I thought this would be fun.
Pictures from the early GroupA days on the RAC rally when the RAC was a rally! Pictures taken in Grizedale Forest, the Lake district, Northern England.
I miss the 5 day jaunts through England, Wales and Scotland, that was a real challenge to keep up with.

Ricky Burnup in the Peugeot309 GTi


Colin in the Legacy


Alister in the shell scholarship Sierra Sapphire Cosworth


King Carlos in the Celica



Auriol in the Lancia Delta

Keneth Erickson in the Galant VR4

Marku Alen, a true rally hero

Aghini

Stig Blomquist


Tommi Makinen in the Nissan Sunny GTiR

Yuha in the Delta


Richard Tuthill (winner in Pro-Rally, USA in 2001) in his first ever International Rally

The fall of the Berlin wall alowed this entry, a remarkable pape mashe 2 stroke Trabant

 

John,

Fantastic pictures from an era when the RAC was a proper rally. When 4am was a lie in to watch the Kielder stages and then leg its across to Grizedale

<sigh> ...

 

1992 if I'm not mistaken. My first year of proper spectating, following the whole event from Chester to Carlisle and back again.

Steve

 

yep, 1992, all 34 stages and 352 competitive stage miles of it!

compare that to this year. 17 stages and 236 competitive stage miles.

The biggest change is the road mileage covered as it used to visit wales, england and scotland.

 

JF
Ah, those were the days. I have a load from around 1983 - the Quattro, Manta, Andrews heat for Hire Escorts etc era unfortunately haven't got a scanner or would put a few up.

 

get em up Dave! Steal a scanner or something!

82 is when i first got REALLY interested in rallying, great days indeed.

 

Dave - get 'em up - I'd love to see them too!

Ben.

 

Hi !
Fantastic photo's
I have a load of photo's from my first year following the RAC of 85 the last year of the Gp B 's So will try and learn how to scan and host pictures and get them up as some nice Quattro S1,205T-16 ,Metro 6R4 ect ect, mainly from the sutton park stages in Birmingham
Cheers Col

 

Great shots keep'em coming.

 

Yes I was there when it was a mans rally and you slept in the car, you went to places like Kielder Forest and left Wales for the day.

The best bit of the rally for us was watching the Tribant get man handled on to it side so they could change the gear box on the last road section back to the finish which was from the Forest of Aea to Chester !!!!!!


Darren.