"RICHARDS MUSCLES IN" "Jim Richards' 30-month project to build an AMC Javelin for the Touring Car Masters series is getting its finishing touches. The race legend will debut the '72 muscle car at the Clipsal 500 meeting in Adelaide in four weeks. Richards, who has been racing a Falcon Sprint against a flotilla of big US and Aussie iron, says the Javelin answers his inner demand for something different. It will be the only car of this type in the TCM field, and Richards is also delighted to be re-creating a model campaigned so successfully by Penske Racing and champion American driver Mark Donohue, who together dominated Trans Am racing with Javelins in the early 1970s. The Javelin runs a 360ci AMC V8 producing more than 600 horsepower and weighs 1580 kilograms, plus an additional seeded driver penalty of 30 kilograms. Richards scoured the world for the right car, eventually buying one from an enthusiast in Melbourne."
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