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Post by Alfaholic on Mar 19, 2024 22:08:21 GMT -5
You’d better be careful - Andy will be sneaking in through your window to grab this one. 😂 Paul, I'm interested in what drives your rallying additions. I know that rallying is a sport that you have a passion for, but what makes you look at a car from a private team that finished 30th in a rally, albeit the most well known rally of them all. Don't get me wrong, I love an oddball or a car that didn't finish on the Podium (I am an Alfa fan after all!). Do you have a specific wishlist or is it more of a "that looks nice and the makers generally do a good job, so home it must come". Your rallying collection is quite varied and long may that continue, but what is the motivation that drives your additions?
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Post by reeft1 on Mar 20, 2024 3:25:09 GMT -5
Paul, I'm interested in what drives your rallying additions. I know that rallying is a sport that you have a passion for, but what makes you look at a car from a private team that finished 30th in a rally, albeit the most well known rally of them all. Don't get me wrong, I love an oddball or a car that didn't finish on the Podium (I am an Alfa fan after all!). Do you have a specific wishlist or is it more of a "that looks nice and the makers generally do a good job, so home it must come". Your rallying collection is quite varied and long may that continue, but what is the motivation that drives your additions? I continually refine my rally collection to try and stop it running away from me Martin although that is not always successful. In this instance I have a sub theme of all of the types of cars that ran in the iconic Group B classification in WRC events. There are some real oddities in there, many of which will never be made by any mainstream manufacturer so i have base models for about 20 cars (such as an MGB, Subaru Brat, Mk2 Escort RS2000 etc) that are retirement conversion/build projects. In this instance, Trofeu made a model of the original Quattro which ran in Group B. You might think thats an obvious one, but actually the original factory Quattro’s ran in Group 4 and it was the A1 and A2 factory cars (and later SWB/Evo 2) that ran in group B. So this model is to the best of my knowledge one of a very few and maybe only time (from memory) that an original UR Quattro ran in Group B. So that’s why its come home to me.
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Post by Tom on Mar 20, 2024 9:43:56 GMT -5
Good one, hadn't noticed that. The reason for the SWB was that LWB cars struggled in the twisties.
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