![]() “Mate, if there is any car out there capable of pushing the Jaguar, then it’ll be another European machine probably a Porsche,” he told SM. The event was squeezed into a regular street meet and reduced to a drag-only deal. So the challenge went ahead anyway, which was reported on in the December ’86 issue. ![]() Phil Scott reported in the Oct/Nov ’86 mag that Walker had sold his Jag and was working on version three. And they’ve got Buckely’s of getting a pink slip.” To which he added: “By the way, ask your readers what happened to the V8s at Bathurst?”, a cheeky reference to John Goss’s victory in a Jag on the Mountain in 1985. Walker kept the aggro coming: “From what I’ve seen of many of these American and Aussie things, they’ll expire in the early morning traffic. The story set out the terms of the challenge – a pink slip test, peak-hour traffic run, a best-of-three drag strip duel and five laps around Oran Park. Inside the mag was a shot of a smiling Walker with his new twin-turbo XJS – a silver one this time – parked beside a Learjet on his front lawn. Those were some serious numbers back then, and Gary didn’t stop there, touting that his car was the fastest road car in Oz. Amongst his claims was that the car made 740hp in regular trim and somewhere around 1000hp with the boost wound up and a dose of nitrous sprayed on top. The owner was Gary Walker of Roley Walker Jaguar fame and a bloke who was clearly not short of ego – or inflammatory chat. The twin-turbo ’79 XJ-S Jag first appeared in SM, Oct-Nov ’85, dubbed the Big Block Beater. The car best known to Street Machine readers as the car at the centre of the ‘Jag Challenge – Cat Killers Apply Within’ story in our April/May 1986 issue, has been sold at auction by Lloyds. ![]() #Kerry packer series#The ex-Glenn Seton Australian Touring Car Championship-winning Falcon clocked over $520K, didn't meet reserve and is under negotiation.įor the incredible history of the Jag, read on: In 1978, in the midst of the World Series Cricket controversy, Melbourne broadcaster recorded an interview with Kerry Packer in which he spoke for the first time at length about his childhood and particularly about his father, the founder of Australian Consolidated Press, Sir Frank Packer. Other notable results included a VL Group A SS Walkinshaw that went for over $250,000. The auction had been planned as a live event, but was switched to a marathon, nine-hour online-only deal due to the three-day snap lockdown that was declared yesterday in South East Queensland. #Kerry packer plus#UPDATE: The ex-Kerry Packer and Gary Walker twin-turbo XJ-S Jaguar sold yesterday for $217,000 plus buyers' premium at an online auction by Lloyds. Street Machine hosted an event at Oran Park for all comers to take on the Jag Media mogul who founded the World Series of Cricket and was known for his poor gambling habits and feuds with the Australian Taxation.Rebuilt by Gary Walker and touted as Australia's quickest road car.Wild Jag originally built for Kerry Packer by Kevin Bartlett. ![]()
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