Lloyds Auctioneers and Valuers says this is the original VN Commodore Group A raced by Brock in the ’91 Australian Touring Car Championship.

This is a significant Holden touring car for a number of reasons. It was the Commodore in which Brock returned to racing Holdens following a three-year hiatus with BMW M3s and then Ford Sierras. It also marked the first step in the reconciliation between the nine-time Bathurst winner and GM-H, after the spectacular 1987 'divorce' between HDT and Holden over Brock’s insistence on fitting the Energy Polarizer device to his HDT -modified Commodores.

It's the last Holden touring car Brock raced that was powered by a Holden V8 engine (rather than the Chev which was adopted for local racing from late 1992), and it also marked the reunion (albeit shortlived) of the highly successful 1980s Brock/Larry Perkins partnership.

According to Lloyds, Brock ran the car from the ’91 season through to the end of the ’92 ATCC. He shared it with Troy Dunstan in that year’s Sandown 500 before debuting a new VP Commodore at Bathurst, with Dunstan and Andrew Miedecke teaming up in the VN.

For ’93 the car was converted to ‘V8 Supercar’ VP Commodore specs, fitted with the newer Chev engine. It raced at Bathurst that year as the second Brock/Advantage entry in yellow Quix Food Store colours, with Dunstan and Steve Harrington steering it to fifth place.

With Brock returning to the Holden fold with the HRT in 1994, the Brock/Advantage team was wound up and the car went back to Perkins Engineering. It was sold to Phil Ward, who later updated it to VR Commodore specs.

According to Lloyds, it was then purchased by Rod Salmon, who ran it in that year’s Bathurst 1000.

Now restored to '91 specs, the car is set to go under the hammer at Lloyds live classic auction event on Saturday, August 31. Click here for the Lloyds Auctions.

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