RETROSPECTIVE>>GROUP 5 MONSTERS AT LE MANS

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Arnold van de Worp — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:21:05 GMT

wat a machines, i like it

MODEL CARS>> JUN RX7 253 OR IS IT?

Speedhunters — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:02:04 GMT

Some of our long term readers will know that I'm a big fan of late '70s/early '80s Group

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Markus Nissa — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:06:13 GMT

Haaa ! you get me Rod ! Speedhunters is now high ranked in my bookmarks. Superb material you share here , and i'm very happy to see that i'm not hte only one totally nuts about these old monsters.

Just like Rufus said , it should be cool to have a look on the Japan Racing history too , particulary about Japanese version of the Gr5 , the JGTC ancestors.

Wide bodies , large Turbos , Tube framed chassis and Huuuuge tires : all i love !...( and seem that i'm not the only one :D )

About the high-res screen desktops.......Greeen greeen greeen !

@Pat Daly : The word "livery" is based on a latin word "liberare" (make free) and used in the french middle-age , " la livrée " which was a sort of coat used like a flag , to show others the rank and the origin of the man , genrally a noble personn. Ouch ,sorry for the french mess , very approximative translation , i hope you get the main idea.

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tre-five-oh joe — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:13:27 GMT

Amazing shots, its so freaking awesome to be able to see stuff like this. To me, this is the golden era of motorsport...time to start building my time machine.

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S130Turbo — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:53:07 GMT

Awesome pictures Rod. The Group 5 cars and later the Group C's were absolute marvels, and a blast to watch. As much as I look forward to LeMans every year, it seems in recent history, it's become far more sanitized (with the exception being the diesel innovations),

The Lancia's were gorgeous IMHO - perfectly proportioned

Thanks for sharing this!

Adam

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Fruitcake — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:04:06 GMT

I love this site!

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Pat Daly — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:18:15 GMT

That BASF scheme is awesome, I love it. Check out the NIKE endorsement on the Mazda 254, that's crazy, when is the last time they've sponsored a car, besides that fish looking car in GT4. Also, anybody know how the word "livery" came about in terms of meaning color scheme, I'm ignorant to how this word was derived.

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Rod Chong — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:59:35 GMT

one thing that bothers me about all the 935s doing historic racing these days is that they don't run the 19" rear wheels which looks just plain wrong to me hahah.

Herm maybe we should go to Monterrey for the historics...

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Antonio Alvendia — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:43:12 GMT

I saw that pink and white KREMER Porsche at Laguna Seca last year!!! I went to the Monterey Pre-Historic races with my friend Ricky and his wife... we went down to Laguna real quick in the morning as guests of David Swig and his father Martin (from Motoring J Style and also California Mille fame), and I touched this Porsche! I even took some photos inside I think. As a result of going to Laguna Seca to check out the Pre-Historic Races, we were super late to Calvin Wan's pre-wedding party... sorry Calvin! But he and his wife were super cool about it, and were glad to see us anyway! haha Cool!!!

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bobberz — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:56:52 GMT

Amazing! I wish I was born a couple decades earlier. Love the M1-closest thing BMW have ever had to a supercar. Always loved the Lancias in Martini Livery, some of the best looking racecars in my opinion(apart from '50s and '60s gt cars).

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jblaine — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:44:50 GMT

You guys are killing it. Great post.

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Rod Chong — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:41:40 GMT

Tom Wheeler they are not available as prints although perhaps we can release some as high res desktops in the future. I'll have to talk to the photographer about that though. We'd likely need to get them rescanned in order to release high rez versions.

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Rod Chong — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:40:20 GMT

Tx for the response guys!

I have several hundred of these photos and I'll release them in packs over the course of the year.

Rufus Goldstreiff let's be friends haha. Interesting to know that the black/gold RX7 (253 right?) was prepped by JUN. I have some pics of this car. Will need to find out more about it.

Cole Trickle I am familiar with the Giro d'italia version of the Beta MonteCarlo that Villenueve drove. It was a short trail car if I recall correctly. I'm a serious trainspotter for these types of cars!

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Ole-M — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:15:43 GMT

The Mazda 254 is based on the SA22 or FB RX-7.

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ProTreeCRX — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:57:16 GMT

hmmm nice. what is the mazda 254 based off of?

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Tom Wheeler — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:56:42 GMT

Rod, are these available as prints anywhere? I love the second one looking down the pit straight!

Are there more shots where these came from?

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Cole Trickle — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:46:28 GMT

I love that era so much... Especially the Beta Montecarlos.

Have you seen the Beta Montecarlo that Gilles Villeneuve, Walter Rohl and Christian Geistdorfer drove in the 1979 Giro d'Italia?

Beautiful pictures, thank you for sharing them.