"Brock Buster:
After BRE (Brock Racing Enterprises) built, raced, and won two SCCA (Sports Car Club of America) 2.5 Trans Am Championships with Datsun 510's, BRE team owner Peter Brock decided to build his own personal street-racer version with all the special tweaks that had made his race cars so successful and famous. Known as the "Brock Buster", most visually obvious from a stock 510 are the flared fenders which permit use of the wider and lighter American Racing Wheels. Like the BRE team cars, the Borck Buster was equipped with production based 1800cc "L series" Datsun single overhead cam engines."
"BRE (60th anniversary) and the Japanese Classic Car Show (which celebrated their 20th anniversary this year), teamed up to create this joint anniversary two model BRE Datsun 510 set.
One model is of the Trans-Am 2.5 Championship #46 BRE Datsun 510
The other model is the Datsun 510 Peter owned personally during the BRE race years. Brock painted his personal car in this striking yellow livery and called it the Screaming Yellow Zonker after a popular candy that came in a bright yellow wrapper. When Ebro models decided to do a model of the Screaming Yellow Zonker they couldn’t call it that as it would have been trademark infringement so for their model they called it the Brock Buster. The real car was recently located and restored to original condition and attended the BRE Open House three years ago. This is the only model set ever made with the two most important BRE Datsun 510s in Peter’s life.
Brock BUSTER
To email owner of site/Brock Buster 510 please email to bb510@att.net
"[one of] the two most important BRE 510's in Peter's [Brock's] life ...."
-brelegacy.com
"....Pete Brock's Brock Buster - quite a car...quite a kit"
-Revell
"....It seems to be considered the ultimate 510 by Datsun purists..."
-Pete Brock
"....The ideal upon which hundreds perhaps thousands of privately modified 510's were built..."
-George D. Levy
Editor, AutoWeek
This website is devoted to preserving the
history of this very special street Datsun 510; a street legal Trans Am car chock full of BRE components that was designed and owned by the legendary Peter Brock.
Modified in the early 70's by BRE and other legends of the Southern California racing scene, this car is a street legal "sibling"...if you will...of the famous "46" and "85" '71 and '72 2.5 Trans Am Champion 510's campaigned by BRE.
The brock buster 510
History and information on Brock Racing Enterprises, the 2.5 Trans Am Championship and Pete Brock.
About BRE
The Brock Buster has ungergone a comprehensive restoration and is once again "The Ultimate Street Datsun 510".
Today
Detailed history of the Brock Buster 510 and this cars unique place in Datsun History and influence on the Japanese car scene.