Rally Cars!

I love a Lancia Stratos me….

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.

The WRC upsetterer:

in a similar vein:

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

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.

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.

It is a long time since I sat in the hot seat on a night rally or I might offer 🙂

Just seen this:

No Ari Vatanen “Dear God” clip ? Here you go

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:

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.

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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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) 😆

Another not strictly rally car but this was a big part of my childhood.

Normally smashing someone else into a bank

I’ve been looking for the pictures that lead to this wreck too

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.

Black Escort

..Heads over to PistonHeads to see if MaxTorque 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.

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..

Things don’t always go well –

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

http://www.topgear.com/car-news/motorsport/video-listen-audis-top-secret-group-s-monster

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!