Rover-tastic SOTW
was inevitably going to throw up some chat about the late, great
Tony Pond’s 100mph lap of the Isle of Man TT course
, but our YouTube wonderings have today taken us to a rather different place.
It’s still the Isle of Man, it’s still Tony Pond, and it’s still a Rover, but this time it’s the 1985 Manx Rally, and Mr Pond is campaigning a Group A Rover SD1 Vitesse (in classic Computervision livery).
It’s possibly an even more bizarre sight than the TT lap, and almost certainly one of the most peculiar rally cars ever, but as the first two minutes or so of the video show, Pond could hussle it along at a fair old lick.
And if that isn’t amusement enough, stick around for the rest of the video – Mantas, Quattros, T16s, it’s 80s rally heaven.