Bizarre rallycross car pictures

[Barrie]

Originally Posted by Jesper OH

No picture, sorry, but rather a request for one. Does anyone know the identity of a Swedish driver rallycrossing a Ford Mustang 4x4 (3rd generation)? My brother mentioned this car having tried to be raced at Nisseringen, Denmark in about the mid-1990s. On the day the front axel was disconnected making it a two wheel drive only.

Jesper

Can remember a Mustang in UK think driven by Chris Murrell who later had an Opel.

[chiefs]

Not sure how many Capri's were used, but nice pic. (Also some other great shots on this site).

[VIVA GT]

Originally Posted by chiefs

Not sure how many Capri's were used, but nice pic. (Also some other great shots on this site).

At this time there were three, and all had Ferguson four-wheel drive. The one pictured was driven by Roger Clark (and ran TJ Injection if I remember correctly), Rogers brother Stan drove another, and the third was driven by Rod Chapman.

[chunder]

How times change eh, to most people that looks like a slightly lowered Capri on Minilites! Standard panels, windows etc. Hopped up and stripped out for bangers or hot rods.

Yet on the side it is sponsored by one of the biggest papers of the time! And underneath is the very earliest beginnings of the supercars we have today!

[rx-guru]

Originally Posted by VIVA GT

At this time there were three, and all had Ferguson four-wheel drive. The one pictured was driven by Roger Clark (and ran TJ Injection if I remember correctly), Rogers brother Stan drove another, and the third was driven by Rod Chapman.

The pic is from 1971 when Roger’s 4WD Capri 3000GT had a Lucas made CanAm Injection (see the trumpets) and 250+bhp.

[Chessmsport]

Originally Posted by Barrie

Can remember a Mustang in UK think driven by Chris Murrell who later had an Opel.

I remember Chris Murrels having the Opel, I thought he had a Capri before that. I remember Prentice Polhill racing a Mustang.

[rx-guru]

Originally Posted by chiefs

Not sure how many Capri's were used, but nice pic. (Also some other great shots on this site).

AFAIK there were a total of four 4WD Capris, but one was very rarely used. Roger Clark’s factory Capri was sponsored by the newspaper 'Daily Express' and Stan Clark’s one by the color mag of the 'Daily Telegraph'. A semi-factory car was in the hands of Rod Chapman and used by Rod till the end of 1972, while the Clark Capris only till the end of 1971. To my knowledge the Clark Capris were always somewhat different in specs. Both had British Vita cylinder heads on their Zodiac V6 3.0 engines in the beginning, but while Roger’s had a TJ Injection the one of Stan had Weber carbs. Later Roger had a ZF gearbox, a Len Bailey made alloy cylinder heat and the earlier mentioned Lucas CanAm Injection. On this pic its six trumpets are uncovered, on other pics one can see an additional hood on the bonnet.

[KA]

More recently, in the 80's Tony Proctor had a Capri with a Cosworth GA V6.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/howiendlynne/4053551874/

Don't think I ever saw that one, though I do remember his later Sierra XR4 with the same engine

[chunder]

Tony ran that car for many years, suffered a few problems with it aswell, but was a flyer on it'sday.

Sounded lovely aswell of course! Now there is a driver it would be great to chat to on here!!

[MiniMadness]

Originally Posted by KA

More recently, in the 80's Tony Proctor had a Capri with a Cosworth GA V6.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/howiendlynne/4053551874/

Don't think I ever saw that one, though I do remember his later Sierra XR4 with the same engine

I found a photo of the Sierra last night. I'll upload it.

[Stephen H]

Originally Posted by chunder

Tony ran that car for many years, suffered a few problems with it aswell, but was a flyer on it'sday.

Sounded lovely aswell of course! Now there is a driver it would be great to chat to on here!!

[MiniMadness]

Now the photo of the Sierra was taken at the Brands Hatch GP of 88' the famous foggy meeting. Or was it 89'

Who is the Volvo 343 in the background ?

[rx-guru]

The foggy GP was in December 1989.

[DFP]

Tony Proctor at croft- in the background a Fiat-is it a 124?

[Stephen H]

Originally Posted by rx-guru

The foggy GP was in December 1989.

Yep - the picture was taken 2nd December 1989, and it was foggy!




sorry cant remember anything about the volvo.



and another slightly different car for you from the same event

[chunder]

I rememebr being so totally disappointed at that cancellation, I think that would ahve been the best GP ever, so many good guys were there!

[MiniMadness]

Here's the Sierra although I was beaten to it by Stephen

[chunder]

Damn thing was a rocketship round Lydden, I even Tony doing well in the weat once with a set of sinny rally tyres on!!

[rx-guru]

Originally Posted by DFP

Tony Proctor at croft- in the background a Fiat-is it a 124?

Looks rather like a Fiat 131 to me, like Franz Wurz used to drive in the 1978 ERC.

[KA]

Originally Posted by Stephen H

and another slightly different car for you from the same event

Rover 800 Vitesse- either a V6 or a 2-litre turbo

Is that one of the 800s Tony Pond used in a couple of attempts to set a 100mph average lap around the Isle of Man TT course in a production car around that time? I've got a vague memory of one of the cars involved being entered for the Brands rallycross GP
It's signwritten 'Gaydon Team Spirit', which was the team run by Rover employees out of the Rover Engineering Centre at Gaydon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnKyM...eature=related

Who drove it at the Rallycross GP- think it was a rallycross regular, rather than Pond?

[bigdick1977]

Bill Skermer drove it. It was the sister car to the one used by Tony Pond. Bill worked in the development department at Rover and was offered the car to use at an event, he choose the GP at Brands.

[KA]

Originally Posted by bigdick1977

Bill Skermer drove it. It was the sister car to the one used by Tony Pond. Bill worked in the development department at Rover and was offered the car to use at an event, he choose the GP at Brands.

Thanks- I had a vague memory it was someone who worked for Rover, but couldn't think who. What was Bill's regular car at that time? Either a Pug 205 or a Fiesta rings a vague bell?

[chunder]

Bill drove a vey nice 205, won a BRDA round at Lydden as I recall against the likes of Milner and very good oppo.

Before that drove a lovely 8 port Metro, sponsoed b Jonspeed, lovely car.

You still see Bill around a lot at meetings, nice guy and always ready for a chat.

[bigdick1977]

Bill attends most meetings as he and his wife (Kath) run the rallycross part of the BTRDA. His 205 was an ex Milner car, in which he won his class at Lydden against Haffey and Clive Richardson in their Novas. He then went on to run a Subaru Legacy in group N.

[Stephen H]

Originally Posted by bigdick1977

Bill Skermer drove it. It was the sister car to the one used by Tony Pond. Bill worked in the development department at Rover and was offered the car to use at an event, he choose the GP at Brands.

KA and bigdick1977, thanks for the background, I remember reading about the Tony pond tt 100mph attempt in motorsport news, but never made the connection before with the car that appeared at the grand prix.