Car presentation 2024

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This Renault was acquired in the late 90s as a normal road car and then converted into a group A rally car. After taking part in some competitions in his home country, Robin Meeuwsen had to give up this hobby for health reasons and initially devoted himself to a completely different hobby, namely sled dog racing. Then he visited the Eifel Rallye Festival several times and decided to make his 21 Turbo a copy of the works car that Philippe Bugalski drove in Corsica in 1988. Mehr >

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This 306 Maxi was a customer car with chassis number 85 in 2004 and first drove numerous rallies in France with Philippe Gomez. Until 2015 it was on the road there with changing drivers before Stefan Malter brought it to Germany in 2017 and gave it the factory livery from 1997. Mehr >

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Ernst Kopp acquired this car from Toyota Motorsport many years ago when he was their main workshop manager for their WRC and F1 program. This 222D is completely original and unrestored and thus is a very exclusive showpiece. But just exhibition only did not satisfy Ernst and he prepared this car for the Eifel Rallye Festival in 2017 where it drove its first stage at all. This is the 222D prototype with the longitudinal engine that Björn Waldegård tested in Scotland in 1986. Mehr >

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Christian Klein bought this R5 Turbo in 2013 when it was still in the French Rally Group F configuration, but had not been raced for years and was not in good condition. He completely rebuilt it from the bare bodyshell to bring it back to the Group B configuration of the DIAC Chatriot version with the prospect of competing in Slowly Sideways rallies. Mehr >

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Lancia did not only enter this car with its works team, they also had a big customer sports department that built up further cars. For 1986, Lancia prepared one S4 which was entered by Grifone with the backing of Esso. Their driver Fabrizio Tabaton only took part in one WRC event – the 1986 Sanremo Rally where he retired – but his European Rally Championship campaign was highly successful winning him the title. Mehr >

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This car is one of three Nissan 240RS that, in 2008, were brought from Kenya to Germany for participation in Slowly Sideways events. Unfortunately, the restoration process was not quite as easy as had been hoped because there are hardly any spare parts to find anywhere in the world, all 240RS parts seem to have vanished. And in contrast to many other rally cars, there are no road versions of the 240RS in Europe that can be used as donor cars for lamps, mouldings etc. Mehr >

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This Peugeot 205 T16 remained with Peugeot Germany in Saarbrücken for many years after 1985 and later in Cologne when the company moved and merged with Citroen. It was often exhibited in public. However, Peugeot was not in a position to prepare it ready to drive and finally sold it to Ludwig Biewen. Another classic example of how the rally treasures of the past need private initiatives to keep them running. This Peugeot will kindly be made available to Kalle Grundel for the Eifel Rallye Festival for some time. Mehr >

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Herbert Grünsteidl and Franz Wurz were works drivers for Porsche Salzburg in the European and Austrian Rallycross Championship in 1974. At the end of the year, Porsche Salzburg ended its involvement, Franz Wurz got the Rallycross Beetle and Herbert the Rally Beetle with the licence plate S 117.235. He registered it to his residence and drove it to second place in the 1975 Jänner Rally. 45 years later, Herbert was able to acquire this Beetle again and was thrilled because it was still in very original condition. Mehr >

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After Portugal in 1994 this Celica was sold to Toyota Team Sweden. TTS then sold it to a private customer in Norway who kept it for a couple of years and then sold to David Greer in Northern Ireland in 1997. It was rallied by a number of people during this period as Celica’s were extremely popular in Ireland and where a great majority of the original ST185 Celica’s ended up and also ended their life as they were almost rallied to extinction. This car survived and the last Irish owner who Nicky Grist bought it from was Sean McGeehan. Mehr >

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When Peugeot Germany pulled out of rallying in Saarbrücken and the sports department was closed down, the car, which was than just being overhauled, passed into the possession of the workshop manager of the sports department. The 309 stood in his workshop until 2020, when Uwe Gropp, looking for spare parts for such a vehicle, revived his old contacts and saw exactly this car in a corner, which he had admired several times in an exhibition in Saarbrücken as a young boy. Mehr >