[Closed] When racing/rally cars were racing/rally cars

wwas - that Alfa is flipping gorgeous! I love old Alfas and hate anything post 1995ish. A real shame.

I give you the landcrab http://www.landcrab.net/mainframes/main_rally.htm

real race winning rally car

And another winner http://www.ridelust.com/citroen-sm-breadvan-racer/

Jim Clark Room Duns:
http://www.duns.bordernet.co.uk/local/clark.html

28 - 30 MAY 2010
http://www.jimclarkrally.com/

Been posted already but an amazing machine!
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A friend I was at college with worked at a engine builders and a customer had his RS200 engine on the dyno making over 650bhp when it decided to let one of its legs leave the bed! The customer sat in the corner of the dyno room crying! Engine blocks were rather hard to come by...

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Bl00dy fantastic thread!!!

Alfa 155 V6 DTM car... About the most dominant (whilst it was racing) car any touring car racing series has ever seen. It pretty much cleaned up everything in 93-96!

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Almost 500bhp at 12,000rpm from a 2.5 litre V6!

Nigel Mansell's 1987 Williams FW11-B... The most powerful F1 car ever!

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Conservative estimate put the power at around 1000bhp in race trim, and approx 1200bhp in high boost, qualifying trim. I say conservative because these beasts, with no electronic aids, were hitting 220mph down the longest F1 circuit straights, running lots of wing on biiiiiig slicks! Some of the optimists reckon that the engine was capable of putting out as much as 1500bhp for a hot qualifying lap, but the pistons and the block would likely melt together very quickly at this output...

Here is my pal's Mk1 Mini Cooper S. How many folks could build a present day works rep in a shed?

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Mboy I had forgotten about the Alfa 155 stunning car :-).

Love the Ari clip, one of my hero's.

Also a PSA fan, having had a 309GTI, BX 16valve and an Mi16 - best handling cars in their day, bloody quick (esp. the BX 16 valve) and remarkably reliable.

Just had a look on t'web - no wonder they were so quick, barely weighed a ton!

Go home pretenders...

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Ari's PP 405. Thread closed.

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Aston Martin DBR1
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DP214
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RHAM1
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Pass the Kleenex, would you?

That TZ750 video is mental

Motorbike wise - the Aprilia cube was pure evil sounding in the flesh.
Remeber lying with alcohol poisoning and sunstroke at Donnington, the sound was like no other bike on the track - oh how i want one of them for my garage.

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R.I.P MG 🙁

OK, I'm fully aware that this is all wrong, but still...

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The Zakspeed Capri

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BMW batmobile

Some great cars here...even the Toyota,but the clip of Kenny Roberts did it for me.As cool as....

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1991 Jordan 191, simply the best looking F1 car 8)

Some important F1 cars still missing from this thread:
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or better still:
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Also:
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and
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...anybody recognise what my 3rd picture is (without cheating)?

I don't think we've had one of these yet either - fast and beautiful.
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Another 917, this time the 917-10 Can-Am version.

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the 917-30 - this was the one that made 1200bhp in it's usual trim and was uprated to 1500+ for the successful attempt on the closed circuit record.

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and saving the best 'til last, the Alfa T33

aracer - Member
...anybody recognise what my 3rd picture is (without cheating)?

Brabham fan car....

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Mental and beautiful too. The 935 'Moby Dick' Not as successful as the 'regular' 935 though.

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Younger brother of the 956; unbeatable in its day. The 962.

on and on, that's the Zakspeed Mustang. This is the Capri to end all Capris
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I have this lurking in my shed, desperate to once again see the light of day. 30 years old now beleive it or not.... go the Sud!

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I have this lurking in my shed

Your definition of a shed is quite different to mine! 😆

God, this thread has made me yearn for my Rally Car Top Trumps.

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Or the 935 K3. 8)

Ace shed - chopperT, may need a spring clean in mine now!

No Cosworths? This is me (co-driving) on Epynt a while ago:
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...and trying to make up time after going off sideways into a Belgian field (no glass in my side of the car):
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...and finally my last event in Wexford (2000):
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...happy days!

Merc clk gtr
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192 mph. No seatbelts. Drum Brakes. Sadly involved in motorsport's worst tragedy ever in 1955 (obviously car number 20 was destroyed in said accident; this ain't the one..). A man's car however.

Sadly involved in motorsport's worst tragedy ever in 1955

aracer,

POssibly so.. Both Proper racing cars unlike the ponces shite on F1 nowadays. Those mercs and Jags were doing F1 speeds with no downforce and skinny tyres. Unlike the hommers that claim they're racing drivers today.

aracer, your first pic, Lotus Type 49 commemorated by this:

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Elise S1 Type 49

PP, your Lotus JPS Type 72 commeroated by these:

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Elise S2 "Heritage Edition" Type 72 in 2002

and this year to celebrate the Lotus F1 team:

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Exige S Type 72 - 20 to be sold in the UK representing the 20 victories of the original Type 72. Sat in one of these at the dealer in Preston whilst getting some work done to my Elise - looks even better in the flesh...

Tyrrell P34 = Rude
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a slightly newer photo of the sunoco porsche/audi .... still running at goodwood

Quite like this too

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& (in a cliche'd way) this would be my ultimate

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Alfa 155 V6 DTM car... About the most dominant (whilst it was racing) car any touring car racing series has ever seen. It pretty much cleaned up everything in 93-96!

Almost 500bhp at 12,000rpm from a 2.5 litre V6!

A normally aspirated 2.5 v6 at that! 😯

I always liked the look of these 2. The Beta montecarlo had a turbocharged 1.4 (yes you read it right) and was also rather successful (provided it didn't blow away with a large gust of wind.)
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Are we all forgetting the 4.5 litre blower Bentley. 135mph round Brooklands in one of these would've taken some serious cojones.

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Ford Falcon GTHO Phase 3, the fastest 4 door sedan in the world in 1971
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Revs at the limiter & the speedo off the clock.
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Lotus Type 49 commemorated by this:
Elise S1 Type 49