The "I can't believe they raced it!" Thread.

[citroengt1]

This car gives safety a middle finger.

 

[Turbo]

I can't believe there was a Treser T1 Cup.

 

[adam46]

I can't believe there was a Treser T1 Cup.

Very interesting. I honestly didn't know about the car at all.

 

[Inferno251]

Saw this car in the 'rate the vehicle above you thread.' Technically it never raced but it's probably obscure enough for this thread:

This was the Holden Aventra, Australian racing legend Peter Brock's last racing car. He had planned to race it either in the 2007 or 2008 Dakar but was tragically killed during a rally in 2006. The car remained forgotten until it was revealed in 2011 and remained incomplete with no engine or transmission (and was left-hand drive).

Sadly, the car was destroyed by fire over a week ago

https://www.sothebysaustralia.com.au/list/11CCPT2/8
https://www.carsguide.com.au/oversteer/heres-what-the-brock-adventra-used-to-look-like-53594

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Saw this car in the 'rate the vehicle above you thread.' Technically it never raced but it's probably obscure enough for ths\is thread:

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This was the Holden Aventra, Australian racing legend Peter Brock's last racing car. He had planned to race it either in the 2007 or 2008 Dakar but was tragically killed during a rally in 2006. The car remained forgotten until it was revealed in 2011 and remained incomplete with no engine or transmission (and was left-hand drive).

Sadly, the car was destroyed by fire over a week ago

https://www.sothebysaustralia.com.au/list/11CCPT2/8
https://www.carsguide.com.au/oversteer/heres-what-the-brock-adventra-used-to-look-like-53594

What was planned to be used in it? Same thing Robby Gordon had ran for years at about the same time?

 

[turbofozz]

Dakar rally is what it was intended for.

 

[citroengt1]

So sad. The car didn't move an inch, yet burned to a crisp.

 

[Inferno251]

What was planned to be used in it? Same thing Robby Gordon had ran for years at about the same time?

Do you mean the engine? I think I read that it was meant to be a Australian V8 in it, as the engineering was meant to be an all-Australian effort

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Do you mean the engine? I think I read that it was meant to be a Australian V8 in it, as the engineering was meant to be an all-Australian effort

But if it's an official holden vehicle, then it would have been a GM V8, especially since Dakar is suppose to use a production engine only.

 

[Turbo]

Chevron B36 Special. Competed at Le Mans in 1987.

 

[Downhill Dino]

The 80's were a great time for prototypes, so many unique designs. A personal favorite people might not know about is the Dome Zero RL:

I think it's been posted before in this thread some years ago.

 

[Pezzarinho17]

Chevron B36 Special. Competed at Le Mans in 1987.

Is that the first "shark fin" (don't know if it has the same name outside of F1!)?

 

[Downhill Dino]

You'd have to go a little farther back...

Not exactly as we know it today but I think it qualifies. Don't recall any pre-war cars featuring the fin either but they did start popping up in the 50's like this D-Type.

 

[GTV0819]

Bump.

Funny how professional racers from several countries in Southeast Asia were gathered and raced dilapidated, smoking jeepneys in the Philippines last year just for fun.

 

[GranTurNismo]

2000 Qvale Mangusta Trans Am. It seems like such an unlikely car to be raced. Didn't do too well either.





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[Liquid]

I did not know that the Calibra was used as a rally car.

 

[Roger the Horse]

Considering the Calibra was all wheel drive (unless I'm misremembering) I'm kind of surprised that they didn't develop a group a homologation special for rallying in all honesty. Would've been interesting to see alongside the Celicas and Cossies.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

An IMSA GTU race car based on the Chevrolet Beretta?

and it supposibly won in the IMSA GTU class in 1988. I just find it neat and also odd to see race cars with the Beretta's face.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cu...988-chevrolet-beretta-imsa-race-car-for-sale/

 

[Kingofweasles]

An IMSA GTU race car based on the Chevrolet Beretta?

and it supposibly won in the IMSA GTU class in 1988. I just find it neat and also odd to see race cars with the Beretta's face.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cu...988-chevrolet-beretta-imsa-race-car-for-sale/

IMSA GTO & GTU cars from the middle of the 1980's up until 1994 or so were mainly tubeframed monster that had more in common with the NASA space program than the cars that the bodywork were supposed to convey.

They're still pretty nice though and I think the car in the bottom picture started Tommy Kendall's career in sports cars, but I'm not completely sure.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

IMSA GTO & GTU cars from the middle of the 1980's up until 1994 or so were mainly tubeframed monster that had more in common with the NASA space program than the cars that the bodywork were supposed to convey.

Yup, I know. I was trying to explain it as such, but I guess it doesn't come across as so.

 

[ClydeYellow]

IMSA GTO & GTU cars from the middle of the 1980's up until 1994 or so were mainly tubeframed monster that had more in common with the NASA space program than the cars that the bodywork were supposed to convey.

Quick, somebody photoshop a Space Shuttle nose on a GTO car!

 

[Zychotic1]

I think the only part of any of the GTO/GTU cars of the 90's shared by the street cars were the tail light lenses... absolutely WICKED machines though...

 

[AMPMROCKETFANN]

An IMSA GTU race car based on the Chevrolet Beretta?

and it supposibly won in the IMSA GTU class in 1988. I just find it neat and also odd to see race cars with the Beretta's face.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cu...988-chevrolet-beretta-imsa-race-car-for-sale/

These cars were and are sexy as all hell. It's long overdue for them to start showing up in videogames.

 

[TheCracker]

Considering the Calibra was all wheel drive (unless I'm misremembering) I'm kind of surprised that they didn't develop a group a homologation special for rallying in all honesty. Would've been interesting to see alongside the Celicas and Cossies.

Vauxhall/Opel were campaigning the Astra in lower-class rallying, with some success, at that time. The chance of relatively easy class wins was perhaps more tempting (and cheaper) then trying to battle the big boys in the well subscribed top-flight class. The Calibra's 4x4 system was more rudimentary then that found in the Cossies, Intagrales and Legacy's of that time too.

 

[Roger the Horse]

That seems to be a lot of what Opel went in for in that period. Judging by how the DTM went for them in the early 2000s it's perhaps understandable.

 

[GranTurNismo]

I had no idea that there's a 24-hour 2CV endurance racing series.

 

[adam46]

I had no idea that there's a 24-hour 2CV endurance racing series.

Yep! I've commentated on these! There is a class that allows for modified examples, one of which I recall having a BMW Superbike engine.

 

[TenEightyOne]

I had no idea that there's a 24-hour 2CV endurance racing series.

Hours or years? They'll easily do 24 years if you top up the fuel and throw out some chickens every now and then.

 

[Liquid]

I think Snetterton has a famous 2CV race.

 

[Tornado]

An IMSA GTU race car based on the Chevrolet Beretta?

and it supposibly won in the IMSA GTU class in 1988. I just find it neat and also odd to see race cars with the Beretta's face.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cu...988-chevrolet-beretta-imsa-race-car-for-sale/

And had the subsequent "GM performance option named after a racing series" package: