In December of 1965 Brock started his own design firm and motor racing team, Brock Racing Enterprises (BRE) which worked with Hino, Datsun and Toyota. GT cars Brock designed for BRE clients included the Hino Samurai, the Toyota JP6 and the Triumph TR-250K. All the while Brock kept close to racing, now driving his own Lotus 11 MKII and various paid rides with a TVR and Mercury in the Nascar series. Partnering with Hino, Brock began performance development on their Hino 900, which then evolved into their Hino 1300 Contessa. When Toyota took over Hino, Brock approached Datsun. BRE became the west coast Datsun factory race team and competed in 1969 in the SCCA DP class with Datsun 2000 roadsters, in 1970 and 1971 in the CP class with the 240Zs (SCCA National Champions '70-'71) and in 1971-72 the 2.5 Trans-Am Series races with the Datsun 510s (National Champions '71-'72). The race team was disbanded at the end of the 1972 season when Brock moved on to Hang Gliding.
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