Perkins / Ingall Holden Commodore VT V8 Supercar up for auction with MECCANISTA
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For the 2000 Shell Championship Perkins Engineering ran a two-car team with Russell Ingall piloting the sister car to Larry’s machine. Based around the VT Commodore and powered by a Perkins Engineering-built Chevrolet five-litre V8 (302 Case iron Bowtie GM Performance block) - engine number 156, making approximately 620hp.
Chassis number #PE036 became known as the “Silver Bullet” thanks to the silver-over-white Castrol colour scheme that contrasted Larry’s black-over-white.
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While all V8 Supercars were built off bare shells, rather than starting with a road car, Ingall’s car differed to normal as it ran a chrome-moly roll cage with a double roll-hoop and, in a first for Aussie touring cars, a diagonal bar across the windscreen which came to be known as a “Larry Bar”.
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This bar would later prove instrumental in saving Aussie racing legend Craig Lowndes’ life when a wheel assembly landed in his windscreen at high-speed during the 2005 Bathurst 1000.
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Hand-built at the Perkins Engineering facility in Melbourne, the Silver Bullet saw future series Champion Ingall finish the year in ninth position having taken points at almost every round.
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PE036 was then sold to Team Kiwi Racing following the 2000 championship and the current owner purchased it from TKR in 2004.
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It was campaigned in the V8 Supercar development series in 2005 and ’06. In 2016 the VT Commodore was returned to its original 2000 livery and it has had a driveline refresh, with minimal racing time logged since then.
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This Perkins / Ingall Holden Commodore VT V8 Supercar is now live at auction with MECCANISTA.com.au.
Bidding closes at 8:30PM on Friday, 8th January 2021.
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