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LOT 128 Castrol Livery
Perkins and Ingall have qualified well for the 1995 Tooheys Bathurst 1000 at the famed Mount Panorama circuit and start well - but early in the race disaster strikes when their Castrol Perkins Team Commodore has an altercation with the Craig Lowndes Holden Racing Team Commodore. The coming together leaves the Lowndes car relatively unscathed and he continues to challenge for the lead. The Perkins/Ingall car is forced to make an unscheduled stop leaving them 45 seconds adrift and well down in 29th position when they rejoin. Things aren’t looking good for the pair but a combination of heroic driving and bad luck for several key rivals sees the Ingall/Perkins Commodore cross the line in first place, scoring a memorable win in The Great Race. It is this very car that we offer for sale here – the only car ever to have come from the back of the pack to win this legendary race. In hindsight, the Castrol Team Perkins Racing car had all the credentials to pull off this incredible achievement. Larry Perkins isn’t just a great racing driver, but a gifted engineer able to compete on level terms with some of the best funded teams in motor sport. Often regarded as the engineering mastermind behind the Holden Dealer Team hat-trick of wins at Bathurst from 1982 to 1984, Perkins set up a small operation in Moorabbin, Victoria running a one-car team. Despite running just a single car entry, successes were plentiful and sponsors keen to get involved. By the 1990s Perkins’ Team was sponsored by Castrol and despite still only running one car was one of the favourites for the 1995 race victory. Having prized victory from the jaws of defeat this car was later came into the possession of Mark Seamons. It then passed to the current owner around two years ago and since then it has been kindly loaned to the National Motor Racing Museum in Bathurst where it has been on display for the public to admire. Offered for sale on the open market for the first time it represents a superb opportunity to acquire one of motor racings iconic cars in largely original race condition. Picture if you will the scene from Larry Perkins' point of view and one can begin to appreciate the significance of this car in Australian Motor Racing History. You have come from a lap down 50 laps into The Great Race and find yourself leading on the final circuit of Mount Panorama. The cheer from the Holden fans can be heard over the roar of the 600 bhp V8 engine in front of you, and the commentary team has put you in touch with your co-driver Russel Ingall. He offers a big kiss upon your return to the pits which you kindly decline remarking instead that you would rather kiss his girlfriend! Shortly afterwards you finish the task of winning the world’s greatest touring car race in a car bearing your own name. To understand this feeling of elation is perhaps impossible for those who have not been there but to become the custodian of the car that enabled such a marvellous victory is perhaps the next best thing. It is this opportunity that is available here with the purchase of this historic car.
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