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Its amazing how manufacturers can risk their reputations with such underhand tactics. As well as cars what about components like the Alfa Romeo aerodynamic add ons?
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The Batmobile BMWs were homologated on the basis of a kit of parts. The spoilers etc. were found in the boot of the car when you bought your CSL. So no change there.
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The Alfa BTCC cars also had the kit of parts to elevate the rear spoiler and extend the front splitters in the boot..... Belatedly, the add-on aero kits were banned.
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Fair comment but it demonstrates that there was nothing new.
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Now I thought that Frank was probably the best all-round driver of the modern era, but no-one has yet really explained definitively
just how the ZL1 motor got homologated in the second-generation Z28 Camaro, which is the question that Al asked in the first place. Anyone feeling moral guilt through having a 427ci all-alloy Chevy motor in their second-generation Camaro can assuage that guilt by removing the motor, packaging it carefully, and dispatching it to Mr. A Weyman, Watford. He will take on the guilt for you. |
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Subsequently, most of the cars had all the Gp.A pieces removed, and the cars were sold in the US through the dealer network as base-model 240s. |
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Found this while looking on the web for the GP A Vovo currently for sale. Hope the link works!
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Certainly sheds more light on what manufacturers attempted to do in order to meet the regulations in those days, rightly or wrongly. Do I detect that you considering purchasing the 240T then??? |
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Thread title updated to include Group A.
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BMW did try to Homologate the CSL for the start of the `72 season. They tried to convince the FIA they had built enough cars, but were actually about 331 short...! |
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Agreed, I was drawing the similarity to the Alfa and yes the arches etc. were fitted but the aero stuff wasn't.
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There was a case where the manufacturer read the rules very carefully. There was a minimum number for the 'hot' competiton version, but there wasn't a minimum niumber for the 'base' version. So they homologated the 'hot' version as the base car and the 'cooking' version as the variation; they made avery few base cars and thousands of the 'hot' version.
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Hmm, do tell.
In 1975, Ford was preparing the mkII Capri but it already had its sights in the fscelift mkIII. So it produce and homologated a front spoiler for group 1. The shape and profile of that spoiler was the same as the final mkIII shape. |
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Grp.2 Fiesta MK1
Does anybody know a Grp.2 prepared Fiesta (think only the 1600 was homologatet for Grp.2) I get a sliding throttle kit with Kugelfischer pump for mine. It was comming from a german ex STT Fiesta
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Boreham did a Gr2 rally Fiesta in about 1980 but couldn't tell you what spec in had.
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