Favorite Rally Car?

[Matra et Alpine]

Here's a might-have-been ...

Fiat developed the Fiat X1/9 with Twin-Cam 2litre but it never saw the light of day. Just found ONE photo from the factory. These cars wer lighter and had more power than the great Stratos and were going to replace it in world rallying.

A work colleague had built a copy of this car for stage rallying in the UK in the early 80s. It looked and sounded fantastic , was UNBEATABLE on tarmac and UNDRIVEABLE on forest

(Sorry about quality, but it's an old book - it does look better full size )

EDIT: Renamed attachment as the pic is from 73ish

[Evil Ewok]

My father was a rally man, and his shop in michigan worked on some of the original semi trucks that ran in the early Dakar rally raids. Along with this, he also found a FIAT Rally model from the 70's and I still have it. He owned 3 or 4 FIAT'S thru out the upper 70s and 80s, and the model is quite interesting. From one of the pictures, I can tell that he had 2 cars the looked kind of like the model. Later tonight I will try to figure out what model fiat's him and my mother owned, and also to see if I can find out a way to get the pictures scanned by a friend and the model with a digital camera.

[Evil Ewok]

Ok, information found out faster than I had though. The model is a FIAT 128 and he's had it since the late 70's. Besides that, he has owned 2 or 3 FIAT 128 coupes, a 124 coupe and some other model I dont recognize. My mother said that he might have owned more before she met him, but I don't know. I will try to get pictures.

[Matra et Alpine]

My father was a rally man, and his shop in michigan worked on some of the original semi trucks that ran in the early Dakar rally raids. Along with this, he also found a FIAT Rally model from the 70's and I still have it. He owned 3 or 4 FIAT'S thru out the upper 70s and 80s, and the model is quite interesting. From one of the pictures, I can tell that he had 2 cars the looked kind of like the model. Later tonight I will try to figure out what model fiat's him and my mother owned, and also to see if I can find out a way to get the pictures scanned by a friend and the model with a digital camera.

The most successful FIATs is a close thing between the 131 and the 124 Spider - the latter is my favourite but the 131 was a monster with 250bhp revving to 9000 (25 years ago!). They all sounded beautiful - Italian twin cams at their best.

[Ferrari Tifosi]

My favorite is the 1970 911ST/GT Monte Carlo

[Suka]

Mine would have to be the Metro 6R4.
Here is a pic of my Dads companies one!

[SPN:DOC]

Renault 5 Turbo.

[Matra et Alpine]

Another desperate struggle to get the car ready, but we made it - water leak fixed 30 minutes before he's off.
I couldn't make this event with my driver, so he's got another nav.
Not officially entered, but will be at the start at Reims and gonig to see if he can blag his way onto the stages after last car through.
It's France, they'll love it

[Matra et Alpine]

Im just wondering any body got any good pics of an rs200?

Somone will compain about reviving old posts but this one was still breathing

Anyway, don't you wish you could have been here 20 years ago ?

The 200 RS200s built for homologation awaiting some customers.
They were going cheap a year later when GrB was banned outright !!

[Evil Ewok]

I remember one being sold a while back on ebaymotors. Twas for a pretty penny.

[Olumurphy]

I Am A Nigeria With Driving Experience, I Like Driving Car For Racing But Unfortunately, We Don't Have Car Race(sport) Here In Nigeria, But I Want To Be More Expert.
I Will Be Very Glad If You Can Assist Me On This Issue, Your Early Reply Will Be Appreciated. Thanks And God Bless.

Yours Sincerely,
Olumurphy,
Nigeria,
Ogun-state,
Sango-ota,
234039

[Matra et Alpine]

I Am A Nigeria With Driving Experience, I Like Driving Car For Racing But Unfortunately, We Don't Have Car Race(sport) Here In Nigeria, But I Want To Be More Expert.
I Will Be Very Glad If You Can Assist Me On This Issue, Your Early Reply Will Be Appreciated. Thanks And God Bless.

Yours Sincerely,
Olumurphy,
Nigeria,
Ogun-state,
Sango-ota,
234039

Tell us more about you and what you have driven and we'll see if we can help.

Heads-up, if this is a 419 then please stop now

[RenesisEvo]

Mine would have to be the Metro 6R4.

I can't decide between that bonkers-motor and the 2003/4 Focus RS with the seriously kool rear spoiler..

Nothing beats the Lancia Delta S4 for powerplants tho... supercharger AND turbo.. hehe.

[RenesisEvo]

Their is a large Group B onwership club in the UK but thir web page for contacts has gone down ...- keep trying www.groupb-cc.org.uk and hopefully they'll get it fixed soon.

Sadly I remember a magazine (CCC) stating that the group b cc had closed due to declining membership. Equally sad is that the mag closed recently, after 40years+ of loyal service.

[Matra et Alpine]

Sadly I remember a magazine (CCC) stating that the group b cc had closed due to declining membership. Equally sad is that the mag closed recently, after 40years+ of loyal service.

CCC gone Wow the end of an era, shame it was a great mag when the readers interests in cars was about performance nad handling and competing. The rise of rags like MaxPower etc is all aout posing. Shame. RIP
Didn't know about Group B club closing.
There's another organisation 'slowly sideways' which has entered a few cars in competitions I've been at. They all seemed Group B cars, maybe they're resurrected
Some photos of their cars late last year at http://www.courtney-msport.com/03-manxgroupb/page1.htm