UK TV request - 850 BTCC
 

Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you are all keeping safe and well.

My name is Sarah and I work for North One, a television production company in Birmingham. I am working on a new series for Channel 4 all about iconic vehicles from around the world. I am trying to locate a Volvo 850 Estate BTCC car and wondered if any members knew where I might be able to track one down? Forgive my ignorance, but would private individuals ever have been able to purchase these ?

If anyone knows anyone who now owns one of knows who would be best to contact I'd be really grateful for any information.

Many thanks,
Sarah

Hi Sarah,

At that time the Volvo UK Touring Car Racing Team was operated by TWR (Tom Walkinshaw Racing). The company did used to retain and keep a collection of most of the vehicles that they competed with, but sadly following a failed attempt to conquer F1 in the late 1990's, the company went bankrupt in 2002 and all of it's assets were auctioned off including most of the car collection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Walkinshaw_Racing

However there is a Swedish chap who has been buying some of them back, you might be able to track him down. I don't know him personally, I came to know about him when I was Googling myself a few years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkvIQuNGs6k

You might also get a few more hits of you post in the "Volvo and General Motoring" thread in the generic pages of this forum.

Hi Tannaton,

Thank you very much for your reply and detail, its greatly appreciated. Will have a look into this.

Very best

This might be useful too :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TQcAAHbB1I