Andy Rouse chassis Numbers

[kieran 4]

Thinking about ARE cars and reading some interesting paragraphs had me looking through some more pictures.

1 in particular was the Macau guia Tim Harvey car and seeing photos the car in question does have a blue inside colour, which would correspond with a paragraph I read that said this was he's labatt's Sierra ARE 0389, shows how far these cars got around.  

[kieran 4]

Any body have the chassis number on the CMS car? Was this 0387?!

[kieran 4]

ARE 0787 has been added which is the Dunlop JTCC car.

[Roy 22]

On 18-2-2017 at 6:03 PM, kieran said:

Any body have the chassis number on the CMS car? Was this 0387?!

The CMS car doesnt have a Rouse number.

[kieran 4]

On 22/02/2017 at 10:19 AM, RSRoy said:

The CMS car doesnt have a Rouse number.

Cheers Roy, I heard somewhere that was a chassis number that went to Europe and Japan, must of crossed wires. 

[kieran 4]

Anyone know this car? Saw it have a Andy Rouse Engineering tag but didn't have time to look at numbers. 

[PAUL S 11]

Only pic I have ever seen of anything similar is this one, which from hazy memory was a converted Merkur used for promotion when the 3dr entered the btcc.

Those look recent? whats the story on the car?

[Roy 22]

These pics were on facebook.

[PAUL S 11]

Looks like someone has found and restored that converted Rouse Merkur then in that period promo pic, based on the tags build date :-)

I don't recall it ever running in that scheme though either as a 3dr or an RS500

I always thought it had morphed into the ANZ car that was later converted to lhd (then recently back to rhd) as that was also a Merkur shell to start with.

[Wireless 2]

On ‎13‎.‎05‎.‎2017 at 0:21 AM, PAUL S said:

I always thought it had morphed into the ANZ car that was later converted to lhd (then recently back to rhd) as that was also a Merkur shell to start with.

ARE 87005 is the Rouse / Moffat / Tassin ANZ car for Bathurst '87 and was a new build for that year rather than an XR4Ti conversion.

[PAUL S 11]

Ah ok, I recall Martin saying it ran the full length Merkur chassis rails when he owned it?

[Roy 22]

I've learned you could get 909 chassis rails as an extra to siffen up the car. 

[Wireless 2]

Paul and Roy - I can't comment on the configuration of the car when Martin had it, but when I looked into buying that actual car last year, I did my due diligence. Part of this was speaking to Andy Rouse and I asked him explicity whether 87005 was originally built as a Merkur and he confirmed it wasn't. It was a brand new build during '87. Hope this helps.

[PAUL S 11]

Yes you could Roy, from memory they were shown in the "How to prepare the Sierra for motorsport book" I used to own.

The ANZ car though was the only one I had heard of that had them fitted, which made me think it could have originally been a Merkur shell, but it seems that was a red herring. Wonder why just this chassis had them retro fitted.

Whats the back story to the Motorcraft liveried car Roop/Roy? that has recently surfaced.

[Roy 22]

I know the Speedware DTM winning car also has them fitted.

What I have understood from the Motorcraft liveried car is that is was the test mule for the Cosworth used by Rouse.

[RS 500 Registrar 15]

The " extra " chassie rails were a 909 motorsport part that could be bought to retro fit to the sierra chassie , these were not fitted to many as it was said it made the car to stiff

 

 

[PSP 0]

On 03/12/2016 at 12:23 PM, PAUL S said:

Does anyone know what race this is from? It has drivers Brock/Jones on the side??

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Roy 22]

Oran park Pepsi 300 in 1989. Its the Rouse Kaliber Sierra from 1988.

[PSP 0]

I thought the car had 3 drivers for that race? Brock, Jones & Larkham

[Roy 22]

Correct, but Larkham was never mentioned on the car. I doubt he even drove the car on race dat.

[kieran 4]

A friend of mine sent me this picture, this was taken in 2016. 

Anybody has any information? Looks like a 1989 car but in the 1988 livery. 

[Roy 22]

It is one of the 88 cars according to the owner.

Lots of things changed though. Suspension, wheels, air jack nozzle, cage.

[kieran 4]

2 hours ago, Roy said:

It is one of the 88 cars according to the owner.

Lots of things changed though. Suspension, wheels, air jack nozzle, cage.

Sounds good Roy, you’ve got a chassis number to add to the first page? Any history on it?

[Roy 22]

If what the owner is telling is correct we have the chassis number and full history. Just not allowed to publicly share it...

[kieran 4]

1 hour ago, Roy said:

If what the owner is telling is correct we have the chassis number and full history. Just not allowed to publicly share it...

Good news that the car is known, shame about so much cloak and dagger with all the chassis numbers, to be fair it’s seems that way across the board for Sierra RS500’s now.