Glenn Seton’s 1997 championship-winning V8 Supercar heads to auction
The winner of the first V8 Supercars season will head across the auction block.
One of the most recognisable Australian touring cars of the 1990s is up for grabs.
Glenn Seton's 1996 Ford Falcon is being offered by Lloyds Auctioneers, and it lays claim to some serious on-track credibility.
With Seton at the wheel, the Falcon won the very first championship of the V8 Supercars in 1997, after the series transitioned from the Australian Touring Car Championship.
Perhaps most astonishingly, this was achieved by a single-car team, with just six people working behind the scenes at each race.
Built for the Bathurst 1000 the year prior, Seton set an unofficial record of 302km/h on Conrod Straight – set during qualifying in which he nabbed pole position – with the record only broken by Jamie Whincup nearly a decade later, due to rule changes.
While officially a 1996, EF-series Ford Falcon, the vehicle was updated to an EL the following year when Ford gave the road-going model a facelift.
Like all touring cars of that era wearing the Blue Oval badge, the vehicle is fitted with a 5.0-litre naturally-aspirated 'Windsor' V8, mated to a Holinger six-speed H-pattern manual transmission driving the rear wheels.
Included in the sale is the championship-winning helmet, race suit, and other items – all signed by Glenn Seton himself.
Bidding is currently open, and the auction will run until 30 July 2021. To view the listing on the Lloyds website, click here.