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>>15225986
You call that a race car? THIS is a race car
>>15226238
Came here to post this.
Does this constitute "strange"?
>>15226238
>>15225986
how is that strange what kinda cars do you guys race ?
>>15226238
>>15226240
I ford and jaguar have race vans as well and there may be others
there really should be a league for them
Not really strange, but quite forgotten. The Vector M12 GT2. I've always loved the Vector M12. It looks even better than the already fantastic looking Lamborghini Diablo (on which the Vector M12 is based on)
>>15226320
Minivans aren't exactly ordinary race cars, especially not when they have F1 engines strapped into them
>>15226359
IIRC Jaguar used a Transit with the XJ220 engine just to test the engine in city scenarios without raising suspicion by driving a supercar like the XJ220 through the middle of town and not as a racing concept. Still an awesome idea
>>15226393
>>15225986
Shouldn't that thing have a hood spoiler like police cars in japan.
V O L V O
>>15226393
Lemons don't count.
>>15226799
This. Odd but actually good.
hon
>Turbocharged V6 with a 6MT built for Pike's Peak
>tfw no qt MR kei car rebodied with italian styling
I know it's not really a race car but Imma post it anyway
best thing that came out of america.
>>15226854
What the fuck is that, a circus tent on wheels?
>>15226976
It was specifically built to wear down tires, iirc. Basically a tire testing vehicle.
>>15226976
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PziuQKNq1fo
>>15226982
>>15226992
Well shit
>that engine bay
>>15227093
also note the 11th wheel in he center of vehicle
>>15226809
BOXY but good, you mean.
Now isn't a time to be sexy anyway with all these diseases running around.
>>15227105
Holy diddley, that's what that was?
If Frankenstein's monster was a car, this is it
>Old Viper that's still used today
>Probably the only Viper in the world that's converted to use LPG instead of petrol
>>15226382
why ? lot of downforce big wheelbase big engine and if you get rid of the shit inside they can even be light
>>15227221
And it gets shit on by LPG shitboxes. I'm not sure if it even finished 24 hours of Nurburgring this year.
This is...something. I kind of want it.
>>15226238
That's not a racecar you funny man. It's just a concept car with enough engineering behind it to drive around, but it can't race anywhere.
>>15225986
This, on the other hand, did.
VLN and the Nürburgring was full of weird cars until about 5 years ago.
>>15227513
the rules actually allowed for pretty much anything on four wheels
>>15227519
plus there weren't 35 GT3 cars having a 24h sprint race running you over on the Döttinger Höhe
>>15227528
although freedom comes with the great responsibility of choosing something worthwile to take on the N24.
Some didn't choose too well
>>15227513
I'm pretty sure the F1 drivetrain used in the Espace F1 actually did race, and quite successfully so.
>>15227556
Gran Turismo doesn't count.
It's an awesome car, but it was never intended for competition.
>>15227566
He means the engine was pulled from a used F1 car before it was in the concept.
>>15227566
anyway, last one. All pics are from the N24 in 2000
>>15227519
>>15227566
>>15227598
Those are interesting choices for a place that's always wet.
>>15227593
Oh I misread that, sorry.
But that's what I originally meant, it was a concept car (with a racecar engine) that had some R&D done to actually go fast (which is cool as fuck) but it was never intended to be compete.
anyway, let's post more weird racecars
GT300 Prius (Formula Nippon-V8 engine)
Red Pig 600SEL
1950 Cadillac Coupe De Ville "Petit Pataud"
1950 Cadilac Spider "Le Monstre"
>>15226827
Do want
Honda Civic Sports Tourer, the first wagon to win a BTCC race
>>15227660
>GT300 Prius
I don't think silhouettes should count.
>>15227705
STAND UP
>tfw no beater v12 jaaaaaag racecar
>>15227628
Fuckin mint.
>>15227687
>Honda Civic Sports Tourer, the first wagon to win a BTCC race
I believe you're forgetting the flying brick.
>>15226799
>>15227916
>win
>>15227916
But the Volvo didn't win shit, you fucking faggot.
>>15227917
IMSA was great. If only the geezer running it didn't have that heart operation and fuck it all up right around the same time Group C became pseudo-F1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ll_mLkVo4Q
people laughed at the idea of a diesel at le mans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUnWnx_rdps
http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/100070
>raced at 24h Spa
>>15228050
These are fucking mad
>pigfat 4wd
>everyone laughs
>wins
>everyone shits pants and starts work on designing their own AWD system
>>15227312
Looks like a Silvia S14 with the rocket bunny front end and a lift kit
Now this is my kind of thread.
>>15227628
Laughably fast compared to it's competition, but hilariously unreliable.
>>15227661
>TFW Ford, Jeep, Dodge, Nissan, Toyota & Chevrolet all had factory teams
Got to love the 80's for strange race cars.
>"What if we put the engine in the cockpit next to the driver?
>"Da Fuck?"
>"Yeah! It'll open up a fuck-ton of space for ground effects."
>"Won't the driver black out from the exhaust gasses and shit though?"
>"... FUCK."
>>15227221
Dutchfag here, there's quite a few SRT-10 Ram's running LPG around here (pretty much all of them), I'd be surprised if that systen didn't transfer right onto thr Viper.
>Litteraly Trackforum: The Car
>>15228531
>>15228150
Not to mention the engine sitting all the way in front of the front axle, which was great for weight distribution.
>>15228540
>>15228531
Wouldn't that have exteremely shitty weight distribution and a high polar moment of inertia, with all the weight on the sides?
>>15228552
The idea was that the ground effect tunnels in the center of the car would produce enough "Groundforce" to offset the extreme weight on the sides... It didn't work because the car produces so much downforce that the chassis would flex.
>"Back in my day, we built racecars out of wood! Because that's all we had! And we LIKED IT."
>>15228580
Any data/articles on it? Looks interesting, and I wknder why they didn't reinforce the chassis if it was that good at making downforce.
>>15228128
>raced at 24h Nurburgring
>>15228425
Chevy wasn't works, it was some redneck with a dealership. The Toyota was like one truck for one year, not even as good a try as Mitsubishi put in.
>posting racetrucks
>boat captcha
>>15228605
Has JLOC ever won anything?
>Take a shitty 1st-Gen Daytona Prototype
>Stuff a Lexus V8 in the back
>Make it look like a modern Group C2 car and wreck face
>>15228614
Not really. The little info I found on it states that the car tried to run in the 1983 "Can-Am II" series (which by then was a club series full of old Indycars and a few F1s wearing extra bodywork), but failed to qualify by some margin in its only showing (Mosport).
>>15228642
Nope! And we love them all the same.
>>15228498
What year/series is that one from?
>>15228657
North American Tourning Car Championship circa 1996. It featured full-on super-tourers like in Europe, but NASCAR stopped it from gaining any kind of traction.
mini's, 1000cc cars winning at bathurst and in rallying in the 60's
>>15226312
Not really. Nissan rallied 240zs in the early 70's and they're hot tickets in historic rallies today.
>>15228667
That's not the number board for NATCC, and all the Mazdas entered in any NATCC race were both the Xedos 6 (not the car you posted) and in 1997 (not 96). Try again?
>>15228721
Canadian Touring Car Championship then.
>>15228733
>GayDM
Group B Lada
>>15228740
How about a Dakar Lambo?
>>15228733
>Canadian Touring Car Championship then
Canada didn't have one then.
>>15228755
Mid 2000s probably then...? It's a homebuilt special.
>>15228150
>5 cylinder moan
>muh dick
>>15228733
can't imagine how horribly GTR performed on dirt
>>15228812
Couldn't be worse than a Mitsubishi GTO...
>>15228812
it would have been ideal for group b
>>15226976
>>15226982
>>15226992
>>15227093
>>15227105
>>15227203
Basically a 9 tonnes platform that can get up to 170 km/h thanks to a pair of 350ci chevy V8s (one for the car, one for the middle-mounted tested tire). The idea behind this was to have a real life conditions test bed for their truck tires.
It got a tad cucked by the introduction of speed limits on highways (130 km/h) which confined the "Mille-Pattes" (French for centipede) on test tracks.
Because, of course, that monster was road legal and supposed to do its testing on open roads.
>>15228820
A Group S Skyline would've been insanely awesome.
>>15227687
>everybody wants an estate touring car now
the group s audi had potential too, only 12 miles on the clock on it though, so i doubt it'll ever be shown doing its thing to the public like the group s lancia prototype.
>>15228657
1992 or 1993 I think, it was developed but never raced as a Mazda team car. It's in private hands now a races in club events.
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>>15228150
Muh carfu
>>15228876
Has this car ever run at full power with its hybrid system? Or did they just give up?
>>15228879
They gave up.
>>15228891
I remember reading about that car in ye olde Motorsport Magazine as a wee lad. It was the first mid-engined, closed-cockpit sportscar ever raced.
>>15228905
>>15228891
ewww scottish
Jaguar mkVII Monte Carlo rally winner, despite being pigfat limo.sized lump.
>>15228990
Pigfat Limo rally cars are the best though Anon.
>>15226382
Woah, thanks for the info on the XJ220 Van. When it appeared on TG I thought it was a Transit SuperVan but when I looked for the history of SuperVans I didn't find it and felt confused.
>>15226839
At one point in time this was the fastest car Honda made, this thing probably fucking flies.
>>15228812
Pic related did those dirt trail gymkhana things in Japan, and then Pikes Peak. Just a jacked up Group A car, AFAIK.
>>15228157
Ahh yes. A classic.
Formula 1 before the 2000's was amazing.
Teams thought of everything to try and top the others.
From fans to weird ass designs.
But nobody can forget this little number.
>>15230027
One more for good measure, and some film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAzgvtrxD2o
>>15228543
Audis with true Quattro (not haldex) still have the engine in front of the front axle.
Same goes for subaru symmetrical awd
>>15230120
yeah according to Röhrl they handled like shite, and got even worse with the swb quattro
The nice thing about boxers is they're so low you can put the on top of the diff, so they're not just way shorter than an inline 5 but also mounted further back
>guy named Thierry de Montcorgé
>made a bet with his friends that he would enter the Dakar Rally with a Rolls Royce
>Bodypanels were redone with lighter materials
>chassis and 4WD system of a Toyota Land Cruiser
>Engine swapped with an Chevy Smallblock
>got disqualified because of repairs taking too long halfway through the rally
>the guy still drove on and actually reached the finish line
I wonder how many race cars start because of a bet
>>15230040
>TFW Renault were going to use the P34 as a base for it's Turbocharged F1 engine, but couldn't get anyone to make tires for it
>>15227687
>>15228847
Current BTCC regs allow for all sorts of oddball cars to compete, since there's a lot of spec bits you can run what you want as long as the body has the right size and 4 or 5 doors (or it shares the 4/5 door model's roof line like the 3 door 1 series)
There were plans of building a pair of Range Rover Evoques, but RR was having none of it.
Still hoping someone will enter a compact SUV at some point, just for the heck of it
>>15228498
This was built from Xedos 6 parts in '96 or so. Never actually entered the BTCC because they didn't have the money
>>15226799
>>15227629
muh fuggin dicc
I want a race-wagon so bad
fucken MGs kek
apparently they are CKDs from china completed in the uk
>>15232786
Practically every current BTCC car could be in this thread IMO.
>>15227105
>in the center of the vehicle
>>15232804
Kind of like that, but behind the driver's compartment.
>>15232798
The BTCC is a magical place. A place were a flame spitting Toyota Avensis is a regular front runner.
It's just a repmobile, not even pretending to be premium or sporty like everything else these days. Probably one of the last cars you'd think someone would bother to race with and then there's like half a dozen of these on the grid.
You can watch all the races on itv.com btw, no sign up, from everywhere in the world
2000 Saab 9-3 viggen pikes peak
captured first place in the Open Class, set a new record for this top division and finished with the second fastest overall time of the day – 11:21.58.
Original Saab 2.0 4cyl producing 750hp and 518lbs at 42 psi.
>>15233060
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq6X1Z0Qq2w
>>15232896
Yes it is. Playing Gran Turismo 2 and watching replays of BTCC races on Speedvision during the long, cold racing offseason as a kid taught me that.
>>15233060
That's actually the car Per Eklund used to win the Unlimited Class in 2002. Awesome nonetheless.
>>15233084
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22kPfqRmShI
>>15233111
>>15233060
Pic Related is the Open class winner btw.
Car: Mitsubishi FTO
Driver: Koichi Horiuchi (Chiba-Shi, Japan)
The brothers Horiucho challenged Pikes Peak with this wild, handbuilt FTO-bodied missile originally built for the Japanese Rally series. Open the composite door and you'll notice the 550hp, 2.0L turbocharged engine and driveline sited beside the driver, to improve weight distribution and limit polar inertia. The FTO still features a custom-built, full-time, all-wheel drive with front and rear mechanical plate differential. The car was designed and built by driver, Koichi Horiuchi, who also appears to be an accomplished fabricator. Their assault on the mountain was plagued by mechanical failures: he cooked his turbocharger on Monday, his transfer case failed on Tuesday, and the transmission broke on Wednesday. After overcoming those problems, the car failed again during the Sunday race. However, Koichi was faster past the radar gun than class winner, Richelmi, at 104.4 mph to 101.9 mph.
>>15233161
I remember reading about that car. That was the year Subaru of America "Borrowed" a WRC-Spec Impreza and blitzed the Unlimited Class.
>>15233161
This reminds me, what machine climbing the Pikes Peak was in intro of some '90s movie?
The car is the #61, driven by Akihiko Nakaya and Ralph Firman, who achieved a 6th place in the GT300 ranking of the 1999 JGTC season.
Pretty much next to no info on this thing other then what some Gran Turismo 2 forums say. Apparently made 378bhp.
>>15233904
>>15233904
It was one of several AJTC GT300 cars that had Front-Wheel Drive that season.
Also, GT300 Trueno powered by a detuned GT500 motor FTW.
>>15233917
>>15233920
>justy.jpg
that's a yugo
>>15233932
Fiat 126p, actually. Built in Poland, not Yugoslavia.
>>15233920
>>15233932
>Justy
>Yugo
That's neither
It's a Fiat 126 (probably the polish derivative)
>>15233955
>>15233920
>live in communist eastern european country
>car choice is limited
>well, you gotta jump something through a forest I guess
>>15226238
>>15233868
are you thinking of Climb Dance?
that was a Peugeot 405
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PZ5J3GLSYI
Honda crz SH-AWD
No info on exact specs, but seems to have a similar electric awd system to the new nsx. Also took first place in the exhibition class at pikes peak in 2015.
>>15234026
>>15234028
>>15232657
Protons have been in BTCC for a while, this thing ran around at the back for several seasons
Guess which car this is
You're wrong, it's a Porsche Boxster
>>15228188
It is.
Needs an LS swap desu.
>>15225986
Does this count?
>>15226771
How do you fucking take reverse in that car ? Such bad visibility!
>>15228800
ayy lmao
>>15228846
What is this God machine?
ITT : Beautiful Race Cars
If it is faster, then its a racecar!
All race cars are experiments, if they lose or win at anything. Respect everyone's tries.
>>15238590
AW11 MR2 rally car
>>15238538
Retractable hardtop
Does this have to be professional racing only?
Some dude bought a turbo 89 Dodge Caravan and made it into a dragster back in the 90's. It spanked a number of cars back in the day.
![26523347310_7816382d14_k-785x500[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/XXbDLax.jpg "26523347310_7816382d14_k-785x500[1].jpg")
Not the fastest racing series, but its close stuff.
>>15239075
I had a buddy who drag raced his turbovan. Spanked the fuck out of a lot of sports cars.
>>15228150
>Stil get beaten next year by a RWD Lancia held together with duct tape, soul and passion.
>>15239818
>037
>winning Group B
good meme
>>15232299
Patrician as fuck
I think this 1984 Mercedes SL 500 did make it.
Vemac 320R, a GT300 car.
>>15239830
>Implying drivers championships matter.
>MUH LANCIA
>>15226827
It just looks so happy!
>>15230080
caught him double clutching
>>15228517
now this is pod racing
>>15228950
To really appreciate this car, you have to see it from the back (looks like a mix of washing machines and a hovercraft)
>>15228498
>>15228657
>>15228867
From 90's JTCC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCiv57LbQbU
>>15227312
>>15228188
>mod max done nicely
This thing ran in the japanese championship for a couple of races, non-turbo, rwd, 100% uncompetetive.
>>15227312
Is that a Silvia mustang?
>>15227629
I bet the extra weight in the back helps with the overhanging engine in the front.
>>15238492
kek
>>15227044
i need this in my life
