RE: Historic Touring Cars Set To Return

[nightflight]

Just booked some leave so I can go to that first meeting. Brilliant news.

[GingerWizard]

yeah i'v put it on my calender! Not going to miss it at Donny...

[plasticpig]

chevronb37 said:

cml said:

plasticpig said:

I would love to see this race:

Too valuable now? Not sure how many they made, not many though.

Chris Scragg has one which is active. It was tested by Willie Green and has since raced in Masters Touring 70s events, I believe.

That's the one in the picture I think. Bought at auction a few years back for about £80K. Plenty of owners race stuff many times that value so I can't see that being a problem. Not exactly successful in it's day. It just looks brilliant.

[Dr Derek Doctors]

I hope we get to see some Starion Touring cars running again (top pic, car on the right)

[Plug550]

Shame it doesn't run to the Supertouring stuff, as my '94 Laguna is coming along quite nicely...





It won't be too long before she's looking as good as new again

[snowen250]

Wow Plug that looks great! Is it an actual ex works car? Do you know the history? Also where do you plan to race it? Classic thunder or DMN saloons would be natural homes for it. As you can tell early supertourers are favourites of mine....

As for this series, looks good! But its not exactly new, the Classic Touring Car Racing Club has a series pretty similar......

Simon

[EDLT]

If this is for "real race cars from the era" does that mean its only for racers with history, or can you turn up with a car you've built yourself?

[Pints]

In which year did this beast race?

[wiffy7]

Fantastic news! Cant they extend it to 1991? Then i can get my BTTC M3 out to play!!

[Eviltad]

Pints said:

In which year did this beast race?

93/94 off top of my head.

[snowen250]

The 850 estate ran in 94 with Rydell and Lammers, they replaced it with the 850 Saloon in 95.

Simon

[Plug550]

snowen250 said:

Wow Plug that looks great! Is it an actual ex works car? Do you know the history?
Simon

Yes, she's Menu's 94 car. Won at Knockhill and Oulton Park.

[snowen250]

Ah excellent! I look forward to seeing it out again whichever series it ends up in

[jbbusybee]

We are selling one of those Celica's.

We're also preparing an 86 E30 325 for next season'

[dinkel]

Eviltad said:

Pints said:

In which year did this beast race?

93/94 off top of my head.

Jan Lammers! They ran the estate because of aerodynamic reasons.


Cool!

[43034]

plasticpig said:

chevronb37 said:

cml said:

plasticpig said:

I would love to see this race:

Too valuable now? Not sure how many they made, not many though.

Chris Scragg has one which is active. It was tested by Willie Green and has since raced in Masters Touring 70s events, I believe.

That's the one in the picture I think. Bought at auction a few years back for about £80K. Plenty of owners race stuff many times that value so I can't see that being a problem. Not exactly successful in it's day. It just looks brilliant.

http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/classic-auction-car.php/carno/2008-09-19-BON-336 ?

[Munich]

I also like looking at the normal non-racing cars in the background of some of the photos. Like the Peugeot 505 in the background in the first photo in the article. When was the last time you saw one of those?

[ferg]

A friend of mine campaigned a Corolla GT in the '80s.

He's driving this now:

[Setch993]

"We believe a lot of the genuine race cars still exist, sitting in garages, but they're not being brought out en masse as there isn't a series catering exclusively for them," says MLR's Duncan Wiltshire. "We hope to change all that.

Do you mean like this ?





Its a 1980/81 TE71 Toyota Corolla 1.6GT.

The car was rebuilt to be a replica of the winning Toyota-GB / Hughes of Beaconsfield Touring Car as driven by Win Percy in the 1982 championship, and raced in the CSCC Group 1 series in 1994 (when it was the overall winner) and in 1995.

I bought it approx 12 months ago, it has its homologation papers and is complete and untouched. I have been wondering what to do with it....might know now

[chevronb37]

dinkel said:

Eviltad said:

Pints said:

In which year did this beast race?

93/94 off top of my head.

Jan Lammers! They ran the estate because of aerodynamic reasons.

Or marketing!