This car was a one-off Sports Sedan based on the Charger, the two-door variant of the Australian-built Chrysler Valiant sedan, which was sold in Australia in the 1970's.
Sports Sedan racing in Australia was at its peak in the 1970's, and each car was unique. With a bit of assistance from Chrysler Australia, F5000 driver John McCormack constructed this one-off model.
The car was variously known as the Repco Charger, the Ansett Charger (main sponsor Ansett Airlines) or the McCormack Charger.
It featured a mid-mounted Repco Formula 5000 engine sitting right next to the driver. The radiator was mounted in the boot (or the trunk, for any non-Australians reading this), with the filler cap protruding through the rear window. Suspension and running gear was from an Australian designed and built Elfin Formula 5000.
I have chosen two authentic skins for this model :-
1) McCormack 1975 - John McCormack raced the car for the first time in his home State of Tasmania in September 1975 at Baskerville Raceway. The occasion was the "Tasmanian Ten Thousand", which was one of the richest Sports Sedan race meetings in Australia at the time.
2) Edmondson 1977 - Tony Edmondson raced the car in the 1977 Australian Sports Sedan Championship, and this is how it appeared in the Tasmanian round at Symmons Plains in September of that year. Visible differences to when McCormack raced the car were an additional rear spoiler, a different front spoiler, different Elfin wheels, addition of a windscreen banner, different windscreen wiper location, and different radiator filler cap location on the rear boot lid. The most obvious change to the livery was the sponsorship change to the competing airline, TAA. Also of note, the grille emblem was placed upside-down.
Both skins feature actual faces of the drivers.
Please read the Notes included with this model.
Watch video here :-
Sports Sedan racing in Australia was at its peak in the 1970's, and each car was unique. With a bit of assistance from Chrysler Australia, F5000 driver John McCormack constructed this one-off model.
The car was variously known as the Repco Charger, the Ansett Charger (main sponsor Ansett Airlines) or the McCormack Charger.
It featured a mid-mounted Repco Formula 5000 engine sitting right next to the driver. The radiator was mounted in the boot (or the trunk, for any non-Australians reading this), with the filler cap protruding through the rear window. Suspension and running gear was from an Australian designed and built Elfin Formula 5000.
I have chosen two authentic skins for this model :-
1) McCormack 1975 - John McCormack raced the car for the first time in his home State of Tasmania in September 1975 at Baskerville Raceway. The occasion was the "Tasmanian Ten Thousand", which was one of the richest Sports Sedan race meetings in Australia at the time.
2) Edmondson 1977 - Tony Edmondson raced the car in the 1977 Australian Sports Sedan Championship, and this is how it appeared in the Tasmanian round at Symmons Plains in September of that year. Visible differences to when McCormack raced the car were an additional rear spoiler, a different front spoiler, different Elfin wheels, addition of a windscreen banner, different windscreen wiper location, and different radiator filler cap location on the rear boot lid. The most obvious change to the livery was the sponsorship change to the competing airline, TAA. Also of note, the grille emblem was placed upside-down.
Both skins feature actual faces of the drivers.
Please read the Notes included with this model.
Watch video here :-
