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Rally Heroes - Chrysler Avenger / Lotus Sunbeam - Great British Car Share series 3

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When the Hillman Avenger Tiger first broke cover on the 1973 Donegal Rally, the Rootes Group announced its arrival on the rally stages in a flash of bright colours, stripes and spoilers.
The Avenger would only be the start of the story though. If the company wanted to challenge Ford for rally supremacy, it needed the Avenger to evolve into something even more fiery.
The Talbot Lotus Sunbeam had a job to do, and with some of the biggest names in rallying emblazoned on the front wings, it really meant business!
Join ‪@Sarah-CrabbersCrabtree‬ and Paul Woodford for a blast from the past, as they chart one of British rallying’s most astonishing fairytales from behind the wheel of a Chrysler Avenger.
Series 3 of the Great British Car Share tells the stories of some of the most iconic rally car heroes that have ever driven our roads.
‘Rally Heroes’ starts here! 📺
[Thanks to ⁠‪@SpecialStage‬ for the rally footage]

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24 авг 2024

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Комментарии : 14

@ArtCarFunky 7 месяцев назад

As well as being a rally car, Bernard Unett won the British Saloon Car Championship (now the BTCC) 3 times in 1974, 1976 & 1977, in an Avenger 🙂👍

@iandraper32 4 месяца назад

Just found this , " when great Britain was great " Good to see you Sarah , we wondered where you'd gone ??!! . My dad had an avenger and various rootes group cars . Consequently i iwn two lotus sunbeams ( one for 35 years ) and two superminx estates , which was my fave of dads cars .... More please ! Ps , u forgot to mention Russell Brookes RIP . Cheers 🥂

@CortinasAndClassics 7 месяцев назад

My dad had an ex Police Hillman Avenger in in blue, with red vinyl seats. I loved that car with it's hockey stick tail lights.

@misspoppy1968 7 месяцев назад

Was disappointed when this ended i wanted more 😂😂

@peterwallwork4778 7 месяцев назад

Makes me realise what a old git I’m becoming remember these car’s first coming out I was a paper boy at the time and kept asking dad to buy one

@michaeljinks980 6 месяцев назад

They did make a number of Avenger estates with Lotus engines.

@Pandomar1 3 месяца назад

Avenger was a popular and succesfull rallycar in Finlans especially in groups 1 and 2. In Finland it was always Sunbeam Avenger

@aKiwiJoKeR 7 месяцев назад

Here come the Avenger Nerds! (Tigers were all 1500's hah

@sqweki2008 7 месяцев назад

Great video as always, but could I make one, sorry two complaints, one stop doing the American thing if having the backing music so load that I have to turn on subtitles (I wear two hearing aids) & that they didn’t drive a sunbeam rally car 😕

@amenadiel4060 Месяц назад

There were a version in iran called Paykan. It was famous in the country for nearly 40 years which im not joking. U can look it up because it was considered the best car in iran for the years it was produced

@CathodeRayNipplez 7 месяцев назад

😀

@ianpawson1356 7 месяцев назад

What a load of rubbish, i have never seen a sunbeam lotus flame throwing, and Peugeot Talbot didnt buy Chrysler, Chrysler Talbot was bought by Peugeot

@DL-ls5sy 6 месяцев назад

PSA (Peugeot Citroën) bought Chrysler UK, Chrysler France (=Simca) and Chrysler Spain. they gave the name "Talbot" for these 3 things (not for the famous Lord John Talbot, 1 st Earl of Shewsbury, dead in 1453, near Bordeaux) Psa closed Linwood factory, in Scotland, where Sunbeam cars were made. In France, they killed Simca and the Poissy factory made only Peugeot cars and no Simca cars any more. They closed also the factory in Spain. So PSA bought these factories to do nothing at all with it. Just for the pleasure to throw money away ! Shameful ! Silly pigs ! (ps : sorry for my english, I am french)

@nealebaigent2938 4 месяца назад

Obviously don’t know what the shift quality is like in that particular Avenger, but in general Avenger’s had great transmissions, as did most Rootes products.