FOUR iconic Bathurst 1000-winning Holden Commodores have changed hands in a multi-million dollar mega deal that sees them move from one single private collector to another.
And race fans could be the big winners in that they’ll be able to view some of them up-close.
V8 Sleuth sources have suggested the combined price for the sale of the four Great Race winners could exceed a whopping $6 million.
Among the four-car fleet are of two of the most iconic cars of the V8 Supercars era.
‘Golden Child’ won Bathurst in 2001 and 2002. Pic: an1images.com / Graeme Neander
HRT 045, better known as Golden Child, is the car that Mark Skaife took to back-to-back championships and Bathurst 1000 victories for the Holden Racing Team in 2001 and 2002 as a VX Commodore.
Now in the VY form in which it won the 2003 Clipsal 500 in Adelaide, the car is one of only three chassis to win two Bathurst 1000s.
HRT 043 is the Kmart Commodore VY that Greg Murphy drove to the ‘Lap of the Gods’ in claiming pole position for the 2003 race, with he and Rick Kelly winning the race the next day.
Pic: an1images.com / Graeme Neander
Also among the haul are HRT 044 – the Spiderman-liveried Kmart car that Kelly and Murphy raced to victory in 2004 – and WR 006, the VE Commodore that Garth Tander and Will Davison used to win in 2009 for the Holden Racing Team.
All four cars were owned by a Sydney-based collector who was the long-term custodian of Golden Child and the Lap of the Gods car and acquired the other two machines in more recent years.
Pic: Supplied
Though the new owner is a collector that prefers their identity to remain private, the cars will not be sequestered away in private.
Instead, we understand some are scheduled to go on display at the National Motor Racing Museum in Bathurst in the near future.
