama. The wild, whale-tailed factory racer competed in the GTX category for modified production cars. Brock qualified the car on pole but tyre problems in the race meant only a 4th-placed finish for the pair in their second-ever Australian race together. Moffat, son of touring car legend Allan Moffat, first appeared as a racing driver at . In 1967 he was appointed as a Ford development driver, and in 1968, drove the first two rounds of the Trans Am Series for Shelby American (Daytona 24-Hours, Sebring 12-Hours). Moffat then went on to finish second behind Brock in the Surfers Paradise 300 to claim the final Australian Endurance Championship, and the final ever championship run under CAMS Group C rules. [27], Moffat also speaks as a children's rights communicator, and has presented at the Humanists UK 2019 convention, and the 2019 Blackham lecture with Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson. From then on, the team's appearances were restricted to the Bathurst 1000, with two RS500s until 1992, and until its final appearance in 1996, a sole Ford EB Falcon V8. 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