[Closed] Classic Rally Cars!

cant argue with that merak.. saw him often and even spent the evening in the IOM once. saw the 6r4 debut at dalby with TP as a course car i think. changed a wheel for michelle mouton once on the rac or maybe the scottish.. no.1? the 037 gave me more fantasies than demi moore..

I remember when the RAC used to run at Chatsworth, it was ace

Michele Mouton deserves a mention for being a first class driver, reaching the top echelons in a male dominated sport, and wrestling one of those quattro's

Used to be a load of us skive off high school in Coniston in the late 80's to watch the British RAC in grizedal. Couldn't believe the speeds they got up to......

Michele Mouton deserves a mention for being a first class driver, reaching the top echelons in a male dominated sport, and wrestling one of those quattro's

And at 60, seems she can still bloody well do it too!

Can't believe no-ones mentioned the Lancia Stratos, the sound of that beast howling through the forest on the RAC night stages (remember them?) will never be beaten for me!

The good days....
Mouton was a rally babe, the Quattro 5 cyl sound was the one for me but you can't ignore the 6r4, Delta s4 as well as plenty of others, way too restrained and boring nowadays.

Absolutely brutal!

And....

Edit: sorry not checked the PH, far too drunk

Deltas and Quattros do it for me.

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Our family car was a mk1 Mex when I was a kid. Never forget the white squares on the doors! Yup my my old man was bona fida rally driver! Never got the break he deserved, to this day he can out run most people in whatever turd of a motor he's using as his run around!!!

Popping down to Croft today for the Roger Albert Clark Rally. Two stages and over 100 cars from the sixties and seventies. the paddock will act as the service area with kids under 15 going in free.
http://www.croftcircuit.co.uk/croft/tickets/racrally.html

If they are still doing the rally thing at Goodwood, it's well worth a visit.

Don Simon has it, Mk1 and Mk2 Escorts.

My dear old Dad had a Rodger Clark Mk1 Replica...

Most Awesome.

Post-group B and probably not a classic rally car, but this must rank as one of the most amazing crashes ever.
Remember watching it at the time, seeing the car completely submerge & thinking this is not going to end well. Somehow they both got out thankfully

😯 😯 😯

Being a Kiwi and having raced one of these back home, thought I would share it. Not my all time fav but good memories. Remember following the international rally of New Zealand one year ( Dad was crew on one of the cars ) when Michele Mouton was in the Audi....amazing to watch. Still loads of gravel/dirt roads back home where you can have some sideways fun. Great thread!!!

http://datnet.org/topic/14404-datsun-1600s-do-fly/

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Thanks OP for that, made my morning. Never did get a Manta but had an 85 Vitesse, great fun for such a large car.

Like the comment "young David Llewellin."

As for clasic rally car, eithr a Stratos or an 037.

I was lucky enough to spend 12 great years following my dad around when he was co driving for various people from about 1977 onwards, at that time we used to see a lot of ex works Ford Escorts being run on events in East Anglia, at the time he was being scared stupid in a Mk2 RS2000, but it was kept at a farm alongside an ex works Talbot Sunbeam Lotus, and a couple of other Escorts, (1 group 1 car, and an ex works group 4). Now being ever helpful and generally nosy, i used to be strapped in to any of the above and given trips round the farm tracks before events, memories i will never forget...
Over the years he had the opportunity to rally in some great cars including,
ex works Escorts, XJO 414V the Roger Clark TR7 V8 and the final one, and my favourite, because it was just plain bonkers, one of the most odd Group B cars ever, an ex factory Citroen Visa Trophy, (1300cc twin carbs, dog box all fibre galss panels and lots of noise.) in this dad and his equally nuts driver managed to win a couple of events outright, against cars with twice the power but not the agility...

Good Times......Rallying isnt as good now though.......

Nice video of Michele mboy

I love how she's having a relaxed conversation while scaring the shit out of that guy

Here in Italy we are lucky enough to have 3 Rally's a year that pass through molini. ...The San Remo historic, international and the group B that just went through last weekend.

A guy crashed and wrecked his Stratos!!!!

Personal fave...

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the [i]uncle in law[/i] has a droop snoot Chevette with a 2.3 engine & a Lancia Integrale sitting in the barn.

Zed - if that was a red 308 run up north then it was probably Nigel Worswick.

That 6R4 engine design got bought by TWR, developed as a twin turbo to put in the XJR-11 racer, then was re-incarnated as the XJ220 engine.

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Best sound ever 8)

I know this next one isn't a classic (probaby about as far from it as you can get 😆 ) but i've always liked them. So much that i bought one that now gets used for hillclimbs & sprints.

Best sound ever

And 'they' told Audi that a 5 cylinder engine would never work....how wrong 'they' were

The first time I saw Richard Burns rallying was in a Porsche 911 that he rented. It looked a bit wayward, but he showed extraordinary car control.

Then, at service, this skinny ginger schoolboy got out of it, grinning like a loon.

Love watching Audi Quattros on you tube with the waste gate chattering-bliss! Oh, and this...

lovely sounds :-0

more!

ha! that delta on the cart track is ridiculous!

one of my favourite childhood memories was going to Croft with my mates and my Dad and watching the 6R4s and RS200s ragging round the rallycross course.
[wonders if they still do a 'classics' version]

A big thumbs up for the Delta S4 vid!

Nice 240RS @[u]Merak[/u]

i'll second what magoo37 said: Lancia Stratos
Just got back from watching Roger Albert Clark rally at Duncombe Park.
The sound of that Stratos full chat through the woods - awesome, gets me every time! Thats what got me struck on rallying over 30 years ago as a kid - scary!
Nothing modern in rallying competes with that noise. Group B cars come close though.
Always forget how good the escorts sound too, Evans was amazing today, won nearly every stage so far.
Wish I was going to watch more!

I know you lot are into fire breathing, snorting, hairy arsed Group B madness, but an old aquaintance has been doing this for the last 6 years, car 47 a DeLarge (French Rolls lookielikie) sports version..

Peking to Paris..

I've always been tempted to build up a group b style pug 205. They're so much fun even in GTi form.

These videos just scares me.

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These videos just scares me.

Holy shit, that moment at 4:25ish !!

A friend offered me a drive in his 6R4. I politely declined explaining that I'd rather the cam belt didn't snap with me at the wheel. The cam belt snapped shortly after. The 6R4 sums up the state of the British motor industry at the time: flawed in many respects.

Rallying is all but dead with not even a handfull of companies still prepared to invest. I enjoyed the heyday and the G4 Escort and Fiat Mirafiori duels were IMO the best of rallying before things got out of hand. My own cars were group N but Graham Hickman was good enough to let me out in "TUM", a 220bhp G4 Escort - the fastest tractor ever made.

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Check out this with Walter Rohl in his Audi (and the background Porno music!). The control he has over the car is amazing, and his footwork on the pedals; outstanding. The H&S bods wouldn't like all those spectators on the stage like that these days....like the parting of the Sea! Enjoy... 🙂

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Four Montes in four different cars for Herr Rohl IIRC. He is still seen regularly on German TV, as often on a bike as in a car.

sugdenr - Member
Zed - if that was a red 308 run up north then it was probably Nigel Worswick.

Err...It was the yellow one, in the pic I posted at the top of page 2.

IIRC it's one of the glassfibre bodied 308's, & it's running a fuel injection system designed & built by Tony Worswick.

I used to work for Worwicks. I once nearly dropped a cast iron gate valve through the front end of Nigel's cossie. Oops.
Got to drive a group N astra round an industrial estate one. It had forest tyres on it and while I thought I was going really quick the car obviously didn't...
Another time a mate of mine went over to do the Manx International competing in the VW Polo challenge. That was bloody great. Especially when he won it.

[url= http://www.rogeralbertclarkrally.org/RAC_2011/Scotland_Map.htm ]on my doorstep tomorrow[/url]
Not been to a rally for years

Sunday Passes - 4th December 2011:

* Scottish Stages Pass giving access to all stages run in Scotland £20.00 per car

Absolute cracking thread - thanks for the entertainment guys - makes a big change from the bitching hitters