Miranda FTV-90 (entrant for c3)
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This is the 1973 Retro Age Motors Sidewinder 440 Rally (#122), entering as Class: C6
There are actually several of these type cars roaming North America. Some like this example are based on the 1973 Sidewinder GS 440. Others are based on the Sidewinder GS and still more are based on the Sidewinder 440 R …confused yet?
So was the factory. When production started in October of 1972, a miscommunication between corporate and the factory resulted in 600 cars being produced using the 440 R engine instead of the 440 3C Dragon. The 440 R was only to be used in government and law enforcement vehicles. When the error was detected a re-call was issued but only 6 cars were returned. Those cars had their engine swiped out for the correct engine at Retro Age Motors expense. Word on the street traveled like wild fire through North America and the remaining 594 cars never answered the re-call notice. The reason was simple. The 440 R is a powerhouse compared to the Dragon. The Dragon has a pretty name but the inside joke in Retro Age Motors was something like …he worked slower then a Dragon 440 climbing a speed bump!
Retro Age Motors
Parking Memories in the Driveway
and jokes in the lock room
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That picture of the Sidewinder makes it look like aircraft should be taking off from it… LOOONG deck.
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That picture of the Sidewinder makes it look like aircraft should be taking off from it… LOOONG deck.
In real life of the early to mid seventies, those hoods were looong! My favorite hoods (bonnets) from those days belong to (in no particular order), Thunderbird, Continental Mark IV, Eldorado, Tornado, Camaro, Trans Am and Belvedere …seems I am missing a few.
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Due to the complexities of Fruinian-Chinese translation, there was a mix up back at RAI head office. Confusion about the limits of C1 and C2, or something. So, what ended up happening was 2 cars were prepared, the #321 from earlier, and this, #4. #4 has a very similar engine, but with a slightly shorter stroke, giving it an 1149cc capacity. A different intake arrangement, and the bit I couldn’t figure out, a higher compression, means this has more power than the car in C2… but not by much.
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1973 Corso de Fruinia, Bogliq Terra Rally Team!
Most of the Bogliq subsidiaries chose to showcase new models and advance the image of Bogliq as the reliable choice in the 1973 Corso de Fruinia. Since there were delegations from around the world present, the team was named after the planet, rather than just one dominant region.
Seven cars were fielded in total and each car was race prepared and tuned by Leeroy Custom Solutions to ensure each car were homologation compliant as well as having a shot at outright victory. Also, since Bogliq were fielding seven cars, it was estimated that Bogliq would place well in the constructors championships, even if it was through sheer force in numbers!
C0: Bogliq Fanatic 75AE
The first Bogliq of Japan entrant; uses its US nameplate to aid sales and visibility in the USA
All female team picked by Bogliq of Japan in a Nation-wide TV game-show grand prize!
Car No. 83
Driver: Reida Oda
Navigator: Uki Nakajima
C1: Bogliq Fanatic 115AE
The larger engined version of the Fanatic was also raced in the RdF!!!
The all male team were the winners of a Dealership level lucky dip (Only race licensed drivers could apply).
Car No. 85
Driver: Shozo Fujino
Navigator: Kan Tatsuda
C2: Bogliq Kitten 130AE
Car No. 86 sported a rare DOHC 2v Leeroy Motorsports alloy head for extra power at high RPM’s
English pair of aspiring rally drivers selected because they were cheap and plausibly deniable in Bogliq of Europe’s boardroom!
Car No. 86
Driver: Lewis Barnes
Navigator: John Cooke
C3: Bogliq Zealot 160AE
No. 97 also had a Leeroy Motorsports alloy DOHC 2v head. But this car was RWD… Yeehaw!
Bogliq USA wanted to promote women in motorsport so gave the C3 entrant to an all female crew.
Car No. 97
Driver: Jessica Rose
Navigator: Alisha James
C4: Bogliq Mackaw 200AE
This car hails from Bogliq SA, made in Brazil and has the same engine as the 1952 Corso de Fruinia Bogliq Mutineer
Bogliq SA’s contribution has one of the managing director’s sons as the driver and his girlfriend as navigator. They’re both heavily into the Brazilian grass-roots motorsports scene and are well versed at the art of road racing!
Car No. 98
Driver: Roberto Furtado Rios
Navigator: Eliana Morais Lemos
C5: Bogliq Mutineer 460AE
Bogliq USA’s pumped up ponycar hobbled by the need for narrow tyres and loose surfaces!
The Mutineer had to return in a (doomed) attempt to have lightning strike twice; the crew are a pair of durability engineers who won the opportunity to race for Bogliq USA.
Car No. 99
Driver: Luke Hill
Navigator: Scott Woods
C6: Bogliq Maverick 700AE
Not the best choice for tight, poorly paved roads, but here’s hoping 777 finishes in one piece!
Gotta sell muscle-cars somehow… Right? The crew of this beast are the top two Leeroy Racing salespeople in all the USA!
Car No. 777
Driver: Brent Bryan
Navigator: Jack Carr
Each car is tuned for 91RON unleaded since Bogliq Terra is dedicated to building cars that are kind to their customers and the planet.
All the parts on the rally cars, with the exception of the Leeroy Motorsport parts, are available at your friendly local Bogliq dealership. Just ask at the Spare Parts counter for the latest copy of Action Express, the bible of tuning parts available for your Bogliq product…
Bogliq Terra would like to extend a warm handshake of welcome to our fellow competitors and we wish you the best of luck going forwards.
Buy better, buy Bogliq
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(insert Cigarette company sponsorship here)
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Merpleboro
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Finally I have ready my first 4 cars for the rally, now I present them:
C1 : F.E.A.B 141 1140cc Rallye Team Ali-Taglia n°5
F.E.A.B 141 represents a popular common car presented in 1973 shortly before the start of the Rally. With the only available engine of displacement of 1140cc four cylinders in line, two valves, it is presented in 2 different configurations, C (comfort), E (economy), with small variations also in the engine technical settings.
The version presented is Rally configuration, and in addition to having a new exhaust system, the engine has been upgraded directly from the parent company under the guidance of Team Ali-Size, owner of the car at the Rally. Ali ', owner of the Team is a Persian man who made his fortune with a company of pre-cooked pizzas.
C3 F.E.A.B 181 1600cc Rallye Team F.E.A.B. n ° 6
Model 181 Represents the sports coupe of the House. On the market there are 2 versions, 1600 in model S (sport) and C, the model 2000 only in S versions, is the maximum expression of 181.The particularity of this car is in use for the first time of glass fiber by of the manufacturer on standard models. The engine is always a four-cylinder in-line, with 4 valves per cylinder, developed here by the official team.
C5 ARPOS Corvina n ° 17 3000cc V6 Team Arpos Scuderia
In 1973 L Arpos decided to market a medium-powered sports car to compete with the high contentendi in that category. Thus the Corvina was developed, using the base of the Agata chassis, which came out on the market in 1965. The car present at the Rally is still a laboratory car, although it has all the technical characteristics present in the production car. The only exception and source of Test still regards the engine present on this car. The house is in fact evaluating whether to mount a 2500 displacement or 3000cc present on this version in a superquadro version, ie with bore and similar stroke in size. 3000 v6 60 ° 4 valves per cylinder is the corvina heart.
C6 KOPO Dakota n ° 90 5700 V8 90th Team Star And Stripes (Private Team)
The Star and Stripes Team is an American racing team that likes to participate in rallies with cars made in the USA. For this competition it is presented with a Kopo Dakota LSA modified by the same Team under construction and with work on the engine. The Dakota (available freedownload tread KOPO) is a good basic car and the technicians have worked on the engine to give it mainly more engine revs for more sprint use, as well as a 5-speed gearbox.
Thanks, Have fun 
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JHW Motorsports
C3: #29 JHW Polecat 1600GT C3
Driver: Stephen Collier, 22 (GBR) Co-Driver: Jacob Lewis, 23 (GBR)
1.6L I4 (JHW I4-1600R), 127bhp
C4: #35 JHW Polecat 1900GT C4
Driver: Markku Kivimaki, 26 (Finland) Co-Driver: Mikko Kuoppala, 30 (Finland)
1.9L I4 (JHW I4-1900R), 140bhp
C5: #46 JHW Typhoon ‘Rally Di Fruinia’ C5
Driver: Gunnar Per Carleson, 28 (Sweden) Co-Driver: Mike Grafton, 25 (GBR)
2.8L I6 (JHW I6-2800R), 216bhp
C6: #82 JHW Typhoon ‘Thundergun’ C6
Driver: Florian Jassaud, 31 (Canada), Co-Driver: Patrick Rollins, 33 (Canada)
8.2L V8 (Brooks Kodiak 500 c.i.), 386bhp
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Well, what’d you know? Got another entry coming along, so I’ll claim #41 please. Thanks.
TBA Motorsport
Tannberg Automobile Motorsport is going to send 5 cars to the 1973 Rally di Fruinia qualifications.
C2 and C3 class:
The Genius (MK II) RS
Already known as a good road car with a sporty nature, it has yet to prove itself in a competitive environment.
Two cars are going to be send to the qualifications.
Nr 37 powered by a 1.6L I4 engine and Nr 38 powered by a 1.3L I4 engine. Both engines derive from the standart engine, which was designed to go up to 2L capacity, just with different displacement and fine tuning.
Both cars at the test track
C4 and C5 class:
The Arcus RS
The Arcus is the spiritual successor to the Gladius. It is not yet decided if the car will be sold to the public in a road going version, or if there will only be a small number of cars for homologation reasons.
It´s mid engined platform is adaptable to different motorsport applications, Rally aswell as track racing.
For the Rally di Fruina, the cars will be powered by either a 2.0 L or a 3.0 L Boxer engine.
C6 class:
The Arius V8
The Arius was never intended to be a race or rally car, more a luxurious road barge. However, a rally version was prepared just a year before the Rally di Fruinia for a different event which, unfortunately, the car was not finished in time. This Rally version could quickly be adapted to the Rally di Fruinia Homologations, so it is going to participate in the qualifications anyways.
It is powered by a 3.5 V8 engine producing 213 bhp. We shall see if that is competitive or not…
Further details, including the drivers, will be announced if a car actually makes it past the qualifications to the real Rally.
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Can I reserve numbers 364 and 740 (at least for now)
EDIT: 364 is for C0, 740 is for C6
Can i reserve Number 160 , please.
Tks
I’d like to reserve 410 to 416, please.
Well, it’s time; on October 26, I reveal my car of category C6… ominous message of impeding doom and also failure
Darwin Automotive Brothers
C6: '70 D-A-B Owlette Esse
Little is known about this oddball North-American car company. Monia Darwin and her older brother Sonny Darwin set up DAB in 1968, and the Owlette remains the company’s sole vehicle. A classic American pickup, the Owlette was somehow successful, perhaps to its strong utility qualities.
However, when the fuel crisis came knocking, DAB decided to shut down their entire company, as opposed to reworking their trusty pickup. The already-baffled workers were only further baffled, when the brothers showed up on a Fruinian newspaper, announcing the entry of a green Owlette Esse in the 1973 Rally di Fruinia.
Bearing the number 765, this strange pickup is based on the most powerful version of all; the Esse. But while it comes with a 429c.i. V8 engine, its pedestrian tune is more “Old McDonalds Egg Farm Run” than “beating Markku Alen at Fafe”. And that isn’t the most archaic aspect of this car; on the way to the rally, the Owlette broke down. A fellow engineer, presumably a member of the Hugi-Anhultz Rally Enterprise, was “convinced” to work on the car in exchange for transportation to the team’s meeting point.
What confronted the poor engineer was something out of a horror movie. A pushrod V8, mated to a suspension setup which consisted of nothing but live axles. In short, a small recipe for a very big disaster. Eventually the limp Owlette was taken to a near car shop, where some parts were procured to make the car at least predictable on Fruinia’s tough dirt roads.
Thus, somehow, this incredibly dangerous car, made on a whim by two people who clearly didn’t know what they were doing, survived the journey to the Rally. Even with a blower on the hood, the Owlette was accepted by the race’s organizers
mainly because the blower is not actually connected to anything, therefore making it a very pretty paperweight!But perhaps there is ingenuity behind the insanity. In a class where cars range from experiemental concepts to FWD muscle cars, perhaps the Owlette can strike rich for a company with no home or common sense…?
And here it is, my final entry for this massive rally event. Again, many thanks go to @Elizipeazie for helping out with tuning and finding a design language for a car I made on a whim.
Now if you excuse me, I have an appointment to attend to in the UK…
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The cigarette-reeked air never had a moment’s rest as the fans blew on high-blast in the Arizona heat. In the room sat a man getting his tobacco fix in his office. The mahogany desk was worn at the edge facing the seat, from years of the boss kicking his feet up on it, most likely. A tense intern walks in the doorway. “Come in” boomed the boss. “Sir, you know how you’ve been wanting to have a car after the 1968 Rally di Fruinia?” “Yeah?” “Well, here’s your chance.” A leaflet was placed on his desk, a rather corny drawing of a rally car flying through the air with a giddy racer smiling inside like a dolt. It read “The 1973 Rally di Fruinia wants YOUR cars! Following the included form, send us a notice at…” He got wide-eyed and immediately said to the intern “Get me my pad and pen, now.”
3 hours later, the Hyperion Rallye was born, a 116 horsepower (100 hp for the C2 version) FWD whippet of pure adrenaline, made for class C2 and C3.
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The Japanese engineers at SPE have, in collaboration with manufacturer Hunson, examined an older sedan.
The original Hunson Judgy Super SII (second gen.) Is being converted by both parties to the annual rally in Fruinia for the C6 class.
Hunson is engaged in the construction of the modified chassis and suspension, while SPE specialists are deploying to adjust the original engine block and drive.
The original engine includes the robust 225 slant six. The entire engine is upgraded in terms of cylinder head and an extremely modern mechanical injection set is installed. The power increases from about 110 hp to 220 hp and a torque of 154 ft lb to 236 ft lb (320 Nm).
The race team this year consists of two people led by Kim Putin. Driver: Donald Jung un, 22 (PRK) Co-Driver: Vladimir Trump, 23 (USA)
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Don’t you mean “Kim Putin”?
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