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Estate Volvo 850 touring car restored to period specificat­ion

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One of the rare Tom Walkinshaw Racing-built Volvo 850 Estate cars used in the 1994 British Touring Car Championsh­ip is currently being rebuilt by Jason Minshaw.

Minshaw found the car in Holland, where it had been running as a saloon. He is now taking it back to period specificat­ion but does not plan to race it due to a lack of spares.

“I will run it in demonstrat­ions,” said Minshaw. “I’d like to have it as a rolling shell to be on display at the Silverston­e Classic.”

Chassis 3 is one of three cars built for the car’s only season in 1994, when the car was raced exclusivel­y in the BTCC by Rickard Rydell and Jan Lammers to 14th and 15th in the points.

Gregor Peterson in Sweden has chassis 1 and chassis 2 is in a museum in Gothenburg.

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The Volvo is in the UK

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