ZXRob
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Last Edit: Feb 4, 2012 19:25:22 GMT by ZXRob
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Brilliant stuff,keep it coming!!!
Any 80's chicks with traditional leather and daisy duke shorts with peroxide poodle hair never go amiss either!!!
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A couple of me in the 80's   |
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What on earth is this?!?   |
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Bolf
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Midas mk1
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Yep agree mini midas- looks tiny next to the escort !
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Bolf
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Pretty sure that particular one was a press car , did a quick google of the reg. Oh and on another note , I was born and raised in Longridge...  |
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Last Edit: Feb 4, 2012 22:40:13 GMT by Bolf
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
Club Retro Rides Member
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There's been a long-running thread over on the British Rally Forum full of 70's/80's club road rallying pics, I'll link a few here as road rallying 30 years ago was just MENTAL. Obviously they're 30-40 years old so apologies for the size/quality.....  Genuine works Ascona of Theo Bengry on the '83 JJ Brown Memorial rally. Speedsports of Ruthin used to cover all the bigger road rallies back then, somewhere at the ol' man's are some prints of me navigating in a completely sideways Hillman Avenger on the 1987 Peak Revs Rally wearing a particularly nasty bobble-hat and a t-shirt with 'GIVE ME HEAD TILL I'M DEAD' on the front.. ;D  Droop Snoot Firenza, late 1970's.  Yumping!  Yes, that really IS a stock Dyane.  Hillman Hunter GLS. Sarn Helen Rally, 1981.  You could run signwriting on road rally cars right up until the late 1980's. Not so much as a sticker allowed now.  Skodas were very popular even then. One our mates had a homebrewed Estelle that we struggled to keep up with in a 1600cc of Avenger.  Bubble-arched Anglebox.  Almost identical to the one I used to navvy in, except we had a black vinyl roof on ours and Lotus Cortina steels. NUY9K where are you now???  Derrick Arnold, who campaigned this old stager Mk1 for YEARS on road rallies, and was a regular top 10 finisher in the much-missed Motoring News Road Rally Championship.  Even vans were allowed!  Mk2 Escort very sideways on the 1987 Radnor Pacemaker. We did that event too, but finished early on top of a dry stone wall somewhere near Lake Vrnwy with no nearside suspension strut. ;D  Minis were still popular and fairly competitive on road rallies right into the 1980s. Top 10's were almost exclusively Mk2 Escort, though.  P6 Rover, early 1970's.  Late 1960's.  Datsun 160J??  Just sums it up for me. Those were simple times, when you could bolt a pair of spotlights and a sumpguard onto virtually anything, and for the cost of a couple of tankfuls of four-star and a £20 entry fee you could scare yourselves sh*tless. Those were, indeed, the days. ;D |
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ive spent many many hours at the tree sisters track (its actualy in wigan not warrington ) mate was the warden there every now and again he would let us on the track (at 10/30 at night ) in the summer we would have a right giggle
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Awesome pics guys keep em coming! , cant believe the badly placed tyres on the top pics . really wouldnt want to clip those at speed eh ! ...good times
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300ce lowrider
c220 track car
c280 youngtimer
S320 ...vip no 4
S430 ..
2 x slk 230
500se ,
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E55 amg
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Was talking to Theo Bengry a couple of weeks back at his auction (Leominster) and he was telling me he's restoring an Ascona 400 at this moment in time.
If you ever go to his auction there's loads of pics of his rally cars. Bengrys of Leominster were the only people to ever rally a Rolls Royce!
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ZXRob
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ive spent many many hours at the tree sisters track (its actualy in wigan not warrington ) mate was the warden there every now and again he would let us on the track (at 10/30 at night ) in the summer we would have a right giggle Yes I too have spent many an hour at three sisters. I used to do marshalling there every Friday when I was at college. I have no idea why I wrote Warrington! |
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Modern rallies and sprints don't actually look that much different...
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Brian Damaged
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Mr.Sumo
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I"d rather push a FORD than drive a Vauxhall .
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Keep theses pics coming...loving this thread  |
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it may not be the latest in automotive technology....but its bought , paid for and all mine ! And entry to the World of J-tin has been achieved......just |
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ive spent many many hours at the tree sisters track (its actualy in wigan not warrington ) mate was the warden there every now and again he would let us on the track (at 10/30 at night ) in the summer we would have a right giggle Yes I too have spent many an hour at three sisters. I used to do marshalling there every Friday when I was at college. I have no idea why I wrote Warrington! youd probebly know shaun the warden then he was there in the early 80s to about 92 was at scool with him and we used to get favors on track for helpin him out them were the days |
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ZXRob
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That was a little before my time. I was there around 10 years later marshalling it was mainly bikes and go-karts there then.
My girlfriends dad has scanned in some more but they are mostly bike racing from the 70's would they be ok for here or not?
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smellyferret
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Back in a retro after 7 years!
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Bubble-arched Anglebox. Great thread! What's the deal with the tyres on this anglebox? did they come like that? |
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