IanWatson

Just seen a trade ad in CC for a road 6R4 with 350 miles on the clock, a Mountune engine (?) for £24,950 - if I had the cashish I'd have a look!


There's a Beetle for 38k on the same page - not a chance...



[Edited by IanWatson - 6/18/2002 7:37:00 PM]

dogmaul

a friend of mine rally's one and they are rather rapid to say the least and sound fantastic if its the normal engine but some end up with turbos on them i dunno why tho

chopper

A friend of mine used to have one of these . He had a set of ear defenders hung over the rear view mirror for driver and passenger- it was THAT loud! A silly, silly car.

astraboy

I'd rob a bank if it would mean getting hold of one.
Obscenely fast car...
astraboy.

IanWatson

Surely 25k for an almost unused 6R4 is going to be a fairly sound investment. Not many Group B cars around!

Used to obsessed by these as a kid - wanted a 6R4 and an HSR Chevette.. Ended up with a Chevette ES - not quite the same...

dogmaul

normally the 6r4 in that condition is about £40-50k

ukhuskynox

Wish I could have bought the one I was offered, back when they banned Group B cars... was very very cheap

MikesWagon

Great noise, plenty of low down grunt. Pretty amazing to see them still competetive in domestic rally series.

IIRC 3.0 normally aspirated V6, which was the basis of the Jag XJ220 engine. Will Gollop twin turbo'd his about 10-12 years ago for about 700bhp, which was also sleeved down to about 2.0 for the regulations.

I used to clean an ex Malcolm Wilson 6R4, and an ex Stig Blonqvist RS200 when I worked at the Grampian Transport Museum - both owned by the same lucky (Rich) guy. The RS200 cost him in the region of £200k.

Sounds like a good museum piece this one with that mileage.

Mike.

dogmaul

http://www.britishrallying.com/otherrally/kall2001/metro1.jpg

http://www.britishrallying.com/otherrally/kall2001/metro.jpg

Belongs to a bloke i know called andy elliot he is a damn good driver been doing very well this year in all that he has entered.

http://www.britishrallying.com/otherrally/kall2001/chevet.jpg

nice HSR chevette for you its now in different hands but still damn quick

IanWatson

Nice one Dogmaul - just canna get enough of those Shove-its.

70's/early 80's wish list is getting longer

6R4
HSR Chevette
Mercedes SEL 6.9
Lotus Sunbeam

All in brown with matching velour-look trim would be nice...

brickboy

Ooooh yes -- nice wheels. 100mph in around 8 seconds.

It always amused me to think that XJ220 owners basically got the 6R4 motor ... which was developed by taking the Buick / Rover 3500 V8 and chopping off two cylinders ;-)

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

Pictures from Dogmauls post

Blackscooby

best part is you can still see (and hear) 6R4's on rallies. Sound absolutelty fantastic

Skippy

I found this, if i sold my 340R i'd be tempted

http://www.oakfields.com/

Go to stock list and down the bottom.

Oh, some other tasty stuff there

Skip.

IanWatson

Skippy - that's the company advertising in CC - someone please buy it!!!!

IWatkins

Will Gollops 6R4 is now competing in the Midlands Hillclimb Championship running approx 750bhp.

See: http://www.powerstation.org.uk/Projects_Page.html for videos (about halfway down the page).

Having sat in this car during testing, I can easily say it is the quickest thing I'll ever be in (Head mashed into headrest under acceleration)

Cheers

Ian

CrisPDuk

I had the dubious honour of co-driving the last car in the F2 section of the Minehead Rally a coulple of years ago, it was a GpN Nova GSi. The ran the Open category cars behind F2 with a five minute interval, the first open car was Andy Burton in a 6R4. He managed to almost catch us in the first 3.2 mile forest stage, and we weren't hanging about. Following comments from both us and him, the organisers increased the gap to 10 minutes to give us time to get out of the way

Even with today's WRC cars filtering down, the 6R4 is still one of the most awesome rally cars around, in the right hands.

GREEN SCOOBY

its the loadest car ive ever heard, sounds like thunder crackers

DIXIE

> Ian watson <
If you like shove its me m8 has got the first HSR made & is valued at 30k+ so the 6R4 is a bargin.
I used to navi. in a ex works HS & finished second in the welsh champinship many moons ago.

Dixie

johnfelstead

My last rally car was a chevette 2.6 HS fully five linked jobbie. Bloody awesome.

Engine was a bit unreliable so i put a Formula3 2 litre in and put rally cams in that. My kind of car.