Brun

What a handful - lets go back to the old days

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Frosticles

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Proper car

M444GY

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love it . proper car

stilover

Shame Ford can't produce anything like it today.

Snazy

"if you want to contact us, please write to us at BBC Pebble Mill"....
Wow now that's nostalgia lol

Brun

Oooooo just looking round YT some more and came across th Birmingham Superprix - what an event. If only the'y put something similar on today

ALi-B

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I wonder what a race prepped RS500 would be like against, say, a road going Impreza Cosworth?

Anyone notice Tiff block shifting?

Can't do that with flappy paddles

(I do it on my R32 all the time - don't need all the ratios with that much torque )

Funkii Munkii

Those were the days

British Touring cars have been pants for years now, sadly.

I prefer a bit of this, there is nothing better than being on the start line with all of them on the rev limiter waiting for the lights to go green what an awesome cacophany of sound

I cant recomend this series enough, forget the first two races of the season as they are a money spinner played out in an empty arabs playground, after that it's full on, I defy anyone not to be impressed with the races from Adelaide onwards and the way these machines are thrown about, especially on the street circuits.

https://www.scoobynet.com/motor-spor...m-14-30-a.html

Leslie

The first GT car was the Lancia Aurelia V6 2.5 litre. It was the car which originated the term "Grand Touring" or "GT".

I used to have one in the early '60's and it was a very pleasant car to drive as well as being pretty fast for those days. The gearbox was a transaxle in between the rear wheels. It was also a good looking machine which still looks attractive today.

My mate and I put an Aurelia engine into a Lotus Eleven and went sports car racing with it! It wasn't bad along the straights but had an inbuilt resistance to going round corners

All good fun at the time though.

Les

specialx

It's a Sierra!!






















But a very cool one!

XRS

I used to follow the BTCC cars back in the late 1980s and early 90s. I'd drive all over the country in my 3-door Cosworth. There was some fantastic racing, and as said above, today's stuff is nowhere near as good. I don't even bother to turn on the TV for it.

My particular favourite was Andy Rouse, and when I was a kid I used to ride around Gloucestershire (on my bike) when he started out jalopy racing

mgcvk

Have you checked out the younger posher Clarkson, one of the next clips along
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFsBr...eature=channel

Spoon

I ran a touring car RS 500 engined Sapphire on the road for a good few years. The most mental bit of fun ever. Having the thing slide sideways accelerating at a ton plus on a damp dual carriageway wasn't right., nor was burning village grass verges when letting off the power

32PSI of boost with a 4000RPM thinking time then all hell broke loose.

In fact, I still own it but the new 'owner', whoever it may be, doesn't know it. I just haven't the heart to take it back as it's supposed original sale was tied up with stolen investments.

s70rjw

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Back n the 80s and 90s, Cossies were looked down on the same way Imprezas are today. They went through the same insurance woes. I wish I'd kept both my Cossies, although reliability was not their forte when new...

scooby-tc

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under the rules of scoobynet,its not a BMW therefore it is ****


(i love these cars,proper touring car but they are very few and far between thesedays)

bioforger

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Like the driving that sounds all a bit dodgy

f1_fan

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Great post. Still love the RS500 Cosworth Sierra. Always remember seeing one on the M25 doing a crazy speed with its rear end squashed down by the wing. Love it!

RA Dunk

lol So who else remembers Pebbel Mill at One then? Come on you old ***** own up!

f1_fan

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Yep LOL

Mrfastbaz

and me

Spoon

Driving it on public roads could only be described as dodgy at best. You could end up facing any direction once 4000 RPM was reached if the road surface was anything but bone dry and flat.

As for the sale at the time, well, I 'sold' it to an investment company in lieu of stock. They moved it on to its new owner and ran off with my stock too. I lost a car and money/stock. They got 7 years inside for their trouble.

dunx

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I have to admit that I was deep in my Imp obsession then, but a test drive in a 300 bhp Cozzeh made me NOT want to swap, halfway round a corner and wallop, then slither, then "Ekk !"

LOL

dunx

P.S. I tried a 4x4 Cozzeh and that was pretty lame compared to an Impreza.

J4CKO

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That took me back in so many ways, the touring cars were great but they lost something when the big power stuff went and in came the toned down fwd stuff, remember watching the Cosworths at Silverstone and seeing one lay rubber half way up the straight and being very impressed, it used to be an event, dont even bother watching now.

All the best racing I reckon has more power than grip, the way Tiff was fighting that thing, pure animal, was way better than, Soper, Mike Smith Frank Sytner, Will Hoy, Andy Rouse and all that lot, compelling viewing on a Saturday afternoon, left you drained, it is still pretty close racing now and there are still soem good battles but its just not the same in glued to the road fwd things.

Dave Y

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i can remember those days aswell,his mate had a hot ford anglia pale green.
I think they worked at Broadspeed in those days

Leslie

My brother in law had one and I thought it was a lovely car to enjoy yourself in.

Jacko is right, front wheel drive is boring compared to a rear wheel drive car.

Les

Rob Day

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I never owned one unfotunatly, but have been in many Cozzies in my days inc the RS500.
I was very young when these were released but recall helping my dad sticker them up in all sorts of wierd looks, Zebra/Tiger stripes, Chevrons etc... Looked good in the times though.... I vaguely recall stickering up a Rothmans Cosworth too

I was a Mk1 & Mk2 Escort boy at heart....... (still am

Ste RB5138

Thats a good video, never seen it before.
The end credits of Top Gear tame me back along with William Woodard lol!

Heres another great clip from the Duke Sierra DVD of Tim Harvey driving his old Labatts RS500

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6fnrP92YOg

Enjoy