Re: Group B: When Rallying Got TOO FAST
[Re: theraif]
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01/20/21 03:09 PM
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I love Rally Racing! Those Europe spectators are nuts. Thx for sharing.
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Re: Group B: When Rallying Got TOO FAST
[Re: 67vertman]
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01/20/21 05:04 PM
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I love Rally Racing! Those Europe spectators are nuts. Thx for sharing. Have some 'acquaintances' that race rally cars through the woods on roads cut for fire access here in the USA. I don't know what their IQ level is, but.....
July 19th should be "Drive Like Rockford Day". R.I.P. Jimmie.
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Re: Group B: When Rallying Got TOO FAST
[Re: John Brown]
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01/20/21 06:06 PM
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I absolutely love watching WRC Rally, but its almost impossible to watch in the USA. I even paid for the WRC app through amazon prime and it still had pretty dismal coverage.
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Re: Group B: When Rallying Got TOO FAST
[Re: theraif]
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01/21/21 10:49 AM
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Thanks for posting this Back then (and still now) I was totally into the WRC and had my then daily driver loaded up with Cibié Oscar + driving lights and Cibié amber fog lights, a rear deck duck tail small spoiler, lowered, wide tires all around, Bilstein sport shocks and a nice sounding sport exhaust. I loved taking any back road route to get to where I was going just so I could drive rally-like though Ohio, Pennsylvania, WV, Virginia, NC, etc., Those cars and drivers were outstanding and really developed the AWD cars and SUV's of this day. I still have that car to this day. Mike
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Re: Group B: When Rallying Got TOO FAST
[Re: A12]
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01/21/21 11:33 AM
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Thanks for posting this Back then (and still now) I was totally into the WRC and had my then daily driver loaded up with Cibié Oscar + driving lights and Cibié amber fog lights, a rear deck duck tail small spoiler, lowered, wide tires all around, Bilstein sport shocks and a nice sounding sport exhaust. I loved taking any back road route to get to where I was going just so I could drive rally-like though Ohio, Pennsylvania, WV, Virginia, NC, etc., Those cars and drivers were outstanding and really developed the AWD cars and SUV's of this day. I still have that car to this day. Mike Please post up some pictures of your car.
My Monster are real!
Living within your means makes life pretty easy.
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Re: Group B: When Rallying Got TOO FAST
[Re: 67vertman]
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01/21/21 01:33 PM
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Thanks for posting this Back then (and still now) I was totally into the WRC and had my then daily driver loaded up with Cibié Oscar + driving lights and Cibié amber fog lights, a rear deck duck tail small spoiler, lowered, wide tires all around, Bilstein sport shocks and a nice sounding sport exhaust. I loved taking any back road route to get to where I was going just so I could drive rally-like though Ohio, Pennsylvania, WV, Virginia, NC, etc., Those cars and drivers were outstanding and really developed the AWD cars and SUV's of this day. I still have that car to this day. Mike Please post up some pictures of your car. Nothing special just "day-2'd" it to make it a little more rural road friendly. '86 Jetta GLI which used the Golf GTI engine with the 5-speed close ratio manual trans and 4-wheel power discs. GTI sport interior/seats cruise, A/C, sunroof and Alpine 500 watt audio system.....and I had a AM/FM/CB power antenna that worked great as a stealth backup with the Escort radar detector. As I said noting special but a little thought or influence from rally cars for me. Mike
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Re: Group B: When Rallying Got TOO FAST
[Re: theraif]
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01/21/21 01:44 PM
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Yeah, that stuff was nuts! I worked with a guy who left the shop we worked at together to be the crew chief for the Norseman Racing Ford Escort. This was in the early to mid 90's. It had a Cosworth Ford single turbo 4 cylinder that made about 425 hp. It was one of the first cars to have an anti-lag system. Basically, it would fire the ignition with the exhaust valves open and it would actually start to build boost at idle if you let it sit there idling for a minute. I remember him telling me it did 0-60 in 3 seconds on asphalt and 3.5 seconds in dirt! I got a ride in it one time and he didn't thrash it because he was heading off to a race, but you could tell it was an insane ride. It was so stiff, you could feel every little thing through the seat of your pants.
'67 is an abbreviation of 1967 67' is an abbreviation of 67 feet They are not interchangeable.
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Re: Group B: When Rallying Got TOO FAST
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01/22/21 10:12 AM
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I was young and I happened to see some Group B cars running for the first time on TV. Likely it was on Wide World of Sports--no cable TV at that time.
I had never seen any thing like it--even at I young age I knew it was insanity...
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