What if the car is pre-satnav…like 1970?
Can you enter a retro-mod car, 1970 body year with 2020 engine and trim year?
Historical class: 1980 Mara Kanyon 2.5 Trek 40th Anniversary
On the 40th anniversary of the debut of Mara’s offroader, the Kanyon, in the Great Archanan Trek, Yosiyf Kapitov, CEO of Mara’s performance division AMM, decided to take a former competition Kanyon out of storage and have it restored to the condition from 40 years ago.
The restoration was faithful down to the old flag red competition colour (before there was an AMM and its signature yellow), the period-correct fuel canisters in the old Archanan military colour and the sole sponsorship sticker.
The only concession to the modern times was the addition of a modern rollcage on the inside. To celebrate, Kapitov, a former Archanan rally driver, entered the 2020 Trek himself in the Historical class together with AMM’s motorsport competition coordinator, Susanna Volkova. Their goal was less to aim for a class victory but to celebrate the event and Mara’s involvement over the years with a decent finish in Basara.
Stay tuned for the 4x4 works entry…
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1985 Bolland Braford Production Class
The Bolland Braford was introduced in 1978 as Bolland’s first major attempt at a compact, global-sized truck. Like its namesake breed of cattle, it was developed both in the USA and in Bolland’s Australian division, and would be available initially as a 3 door SWB SUV or as a pickup truck available in a variety of lengths. The narrow width and short length of Braford pickup aimed it squarely at the trucks coming from Japan at the time, and Bolland bet big on the new truck with the hope of it proving successful not only in North America, but around the globe, markets that US standard full-size trucks couldn’t crack.
Despite the “Bolland Racing Team” moniker, the truck was actually run by French privateers; Bolland did not yet value the potential marketing of the rally raid success, so when entered in the production class in 1985, it was only lightly modified from stock. Even with some modifications, the 3 liter V6 engine from the Brute trim level produced a rather measly 175 hp, but a rally raid such as this was more marathon than sprint, and the robust, compact, and relatively lightweight Braford proved worthy, tough machine, and would pave the way for factory efforts in later years.
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2020 Mara Kanyon Mk3 AMM 4.0 4x4 TREK
The actual Mara-AMM works entry will be driven by Mara’s works rally driver Viktor Stigov and his congenial co-driver Boryslav Kuzen.
The TREK Kanyon on a short break at the end of a long testing day in the Dalluhan desert
Earlier the year, the team had finished joint 2nd in the THRS rally series in a works Mara Xenia AMM.
Rear view
Underneath, the TREK competition Kanyon sports a custom-built spaceframe, it has all-aluminium panels and it also does away with the production models’ awkward front transverse layout for a proper longitudinal 4x4 drivetrain and to allow Mara’s AMM-tuned DOHC V8 to fit into the car.
Interior view
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From the imagination of DMC, the Sand Ymp.
Drivers are Marcus and Laura Swan. Husband and wife rally team who are board members of DMC.
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I just experienced a good kind of fight or flight, MF did the Lightning Mcqueen “I make people experience feelings they themselves dont understand”