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Gallery: Group 5 demo – the wildest sports racing cars?

21st March 2018
Adam Wilkins

With rules that required only the bonnet, roof and doors to remain stock, the Group 5 Special Production Cars regulations of 1976 to 1982 made for some cartoonishly styled racing cars.

There was nothing in the rules to state that headlights needed to remain at the same height as showroom counterparts, so we had the flatnose of the Porsche 935. Overall width was governed, but so generously that wheelarch extensions took styling to the extreme. Just how wild would the Zakspeed Capri look next to an Essex boy racer's 2.8i? And there there were the uncompromising chin spoliers and wings to complete the look.

Group 5 cars were recognisible, yet taken to the extreme at the same time. It made for a spectacular high speed demonstration at Members' Meeting, and this gallery captures the action.

Photography by Tom Shaxson and Peter Summers

  • 76MM

  • Members Meeting

  • Group 5

  • 2018

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