Jimmy Mcrae | Rallying with the Vauxhall Chevette

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Jimmy Mcrae | Rallying with the Vauxhall Chevette

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This wonderful archive film follows rally legend Jimmy McRae and his exploits with Dealer Team Vauxhall(DTV), driving the awesome Vauxhall Chevette. The film joins Jimmy as the season is drawing to a close with just the Bovis National rally - the final round of the Castrol Autosport Rally championship - left to go.
Featuring footage from the Mintex Rally, the Circuit of Ireland, the Welsh rally, the Scottish rally, the Manx Trophy International Championship Rally and the Ulster Rally, McRae races against many European champions and famous rally drivers including his team mate Pentti Airikkala, Hannu Mikkola, George Hill, Mike Jackson, Malcolm Wilson, David Jones and Arnie Garvick. If you're a rally nut and petrolhead at heart then you'll love watching this retro special!
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@joaovitorsilvagohl682 4 жыл бұрын

Chevettes are still strong here on Brazil.

@hbtm2951 3 жыл бұрын

Nunca quis um até descobrir essa doença chamada "Rally".

@user-mx5gr1yd6u 9 ай бұрын

ノスタルジックな映像を見る機会をくれてありがとう😉👍️🎶

@stefgarvie6427 7 ай бұрын

Just love these video clips the chevette looks awesome

@pjackowspa Жыл бұрын

Back in the day early one morning, I saw two Bedford vans with a Chevette apiece on trailers heading out of Woodhall Spa towards Cadwell Park. They were tarmac testing before the Circuit of Ireland. A friend and I skipped off work and went to watch. After a few laps, Penti Arikala and Jimmy McRae returned to the pits to wait some new springs that were due to arrive. I asked McRae if he would take us round and he said yeah sure. We had to wait quite awhile, but both of us got a trip of a lifetime around the track.Arikala had a red Ferrari at the time and he’d trodden in a puddle so he put his socks and shoes on the vents on the dashboard and drove McRae sideways round the Cadwell track trying to dry his shoes and socks . I also then managed to roll my Ford Escort into a hedge at the bottom of the hill on leaving the track!

@robair67 10 ай бұрын

Wonderful memories!!! Thanks for sharing that, sir.

@dr.t. 3 жыл бұрын

Total respect between two drivers back in the good old days.

@jerrythegaffer 7 ай бұрын

RIP Brooksie you were Awesome.

@kramnam4716 3 ай бұрын

How lovely what kindness and respect with how they talked about each other

@poppops62 4 жыл бұрын

I had a Chevette HS back in the early 80s, engine built by blydenstein in Shepreth. Awesome rally car. Had to be sold when I got married, apparently Mrs S wanted a house to live in. Still married but wish I still had the car as well!

@pauldashwood2897 3 жыл бұрын

Anthony Smith I had one back in 93 ....great car used to go up Chelsea cruise in it ...ha great days

@bugattieb110ss 3 жыл бұрын

Selfish bitch! Lol.

@garethowen6701 2 жыл бұрын

Great little cars. I had 3 over the years. And again wish I still had any one of them now. Lol

@caeserromero3013 Жыл бұрын

The Talbot Sunbeam driver nearly stacks it at 2:28. Nice recovery, just finished sending that text in the nick of time 😂

@robair67 10 ай бұрын

😁

@caeserromero3013 Жыл бұрын

My old Nan had a Chevette and she drove it like that...all round Kingston and Ham....she personified the phrase: "Drive it like you've just stolen it," 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@TheAsa1972 4 жыл бұрын

2:26 how he pulled himself out of that is good driving

@Zerofightervi 4 жыл бұрын

Bloody hell that was a hell of a save.

@gavinivers8941 2 жыл бұрын

Only he and his drycleaner will know how scared he was...lol

@rovercoupe7104 2 жыл бұрын

I have seen such terrifying driving. M.

@andyc734 Жыл бұрын

Lucky for the cars parked at the side. Would have been bloody nasty that. 😬

@sparky337 2 жыл бұрын

Great rallying with the best in the good old days !

@Outamyhead 8 ай бұрын

I was given my great Granddad's 1978 Chavette after he passed away, it wasn't a bad car slightly fussy about sub zero cold starts but rust was eating that car quicker than I could get it fixed.

@melvyncox3361 10 ай бұрын

Good old days!

@mrdunns3338 2 жыл бұрын

Saw many of these cars in the 70s and into the 80s when helping to run various events. Now worth a fortune, particularly anything with a works history, or driven by well known figures. Not many of them left now from that era, probably Jimmy the best known, but one or two of the auld yins pop up on an entry list north of the Eng/Sco border.

@TheLRider 3 жыл бұрын

I was there ha, ha. And many other years as well; absolutely fabulous rally. Love the IOM..

@rickydub6950 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing footage, thanks for posting 👍🙂

@twincamGT 3 жыл бұрын

My god that sunbeam was lucky they never wiped out they were flat out he held it so well. it would not have been pretty if he left the road

@madmaniacloony 3 жыл бұрын

I'm just going to go that wee bit faster, brilliant!

@MikeDuffy-fp4zy 7 ай бұрын

Brilliant to watch back then, sadly I don't think we really knew what we were watching was so very good. Exceptional cars, drivers and days!. There was a buzz on the Ilse of Man when the International Rally Circus arrived, nothing like that now, shame really. This years Roger Albert Clark does seem to have caused a strange stirring though, or is it just in me?

@sardengineering 4 жыл бұрын

❤️ forever a satisfied customer 🙏🏼

@deancrisp3596 9 ай бұрын

How did he save that Talbot with it's arse bouncing around in the air amazing control

@gerrymontgomery9964 9 ай бұрын

Amazing car the chevette ,I remember at the circuit of Ireland rally when Pentti Arrikilla, in the chevette, and Ari Vatinen in the escort, I think Ari won the rally by less than five seconds

@roberttaylor1801 3 күн бұрын

A time when it was skill of the driver and machines that won rallies rather than tech and money

@georgejacob3162 3 жыл бұрын

2:11. Russell's Escort GVX489T is still taxed and MOT'd!

@elbecko7969 3 жыл бұрын

I've never fully understood the appeal of the Golf GTi, especially when there were hairy-chested, snarling, big-bollocked, dirty, nasty rwd cars like these

@newforestroadwarrior 3 жыл бұрын

No idea what you mean by that in relation to this video, as there isn't a Golf anywhere in it.

@elbecko7969 3 жыл бұрын

@@newforestroadwarrior Wtf?? These cars are forerunners to the "hot hatch", so there's the connection. There were musclecars before the Pontiac GTO, so those that came before the GTO deserve to be footnotes at the very least. There's no GTO in this video either, but it doesn't stop me mentioning it, along with pop socks, sandwiches, Tony Green and plywood figurines.

@andrewbrough457 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@steveluckhurst2350 3 жыл бұрын

@@elbecko7969 and flumps. Flumps deserve a mention!

@steveluckhurst2350 3 жыл бұрын

@@elbecko7969 With regard to the Golf Gti. Even the Sunbeam Ti or the Toyota starlet were preferable.

@twinpipe5991 3 жыл бұрын

For a few minutes there, I lost myself in normality.

@imarcus1973 4 жыл бұрын

And on the country lanes of Britain, the Chevette vs Escort battle went on until rust took over... and ended the game.

@thetreblerebel 3 жыл бұрын

The Chevette looks very mean in Rally spec..

@SimonWallwork 3 ай бұрын

I had an HS. HMS109S where are you now?

@toon9359 2 ай бұрын

No no Colin that’s not right you do it like this

@BobyTomara 3 жыл бұрын

💪😉

@sporkfindus4777 Жыл бұрын

Gentlemen

@NigelRCharman 3 ай бұрын

Does anyone know why the chevettes and escorts had such soft rear suspension?

@rovercoupe7104 2 жыл бұрын

Looks scary. M.

@Stray1One Жыл бұрын

I had 3 chevettes

@danross8565 4 жыл бұрын

Will this be released on DVD please

@steveluckhurst2350 3 жыл бұрын

looking at the watermark, I'm inclined to believe that it was, but a long time ago!

@hybridShinx 4 жыл бұрын

European GM and FORD cars are always better

@elbecko7969 3 жыл бұрын

And the Sunbeam is Chrysler's European offering, hence the Mopar sponsorship

@donswier Жыл бұрын

As an American, I can confirm😄. Look up "Grosse Pointe Myopians"

@harshithsadhana7475 4 жыл бұрын

more like this bro, do you have ferrari f40 stuff

@dukevideo 4 жыл бұрын

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@harshithsadhana7475 4 жыл бұрын

@@dukevideo thanks mate

@caeserromero3013 Жыл бұрын

I liked that song he did in '74 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ndukeJt6lbrPY3k.html

@MrAaronb400 10 ай бұрын

Someone made a comment once saying a golf r would be quicker than a group b rwd and i know this isnt even group b. Not quite sure what planet that person was on but a golf r wouldn't be anywhere near with the weight difference and even the modern advances It has.

@thetreblerebel 3 жыл бұрын

You mean a Chevy Chevette?? Lol

@WowHaru_ 3 жыл бұрын

the chevette has a long names around the world Like Chevy Chevette Chevrolet Chevette (On Brazil) Vauxhaull Chevette (On Australia) Opel Kadett C (Europe) GMC Chevette (Argentina) Opel K130 Isuzu Gemini (Japan) Isuzu Chevette and ETC...