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FANTASTIC PICTURES..
as you said.. Where they gone now... The Brooklyn came very close to being broken, as the last owner tried to sell it for 3 years... He was thinking to sell the bits with more money.. The Datapost was in NZ sold from the UK to NZ at the end of the 85 seasion.. thought to be no more untill one little comment from someone on the RSOC web site.. Three years later it came back to the UK. |
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Seems to be a common theme with these Group A threads- I guess a lot of cars have either been broken for parts, or progressively modified and altered to keep them competitive in other categories of racing once they were no longer competitive as touring cars or were overtaken by regualtion changes and expiry of homologation.
I still wonder how many are collecting dust in the back of various workshops across the UK, Europe and Australia though.... |
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Escort RS1600i rally/race cars
does anybody know were the ford rs1600i rally cars are ???
HPU 73Y HPU 74Y KEV 100Y |
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Welcome, Scott. This is probably better in the History forum, so I'm moving it there.
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hi,i used to own the datapost promo rs turbo,but sold it and wish i never.
i know the collector you on about.i was hopeing to get one to restore and was hopeing one was in someones garden lol |
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Any luck with the 1984 85 race times info?
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There was a back-to-back track test of the pair by Tiff Needell in Autosport at the end of '86. |
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Gregor, think we're also talking about 2 separate Duckhams cars as well!!
In 1987 Karl drove a Duckhams backed car in the BTCC (presumed ex Curnow - Datapost, as KA mentions)] He also pedalled a car in the Uniroyal/Monroe Production Saloon series in the same year which is believed to be an ex Ilford Mike Smith car. Prod saloons preceeded Group N - Group N allowed a few mods (like slick tyres for a start) when those rules were adopted for the Unriroyal series in 1988 or 89. However, the Firestone series continued to run to producion spec rules I think? |
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A few more pics from Oulton Park in 1985- a Brooklyn RS1600i (John Morris I think?) in the BTCC race...
http://flickr.com/photos/16788879@N0...7611422894664/ ...and a couple of RS Turbos from a Uniroyal round. Mike Smith's 'Ilford Photo' car needs no introduction... http://flickr.com/photos/16788879@N0...7611422894664/ ....but can anyone identify the plain white car seen here getting a bit too closely involved with the tyre wall...? http://flickr.com/photos/16788879@N0...7611422894664/ |
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Could be Bob Sands, he definitely had one in '86 and I think he was number 14 (along with Gerry Marshall, Richard Belcher, Mike Smith and a few others in '86).
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Yeah, you're right about '86 possibilities Gregor, but I believe the pic KA's referring to (#14 car) is from an '85 round? No doubt he'll remind us!!
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A couple more pics that have turned up elsewhere:
Barry Lee's Total car http://www.mkpics.smugmug.com/galler...451_mouV7-A-LB ...and Richard Longman's Datapost at Oulton 1983/4 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...er/Oulton1.jpg |
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Escort Gr.A RSTurbo
Hello, I'm new here so don't shoot me if it's in the wrong section...
I am the owner of an ex Group A Escort RSTurbo, wich competed in German touringcar racing in the mid 80's. I'm searching for some more history about this car and would be very pleased with old pictures of the car in action. As far as i know, in 1985 the car belongs to Team Ford Grab (Bernhard Grab) drivin by Beate Nodes. She raced it at; Zolder (westfalenpokal), 18 August '85 Siegerland (Flughafenrennen), 8 September '85 And the Nurburgring (supersprint), 22 September '85 apparently it was sold to Mohag Motorsport in 1986 and Traudl Klink only raced it once at the Nurburgring (supersprint), 21 September '86 Who has any info about this, or other German Gr.A touringcar RSTurbo's? I would be very grateful. Best regards, Remy I'm adding this into the main thread. Thanks, chunterer forum host. Last edited by chunterer; 14 Mar 2009 at 10:43. |
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Is this the car that was featured in one of the UK Ford enthusiast magazines (Classic Ford maybe?) a year or so back? I don't have the article, but I'm sure I recall Beate Nodes being mentioned in the history as reported in the mag.
Welcome aboard Remy- it's always good to have contributions to the thread from the people who have actually owned or raced the cars, especially when it's a car we've not really talked about before. |
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