Factory Audi and Toyota Dealer Team car confirmed
The list of cars and bikes that will be part of this year's City of Bathurst Bicentenary Display at the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 continues to grow.
A pair of cars that remind race fans of Mount Panorama's racing history not being all about V8-powered machinery have been recently confirmed for the display.
Current-day V8 Supercars Championship team Brad Jones Racing have given organisers its Audi A4 four-wheel-drive Super Touring to put on display, a reminder of a time when the international two-litre category competed at Bathurst.
Jones himself won two Australian Super Touring Car Championships for Audi in 1996 and 1998 and ran a two-car, factory outfit in the national championship for five years prior to moving into V8 Supercars full-time in 2000.
The car to be on display at this year's Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 once raced in the Bathurst enduro at a time when Super Tourers competed in the October 1000-kilometre race in both 1997 and 1998.
The team had two cars finish on the podium in 1997 with Brad Jones/Frank Biela second and Cameron McConville/Jean-Francois Hemroulle third after the winning Paul Morris/Craig Baird BMW was excluded, while Jones and McConville paired up to finish third in the 1998 race.
Another four-cylinder car on display is Chris O'Connor's Peter Williamson Toyota Dealer Team Celica GT.
Williamson became a household name in 1979 when he was the first driver to carry an in-car camera and he talked TV viewers around Bathurst in his little giant-killing Celica.
He ran a new car in 1980 that was repainted green in 1981 - the livery in which O'Connor's car is presented now - and then repainted orange and driven by Williamson and John Smith at Bathurst that year.
It went through a range of other owners' hands - including a re-shell - before current owner O'Connor located the car and its parts five years ago and did a deal to buy it and restore it to 1981 livery and specification.
The two cars will sit among a wide and varied display of cars in Harris Park at Mount Panorama next week to celebrate the Bicentennial year of the City of Bathurst.
A range of other interesting cars from the 75-plus year history of racing at Bathurst will be also be part of the display with an overall value in excess of $10 million.
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