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It has been weeks since we've had a Rally Car thread.
Here is a Rally car.
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Coming way out of left field:
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Was just reading an article about Group B in Motorsport.
If it ain't Group B, it ain't real!
BOOM!
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An amazing car, but I have very fond memories of an earlier era
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Uncanny, was just watching this...
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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!
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Tenuous link
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From the Lurgan Park rally in 2012, was a nice supprise to find it on the weekend we were in town.
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That mini is wonderful.
That Mini is the exception to the Group B rule! 🙂
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Nothing beats the trabbie that entered the RAC rally![img] 
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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.
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Slightly closer to home I like to give my lad's BMW Z4 a hard time with this Mutha
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the car the mini beat in the monty
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the big works healey
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[url= http://crasstalk.com/2011/03/cheatins-still-winnin-the-story-of-toyota-racings-best-cheat-ever/ ]Does anyone else remember Toyota getting smitten with the ban hammer for bypassing turbo restrictors?[/url]
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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.
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Here's mine:
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CFH - That 1st Quattro - it ain't a real B!
**Nerd That's a group 4 car! Nerd**
Dammit. Really? 🙁
Maxtorque - tell us more!
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@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.
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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
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A customer of ours has this
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Which a former owner had like this...
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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.
I love a Lancia Stratos me....
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and they make the BEST noise ever, ever, ever.....
I like a Stratos too, but I also like an Escort....
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But Quattros ain't so bad...
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No rally car thread is complete unless you have Carlos throwing his helmet into the rear window of his broken Toyota, 500 mtrs from the finish line and those same 500 mtrs away from his World Championship win.
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The WRC upsetterer:
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in a similar vein:
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and they make the BEST noise ever, ever, ever....
Damn right! I vividly remember one stage of the RAC Rally took place at Longleat, the cars traveling to it on public roads.
At that time the A350 trunk road from the M4 down to Poole went past the top of my road, just a few metres from my house, so all these rally cars were going past at legal speeds.
Then a Stratos went past. I could hear it when it got out onto the 60 mph road, about a quarter mile away, and for what seemed like the next ten minutes.
By which time it would have been entering Melksham, about seven or eight miles away...
A hair-raising, banshee wail!
Awesumz.
Love the Saab!
Fulvia is the prettiest.
Wot no Amazons?
Curveball from my album
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Plus THE best sounding rally cars of all time? Take your pick ....
Mine - Woodpecker Stages this year, Haye Park (Mortimer Forest), Ludlow. Also used Bringewood, Hopton & Radnor. Lucky for a keen mtb'er....... Hobbies with joint benefits.
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1360cc XS
Bloody expensive sport, but awesome, it is a bug. Big area here for it around here, everyone knows someone who rallies, outside of the towns, I co-drive and navigate (not the same thing) a bit too. Chris Ingram, a friend of mine narrowly missed out on the junior European title this year in a works Opel Adam.
Welsh Farmer - I'm desperate to do a road rally over Hay Bluff and down through Llanthony. Just need a navigator.
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Welsh Farmer - I'm desperate to do a road rally over Hay Bluff and down through Llanthony. Just need a navigator.
It is a long time since I sat in the hot seat on a night rally or I might offer 🙂
Just seen this:
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No Ari Vatanen "Dear God" clip ? Here you go
Pig face - never seen that before, bloody amazing! Do you know what car and where?
[quote=FunkyDunc ]Pig face - never seen that before, bloody amazing! Do you know what car and where?
Opel Manta on the Isle of Man
Welshfarmer do you remember Gwilym Thomas from Llangorse? RS1800, long time ago now.
that catch at 2.01 😯
welshfarmer - Andy Burton is an almost neighbour of ours and I know his boys well, followed that car for years, it is an absolute beast, but sadly now parked up in a shed in bits, covered in chicken s**t by all accounts.
This is one of my all time favourite cars:
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Campaigned to British Championship victory in 1994 by Malcolm Wilson and Bryan Thomas. My mum went to school with Bryan and I now deal with him a lot through work.
This car belongs to a friend, they rally it in the BTRDA series, Talbot Sunbeam (in red) with a 1400cc Vauxhall engine (approx. 170bhp). Proflex suspension, dog box.
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They've had a tough year, lots of retirements, but shown some mega pace. This is from the recent Wyedean Stages where they managed to go 6th fastest through one stage, in a field of 300bhp+ turbo 4wd cars and big power escorts and the like:
Here in sanremo / molini they have the irc rally and the historic rally every year in march/April. My god the smell and the noise of the group B's is immense
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and they make the BEST noise ever, ever, ever....Damn right!
Ferrari (Dino) derived V6. Skip to 4:40
Not strictly rallying, but a rally driver (possibly the best ever) on Pikes Peak in a Peugeot 405 T16. Climb Dance:
That ari dear god clip... 8) 😆
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Normally smashing someone else into a bank
I've been looking for the pictures that lead to this wreck too
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I remember there being quite a good series of pictures in a magazine at the time but can't find anything online now. A few cars clipped the stump, Gwyndaf showed them how it was done.
I was spectating on the Manx Rally that year when the Ari clip was show at the evening highlights in the Rally HQ - there was a collective 'OHhh' from the audience !
I was also spectating just down the road the year he totaled the black escort - I saw him seconds before over the Starvey yump landing half on the grass .... he only lasted a few hundred yards further before the crash.
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..Heads over to PistonHeads to see if [url= http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=47&t=1334825&i=400 ]MaxTorque [/url]has got any further on his project!!
good (cycling) mate of mine has been rallying for years, still does - was in a 3.0 911 RS, now Escort RS rebuild - will see if I can dig out some pics.
Ha, I remember staring in awe at some of the stuff done on that car MaxTorque. Don't visit PH as much anymore.
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Meanwhile in Ireland 😆
Pigface - that Kelly MKII footage is AWESOME!
Thanks for posting.
Found this snap of Callum's car, will see if can dig out some YouTube footage too. It's a hard life..
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Things don't always go well -
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One of my small local town hero is Didier Auriol. First French wrc champion.
His day job was ambulance driver.
He still lives in the town and has built himself a private museum for his rally cars.
I heard him say that his favourite was the Austin Metro.
If it's "rally talk" it's got to include Escorts, that's the rule 🙂 , cheers for posting that pigface, sent it to my mate who won his class in the RAC Rally back in mid 90's with this cosworth escort below - it's just as well he owned a car bodyshop n' garage along with a deep wallet as he always drove 10/10ths at all times.
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I know its not strictly a rally car but close enough
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[url= http://www.topgear.com/car-news/motorsport/video-listen-audis-top-secret-group-s-monster ]http://www.topgear.com/car-news/motorsport/video-listen-audis-top-secret-group-s-monster[/url]
I'm pretty sure it was Luis not Carlos who hurled his helmet through the back window.
Oh and Gwydaf's stump (ooh-err), was that the one in Chatsworth?
That little Fiat is insane! He never, ever lets off the gas, just brilliant!