Rally Cars!

It has been weeks since we’ve had a Rally Car thread.

Here is a Rally car.

Coming way out of left field:

Was just reading an article about Group B in Motorsport.
If it ain’t Group B, it ain’t real!

BOOM!

An amazing car, but I have very fond memories of an earlier era

Uncanny, was just watching this…

Was just reading an article about Group B in Motorsport.
If it ain’t Group B, it ain’t real!

Group B FTW.

As I’ve commented on the rally posts before, I was there from age 4. Met vatanen, went to the Manx rally, Clocaenog to kielder I was dragged all over following the lombard rac. It’s nothing like it was, sneaking in to night stages. Once did Trentham gardens and Wollaton park in an rs500 my uncle had just bought. It had a ridiculous alarm that sounded like a police siren, he may have used it a couple of times to jump the queue. Would love to take my lad if it still existed in that guise.

Juuuump!

Tenuous link

From the Lurgan Park rally in 2012, was a nice supprise to find it on the weekend we were in town.

lurgan-park-rally-40 by matt303uk[/url], on Flickr

lurgan-park-rally-3 by matt303uk[/url], on Flickr

That mini is wonderful.

That Mini is the exception to the Group B rule! 🙂

Nothing beats the trabbie that entered the RAC rally!

An early decision to trade my medical degree for a front row seat means I have now been pulling people out of badly parked rally cars for 30 years. Started with Sunbeams, Vauxhalls and Escorts and went right through the Group B era to the present day. Still got a soft spot for the Lancia Stratos and an evening spent in a cattle market somewhere in Wales as the works team serviced two of them either side of me.

faked but looks good

and…

Slightly closer to home I like to give my lad’s BMW Z4 a hard time with this Mutha

the car the mini beat in the monty

the big works healey

faked but looks good

Does anyone else remember Toyota getting smitten with the ban hammer for bypassing turbo restrictors?[/url]

Morning!

And the trabbie, the owners brought it across to do the Manx, that was the height of their ambition. Speak it softly but it became very sick with one stage to go. Luckily the rally finished at the stop line of the final stage, no drive back to base required and as it was running last on the road the rescue unit covering the stage felt it was only proper to escort the trabbie through on the grounds of safety. This they did with for the most part no daylight visible between their front bumper and the trabbie’s rear until they backed off just before the final brow and allowed it to travel to the line under it’s own steam so to speak. This was done with the full knowledge and approval of every one on the safety net. The owners had no money to take it home but were adopted by a national newspaper to do the RAC, which they completed without any close escort, and then by Toyota Team Europe who took them to several rounds of the WRC before their homolgation expired.

Here’s mine:

😆

CFH – That 1st Quattro – it ain’t a real B!
**Nerd That’s a group 4 car! Nerd**

Dammit. Really? 🙁

Maxtorque – tell us more!

5yr bank loan at 19yr old in 1986 for an 84 1.6 GTI on the strength of this Group B beast, then had to find £600 a year to insure it,sacrifices everywhere and a bit of O/T!! Happy days!!

@CFH – Sorry, different arches (amongst other things) – the 2nd one is a B.
Group 4 ain’t so bad…. hmm Stratos…..

I want a rally prepped Skoda Estelle.

My one of these has been scrapped now, belonged to a friend who now drives support trucks for Dakar style events and passed it on to me with a knackered gearbox.
Suzuki Swift GTi

A customer of ours has this

Which a former owner had like this…

The owner took me for “quick spin” round the block, after we did the graphics, I nearly Sh@t myself…
It didn’t have the correct spark plugs so wasn’t at full performance.