Car presentation

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Ton Koster rebuilt the factory version of the DAF 66 as it was driven by the Claude Laurent and Jacques Marché team at the 1973 Rally Monte-Carlo. Both Rob Koch, former team manager of the rally team, and Claude Laurent inspected the copy and were very impressed. In 2023, Dion Walet took over this DAF from Ton. Mehr >

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As years of searching for a ready-built and reasonably priced Escort MK2 remained unsuccessful, Johannes Wagner built one completely from scratch on his own. In September 2019, a matching 2-door Escort MK2 base model was purchased and a year later, in October 2020, the build began. In November 2021, the Escort was then approved by the MOT and registered for the road again. Another year later, he used it for the first time in a rally, the Ried Rally Sprint 2022 in Ichenheim. Mehr >

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You often poke around in the dark when it comes to the history of rallying. Hemmo Vriend had a red Ford Falcon and wanted to prepare it for the 2024 Eifel Rallye Festival. But was there ever a red one? He was even able to speak to Lee Holman on the phone, who had prepared the rally Falcons with the company Holman&Moody in the 1960s; he also only remembered white and a blue one, red had later been Alan Mann's circuit Falcons. So Hemmo decided to repaint the Falcon in the original white colour from 1964. Mehr >

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Frans Verbass made this Opel Astra in 1996 with parts from Opel Spain, Sydney Meeke, Vauxhall Sport and Brian Ashwood and it is a full works spec car with a Swindon engine and X-trac gearbox. He was also Dutch Rally Sprint Champions in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001. For 2023 the Astra was fully restored and changed to the colour that Freddy Loix drove in 1995. Mehr >

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This Lancia was built by Lancia Sweden from a road car to a Group N rally car and used in Scandinavia for many years. Than it came to Germany to be used even more and finally in 2009 Thorsten Scheffner bought it. It took him six years to rebuild the Delta into a perfect copy of the red Sanremo winning Delta from 1989. This job was done by the German Lancia specialist Frank Unger by using many original competition parts and Frank is driving the car too while owner Thorsten is co-driving. Mehr >

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Andrew Trayner started to build this car from an original white Audi Quattro in 2007. The car continues to evolve with parts being replicated from the original group 4 cars. For him half the joy is researching and manufacturing the parts. Group 4 cars were rapidly changing so it can be hard to pin down the spec for the car as every period photo generally reveals something new. He based his car on the 1981 Lombard RAC Rally car because it was the winner of that event. Mehr >

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Paulo Torres competed in autocross and off-road races with a Datsun 160J in the 1980s and is passionate about Datsun having a few of them in his garage. This passion led him to purchase a Datsun 240Z for rallying found in Italy. With this car he fulfilled a dream since he was young, which was to drive this car on various event. Mehr >

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This Ford Sierra RS Cosworth 4x4 was a recce car of Dieter Depping and was subsequently driven by various drivers in the German scene. In 2007 it came to Marco Thomas father, but it would take until 2021 for Marco to decide to finally revive it back to life. Mehr >

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After the Acropolis Rally in 2009 this Ford was rebuilt by Paul Bird Motorsport to compete in Catalunya as part of the Stobart Ford Team and has competed since in 74 rallies with 23 outright wins and a further 20 podium finishes. In 2019 Frank Bird took over the driving seat and added another 10 overall wins to its record. In 2023 the Bird family decided to sell the car to Darrell Taylor who will bring it to slowly sideways events from than on. Mehr >

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Georg Berlandy built this Ascona in 2007 based on Klaus Miersch's 1973 Rally Monte-Carlo Ascona. Georg then used it successfully for 8 years in many rallies, winning the Rallye Köln-Ahrweiler five times alone. In 2016, Uwe Sturm was very lucky to be able to take over his dream car from Georg and, as a newcomer, continue to present it to the spectators at various rallies. Mehr >