Nostalgia Thread

[Gazcw]

Group B in Spain. Love it.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=444171953391179

 

[Hawk13]

Love Group B - hate Facebook.

 

[zagatoes30]

Loved Group B, the sound of Toivonen Delta S4 in the 1985 RAC forest stages was something else. Makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up just thinking about it

 

[BennyD]

I still have a Colt Lancer Turbo in the garage which was homologated for Group B. It came out just as the UR quattro hit the forests and the rest, they say, is history. My favourite group of rally cars, especially on the Lombard RAC. Happy days.

 

[Nayf]

I still have a Colt Lancer Turbo in the garage which was homologated for Group B. It came out just as the UR quattro hit the forests and the rest, they say, is history. My favourite group of rally cars, especially on the Lombard RAC. Happy days.

Do you have any pics?
have a thing for angular Japanese turbo machines. Hardly driven any of them, but love this and the R30/R31 Skylines.

 

[Gazcw]

Do you have any pics?
have a thing for angular Japanese turbo machines. Hardly driven any of them, but love this and the R30/R31 Skylines.

Asking Benny for pictures could be very dangerous! Standby.....

 

[lifes2short]

golden era of rallying and drivers with balls of steel

 

[alfatwo]

Loved Group B, the sound of Toivonen Delta S4 in the 1985 RAC forest stages was something else. Makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up just thinking about it

If you watch closely there's plenty of left foot braking going on there ...lots of revs and the brake lights are still on

Dave

 

[BennyD]

Do you have any pics?
have a thing for angular Japanese turbo machines. Hardly driven any of them, but love this and the R30/R31 Skylines.

Not recent ones and, sadly, it’s in the garage under a mountain of junk. It’s white with the works orange overlay and LANCER graphics on the rear panels. Over the years, I’ve had a couple of Lancer Turbos, a couple of narrow body Starions and a tuned Sapporo Turbo. The Lancer is a bit of a handful thanks to a live rear axle and worm and peg steering but great fun in the wet. I’ve got a set of works alloys in the garage for it but, iirc, it’s presently on Starion wheels.

 

[BennyD]

Just remembered I posted these on here about 8 years ago, it looks like it’s still on the works alloys;

 

[alfatwo]

Just remembered I posted these on here about 8 years ago, it looks like it’s still on the works alloys;

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Ben, You have good taste after all!

Dave

 

[zagatoes30]

Ben, You have good taste after all!

Dave

Be careful Dave, let's go as far as good taste sometimes

 

[BennyD]

Cheers mate, I’ve only had it 25 years so any good taste I may have is fairly recently acquired! It was my daily for the first 4-5 years but, sadly, it’s hardly turned a wheel since. I may have to do something about that.

 

[Scaf]

Just remembered I posted these on here about 8 years ago, it looks like it’s still on the works alloys;

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that’s a very cool car to have tucked away

 

[LDM 3200]

Group B was a great if somewhat mad era of rally, was probably the pinacle of motorsport at the time. So many fantastic cars deiven by great drivers, Markku Alén and Henri Toivonen in the Delta S4, although the 037 was probably my favourite group B Lancia and despite being 2WD beat the Quattro in '83. Loved the Metro 6R4, especially with Tony Pond at the wheel, an underfunded / under developed car compared to the S4, RS200 and 205 T16 but was always spectacular to see and pushing the bigger teams/manufactures. Loved watching Group B, a real pity there are such few chances to see them in action in the UK these days.

 

[midlifecrisis]

golden era of rallying and drivers with balls of steel

Especially Michèle Mouton

 

[zagatoes30]

Group B was a disaster waiting to happen 500BHP plus monsters on loose surfaces was always going to push man and machine. It wasn't helped by poor crowd control in some countries with spectators way to close to cars travelling significantly faster than they had in the past.

That said I watched numerous stages of the 85 RAC rally from the short Sunday spectator stages through Wales, Yorkshire, Kielder, Scotland and the Lakes, and they were just in a different league to anything I have ever seen before or since - still have the programme marked up with the stages we did, on top of the rally cars noise and smells I can still remember the noise and smells you get from 4 young lads travelling and sleeping in a car for 5 days - what we did when young

 

[BennyD]

It was bad enough with 2 of us! We usually watched the start, fence crashed as many day 1 spectator stages as we could and then, when the lightweights thinned out, we tried to watch every other stage, day and night for the whole 5 days. Food and sleep was optional! Great fun. Happy days.

 

[zagatoes30]

It was bad enough with 2 of us! We usually watched the start, fence crashed as many day 1 spectator stages as we could and then, when the lightweights thinned out, we tried to watch every other stage, day and night for the whole 5 days. Food and sleep was optional! Great fun. Happy days.

About the same as us, as many as we could squeeze in