It exudes class. William Lyons surely was gifted with good taste. Every Jaguar of his days was a work of art. And he always managed his cars to be of excellent value for money, they were competitively priced in their segments.

How about HP numbers?

Gary was a Good Bloke ! used to put himself out a lot for His customers , knew His way around a motor and was a very professional Driver !

Great video, thanks for recording the information. Personally I would like to know more about the components and specs.

Good engines indeed, but Gary obviously knew how to build em!

Great interview , thanks. Peter Janson was a legend on the race track and off it :)

Garry and all his cars are unsong legends of Aussie touring cars history.

Sweeeeeeeeet!!!

What a great story and video. Garry was the true Ozi battler and contributed a lot to the local touring car seen. If only he had the same backing as the pro teams.

What a lovely gentleman, Mr Willmington! Why aren't there more of his calibre, in this world, instead of Walkenshaws etc... Pardon possible spelling errors...

Very interesting History of your life so far Brian. Well done.

Good to see the Story on the Jag good on Gary job well done beautiful Car

Pity the story of Bathurst 1986 wasn’t touched on. Janson was sacked mid week and reinstated after willmingtons crew backed janson. The crew were immediately sacked after the race according to the James Hardie 1000 book by bill tuckey. Great interview none the less.

Fantastic story, The XJS's racing in Aus inspired me to buy an 82 XJS HE as a street cruiser, nice cruising car not too bad on fuel, had some jobs to do, strip the dash and do the heater core. The Horrid rear crank wick seal was a good leaker, computor had a fault managed to repair that. Body was mint. They weare a car that held a low value, if you spent money it was hard to recover. Never forget the experience, had it up to 145mph and was still gaining speed. They sound so good when souped up. Often go to you tube to watch and listen to Tom Walkinshaws qualifyng lap at Bathhurst.The XJS still lives strong in my memories. Garys story is great, that real backyard can do attitude along with driving skill. I was not very aware of Garys car so I will search out what photo's and stuff there is to see. NZ

From where was the American accented audio duo 'generated' ?? ... I felt like I'd just got caught up in one of those awful morning television shows.

I recall that Garry initially performed very well on track in the 1985 Pepsi 250 at Oran Park, being Rd 2 of the Australian Endurance Championship in August 1985 ... his pitstops may not have been particularly efficient, but the car completed 98 laps to a fifth place finish.

Given how successful Tom Willkenshaw was with the XJS including a one/two finish at Bathurst I think its pretty fair to say that Gary was onto something with his XJS and he didn’t have the sort of funding and support that Tom would have had.

Is that right about the new Group A rules for 1987? Seems a bizarre rule using a measurement from the steering column to the rear parcel shelf. Must of been more than that surely.

It would be good to hear about the Supra too.

Liked 1 pics with his xd falcon in the back ground With xjs in the front very cool

that car was a complicated waste of time.. he would have been better off running a commodore or falcon that would not brake down or be lapped. to run a Jag V12 up front you needed factory support or BOTTOMLESS pockets. I had a 1989 V12 it was 190kw from new and to get 450,500hp it needed buckets of money and a big tool box. a 308 holden can get 450 easy, and you can see what your working on.

Did you use high lifting valves , hi-tech at the time……. Power ?

Great interesting story! It’s not all about the ones in the spotlight! The back story’s like this are interesting! Garry sounds pretty clued up with all his engineering know how! I always remember Bathurst 85 when Moffat guest drove the main contenders cars for the comparison story! But he wasn’t allowed to drive the sacred TWR cars. But drove Garry’s car! Wouldn’t expect any help from Walkinshaw would we? Like no disrespect to Garry, wasn’t going to be any opposition to Mr.T on the world stage! I loved this story! I’m going to watch it again !

Australian Touring Car Championship. And Garry never won a race in that car. Trenowth ex Mc Cormack Jag. I have raced against that car several times and got a windscreen full of oil. Best to get past it, and then go racing

Great car and Great video

i cant beleive that in 7 years, no one has commented on the wonderful car. i love stories like this. this just proofs thatz cars ars fixable, and needn't be scrapped through convenience . stories like this inspirr me. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

"Hammooond!"

Bloody hell, the memories!!

They are the best! These were brilliant my grandfather when he retired bought a Marina greatest heap out! Wish he had bought a p76

Oddballs are my favorite, id love to have one next to my cl val and HD Holden. It'd be the ultimate lineup of aussie oddballs

many thanks for this wonderful story 🙂

"WHAT A GREAT DOCUMENTARY/STORY/DEAR BRIAN & CHARLIE WILL LIVE ON FOREVER RE TARGA HISTORY ETC/ LOVE THE VOICE OVER SO BRITISH/1950/60'S STYLE "STIRLING MOSS WOULD BE SO PROUD GIVEN THAT IT HAD MOSS GEARBOX AND BEING A JAUGUAR/SO LONG BRIAN.PHIL/7000RPM.

Great story. Sad that we recently lost Brian

You need to know what Tazio did at the Nurburgring at the 1935 German Grand Prix.

He died the day I was born. As a kid, I imagined that I had inherited his spirit and was going to be a racing driver. I worked as a laborer at Bethlehem Steel in Burns Harbor, Indiana, and made lots of money; I bought 2 MGs and thought I was ready to go.... alas, I couldn't see worth shit, and had to settle for enjoying going fast with no trophies, and no inherited spirit.

Don't care for the back and forth conversational format...doesn't work very well.

"You will travel faster still on the highways of heaven"

Seems the motorcycles were an after thought.

It's now a bunch of units inhabited by people who probably have no idea what it once was.

Worked there 8 months. Some exiting times. Was only 30 feet away from the big kev explosion. But the video's of it show a completely different sequence. Morris stalled on the grid. But videos show it start and get hit further down the straight. ? Mandela Effect

"DICK MAY HAVE PASSED ON BUT HIS MOTORING RACING VIDEO'S WILL LIVE ON FOREVER".PHIL/7000RPM.

PS."MOTOR RACING"AND OVER THE LAST 52 YEARS I HAVE THOUSANDS OF FEET OF MOVIE FILM & HUNDREDS OF HOURS OF VIDEO'S ETC.PHIL/7000RPM.

HELLO AGAIN.FOLLOWING ON FROM MY COMMENTS RE YOUR 1988 ORAN PARK HISTORIC EVENT/GREAT RACING VIDEO/IT IS AGAIN GREAT TO SEE AMAROO PARK/THE RACING/CARS/ DRIVES OF THE DAY ETC/I HAVE BEEN RECORDING AUSTRALIAN MOTORING AT ORAN/AMAROO/CATALINA/WINTON/CALDER/SILVERDALE/BATHURST/SMSP(EASTERN CREEK)INTERVIEWING DRIVERS/CLUB/HISTORIC'S(STRILING MOSS(1984 AMAROO PARK ETC) ON MOVIE FILM/VIDEO FOR OVER 50 YEARS AND STILL GOING STRONG.THANKS.PHIL/7000RPM.

Some lovely iconic front engined Open Wheelers captured in this delightful "home movie". I recognise Barry Sharpe's Holden Grey powered "Sharpe Holden" & the supreme "Dalro Jag". I notice the then extremely popular Group N EH pedallars didn't seen to appear here which was rather unusual for 1994. Footage of earlier Aust Historic meetings has proven somewhat elusive. I was privileged to attend many annual historic meets at Lakeside International raceway from 1984. Footage is rare. Thankyou Curious Jag. Beautiful little time capsule. A real treat.

Absolutely a gem of a motoring story a big thank you from Bathurst ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Mr CURIOUS JAG! Please attend to the nasty anomaly in the SOUNDTRACK from the 39 minute point. It will draw flak.

How did these yelling morons at about 38.00 get into this? It ruined the whole video!

Remember it well. was at this meeting.

ORAN PARK/88/ROCK&ROLL/THE GOLDEN AGE OF LOCAL MOTOR RACING/FARE WELL ORAN/AMAROO PARK.PHIL/7000RPM.

that car is the work of the gods. fantastic sound track. i wont one.all the best mate👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍