Car presentation

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Mike van Thiel recently adopted this car and has campaigned it in the VHRS section of the Spa Rally 2023. Mike is used to mainly English and American cars and has participated in the Carrera Panamericana, East African Safari Rally and many more since 1991. He is taking a sidestep to his newly aquired taste for Toyota and was very impressed with the simple yet reliable Corolla and its magnificient engine. Mehr >

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John Wheeler is the spiritual father of the RS200 and through 1984 to 1986 as Chief Engineer for Ford Motorsport was responsible for the design and development of the RS200 for both road and rally applications. Mehr >

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Michel Smeets found this Escort MK1 as a rally car in a workshop. He was there to buy a Mercedes SLK but came home with the Escort! The car had originally been bought new by a Dutch family, as a production 1300 in orange. But as it always happens, after a few years it was exchanged for something new, and the new buyer changed the road car into a rally car. Then the MK1 was sold to Belgium, where it got a 1600 engine. As always, lack of money was the reason it ended up in a barn. Mehr >

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This Kadett was bought by the Dutch father and son equipe at the end of 2018. It was driven during the last ten years in various classic rallies like Rallye Monte Carlo, Boucles de Spa, Tour de Belgique by the famous Belgium driver Loris de Sordi. The Opel Kadett GT/E enthusiasts discovered that this car is the one driven at the Rally Sanremo in 1978 by Fabrizia Pons and is also one of the original and rare “1000-series” cars tuned in Italy by Conrero Squadra Corse. A good reason to bring it back into its original state of Sanremo 1978. 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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Franco loves unusual stories, so he decided to give his Mitsubishi Evo V the design of a meeting in Japan in 1997. That was the only time the Evo V was driven in the Evo IV model design. Mehr >

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Rainer Lohr has owned this Audi since 2000 and began converting it into a copy of Michéle Mouton's 1983 Corsica Quattro in 2005. Of course, this includes the correct BBS rims that Audi used at the time and the rear brake and differential cooling systems are not only visually applied, but also really work. Mehr >

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This Manta 400 was completely rebuilt over the winter of 2024/25, including its technical elements such as the engine and transmission. All Group B specifications were included, and the car was ready for the Vorderpfalz Rally and the Waldleiningen special stage in 2025, because it is practically on the doorstep of the car today and Rolf Petersen used to drive a Manta like this there in 1985. Mehr >

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Apart from Group B rallying, Henk van der Linde had always been a fan of the Opel 400-series (Ascona and Manta). When he heard at the beginning of the new century that there had also been a “Kadett 400” project, Van der Linde wanted to know more and started tracing these vehicles but unfortunately did not find much information. In 2011 he eventually started building a copy with the help of four pictures of the prototype and a very limited amount of text. But the information was enough to create this copy. Mehr >

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This Lancia Delta S4 owned by Bruno Ianniello was one of the 200 homologation cars needed for Group B homologation and named by Lancia as the “Stradale”. When converting it into a competition car, Ianniello installed many evolution parts from the rally car. Thus, the S4’s DNA is very close to the one of the former works cars and it has 550 bhp. Bruno has been driving his S4 on hillclimbs and small circuit races for decades and has won everything there. He drove his first rally at the Eifel Rallye Festival in 2024 and loves to return. Mehr >