Rally season again...

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Which means its time for some (gravel in your)eye candy from Otago...


Hayabusa Starlet

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Whoops...donut for the spectators and Alister McRae is off again...



MG suspension geometry seems interesting!

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Andrew Hawkeswood after using a forestry gate as a can opener





Plus a bunch more here:

http://s43.photobucket.com/albums/e392/GravelBen/O...

Edited by GravelBen on Tuesday 26th May 07:14

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Omerta said:

Nice to see a 911 rally car, I'd imagine that's a bit of a handful.

The guys that run them love them - rear engined traction and tough as old boots. Pasi Hagstrom won the classic class last year in the blue/white '73 RS pictured above.

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izza said:

I must head down to listen to those BDAs again one year.

Not everything has the engines you'd expect...

2x Starlet/Hayabusas
Deane Buist's DX Corolla has a BDA in it.
A few of the Escorts have Nissan FJ20 power, including the classics winning (blue/black) Mk2 of local legend Derek Ayson. Never fear, the FJ20 is a sweet sounding rev-monster too
Blue Capri has a 5.8 V8 and sounds remarkably like a big jet-boat.

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Esprit said:

Needs moar TR7V8s

There are a couple that run from time to time but none this year unfortunately.

I must say the temptation is quite strong to sell the MX5 for an old rally car and get stuck into it myself...

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Jem Thompson said:

GravelBen said:

Omerta said:

Nice to see a 911 rally car, I'd imagine that's a bit of a handful.

The guys that run them love them - rear engined traction and tough as old boots. Pasi Hagstrom won the classic class last year in the blue/white '73 RS pictured above.

It can't be a guneine RS can it?

I'm pretty sure it is a real one but I've been wrong before.

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Jem Thompson said:

But then, given the preices these things are going for (100,000 pounds+ in the UK), I thought that it would be madness to rally.

I've never seen it driven by any other than very high-class drivers - current owner Willie Rutherford I believe is an ex-Brit champion, it was previously owned by Brent Rawstron (Rossendale Wines rally team) who brought drivers such as Pasi Hagstrom and Alex Fiorio out to drive it - same team has also had Juha Kankkunen, Jimmy McRae, Michele Mouton and others of similar Legendary status driving BDA Escorts at Otago over the last few years.

To be fair even a '73 RS probably isn't worth significantly more than the ex-factory BDAs being thrashed round on a regular basis.