I noted ozzy (i think) rated the old group b rally cars as more of a spectacle than F1 in a post in the f1 testing yesterday...i tend to disagree though, nothing beats an F1 car at full chat, especaily through blanchimont barely 10ft away from you or changing direction like youve never seen through becketts!

However, ive never owned a group B rally car, but how about a homologation special for group A rally cars?

I owned her for two years, sadly sold her last year, but boy, what a machine! And she wasnt quite standard.

The rules at the time were in the process of changing from manufactures building so many of a particular model so they could rally it, and Mitsubishi kept on with this thinking even after Subaru (gah!!! the enemy!) produced the world rally car - i.e the car you saw rallying wasnt really the car you could buy down the dealers...

This however, wasnt far off from what you saw on the stages in 1996/1997, even down to the gear for the anti-lag, all present and correct, if you wanted to get through a few turbo's every few hundred miles, just needed the gizmos to run it all....

She was an import, as all Evo's were till the 6.

Anyway, check it! I think the first is a good photo to boot also!!!

Of- course, im certainly not saying they were not good to watch, and it took a certain type of driver to tame those fire belching beasts...!

I remember the Peugeot 205 T16 VERY well - what a machine that was, and the Lancia with both a turbo AND a supercharger...!

So in what way where you involved with grp A and N?