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Originally Posted by GBRM
Yeah, Dad loved and hated that car and it ended up being so competitive. Twatts did win ouright at Cadwell, beating Blower and Skid in the Starions and by then Dad was in the Escort RS Turbo; he always said that was his first race in the wet in the Escort and he used the wets that had come with the car and they were rubbish!!
I think a prod saloons thread would be good because I went to all the races and saw the cars being built from '82ish onwards and don't have to dig through the paperwork and swiss cheese brains to get the info!!
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As if by magic see:
http://tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=91244
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Originally Posted by KA
Slightly off-topic: the blue & yellow 6R4 mock-up would be from an ITV drama series aired in late 85-ish. Title was something like 'Winning Streak', and from memory the plot centred around an ambitious rally driver coming back to competition with a new car (the 6R4) and big-money sponsor after having a big accident. Quite a few of the top national/club rally drivers of the period and their cars were involved, and ARG provided at least one of the early prototype 6R4s for filming.
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Yeah I just about remember that - like a rally version of 'Driving Ambition.'
It was pretty poor apart from the chance to see the cars in action! That blue/yellow '6R4' does look like the one that was in the series.
Of course it's easy to forget that Computervision sponsored the 6R4 Metros as well as the BTCC cars, and once the BTCC ones were pulled, I suppose more of their sponsorship was poured into the Group B's?