Jimmy Mcrae | Rallying with the Vauxhall Chevette

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  • Опубликовано: 27 мар 2020
  • This wonderful archive film follows rally legend Jimmy McRae and his exploits with Dealer Team Vauxhall(DTV), driving the awesome Vauxhall Chevette. The film joins Jimmy as the season is drawing to a close with just the Bovis National rally - the final round of the Castrol Autosport Rally championship - left to go.
    Featuring footage from the Mintex Rally, the Circuit of Ireland, the Welsh rally, the Scottish rally, the Manx Trophy International Championship Rally and the Ulster Rally, McRae races against many European champions and famous rally drivers including his team mate Pentti Airikkala, Hannu Mikkola, George Hill, Mike Jackson, Malcolm Wilson, David Jones and Arnie Garvick. If you're a rally nut and petrolhead at heart then you'll love watching this retro special!
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Комментарии • 67

  • @joaovitorsilvagohl682
    @joaovitorsilvagohl682 3 года назад +38

    Chevettes are still strong here on Brazil.

    • @hbtm2951
      @hbtm2951 3 года назад +7

      Nunca quis um até descobrir essa doença chamada "Rally".

    • @user-mx5gr1yd6u
      @user-mx5gr1yd6u 7 месяцев назад

      ノスタルジックな映像を見る機会をくれてありがとう😉👍️🎶

    • @stefgarvie6427
      @stefgarvie6427 6 месяцев назад

      Just love these video clips the chevette looks awesome

  • @pjackowspa
    @pjackowspa Год назад +10

    Back in the day early one morning, I saw two Bedford vans with a Chevette apiece on trailers heading out of Woodhall Spa towards Cadwell Park. They were tarmac testing before the Circuit of Ireland. A friend and I skipped off work and went to watch. After a few laps, Penti Arikala and Jimmy McRae returned to the pits to wait some new springs that were due to arrive. I asked McRae if he would take us round and he said yeah sure. We had to wait quite awhile, but both of us got a trip of a lifetime around the track.Arikala had a red Ferrari at the time and he’d trodden in a puddle so he put his socks and shoes on the vents on the dashboard and drove McRae sideways round the Cadwell track trying to dry his shoes and socks . I also then managed to roll my Ford Escort into a hedge at the bottom of the hill on leaving the track!

    • @robair67
      @robair67 8 месяцев назад +3

      Wonderful memories!!! Thanks for sharing that, sir.

  • @dr.t.
    @dr.t. 3 года назад +26

    Total respect between two drivers back in the good old days.

  • @jerrythegaffer
    @jerrythegaffer 5 месяцев назад +3

    RIP Brooksie you were Awesome.

  • @kramnam4716
    @kramnam4716 2 месяца назад +1

    How lovely what kindness and respect with how they talked about each other

  • @poppops62
    @poppops62 4 года назад +18

    I had a Chevette HS back in the early 80s, engine built by blydenstein in Shepreth. Awesome rally car. Had to be sold when I got married, apparently Mrs S wanted a house to live in. Still married but wish I still had the car as well!

    • @pauldashwood2897
      @pauldashwood2897 3 года назад +2

      Anthony Smith I had one back in 93 ....great car used to go up Chelsea cruise in it ...ha great days

    • @bugattieb110ss
      @bugattieb110ss 3 года назад

      Selfish bitch! Lol.

    • @garethowen6701
      @garethowen6701 2 года назад +2

      Great little cars. I had 3 over the years. And again wish I still had any one of them now. Lol

  • @caeserromero3013
    @caeserromero3013 Год назад +5

    The Talbot Sunbeam driver nearly stacks it at 2:28. Nice recovery, just finished sending that text in the nick of time 😂

    • @robair67
      @robair67 8 месяцев назад +1

      😁

  • @TheAsa1972
    @TheAsa1972 4 года назад +39

    2:26 how he pulled himself out of that is good driving

    • @Zerofightervi
      @Zerofightervi 4 года назад +5

      Bloody hell that was a hell of a save.

    • @gavinivers8941
      @gavinivers8941 2 года назад +3

      Only he and his drycleaner will know how scared he was...lol

    • @rovercoupe7104
      @rovercoupe7104 2 года назад

      I have seen such terrifying driving. M.

    • @andyc734
      @andyc734 Год назад

      Lucky for the cars parked at the side. Would have been bloody nasty that. 😬

  • @caeserromero3013
    @caeserromero3013 Год назад +3

    My old Nan had a Chevette and she drove it like that...all round Kingston and Ham....she personified the phrase: "Drive it like you've just stolen it," 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @Outamyhead
    @Outamyhead 6 месяцев назад +2

    I was given my great Granddad's 1978 Chavette after he passed away, it wasn't a bad car slightly fussy about sub zero cold starts but rust was eating that car quicker than I could get it fixed.

  • @sparky337
    @sparky337 2 года назад +2

    Great rallying with the best in the good old days !

  • @melvyncox3361
    @melvyncox3361 8 месяцев назад +2

    Good old days!

  • @mrdunns3338
    @mrdunns3338 2 года назад +4

    Saw many of these cars in the 70s and into the 80s when helping to run various events.
    Now worth a fortune, particularly anything with a works history, or driven by well known figures. Not many of them left now from that era, probably Jimmy the best known, but one or two of the auld yins pop up on an entry list north of the Eng/Sco border.

  • @TheLRider
    @TheLRider 3 года назад +2

    I was there ha, ha. And many other years as well; absolutely fabulous rally. Love the IOM..

  • @rickydub6950
    @rickydub6950 2 года назад +4

    Amazing footage, thanks for posting 👍🙂

  • @twincamGT
    @twincamGT 3 года назад +10

    My god that sunbeam was lucky they never wiped out they were flat out he held it so well. it would not have been pretty if he left the road

  • @madmaniacloony
    @madmaniacloony 3 года назад +4

    I'm just going to go that wee bit faster, brilliant!

  • @MikeDuffy-fp4zy
    @MikeDuffy-fp4zy 6 месяцев назад

    Brilliant to watch back then, sadly I don't think we really knew what we were watching was so very good. Exceptional cars, drivers and days!. There was a buzz on the Ilse of Man when the International Rally Circus arrived, nothing like that now, shame really. This years Roger Albert Clark does seem to have caused a strange stirring though, or is it just in me?

  • @georgejacob3162
    @georgejacob3162 3 года назад +5

    2:11. Russell's Escort GVX489T is still taxed and MOT'd!

  • @elbecko7969
    @elbecko7969 3 года назад +29

    I've never fully understood the appeal of the Golf GTi, especially when there were hairy-chested, snarling, big-bollocked, dirty, nasty rwd cars like these

    • @newforestroadwarrior
      @newforestroadwarrior 3 года назад

      No idea what you mean by that in relation to this video, as there isn't a Golf anywhere in it.

    • @elbecko7969
      @elbecko7969 3 года назад +4

      @@newforestroadwarrior Wtf?? These cars are forerunners to the "hot hatch", so there's the connection. There were musclecars before the Pontiac GTO, so those that came before the GTO deserve to be footnotes at the very least. There's no GTO in this video either, but it doesn't stop me mentioning it, along with pop socks, sandwiches, Tony Green and plywood figurines.

    • @andrewbrough457
      @andrewbrough457 3 года назад +1

      Absolutely

    • @steveluckhurst2350
      @steveluckhurst2350 3 года назад

      @@elbecko7969 and flumps. Flumps deserve a mention!

    • @steveluckhurst2350
      @steveluckhurst2350 3 года назад +5

      @@elbecko7969 With regard to the Golf Gti. Even the Sunbeam Ti or the Toyota starlet were preferable.

  • @sardengineering
    @sardengineering 4 года назад

    ❤️ forever a satisfied customer 🙏🏼

  • @imarcus1973
    @imarcus1973 3 года назад +8

    And on the country lanes of Britain, the Chevette vs Escort battle went on until rust took over... and ended the game.

  • @deancrisp3596
    @deancrisp3596 7 месяцев назад +1

    How did he save that Talbot with it's arse bouncing around in the air amazing control

  • @gerrymontgomery9964
    @gerrymontgomery9964 7 месяцев назад

    Amazing car the chevette ,I remember at the circuit of Ireland rally when Pentti Arrikilla, in the chevette, and Ari Vatinen in the escort, I think Ari won the rally by less than five seconds

  • @twinpipe5991
    @twinpipe5991 3 года назад +2

    For a few minutes there, I lost myself in normality.

  • @thetreblerebel
    @thetreblerebel 3 года назад +4

    The Chevette looks very mean in Rally spec..

  • @toon9359
    @toon9359 16 дней назад

    No no Colin that’s not right you do it like this

  • @BobyTomara
    @BobyTomara 3 года назад +2

    💪😉

  • @danross8565
    @danross8565 4 года назад +1

    Will this be released on DVD please

    • @steveluckhurst2350
      @steveluckhurst2350 3 года назад

      looking at the watermark, I'm inclined to believe that it was, but a long time ago!

  • @sporkfindus4777
    @sporkfindus4777 11 месяцев назад

    Gentlemen

  • @rovercoupe7104
    @rovercoupe7104 2 года назад +1

    Looks scary. M.

  • @NigelRCharman
    @NigelRCharman Месяц назад

    Does anyone know why the chevettes and escorts had such soft rear suspension?

  • @Stray1One
    @Stray1One Год назад

    I had 3 chevettes

  • @SimonWallwork
    @SimonWallwork Месяц назад

    I had an HS. HMS109S where are you now?

  • @harshithsadhana7475
    @harshithsadhana7475 4 года назад +1

    more like this bro, do you have ferrari f40 stuff

  • @hybridAbsol
    @hybridAbsol 4 года назад +8

    European GM and FORD cars are always better

    • @elbecko7969
      @elbecko7969 3 года назад +3

      And the Sunbeam is Chrysler's European offering, hence the Mopar sponsorship

    • @donswier
      @donswier Год назад

      As an American, I can confirm😄.
      Look up "Grosse Pointe Myopians"

  • @caeserromero3013
    @caeserromero3013 Год назад +1

    I liked that song he did in '74
    ruclips.net/video/gutE8I0Tk3E/видео.html

  • @MrAaronb400
    @MrAaronb400 8 месяцев назад

    Someone made a comment once saying a golf r would be quicker than a group b rwd and i know this isnt even group b.
    Not quite sure what planet that person was on but a golf r wouldn't be anywhere near with the weight difference and even the modern advances It has.

  • @thetreblerebel
    @thetreblerebel 3 года назад

    You mean a Chevy Chevette?? Lol

    • @WowHaru_
      @WowHaru_ 3 года назад +3

      the chevette has a long names around the world
      Like Chevy Chevette
      Chevrolet Chevette (On Brazil)
      Vauxhaull Chevette (On Australia)
      Opel Kadett C (Europe)
      GMC Chevette (Argentina)
      Opel K130
      Isuzu Gemini (Japan)
      Isuzu Chevette and ETC...