Fantasy 1:1 Cars & Bikes (Show us your inner hooligan)

[bombercountynick]

Love the mk2 but even as a bit of a purist myself I'd much rather take one of the modern interpretation's those boys in Ireland love to rally over a classic pinto'd model. Been to watch the mk2 escort challenge a few times and they are incredible!!! Mr frank Kelly sure knows how to pedal an escort!!!

[atom3624]

Agreed - love the 'modern Mk II' - hearing those engines rev over 8k is great!

That square-look, flared arch, wide tyred 'modern Escort' is the way for me.

 

Having said that, the ones in my photo quote were spot on I reckon!!

 

Al.

Edited January 14, 2017 by atom3624

[stupar]

As its a fantasy thread then heres a leftfield one for me.

A scania 143 in V8 obviously for the down right dirty sound that it produces and i do love this vintage of Scanias

Edited January 14, 2017 by stupar

[NOFX]

I'd love a king of the hammers style truck with cantilever links so i could fit airbags & drop it to make it road legal/safe.

[bombercountynick]

@stupar nice trucks but Volvo for me!! Love an old f16 globetrotter

[sunny]

Forgot to add Lancia Stratos just to sit and stare at as it was pretty much undriveable.

 

 

 

 

 

[Daveyb84]

 

another one thats very much on my wish list

 

also a metro 6r4 wont go a miss

[johninderby]

I think a muti storey car park would be needed to store all the great cars in this thread.  

 

              John

[Gaz!]

23 hours ago, Daveyb84 said:

 

another one thats very much on my wish list

 

also a metro 6r4 wont go a miss

 

Ahh the car that killed the exciting days of rallying.......

 

made with bits of sierra and the rest by reliant....nuff said.

 

bring back the mark 1 and 2's or capris though 

[Daveyb84]

 
Ahh the car that killed the exciting days of rallying.......
 
made with bits of sierra and the rest by reliant....nuff said.
 
bring back the mark 1 and 2's or capris though 

Yeah I can see your point but it also comes with one of the best engines I have ever seen and heard. Who cares if they need rebuilding regularly

Did it really kill rallying? I'm not so sure about that, it just came out when group B was already on its backside

[Gaz!]

It was on its debut, it crashed into a load of spectators (don't know figures of deaths or injury) but was a fair few, thats when they redesigned all the rules and rendered the beasts of there day into collectors items.

 

fair do's on sound though, was epic 

[chewbacca]

The stage was set for 1986 to be a very exciting season. Defending champion Timo Salonen had the new Evolution 2 version of Peugeot's 205 T16 with ex Toyota driver, Juha Kankkunen. Audi's new Sport Quattro S1 boasted over 600 hp (450 kW) and a huge snowplough-like front end. Lancia's Delta S4 would be in the hands of the Finnish prodigy Henri Toivonen and Markku Alen, and Ford was ready with its high tech RS200 with Stig Blomqvist and Kalle Grundel.

On the "Lagoa Azul" stage of the Portuguese Rally near Sintra everything went tragically wrong. Portuguese national champion Joaquim Santos crested a rise, turning to his right to avoid a small group of spectators. This caused him to lose control of his RS200. The car veered to the right and slid off the road into the spectators. Thirty-one people were injured and three were killed. All the top teams immediately pulled out of the rally and Group B was placed in jeopardy.

 

Lancia Delta S4.

Disaster struck again in early May at the Tour de Corse. Lancia's Toivonen was a championship favorite, and once the rally got underway he was the pace setter. Seven kilometres into the 18th stage, Toivonen's S4 flew off the unguarded edge of a tightening left hand bend and plunged down a steep wooded hillside. The car landed inverted with the fuel tanks ruptured by the impact. The combination of red hot turbocharger, Kevlar bodywork, and ruptured fuel tank ignited the car and set fire to the dry undergrowth. Only a cloud of smoke and the lack of Toivonen's car at the finish indicated that something was very wrong. By the time rescue workers made it to the remote spot (some 30 minutes, by some accounts) all that remained of the car was a blackened frame. Toivonen and co-driver Sergio Cresto were found outside the car, they were thrown out and rolled over by the car. With no witnesses to the accident it was impossible to determine what caused the crash other than Toivonen had left the road at high speed. Some cite Toivonen's ill health at the time (he reportedly was suffering from flu); others suggest mechanical failure, or simply the difficulty of driving the machine although Toivonen had a career full of crashing out while leading rallies. Up until that stage he was taking stage win after stage win and leading the rally by a large margin with no other driver challenging him.

The crash came a year after Lancia driver Attilio Bettega had crashed and died in his 037. While that fatality was largely blamed on the unforgiving Corsican scenery (and bad luck, as his co-driver, Maurizio Perissinot was uninjured), Toivonen and Cresto's death, combined with the Portugal tragedy and televised accident of F1 driver Marc Surer in another RS200 which killed co-driver Michel Wyder, compelled the FIA to act: Group B cars were immediately banned for 1987. Audi decided to quit Group B entirely after Corsica.

The final days of Group B would also be controversial. The Peugeots were disqualified from the Rally San Remo by the Italian scrutineers as the 'skirts' around the bottom of the car were deemed to be illegal. Peugeot immediately accused the Italians of favouring the Lancias. Their case was strengthened at the next event, the RAC Rally, when the British scrutineers passed the Peugeots as legal in identical trim. France based FISA annulled the result of the San Remo Rally eleven days after the final round in America. As a result, the championship title was passed from Lancia's Markku Alen to Peugeot's Juha Kankkunen. Timo Salonen had won another two rallies during the 1986 season and became the most successful group B era driver with a total of 7 wins.

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[stupar]

Another couple from me

 

Peugeot 405 T16 (proper wolf in sheeps clothing)

and

 

Sierra XR4x4

[Gaz!]

I had a 405 mi16,

 

car was crap, engine was sublime, especially when dropped into a 205 gti, proper pocket rocket.