how much want - odd rally cars

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seen visas and wartburgs as rally

 

what else odd have people used

[ShiteRider]

There was a some what unsuccessful 2 door mk5 cortina campaigned by boreham after the mk2 escort died.

Think it ran an essex V6, apparently it's still kicking about somewhere, i'll get a picture up when i get home (on my phone).

[Station]

Calibra!

[Partridge]

This?

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[skattrd]

Most of you have probably seen this, but here's my little rally car ...

 

 

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[M'coli]

[autofive]

I would find you a picture of Billy Bengry's 1970 World Cup Rally Rolls-Royce, but I can't because I'm at work. 

 

this one

 

 

 

but not this one

 

[500tops]

[ShiteRider]

This?

That's the bugger! i think the germans had the sister car to it which i assume would've ran a cologne V6 in 2.3 flavour. From what i understand no one could cure the cross channel ferry like handling so it pretty much died on it's arse.

[Junkman]

[jmsguzzi]

[richardthestag]

i give you

 

 

"After the success of the 1970 World Cup Rally (2nd, 4th and 10th places overall, three class wins) BL supremo Lord Stokes did the decent thing - and closed the competitions department, although driver Brian Culcheth was retained for ‘promotional purposes’.

 

Soon Team Castrol was formed, rallying with first the Triumph 2.5 PI and then the humble Morris Marina. Culcheth and Willy Cave were entered for the 1971 RAC Rally in a Special Tuning prepared Marina, winning the 1300cc class. Ford competitions manager, Stuart Turner (formerly of BMC), was famously wrong-footed here, because he thought the Marina was to be 1.8-litre and so didn’t field one of his Escorts in the small class! With the 1275cc A-Series engine tuned like a Sprite to give around 95/100bhp the Marina was only averagely quick but reliable.

 

Culcheth was the man to make it work, claiming 2nd on the Cyprus Rally in ‘72 (with Johnstone Syer) and 6th the following year. His 16th overall and class win on the 1000 Lakes in ’73 was the stuff of legends, the top Brit position only being beaten in ’82 when Russell Brookes came 6th in a Vauxhall Chevette. Pat Ryan was the other Marina man. The moustachioed Midlander was blindingly quick on British national rallies - it was usually a class win or an accident - until BL put him into its other lost cause of the time, the Allegro!

 

Special Tuning built a Rover V8 Marina for the 1972 World Cup Rally but - predictably - the rear axle broke. Truth was ‘though, the Marina was too heavy in 1.3 form to ever beat an Escort, and just too heavy, full stop, in 1.8-litre guise. Anyone who tried to drive a 1.8 also quickly soon learnt about the dreaded Marina plough on understeer! The last official fling for the 1.3 Marina was the 1975 RAC, when Phil Cooper and Andy Marriott finished 4th in class. But by then the Dolomite Sprint and the TR7 were gaining favour in the newly formed BL team."

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[NorfolkNWeigh]

Pah! Call that Marina an odd Leyland rally car....

 

 

 

 

 

That's an odd Leyland rally car,cobber. Complete with a 4.4 Rover V8 and a mini moke team mate. 1977 London to Sydney .

[HillmanImp]

 

That is fucking brill that. I spent 10 mins looking at it wondering what it was until the fact that it is covered in Suzuki stickers registered in my rather slow brain.

 

Droop Snoot, Volvo 480, Civic and so on.

 

However, its not a swift WTF is it?

 

The spoiler is comical though whatever it is.

[fordperv]

That is fucking brill that. I spent 10 mins looking at it wondering what it was until the fact that it is covered in Suzuki stickers registered in my rather slow brain.

 

Droop Snoot, Volvo 480, Civic and so on.

 

However, its not a swift WTF is it?

 

The spoiler is comical though whatever it is.

 

its a pikes peak escudo or in autoshite speak a fuggin quick vitara with aero aids

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VafUiWtjH-Q

[Ghosty]

Yeah, hillclimb special that loosely resembles the old boxy Vitara. It has a 900bhp V6 or something silly like that.

[Spiny Norman]

I don't think they sell that model in the UK, but anyone who's ever played Gran Turismo on the Playstation knows how outrageously quick that little bugger is!

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[Shep Shepherd]

A Mk 4 Doziac rally car!

[Spiny Norman]

 

[Ghosty]

I don't think they sell that model in the UK, but anyone who's ever played Gran Turismo on the Playstation knows how outrageously quick that little bugger is!

Notice the 'Grand Vitara' sticker on it? We have those

[Junkman]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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