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20-08-09, 06:42 PM
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Grown up member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: St. Helens, Merseyside
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Last event for the Group B quattro....
ahhhh them were t' days lad.... |
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20-08-09, 07:11 PM
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RayBanned
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: NW
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The Last Group B quattro!
Two potential World Champions are shown here, battling for the 1986 Title - and the last ever WRC for Group B Rally!
John Buffum had a clear vision of how this rally was going to be, and stayed clear of the battle. He finished 3rd, just as he had planned. The last quattro ever to be campaigned in Group B WRC - Spectacular! |
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20-08-09, 07:18 PM
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4 ring whore!
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: brynmawr
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yes great rally pity group b is all but gone, i think i go to that show in outon park how much is it
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21-08-09, 09:49 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
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I've got this on vid somewhere, I love how Nini Rosso and the some of the Lancia mechs meet the state trooper, with what you can see as ' what the f**k do you want hombre.
 Buffum did well against the new space frame technology of Lancia and peugoet, anyone know which S1 he was in ?  |
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21-08-09, 10:02 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: St. Helens, Merseyside
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21-08-09, 10:21 PM
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RayBanned
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: NW
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A clue!
Here's a video of Buffum's quattro S1 1986 Olympus Rally car in a previous event........
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21-08-09, 10:34 PM
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Grown up member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: St. Helens, Merseyside
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soooooo wheres the 86 pikes peak car?
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21-08-09, 10:39 PM
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RayBanned
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: NW
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New Thread required.....
Pikes Peak is a whole new ball game........
New thread required, perhaps......... |
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21-08-09, 10:48 PM
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Grown up member
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Yehhh I knoww :-)
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21-08-09, 11:02 PM
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Quad Lamp Commando
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Massachusetts, U.S.A.
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I met John Buffum in June of 1998 at the Mt. Washington Hillclimb, Climb to the Clouds, he was the Chief Steward of the event. Got to chat with him, face to face at the start line/gate area, and he was great to talk to. At that point, there was no doubt, he was a fan himself.
I recommend the book written by his co-driver Tom Grimshaw, In Like a Lamb, Out like a Lion, ISBN#1-881539-02-4. Rallying at this time (1984-86) was so savage, 400, 500 even 600 hp and these cars as phenominal as they handled were really held together with a fickle magic. Seems like the 1985 season in particular was fraught with mechanical failures. Spectacular to see and hear. Buffum's car present (he was at Pikes with his son in law Paul Choiniere) on a previous year. |
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