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Forget the obvious Aussie concepts like the Efijy, Hurricane and Commodore Sandman - here are five slightly more obscure Aussie concepts that we really wish had made it into production. Regulations set down by FISA, the international governing body at the time, stated a minimum of 500 road-going versions be built for Group A homologation, but HSV only managed to produce 302. However, this didn’t affect the Group A SV s homolgation, because the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) gave Holden special dispensation, in the hope of bolstering thinning grids in the 1991 Australian Touring Car Championship. While the current bid of AU$306,000 is still far short of the colossal AU$1,057,509 (NZ$1,133,814) a 1985 HDT VK Group A SS recently went for, there are still three days to go, so it could well get closer. Although that particular Group A was the personal car of a bloke called Peter Brock, which no doubt influenced the price somewhat.
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There are 18,000 properties are under an evacuation alert, and anyone in those areas is urged to be ready. That includes reaching out to friends and family to have a place to go, if they are ordered to leave.
There are 18 emergency centres set up, but Emergency Management BC says they are working to add more.
Due to the strong winds in the area, crews working on the Tremont Creek (K21849) wildfire have had to pull back multiple times over the last few days for safety purposes. #AshcroftBC#BCWildfirepic.twitter.com/rE55wwHWSX
Dawn Roberts, spokesperson with the BC RCMP, says there will be more RCMP members assisting with evacuations in the central Interior and the Okanagan in the coming days.