There's a great interview with Russell Brookes floating around somewhere online where he talks about this, how lucky he was to find a company who signed up to sponsor him for a few rallies and ended up backing him for 30-odd years. They're not only still going, which I didn't know, they're actually still sponsoring Chris Ingram in R5 rallying today.
Mikkola could have won in the Celica if not for the carby fluffing problem he had the entire event, he was only 2 minutes behind at the end after 5 days. Of course had he been able to run the Corolla instead of the heavy Celica that both he and Ove Andersson wanted (Mikkola won the 1975 Thousand Lakes Rally in a Corolla for example), it would have been a serious challenger to the Escorts all year round, but Japan said no, the Celica is our sports car ...
The best years in rally was abround 1975-1986 in my opinion since you had the group 4 like Mk2 escort, Triumph TR7, Stratos etc and then the group B cars from 1982-1986.
El TR 7 V8 salio antes del 78 en USA..En 2010 se vendia en Paris el auto que uso Tony Pond en el RAC Rally 77: Título: TRIUMPH TR7 V8 Usine, Ex Usine, ex de Tony Pond - 1977 Fecha: 1977 Categoría: Clásicos & Sport Cars Motor: Ocho cilindros 90 ° antes, longitudinal, Rover original, calibre y carrera: 89 mm x 71,1 mm, Capacidad: 3528 cm3 Precio 60000 euros
@1:07 and onwards, does anyone know what engine that Celica had on it? I highly doubt it's an R-series engine but I've been surprised like that before.
