[jurhoonee]

there is apparently a museum at the VW factory in Uitenhage , i have not seen it myself!! i do intend going to have a look when i take part in the Volkswagen rally later on in the year.

I remember very well seeing the Quattro many years ago, nothing could give one gooseflesh more than hearing that monster in the Sabie forests in the middle of the night, it was something very special!!!

[libertiespana]

Yeah there is a S1 Quattro in that museum apparently, although I haven't seen it myself, but my father has. The pic is the right car, but the wrong colour scheme for SA, so not sure where that one cames from. Looks a like a early Pikes Peak colour scheme, although I don't know, just guessing.

[Alexeryy]

Ah, the 1992 Castrol International Rally! Started in Emerlo, SA and went into Swaziland.

The top car is Serge Damseaux / Vito Bonafede and its a Toyota Conquest. All these cars were our "class A" cars, meaning basically what the FIA Group S rules should have been and what World Rally Cars became, take a normal 2wd car and add 4wd to it and any engine from the manufacturer family, provided it was up to 2000cc.

The middle one is Sarel van der Merwe / Franz Boshoff in a Ford Laser. The only left-hand-drive car we had at the time. Probably the most powerful car in the field but it had the least advanced 4wd transmission so it struggled a bit. Still won enough rallies.

The bottom one is a Nissan Sentra Coupe. Being No. 8 it is the Hannes Grobler / Douglas Judd version. A very quick car in its time. So correct for fly ac then.

If memory serves me well, Serge hit trouble in the beginning and Hannes lead most of the event, before Serge overhauled him near the end. Actually I think they had a massive battle for the lead throughout the 3 days cos every time Serge caught up he lost time again with mechanical problems or punctures. I know I have all the stage times and results from this event at my parents place, as I did for most of the rallies around that time (mid 90's).

That was also the first time that international guys were allowed back onto our events following the apartheid era, so thats a pretty significant event. I remember Robbie Head coming out for it in a Ford Sierra Cosworth 4x4.

Thouht it might be interesting to you, but Serge's Ex Conquest is actually owned by someone Namibia. It's been completely restored over several years and is very close to completion where it will be reumited with Serge for a final time and then go into storage. As for the Lasers, both of them are in Namibia, one still running with a seriously quick cosworth motor and the othe, unfortunately, just a shell. There are quite a few historical South African Rally cars that made their whey to Namibia and still exsist. Some competeing, some just heaps of scrap

[libertiespana]

Interesting, someone on Facebook was asking where all the old 4wd cars had gone the other day.