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The first ever twin engine rally/race car to exist! This is the Twin Engine Volkswagen Scirocco GTI built in the 1980s for Rally Circuits by Kim Mathers. It has two 1.8 Supercharged VW engines, it can run RWD, FWD, or AWD like the Corsa! It was built because at the time, the Audi Quattro was just released with the AWD system, but obviously was very expensive, so Kim thought outside the box and built this machine to get a cheap way of getting AWD and saying it worked well would be an understatement!
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@garyhost354 Год назад

Phwooooooar 9:23 look at that ant eater.

@ian1gail Год назад

Absolutely brilliant car. What Kim fails to mention is he could actually drive! One off only a few to ever pass me. I notice Yvonne's water cooled brake reservoir has gone. Happy days. Thanks for posting this.

@tonylyon1970 Год назад

Kim's always been a legend to me & a good friend over the years servicing all my cars impeccably! I'm so glad that I got the privilege to lay the original livery on the Scirocco all them years back when I started working for a small sign company after leaving school. It still looks as good today as when I first encountered it. Hats off to you Kim.

@granada012000 Год назад

Don't you just love listening to someone with so much experience and knowledge. Brilliant 👍

@spsciroccomk2 Год назад

Wicked! I have had my scirocco for 23 years now... and I didn't know about this one. Thanks for the video.

@greenbunnyinabongo7299 Год назад

Scirocco looks to be the first to have self closing boot back in 1984 🥳

@ianmorgan6632 Год назад

the passion in this man's voice ... early twin engined legend ... thank you

@essbee8028 Год назад

I could listen to the old boy all day Some interesting stories he has to tell 😎😎

@chronicawareness9986 Год назад

this is 100% cooler then anyone with a ferrari or lambo

@davidmolyneaux5062 Год назад

Remember it well in the 80's, Kym and Yvonne, THE team to beat on the ANWCC rallies and beyond. Great engineering and great driving/navigating. ♥

@Speedscholars Год назад

Nothing better than seeing your passion and respect for a obviously very intelligent bloke. Best video yet!

@Leedslad31 Год назад

I remember this car well, Adam! Great to see it looking so good again after all these years, and great to see Kim looking so well, too. The last time I saw the Scirocco was in the mid to late '80s on a rally at (I think) Melbourne or Manby airfield in East Yorkshire. Kim and Yvonne were competing against some very quick cars (Opel Manta 400, Grp 4 Escorts etc, etc) but the twin engined VW was uncatchable. Take care and speak soon 🙂

@rickydub6950 Год назад

Master piece of engineering 👏

@Capriman28 Год назад

I had the pleasure of watching Kim racing in single seaters back in the 70’s and 80’s as well as seeing him rally this at Oulton Park. Met him again last year at Oulton. Great guy, great driver 👏👏

@RobertSmith-rp7fd Год назад

Christ I bet he felt that at 14:47 took it like a champ mind

@TheHeeeliX Год назад

What an absolute legend! I always toyed around with the idea of replicating the VW BiMotor Scirocco Concept and he did it 30 years ago already. Absolutly brilliant madman!

@micktuck5377 11 месяцев назад

Fantastic car. I’ve seen it rallying at Donnington park stage rally 3rd July 1988 amazing! I have photos

@johnrowell942 Год назад

That cars engine sounds awesome. Great to see how he sorted bump steer in the rear. glad he keeped it a restored it, like it was in the 80's. Legion 👍💯

@allanweston7730 Год назад

Had the pleasure of meeting this guy at Goodwood this year one of the most interesting guys ever spoken too

@martinfahrni5677 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for a great presentation of a unique car and owner, love the gesture with the door, Cheers 👍👀🇨🇭😍

@512Berlinetta Год назад

Loved that car! Used to have a 2nd gen Scirocco street and a race car! It was a FWD racecar only, but with sponsorship from Pepsi we won our class in time trials, sprint and endurance races. This brought back many memories but this twin engine is just bonkers! Ours had 121 hp at the wheel. Can't imagine how nuts these cars will be with two engines and 400 hp! Thank you for the post 🖤💛❤

@itsnotmeitshim Год назад

Wow, there's a blast from the past. I watched this car at Aintree many times. Never saw Kim though...what a character.

@sup3rbird Год назад

It's real enthusiasts like this that made rallying as entertaining and popular as it is today. He's the real deal and I could listen to him talk all day long p.s. the car is absolutely beautiful and they banned it because it was better than theirs; is that how "racing improves the breed"?

@clivewilson4678 Год назад

Sadly money has and always will TALK

@SpencerIsAFunnyOnion Год назад

A lot like modern F1 🙄

@darrenmclean7454 Год назад

What a lovely fella, Have heard about this over the years and seen static photo's but never an in depth review. Absolutely fantastic

@christophecamus8410 Год назад

Great rally cars, it deserves to be more famous and more recognition

@luchadorito Год назад

I had the same idea a couple months ago...turns out, not only has it been done but it has been done brilliantly :D

@kevincleaver73 Год назад

I was lucky enough to spend my apprenticeship at the VW main dealer down the road from Kim's House. I along with my mentor Ian Birch (Birchy) spent many days at Kim's. This is what inspired Ian to build BIG BUB. Hopefully Ian will build another soon 🙏

@waynemangan9925 Год назад

41" Stateside. I love hearing stories about rally and the folks who built their own competitive cars without a big budget. Great guy and fascinating build. Also love the graphics on the car

@brianhaygood183 Год назад

Just awesome. I had heard about the factory twins, and I know a guy in the US who threw a crude one together and got it to work; I think with an auto in the front, too. This done back in the day and killing the competition is really great. Great work, Kim.

@johntechwriter Год назад

This car is along the lines of what me and my fellow motorhead buddies would fantasize about over beers back in the day. But this guy actually DID it! Honour is due.

@hoppygti Год назад

Loved this car, saw it on events all the time in the eighties. Kim came to Kirby Lonsdale MC and gave a talk about it, drove it too Melling Hall. I can remember studying it in the carpark. In a conversation that night he said his wife sometimes went shopping in it. Great car and driver.

@karlstamper9243 Год назад

What a great old school footage of a basic man in his garage making history with a cracking 2 engined car !

@jason123803 Год назад

Remember this car at Flookburgh stages in the late 80s…. Awesome car and the guy could drive it

@robin_marriott Год назад

Awesome to see another twin engined story being told. Loving these videos Adam.

@stutraverse4999 Год назад

I remember this car as a kid , I lived at the bottom of this street

@TwinEngineCorsa Год назад

Wow that’s brilliant. So do you remember the F1 cars in his workshop.

@denseljosephs9500 Год назад

Love Scirocco,s owned 3 ,2 Gtis and I owned 3 mk1 Golf Gtis always loved VW s twin engine Scirocco do you remember the advert they had in a lot of magazines in the late 80s. Loving the content mate especially the quattro build.

@VX220ontrack Год назад

What a legend 🙌 amazing story!

@andydarbo7450 Год назад

what a good video , i wondered what happend to this car i remember it winning at blackpool airfield back in the day i allways wondered about the inns and outs of this car and you answered everything ,thanks

@jamie66916691 Год назад

I know this car very well. I used to work at Barras garages running a 2.6 Vauxhall hrs. Kims car was the fastest car off the line I’ve ever seen.

@lanzodave Год назад

Ive been in that garage many times. Would love to see the Lotus Sunbeam, he used to turn up to rallies in the car with his slicks in the boot, Yvonne always made a cup of tea whilst sitting at the kitchen table next to a gearbox........

@radiocontrolcardevelopment7329 Год назад

This car is really special

@nigelpez5056 Год назад

It’s great that this survived when there was a time it was obsolete, credit to the man! It’s got a very Dibnah vibe. lovely stuff!

@Silverback0687 Год назад

Brilliant stuff. Best analogy I heard to describe a twin engined car was a guy who's T/E Mk1 golf was featured in Perfromance VW magazine some years ago. He had differing power plants and described like having a bloke pulling at the front and a bigger bloke pushing from the rear, it all made the car go and two of them meant it went faster!

@Jpmpmpm Год назад

Great classic nore videos like this

@sicks6six Год назад

I remember looking over a metro 6R4 group B car with 2 engines at a car dealership back in the day, it was fast, very fast according to the description card in the window, I was surprised to learn that in 1965 Austin built the twini, 2 engines shoehorned into a standard mini chassis, one in the boot and one in the usual place, the TWINI. . wish group B would be brought back and with it the crowds, that would encourage manufacturers to pump in more cash again...

@donaldshidal851 7 месяцев назад

blower on CIS! Very cool!

@ATomRileyA Год назад

Great video, i had a vague memories of this car from somewhere so great to hear from the man himself and the stories. Love these kinds of outside of the box thinking projects. Thanks for making the video. Would love to see what happened to the dubsport twin engine cars also.

@TwinEngineCorsa Год назад

I have tracked all of them down. BIG DUB and UFO are in a private collection museum being looked after but not used. The third red one is still alive an hopefully being filmed soon.

@chadderton Год назад

@@TwinEngineCorsa I remember the blue Rallye Golf and blue Mk3 Golf with twin VR6s, and the green Mk1 with twin 16Vs on carbs, and the orange Mk1 with a VR6 turbo in the rear. All mad cars.

@havocmwf Год назад

Love the old-style Scirocco. I had one back in the early 80's. a TS version, so a bit lame power-wise but great down twisty roads.

@MitchellPetersonJr Год назад

That's awesome he gave you the door.

@Rickbryant79 Год назад

Amazing car and overview, wow he's knowledge too.

@happysnapper6132 4 месяца назад

This car came in our garage for scrutineering approx 87 for a local rally.

@christophecamus3295 6 месяцев назад

Very interesting car, great video 👍 ❤❤❤

@allenschmitz9644 Год назад

Wow, any one have a 2002 rally BMW out there! This is so cool, this is a rare survivor.

@loops01 Год назад

Seems a great guy.. :) Good video mate.!!

@robertgee8292 Год назад

I remember it well I was in the same championship in 86 in a Lotus sunbeam it just blew us all away 👍

@tefer1982 Год назад

Absolutely fascinating video. 👏

@smiththers2 8 месяцев назад

i had always wondered what it'd be like to have a dual engine car... maybe someday ill build one with a corolla, and just keep it twin automatic. ohhhh to dream.....

@user-dg7sy8cz3b Год назад

I remember one of these, or a Golf, at the Pikes Peak hill climb in 1985. Crazy sounding beast.

@fickyrisher Год назад

Love this! Currently watching the F1 and wishing Group B was still alive!

@TheBlaert Год назад

I remember seeing a couple of magazine articles on this car many years ago. There were a couple of factory built twin engined MK2 Golfs built for the Pikes Peak Hillclimb from memory too

@rohanmills8509 Год назад

I could watch this guy all day

@charlies418 Год назад

It reminds me of the question "What's the difference between 2WD and 4WD?". The answer was "With 4WD you don't slow down at roundabouts!".

@daveshongkongchinachannel Год назад

Great video and wonderful to hear this guy talk about his experiences from back in the day.

@Hfd678vcdg 8 месяцев назад

oh to spend an afternoon with Kim

@KJ-vp5fn Год назад

Beautiful car

@MyZxcvb12 Год назад

Food old boy for giving you that door thanks for the video.

@NerdInMotion23 Год назад

Really cool car fantastic engineering.

@paulprior3775 Год назад

Lovely car , clever bloke too 👍

@Conservator. Год назад

Thoroughly liked the video. Thanks!

@syncrosimon Год назад

I remember this car concept from the early eighties, didn’t know it existed. Had a mk2 on a G plate.

@charlies418 Год назад

Many thanks for doing this video - it would be great to do a video of a drive on the road. This reminds me of a 0-60 event at Silverstone. This old Vauxhall Nova pulled up to the line at which point I switched my camera off. That car did 0-60 in 2.8s! It turns out it had two turbo-charged 2.5L engines in it and the owner said it wasn't running 100%.

@1977crusher Год назад

14:47 there's a boot upside your head, there's a boot upside your head.

@jameshendrix8217 Год назад

wow twin 8v's I was expecting twin 16vs. My first vw cars were 8v's easy to work on and relatively reliable, unlike the new vw crap.

@va2dalpou Год назад

There's a guy in alberta who put together a rear W8 and a front Vr6 in a mk4 jetta. 14 cylinders jetta. : )

@christophesalome4258 Год назад

Génial, magnifique système ! Très beau véhicule ! 👍👌😉👋

@craigbourne4792 Год назад

brings back a lot of memory's seeing it at manby and oulton park ;0

@DannyRoberts-l8i 4 месяца назад

Unbelievable. Makes you proud to be british !!

@johnbarr6873 Год назад

Don’t make people like this no more Legend

@DJBillionator Год назад

Hearing an old Englishman talk about car specifics is just absolute gold!

@davidlee4966 Год назад

I remember seeing the car at the Astra stages on August bank holiday 19 80 something, remember it being quick

@johnbarr6873 Год назад

Remember seeing it run on new Brighton prom

@houdini8o8 Год назад

when your car gets banned... LEGEND!

@NwdesignCo Год назад

Great video and Kim is a great local legend.

@dingjs1969 Год назад

Wonderful machine, twin engine always interested me since the GT game with the Suzuki and of coarse dubsport golfs in the max power day, glad its still around and looking fantastic.

@Blackberries.86 Год назад

2 engines in a car is the correct amount of engines in a car 👍🏻🍻

@devil2jz500 Год назад

21:29 I am building a mid engine K series turbo 1970 Honda z600 (Japanese mini Cooper) and I did the same thing with my rear steering knuckle, I made a linkage (to hold the rear knuckle straight) that bolts into the control arm to prevent bump steering.

@glenhallworth2966 Год назад

Remember this from some off the meetings we yoused to race at

@ChoppersModelworks Год назад

Great interview, been wondering about this car sense my dad and i read about it back in the day. We always wondered how a turbo diesel setup would run as the fuel tanks would be easier to mount and maybe be smaller.

@clivewilson4678 Год назад

Why do you sat that?

@thunderdick6117 Год назад

What a treat isn't it to meet a man like that . He's a wealth of knowledge just as all those older fellas are . When it comes to modern racing people just throw money at the problem. The older guys weren't working with huge budgets so they figured things out on the cheap .

@leesykes Год назад

What a clever man

@thatcrazyguyjay Год назад

I was Borne in 1987 lol. Nice rally car 😮

@chesspiece81 Год назад

I'm blown away with the content and technical knowledge of the channel. Please work on the camerawork and POV shots. It's almost like watching a hidden camera/undercover show. Other than that it's great.

@kyrkbymannen Год назад

15:10 I was wearing headphones and looked if my wife was snoring, but she wasn’t, when I put the headphones on again I discovered that the cameraman was snoring.

@robertaupton3221 Год назад

Saw it at Aintree back in the day!

@readyreckoner1592 Год назад

Man I'm trying to throw a case of beer in that Volkswagen and go rip around. Tell you what man.

@devil2jz500 Год назад

He looks like an older Chip Foose.

@rosco4659 Год назад

What a machine! Does anyone remember the green twin engine escort pickup that was in Max Power all them years ago, wonder what happened to that thing?