Always thought these looked fantastic.

Unfortunately, they're now starting to fall into the anoraks only category with most people never having heard of them.
Clubmans as a formula is pretty low level these days, I understand though.

What a car though.

http://www.racecarsdirect.com/listing/42690/vision_91_1.html

the side view of the back looks like a panoz. cool look

Always liked the club mans cars.

Like a Panoz only predates is by a long distance.

1985-86 would be when these first came out, 1986 I think.

i think we're all anoraks aren't we??

Yes we are lovely car! - whatever happened to Clubman racing? they are/were proper race cars and 25 years ago most race meetings were packed with Clubman races, now you just really only see them hillclimbing or sprinting, I know there is a BARC class for them but only about 20 people seem to take part - there must be hundreds of them rotting away in peoples garages

[Edited on 27/5/12 by D Beddows]

They were and remain magnificent.

One of my favourite theories is based on watching Clubmans cars.

The B cars had an FF1600 engine and no airbox and sounded pretty bleeehhh....
The 'A' cars had 1700 xflows, steel bottom ends, huge valves, twin 45s, and a big forward facing airbox.

These sounded fecking mega, especially when they were headed right towards you.
A bit like the E30 M3 with S14 engine in terms of focused induction noise.

A metallic bark that would raise the dead.

Lovely.

Since I first heard that sound, a proper racing car has to have proper focused attnetion grabbing induction noise.