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Car of the Day: September 18, 2015; CM's '84 Lancia Rally 037
Topic Started: Sep 17 2015, 11:54 PM (623 Views)
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Today's car of the day is CM's 1984 Lancia Rally 037

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The Lancia Rally (Tipo 151, also known as the Lancia Rally 037, Lancia 037 or Lancia-Abarth #037 from its Abarth project code 037) was a mid-engine sports car and rally car built by Lancia in the early 1980s to compete in the FIA Group B World Rally Championship. Driven by Markku Alén, Attilio Bettega, and Walter Röhrl, the car won Lancia the manufacturers' world championship in the 1983 season. It was the last rear-wheel drive car to win the WRC.


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For more information and pictures on the real car, please visit: Lancia Rally 037

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This car is the version that raced in the 1984 Tour de Corse in France. It was driven to victory by Markku Allen and Ilkka Kivimaki. This is probably my favorite CM's model. I love the real car and think it is absolutely gorgeous. Beyond that, the Martini livery is my second favorite livery behind Gulf. The painted engine is really nice, as is the deleted rear bumper that exposes all the mechanical bits.

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In 1980 Lancia began designing the 037 to comply with the then new FIA Group B regulations that allowed cars to race with relatively few homologation models being built. As the project was number 037, this eventually became the name by which the car was known. Abarth, now a part of the Lancia-Fiat family, did most of the design work, even incorporating styling cues from some of its famous race cars of the 1950s and 1960s such as a double bubble roof line. The car was born from the collaboration between Pininfarina, Abarth, Dallara and the project manager, engineer Sergio Limone. Prior to its first participation in the 1982 World Rally Championship season, 200 road-going models were built to comply with Group B regulations.

The car made its competition debut at the 1982 Rally Costa Smeralda in Italy, where two cars were entered but both retired due to gearbox issues. The 1982 season was plagued with retirements for the 037, but the new car did manage to achieve several wins including its first win at the Pace Rally in the UK. The 1983 season was considerably more successful for the 037: Lancia took the 1983 World Rally Championship Constructors' title with Germany's Walter Röhrl and Finland's Markku Alen its principal drivers, despite serious competition from the 4WD Audi Quattro. Both drivers, however, missed the final round of the series, despite Röhrl maintaining a mathematical chance of the drivers' title: such honours instead went to Audi's veteran Finn, Hannu Mikkola.

For the 1984 Constructors' title defence, Lancia introduced an Evolution 2 version of the 037 with improved engine power, but this was not enough to stem the tide of 4WD competition, losing to Audi in both 1984 championships, and again to the 4WD Peugeot 205 T16 in its final works season in 1985. Indeed, Alen collected the final 037 win, and the sole one for the E2 model, on the 1984 Tour De Corse, before it was finally pensioned off in the Martini sponsored Lancia factory rally car line-up in favour of its successor, the uniquely supercharged and turbocharged 4WD Delta S4, for the season-ending RAC Rally in Great Britain. Driver Attilio Bettega died in a 037 crash in 1985.


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Montecarlo's crazy brother. :)
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CarreraRSR
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This CM 1984 Lancia rally car model is excellent. I was at Watkins Glen 6 hr World Championship sports car race in 1980 when the Martini Lancia Beta Montecarlo placed 1st overall & 1st in the under 3 litre class five laps ahead of the first Porsche 935K3/80.
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If the goal was to create a REALLY tough week for voting...you succeeded!
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juantoo3
Sep 18 2015, 06:57 PM
If the goal was to create a REALLY tough week for voting...you succeeded!
I'm not even sure which one I'd vote for and I have them all. They are all too evenly matched that there isn't going to be a clear one to vote for. The goal was just to showcase how nice this brand is. I really think they are among the best out there and a brand that is often overlooked, so hopefully seeing these will get more people interested in them, looking for them, and adding them to their own collections.
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Now were talking. There is just something about the front of a Lancia that drives me wild.
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:toy: It must be rally car week and CM's week. :thumbup: Nice cars from a nice mfg.
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