2 retro events in 4 weeks.

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I saw "Dinoboy's" thread on the Vernasca Silver flag event in Italy which I also attended late June.

I'd like to take credit for him being there as he asked in Italy forum about local events to that region on the

weekend he was down there,

I'll post my pics from there ,without duplicating any of his and also the pics from this week when I went to Germany

for the Eifel Rallye festival ,an event I've been to 3 times before.



Delahaye just casually left in the street.



Alfa touring car and a BBLM









I am officially in love with these tiny Abarths .

This thread will feature many and lots of other Abarth stuff.

It was an Abarth fest !





Cooper Bristol.

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DKW



Even single seaters are allowed.









250 Lusso is brown ,don't care ,still lovely.











2018 LM24 team brought their LMP2 car.







Bizarre little Panhard Dyna



featuring the widest tyres in the world ,ever !





This has Carrera Panamericana history.



One for the TVR crowd ,there was another car but the pic is all blurry.

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Devin ,Ferrari a like.









Tojiero



I don't know either.



Fridge was cool on the outside too.











engine in the Panhard.

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Most of the Lancia works team of the 80s turned up.







Sauber



and so to the action.

The course is only about 10km long ,from Castell d' Arquato ,threw Lugagnano Val d' Arda to Vernasca.





FIAT Ritmo ,not Strada.

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An immense noise !

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Even the course cars are cool ,modded FIAT 128.

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Whole line of 850 TC Abarths.



914 was LOUD





Almost deafened by some of the starts.

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Max Girardo ,the auctioneer driving this









That's it from Italy.

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And now to Daun in Germany ,not far from the Nurburgring ,so easy enough to get to .

hope you like pics .









This Skoda was incredibly low ,couldn't work out why.





2 engine SEAT Ibiza.





Delta S4 Stradale











Cordoba WRC



Audi probably most popular cars here ,including Pikes Peak cars.





not all of them coupe shaped.



3 car team of Nissan 240 RS'





4 x RS200s there ,including a Group S car ,fitted with a YB and driven by it's original design engineer ,John Wheeler.







This broke on the shakedown with transmission troubles.

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C939OTW is the Group S car.....^^^^^





F2 306







matching car and Transit van duo



Harold Demuth ,period driver in front of Audi Tradition's Pikes Peak car.

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and off to the shakedown stage where the course cars have fun too and entertain the spectators.













1 of 2 twin engine Golfs there.





finish this later.

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Last few pics and I've a few on the phone too.

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the other twin engine Golf

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The Super special stage.











I stopped taking pics at this point as the quality was poor due to me not knowing how to adjust settings or the camera is faulty.

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No I do them one at a time ,takes a while ,because not techy at all.

As for the event ,what's not to like ,it's free for starters ,no brainer.

There was a lot of people there but although parking isn't massive ,it didn't seem a problem.

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TBH the group B count in Germany was down on my last visit in 2016 ,they gathered about 40 cars then.

This year's theme was Pikes Peak ,hence the 2 twin engine Golfs and SEAT.

I must post the phone pics of Loeb's 208 PP car and a 205 that Peugeot ,presumably ,supplied.

Loeb owns the 208 now.

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Here's a few more pics off the phone.






Loeb's 208,a real machine.










And a couple of other randoms.


Not an 037,a Monte Carlo.