14 Facts About Repco

Brabham-Repco was awarded the International Cup for F1 Manufacturers in the same two years.

Repco was a publicly traded company being first listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1937, before being acquired by Pacific Dunlop in 1988.

Repco proposed they design and build a 3L version of the 2.

Repco board agreed to his proposal in light of the expected rival 2.

In 1966, the Repco engine was good enough to score three poles for Jack Brabham.

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Repco produced a new version of the engine, the 700 series, this time with a Repco designed block.

The Repco project had always been hindered by the lengthy lines of communication between the UK and Australia, which made correcting problems very difficult.

Repco, having spent far more money than originally envisaged and having sold very few customer versions of its engine, stopped the project.

Repco had been involved in Australian motor racing many years prior to the association with Brabham.

Brabham-Repco project was initially aimed at the Tasman Series, where Coventry-Climax's obsolete FPF four-cylinder engine was dominant in the mid-1960s.

Brabham-Repco's were prepared and entered in the 1968 and 1969 Indianapolis 500.

Repco developed and built the Repco-Holden Formula 5000 engine for Formula 5000 racing.

Repco used the block and head castings of the Holden 308 V8 engine as its basis, but it featured many modifications including Lucas fuel injection, dual-coil Bosch ignition and more than 150 special components designed by Repco.

Repco claimed to have already cured the oil problems while developing the still-born Holden LJ Torana GTR XU-1 V8 in 1972 and that Holden ignored his warnings about the Repco engine.