Bathurst legends up for grabs at MotorEx 13

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The Shannons Sydney Custom and Collectable Auction is on once again at this year’s MotorEx. This year we have two famous Australian Group C Touring Cars are primed to take pole position at Shannons Sydney Custom & Collectable Auction at Meguiar’s MotorEx on Sunday, July 21. One is an Ex-Goss, Bartlett, Moffat, Brabham Falcon XBGT Touring Car and the other is Australia’s only surviving original Mazda RX-3 Group C touring car!



This is the 1975 Ford XB GT Falcon Coupe that was raced by John Goss, Kevin Bartlett, Allan Moffat and Sir Jack Brabham in its era and the lone surviving and most successful of the Mazda RX-3s that competed in the mid-1970s, are both looking for new grid positions – either in private collections or in full-blown Group C Historic Racing, which is currently booming and attracting large grids in Australia.

Resplendent in its signature ‘75 Bathurst livery of Blaze Blue with white flanks, the Falcon Hardtop is a major part of Australia’s motorsport history. Owned and raced by Bathurst winner John Goss from 1975 to the end of 1978 the XBGT Coupe ranks in the top echelon of all the Falcon Hardtops that ever raced and still survive.

Find out more about the 1975 Ford XB GT Falcon Coupe.



The other Group C racer in the auction from the same era with a significant Australian history is the Mazda RX-3 coupe raced by Sydney’s Don Holland and Japan’s Hiroshi Fushida to first in class and an outstanding fifth outright behind four V8 Torana L34s in the 1975 Bathurst 1000.

The RX-3 was campaigned successfully for a number of years and was sold, virtually unscathed, in the late 1970s. Miraculously it passed through a number of hands for more than a decade and was even road registered with plans for an entry in Targa Tasmania without being tampered with mechanically or visually until it fell into the hands of its current owner, Sydney Mazda rotary enthusiast, Zyg Ryter, in the mid-1990s.

Respecting its rarity as the lone surviving original racing Group C RX-3 of its era, Ryter has since been carefully maintained, but never raced the RX-3 In mid-2012 the Mazda’s 1146cc 12A Twin Rotor ****el engine has been rebuilt by rotary specialist Matt Russell Race Engines and according to Shannons, the RX-3 presents beautifully and sounds awesome.

Find out more about the 1974 Mazda RX3 Coupe "Group C" race car.

You can check out the complete list of cars going up for auction at MotorEx 13 HERE.

Don’t forget you have the opportunity to see all of these amazing builds in the metal plus a whole lot more at MotorEx on the 19th – 21st of July, 2013. For more information on MotorEx and its other famous attractions. Please visit their website HERE.