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 New user Posts: 14 Location: Lisbon/Portugal |    And about the Unipart Rallycross Metro, anyone have more information? | ||
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New user Posts: 14 Location: Lisbon/Portugal | Nice information Martin and Adrian.  According to some information from David Sims that I found on the Austin Rover Motorsport facebook page: "It was a spaceframed rallycross car built by British Leyland Motorsport at Abingdon. 'Project Metro' was built at Abingdon in 1980, prior to the launch of the Austin Metro at that year's Motor Show, Motor Fair or whatever it was called then. It appeared at the show with the perspex bonnet shown in this photo so that the special engine could be seen. As such I am pretty sure it's the LAST ever competition car built at Abingdon - put it this way, it's one of the last pages in Bill Price's book! It featured a special 16 valve twin OHC engine, spaceframe chassis and silhouette bodywork. The works ran it for a couple of years in Unipart livery and driven by Trevor Reeves, prior to Jackie Harris using it privately across the Irish Sea. There was also a second car, although that does not have any works history as it was merely a spare car and un-used by them in competition I gather. The engine was a dramatic looking 1.5 litre unit, bored and stroked from the standard A-Plus cylinder block, but with a 16-valve twin-overhead-camshaft cylinder head, and with belt drive to the cams, looking for the world like a Bugatti, or a Ford BDA-clone. Underneath this astonishing engine, which was said to produce nearly 200bhp at 8,500rpm, was what looked like a normal Metro front-wheel-drive transmission, but it actually hid a very robust gearbox and final drive by Jack Knight Transmissions, which incorporated a limited-slip differential." | ||
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New user Posts: 14 Location: Lisbon/Portugal | Just found a new picture:  Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/parkstreetparrot/7121360535/in/photostream | ||
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Forum Admin & Insurance Guru Project Pride Posts: 5690 Location: Durham - North East UK | |||
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New user Posts: 14 Location: Lisbon/Portugal | I dont have Chris. I've already asked pictures of the one that is not being restored, but until now I had no luck.  | ||
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| Member Posts: 39 Location: Dorset, South England. | That bodykit is so nice want want-want!  | ||
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