I don’t think you could be a petrol head PERIOD and not be able to appreciate these monsters. Cheers!

@@samsonian took the words right out of my mouth 😀

@@samsonian I was born 89 and I love all the rally cars from the 50s onwards. In fact out of most production cars the 50s 60s 70s and 80s are my favourite

@@ItzJigz187 You have good taste sir.

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Hi, William! We'll call you The TIG! ;-) Some say... he welds with lasers.. Some say... he -

what a machine!

Sir you did a fantastic job on the exhausts ......That sound is the best of any I have heard

@@EleanorPeterson Some say his welding gloves are fashioned from fairy wings, and that if you look into the blue light you'll be turned into Moon dust 👀🤔

Hi William. Must say you did a crackling job on the exhaust system,must be good knowing you worked on such a amazing machine. My Dad worked on Gloster Meteors and worked on every moving part of them and I know he would have loved to have got his hands on the 6R4 but he did help me a lot with my Triumph Dolomite Sprint 😁😁

Hi, Richard! Yep! :-) I did most of my viewing in the Yorkshire forests, and the night stages were truly thrilling. As you say, Group-B was special. You'd hear these monsters literally a mile away. Standing in the mud or the snow or the rain, first you'd see the lights, then hear the marshals' whistles, then all hell would break loose. Fantastic! The engines were utterly unmistakable - I've yet to hear a better sound than a Quattro driven in anger, but the bellowing 6R4 was brilliant, too. A few years previously, the Lancia Stratos was a big favourite. Ah, happy days for petrol-heads, eh?

too true group b in sweet lamb and all the other stages in the 80,s five days aswell great times

Check out VHS Rallies on you tube

@@150rents I always thought Haffern was better could never get on with sweetlamb maybe that has something to do with having a skoda wheel hub and driveshaft almost flattten me on therer

Keilder and Dalby won ;-)

I was there too standing at a hairpin right and Colin was so much faster than any other car was amazing to see 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@@BobsYirUncle even though he wasn't officially timed as he was the course car I was told he was fastest over the stage by a huge margin.

Spectated on the 93,94 & 95 RAC's, his runs through Hafren were insane, remember Sainz dropping to 5th for a right hander and Colin didn't lift in 6th... on the night time stage.

Just sadly no longer with us 😢

And of course the great Tony Pond

Had a tear in my eye watching this .I watched Colin drive this car in anger...... No words I can come up with can explain how special the 6R4 and Colin were together..... Thank you so much for making the film and showing how really special this car is .

@nordhorny why is he a "moron" ?

Remember Tony also campaigning the TR8 and SD1. If it had wheels on, he could make it go fast. Nearly forgot, he also managed to grab the first (I think) 100 mph lap of the Isle of Man in a car.... a Rover 800 !

@@mikebutler6308 Don't forget the Lotus Sunbeam with Ian Grindrod in the navigators' seat.

@@mikebutler6308 Yes mate, there is some footage on the tube of Pond with a Rover Vitesse, stock apart from some super soft tyres hammering the TT circuit, I think this was in the late 80's not long before he succumbed to cancer, his lap record stood for years and took a very hot Impreza to beat it. He was one of the greats from his era but mostly forgotten, which is sad.

If by hammered you mean finished 3rd behind 2 S4's then yes.

I joined my local motor club in early '85, and my first National/International event was 6 months later. Arrival in Stang forest. The Lancia Delta S was amazing and technical (and very warming if you happened to be stood on a freezing evening next to the wastegate exit), but the 6R4 was brutal, even on tickover. Your body didn't just vibrate if you were near the engine, your breathing matched the exhaust pulses. And Tony Pond and Malcolm Wilson were truly gracious with all the fan boy marshals stood around, and even gave autographs to those who weren't ogling through the rear windows (hence why I never got their sigs) despite preparing to go into an icy forest stage. True heroes of my time, as were all the drivers to me. Always wanted to progress to a 6R4, but didn't get far having grand ideas on my Mk2 Escort build when I should have just got it on the road and learned to rally drive properly. It's still a dream at 55 to win the lottery and buy one to rally, but sadly the prices are sky rocketing now, as is the cost of rallying.

Audi Quattro sounds much better

@@kells77 V8 Ferrari trumps both !

Grisdale like as in Washington state

@@royalchaser8090 No, Grizedale Cumbria UK.

@@kells77 nice too.

Donegal native here, awesome seeing the Donegal logo on this car. We're known for having some great rally roads too

haha, Martin Schanche, what a legend. I used to love watching him on Grandstand, you never quite knew what he was going to do, it was either win or some form of lunacy.

yep and the motorsport story trying to sell the rs200's.

I can remember an advert someone wanting to "swap" a Jaguar XK150 for an Escort MK1 GT 1300, when they were still in production.

My dad told me this back then, I'm sure he said 12k. I hassled him for months, saying it would keep its value! I've thought about it for years,, thanks for the memory. 👍

@@brimleyhillmassive If you have ever watched "Bangers and Cash" on the tele you will see lots of if only i had kept that examples. Remember your dad was probably trying to keep a roof over your head at the time.