OUR email box at Saturday Sleuthing continues to expand but one car that has been featuring prominently has been Allan Moffat’s Cenovis Falcon EB.

It was built new as an EB Falcon in 1993 by Russell Caddy and Ian Walburn for Moffat and debuted at Bathurst complete with carburetor V8 engine supplied by Holman and Moody in the US (rather than the fuel injection systems run by all other teams) in black and fluro yellow Cenovis colours by Andrew Miedecke and Charlie O’Brien.

It only made four appearances in the hands of Moffat’s team and each year that appearance came at Bathurst. The car retired early in ’93 and then finished eighth in 1994 with Miedecke and Brit Jeff Allam driving.

It was an early retirement again in 1995 with Miedecke and Mark Noske, before having its last hurrah in Moffat’s hands in 1996 with German ace Klaus Niedzwiedz finally returning to the Mountain to team with Ken Douglas.

The duo finished 10th before the car then sat around without a racing budget.

It was bought in 1998 by Alan Heath, who updated the car to EL specifications and ran at Bathurst that year with Douglas, however the car was involved in a massive multi-car accident when Heath was tagged into the wall approaching Forrest’s Elbow.

The damaged car was sent to MTA Group Training in South Australia and the students rebuilt the car for Ross Halliday to use in the inaugural 2000 Konica V8 Lites Series – now known as the Fujitsu Series.

Halliday then put the car back to Cenovis livery and EB specification and it was sold to passionate Perth-based collector Andy Brown, who still owns the car and has put it back to its 1994 Bathurst livery, complete with small ‘winglets’ that typified the EB series II model.

‘Saturday Sleuthing’ has now become a regular feature of the BigPond Sport V8 Supercars site each Saturday on non-race weekends.

We’ve still got a pile of emails to work our way through but keep them coming and we’ll build up a big list to go hunting for.