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The Talbot Avenger was only called Talbot in its last production days. It was more commonly known as a Hillman Avenger or in its sporty versions a Sunbeam Avenger. But soon after the car arrived, Hillman was in trouble. They received outside assistence, which lead to this car being called Chrysler Avenger. But this didn't work either and eventually Peugeot took ownership and renamed that car a Talbot Avenger. All this mess nicely underlines what the Avenger's main problem was. It was a hell of an amazing car but politics and, more even, financial trouble meant the car was never really run in a full house works effort. There were occasions that Hillman actually entered a group 2 (or sometimes a group 4, which however is totally identical to this group 2 car except for a stronger but unreliable BRM tuned engine) Avenger with Andrew Cowan, Colin Malkin or Chris Sclater. However this very unfortunately stayed the exception. Mind you, Andrew Cowan won an ultra long Rally NZ 1976, going from Auckland, North Island to Christchurch, South Island, with a group2 Avenger. Nevertheless many people have discovered how amazing this car was. Never mind it was only really available as an underdevelopped, basically standard group 1 car, the list of drivers using even this simpler version Avenger is glamourous: Henri Toivonen, Pauli Toivonen, Colin McRae, Harri Rovanperä, to name just a few.
However, as you see in that description, uncharacteristically for any rally car's career, the tuned car was only an also run. For the true story and the full picture of the Avenger, you have to go and read the group 1 chapter of this car!
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Model & Evo. (Activity) |
BHP@ RPM |
Torque (Nm)@ RPM |
Length Width Height |
Weight (Kg/BPM Ratio) |
Trans. (W'base) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Avenger GT (73-79) |
140/5800 | 167/4700 | 4166.1615.1408 | 913 (6.5) | RWD (2489) |
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This is an unofficial Car Results list and may be incomplete.
| Pos | Event | Driver | Co-Driver | # | Rego | hh:mm:ss |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15th. |  1979 WRC Rally of Finland |
T. Tahko |
E. Tahko |
#25 | [UNKNOWN] | 0:00:00 |
| 22nd. | 1979 WRC Rally of Finland |
H. Uotila |
 . UNKNOWN |
#37 | [UNKNOWN] | 0:00:00 |
| 6th. | 1977 WRC Rally of Finland |
E. Pitkänen |
J. Paalama |
#24 | [UNKNOWN] | 4:58:39 |
| 17th. |  1973 WRC Rally of Great Britain |
C. Malkin |
B. Coyle |
#45 | [UNKNOWN] | 0:00:00 |
This is an unofficial Car Model Retirements list and may be incomplete.
| Pos | Event | Driver | Co-Driver | # | Rego | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ret. | 1979 WRC Rally of Finland |
M. Sundström |
. UNKNOWN |
#27 | [UNKNOWN] | SS4 ? |
| Ret. |  1978 WRC Swedish Rally |
L. Carlsson |
B. Sundberg |
#14 | [UNKNOWN] | SS0 withdrawn before start |
| Ret. | 1977 WRC Rally of Great Britain |
 R. Eyre-Mansell |
N. Wilson |
#47 | [UNKNOWN] | SS12 engine |
| Ret. | 1977 WRC Rally of Great Britain |
A. Cowan |
P. White |
#21 | [UNKNOWN] | SS34 electrics |
| Ret. | 1976 WRC Rally of Great Britain |
C. Sclater |
P. White |
#25 | [UNKNOWN] | SS99 engine |
| Ret. | 1975 WRC Rally of Great Britain |
C. Malkin |
P. White |
#26 | [UNKNOWN] | SS99 crash |
| Ret. | 1974 WRC Rally of Great Britain |
C. Malkin |
B. Coyle |
#28 | [UNKNOWN] | SS99 crash |
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