RE: Time for Tea? Manx action in a Rover...
Friday 2nd December 2011
Our 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.
Time for Tea? Manx action in a Rover...
...and it's not the one you expect
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.
Discussion
Hmm the best years of rallying.
I watched the British championship that year.
I remember well on the Mintex seeing Mr Pond at 100% at Lightwater Valley in the Rover - if ever a driver gave 150% to make up for an underdog car it was our Tony.
Mlle Mouton was also pretty swift (and pretty with it) in the short quattro.
Some fantastic memmories of that era in the forests.
I watched the British championship that year.
I remember well on the Mintex seeing Mr Pond at 100% at Lightwater Valley in the Rover - if ever a driver gave 150% to make up for an underdog car it was our Tony.
Mlle Mouton was also pretty swift (and pretty with it) in the short quattro.
Some fantastic memmories of that era in the forests.
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