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Originally Posted by chunterer
It was pretty poor apart from the chance to see the cars in action! That blue/yellow '6R4' does look like the one that was in the series.
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See above post 'chunterer'. The film crew had 3 cars actually: 1) - the dummy in the photo above was used for static / close up shots; 2) 6R4 Reg Nº A656 NJO (Prototype Nº 001) for all the on-event action scenes; and 3) a sectioned dummy for all the interior shots.
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Originally Posted by chunterer
Of course it's easy to forget that Computervision sponsored the 6R4 Metros as well as the BTCC cars, and once the BTCC ones were pulled, I suppose more of their sponsorship was poured into the Group B's?
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Nope. The 6R4 wasn't Computervision sponsored until after the Metro Turbos had actually been withdrawn from the 1984 BTCC. The Computervision 6R4 debuted on the 1984 Peter Russek Manuals Rally on 4 August - almost 2 months after the BTCC withdrawal.
Hence we could speculate that we may never have seen the 6R4 sponsored by the CAD / CAM company had Austin Rover continued in the 1984 BTCC.
But don't get me talking 6R4s -
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