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[kevinday5]

john clelands 1996 vetra in it first year in BTCC.
john finshed 8th with 102 points and vauxhall finished 6th with 172 ponits in the Manufacturers Championship.

[charlie]

I remember it well. Probably the start of manufactures putting kit on everyday saloons to get past regulations but great close racing that was a joy to watch.

[chris-h]

thats a great pic kev,i remember em well,they took over from the cavalier which wore the same colours.

[Netwalker]

Looks good thought. Ir would be nice to make a replica of this one

[seabo]

would be nice to make a replica of.....great photo aswell...

[kevinday5]

i have had the idea of do replica got to talk to a cuolpe of people 1st to if we can pull it off.

[chris-h]

will be a lot of work and wont be cheap but we can do it mate.

[seabo]

good luck lads...plenty of pix if ya do this.

[kevinday5]

but doing it with an old cav racing coluors not a vectra m8

[V6H]

I remember that go on you tube and theres some old footage on there.

[kevinday5]

was on there earlier was cleland and soper come together at sliverstone in 1992

[V6H]

was on there earlier was cleland and soper come together at sliverstone in 1992

Mint isnt it???

[seabo]

but doing it with an old cav racing coluors not a vectra m8

still wanna see the pix and updates ..... ...lol

[vinny_69]

i went to the vauxhal open day at luton must have been 94/95 while walking round i saw some spotty little oik in vaux race suit handing out these little pics and he was sighning em,

i said go on then lets have one by the way who are you

im James Tompson
me being a bit young and [censored]y
whos that then
im cleland's team mate
and the icing on the cake was little old me asking him
ever thought of winning any races sometime soon

to which he replied
[censored] off

  look at him now,i should have kept the autograph thinking about it

[kevinday5]

this pic was taken about 95/96 at the big county show we have down there in kent