For the final race of the 1988 season, the 99269 car (Martins) was repainted and taken to Japan for the Fuji 500 where it remained until Martin rescued it.
ALL Egmo Customer cars were done with chassis numbers EGMO yy-nn where yy is the year and nn is the sequential chassis number for that year (eg: the Yacco EGMO 90-02 car).
I don't think 99269 was the DTM winner car. It was the runner up in 1989 driven by Klaus Niedzwiedz in white and blue colours with red windshield banner. Then went to Japan and painted blue with Artnature livery.
There were atleast 2 Bastos cars. As far as we know one was built up with the remains of 99268 and his chassisnumber got transferred over. That would be the 1989 Spa 24h winning car.
Never really thought about it in detail until the recent thread, but in this pic below those 3 cars would have been 3drs not RS500s for the races listed, as they all occurred before the RS500 was homologated in August 87. They only became Rs500s from Brno on.
The third example 99263 now confirmed as the New Zealand South car on 17" gold centrelocks, and seems to have had a bonnet change at some point as the locks are now in a different position than shown in period pics.
The fourth car 99267 believed to be built for 1988, whereabouts unknown at present.
The fifth car 99268 was the Texaco car wrecked at Spa in 88, it is understood to have been the donor for the Spa 1989 Bastos winner, which is still in Switzerland with a fairly recent owner.
The one recently shown on a single wheel trailer, it's full egmo spec but is it an original Texaco?
Ditto version 2 - either the same car that has an internal repaint back to black from the white seen at an RSOC France event or possibly the white motorcraft 3dr/RS500. Same racer owned both, maybe he still does!
The second Bastos 89 car. New build or a refurbed Texaco? location unknown at present.
During Rudi's 87/88 Ford Texaco contract he apparently did not build customer cars, the very first non Texaco built/sold was the ANZ Moffat car.
I think that would wrap it up fairly well Paul according to all info we know at this moment.
Regarding to customer cars I can only add that Rudi, next to the first ANZ Moffat car also did the Trampio car. Wich raced in Japan and did 1 race at The Nurburgring.
In my post in the other thread I said there are 2 Texaco liveried cars here in NZ. I believe there are 2 more Eggenberger cars here....the ex Moffat Fuji RS500 (South Is) and a XR4Ti (North Is).
I am assuming from above that 263 is the Moffat car?
I did not mention them in previous post only because I was not aware the ex Moffat car was a Texaco liveried one in a previous life. I did not want to put any mis-information up.
PS: We have all sorts of stuff hidden down here.
Hi Haga, no the Moffat car is in addition to those listed, I dont think it was an ex Texaco, but who knows it could be one of the missing numbers ones, the 3 it seems which are now in NZ are all in Texaco colours, one north island (88) and two in the South Island (both 87) the Moffat I believe is still in its ANZ livery but again things change fast, maybe it has be repainted.
Hopefully Roy can confirm chassis number soon of the third.
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Paul, thanks for clearing that up.
I had a "lightbulb" moment when I read your post and remember a photo which contained some other racecars and the 263 Texaco Sierra. This was probably 10+ years ago.
At that time I guessed who owned it......but forgot about it till now. If it is the same owner, he has had it for quite a while. All makes sense now.
PS: Gets a bit confusing when we have so many down here!!
Went to view 99262 again last week. Had the opportunity to visit the Classic Cars museum at the Ford Cologne plant. And did find something interesting. 99262 was there with the bonnet up. So had a look on the buildplate on the slam panel. Instead of 99262 it says: GABE JA 99267! Went to open de drivers door and look at the floor what number was in there and that was 99262. There also was a little info plague with the car and that said GABE JA 99267 aswel. Pics to prove attached. Unfortunatly the guys who maintain the car weren't there because of a classic car show in Essen. The PR lady didn't know anything about the car at all so no more info then this.
An 87 and an 88 car ticked off the list in one fell swoop, great info Roy. I guess it was rebuilt and reborn to become the 88 spare car.