BRE 1970 Datsun 240Z

[THarrison351]

In December 1965 Peter Brock started his own design firm and motor racing team, Brock Racing Enterprises (BRE) which worked with Hino, Datsun and Toyota GT cars Brock designed for BRE clients included the Hino Samurai, the Toyota JP6 and the Triumph TR-250K. Brock continued racing, now driving his own Lotus 11 MKII and paid rides with a TVR and Mercury in the NASCAR series. Brock began performance development on the Hino 900, which then evolved into their Hino 1300 Contessa. When Toyota took over Hino, Brock approached Datsun. John Morton raced mostly SCCA Club races through 1968 until Brock hired him for his new BRE Datsun team. The period between 1969 and 1972 were fruitful for John, Peter and Datsun. BRE became the west coast Datsun factory race team and competed in 1969 in the SCCA DP (D production cars with limited modifications) class with Datsun 2000 roadsters, in 1970 and 1971 in the CP (C production cars with limited modifications) class with the 240Zs (SCCA National Champions '70-'71) and in 1971-72 the 2.5 Trans-Am Series races with the Datsun 510s (National Champions '71-'72). The race team was disbanded at the end of the 1972 season when Brock moved on to hang gliding. (Wikipedia) This is an excellent article written by Peter Brock about the 240Z: Datsun Rising: Peter Brock on the BRE Datsun 240Z

In 2018 Greenlight released a nice tribute to the BRE 1970 Datsun 240Z. For less than $20 from Hobby Lobby with a 40% coupon,  it's not bad and looks to be in 1/24 scale. Simplified, it only has opening doors, and a mostly stock interior. It does have a "roll bar" and if you take it apart, the center stack has a flat panel with what looks like switches, lights and other racing items. A racing drivers seat and some belts would have been nice. The chassis is stock and it rides high. Behind the wheels there are disc brakes, but they aren't painted, just black plastic. In fact, because this was a production based car, the rear should be drums. 

I didn't do much, some paint on the chassis, the door panels, brakes, wheels, and front spoiler. I lowered it as far as it would go and hit all the taillight pins with white paint per Snake's advice. Also as told in the What did you get today? thread, I polished the paint because the Tampo is kind of dull as finished. A further note. They have a Gulf version which I plan to do the same modifications to lower and paint.

These are a part of Greenlight's Tokyo Torque collection. As a part of the collection, which comes in 1/64, 1/43 and 1/24 scales. The 1/64 Z cars have had multiple liveries of SCCA and rally cars. I'd love to see those in 1/24 scale. They also have 1/64 and 1/43 versions of the BRE Datsun 510s and have the 1/64 Bobby Allison car he ran successfully.  I would definitely buy those in 1/24 scale!

 

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Gulf liveried fake racer

 

Edited March 3, 2020 by THarrison351

[Snake45]

Very, very nice, both! I'm gonna hafta look into those. 

I recently got and Snake-Fu'ed the M2 Fairlady Z (street stock). Hope to have pics and writeup up soon. 

[randyc]

Nice.  BRE cars always stood out