Group B Celica restoration

[BigMuz]

they might as well change the VIN rather than replacing all the metal in sections,.

:w:

I think you missed the point here a little..

May as well throw Brock's vin plate out when you rebuild the VK Commodore he won Bathurst with as well. I mean fair's fair :D

[Nitephyre]

Fuck me, I'm only up to 76 and I'm shocked

[floody]

Jon, This is a pre 4wd era car & was I believe half competitive, its a Nissan 240RS competitor (dont they look similar too).

Speaking of 240RSs, its a repost but resto of a works one here http://www.240RS.jp - its been in Targa these last two years.

edit: they also had an MA70 (RWD) doing bigger/longer safari-style rallies (Rally of Africa, etc) but i'm not sure if that was a turbo model or an NA.

"Rally Cars" states they ran both, 290hp NA and "400hp" turbo, the NA car being more successful with a podium in the 1987 Safari (Torph/Melander) and winning the 1987 Hong Kong-Beijing (Waldegard/Gallagher). Fred Gallagher said "Apart from the fact it enabled us to win Hong Kong - Beijing, it had no redeeming features".

[Zac]

There's some awesome machinery in the background of the shots too - every day a different classic or racing car.
Gotta give these Finns some respect, they love their historics and rally cars!

[Norbie]

"Rally Cars" states they ran both, 290hp NA and "400hp" turbo, the NA car being more successful with a podium in the 1987 Safari (Torph/Melander) and winning the 1987 Hong Kong-Beijing (Waldegard/Gallagher). Fred Gallagher said "Apart from the fact it enabled us to win Hong Kong - Beijing, it had no redeeming features".

Given the size and weight of the MA70 I'm surprised they had any success with it at all!

[arcane]

http://www.mat.fi/project1990lanciadeltaexbiasion.htm

The Lancia on image 23 has W.A. plates!

[Ben Wilson]

There was a guy on here a while back that had a yellow Aw11 rally car which looked really cool.

It used to belong to a guy who worked for Lansvale smash repairs, but he sold it years ago. I haven't heard anything about it in a long time..

[Denver]

http://www.mat.fi/project1990lanciadeltaexbiasion.htm

The Lancia on image 23 has W.A. plates!

Spotted that last night

we did some diggun, and are pretty certain its the car juha drove in 1990, in rally aus, and won the event in, thus the plates..

im guessing he like carlos sainz would get personalised plates when he competed here

[willsy01]

In the same vein of "crazy ass build ups"

http://www.rogerclarkmotorsport.co.uk/gobstopper/

[Billzilla]

Bill, you sure do get around. I'm quitting uni and becoming a pilot. Prob heli after reading Chickenhawk-thanks for the tip.
All this procrastinateing gets really boring after a while.

Sorry about all the money you're about to spend.

[hakosuka]

Why does that Celica have a live rear axle? That generation Celica was the first to offer IRS in the more up-spec models.

[fly510]

Speaking of 240RSs, its a repost but resto of a works one here http://www.240RS.jp - its been in Targa these last two years.

Tryed to hotlink a pic of the 240 overtaking the BMW and failed . Link below anyway

http://www.240rs.jp/TT06OF/page_thumb28.html

[Norbie]

Why does that Celica have a live rear axle? That generation Celica was the first to offer IRS in the more up-spec models.

Probably something to do with homologation; the IRS versions didn't arrive until 83/84 from memory, perhaps that was too late to fit in with their plans?

[fro]

Why does that Celica have a live rear axle? That generation Celica was the first to offer IRS in the more up-spec models.

At a guess, I'd say more to do with robustness than anything else. Trying to do something like the East African Safari would mean reliability would come first.

Don't really know, though. Wouldn't be surprised to find out that both IRS and live axle were homologated, and used in different shells at different events. There was some whacky shit in Group B days.

[pp]

Ah, nice find Norbie! I still have a VHS tape somewhere with these things in Rally NZ in their time - on the bitumen, they would lift the inside wheel almost a foot off the ground under full power! Great sight to see Kankkunen driving the things. I note he is in one of the series of pictures (number 48) and that it is one of the cars he piloted.

I must remember to visit that shop when in Finland next to see what they are up to!