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IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE OWNER
Greetings Group B fans,
It is with a heavy heart that I must announce the planned closure of the Rally Group B Shrine website at the end of the year if we don’t receive the necessary assistance. This amazing 190+ page encyclopedia of Group B history we worked so hard on will be gone!
I’ll be blunt: the organisation has never received the proper financial support from Group B fans and related rally communities since its beginnings in 2014. In fact, we haven’t had more than a handful donations in the past few years, not to mention that every fundraiser failed miserably and, besides reactivating cookie-based ads, we are far short of paying the annual website hosting fees plus the plethora of premium assets that we had to implement to make it a professional-looking and enjoyable website for all Group B fans.
We’re also not counting other expenses related to supporting Group B events on the ground and helping other projects such as car restorations and assisting media (TV and film) productions – most of which we volunteered (this means working for free) to do because we are passionate about Group B history and didn’t feel like a paycheck should be attached to it. Was it a mistake? Maybe, but we stand behind our principles. As owner, I never had a choice but to plunder my personal funds to keep the operations going. The breaking point has been reached financially, emotionally and physically (none of us are getting younger).
If you haven’t yet understood why I am making this plea today, would you continue to allow so many people to make use of a website while not receiving at least fair compensation for keeping it online? For me, it’s a matter of principle that the website should be entirely funded by the community who uses it so often. But most of the problem lies within the sense of entitlement that 99.9% of people have about the information that they find online, without thinking for a second that what they are reading and enjoying on their screens has come from someone with years of hard work and sacrifice. Do you feel entitled to the information you find online? If yes, you are sadly part of the problem but in this case you wouldn’t have read this far to make this realisation anyway!
The website has countless times also been victim of poachers who stole our original content and claimed it for their own, resulting in endless copyright battles that monopolised the entirety of my screen time for a long while. The quality product that the Rally Group B Shrine represented is now very much diluted because many of our article are now featured, in part or in full, in other websites and blogs without fair attribution and link back to us. Less visitors to our website means less revenue via ads and potential donations.
But don’t worry, the Rally Group B Shrine organisation itself will most likely soldier on behind the scenes even if the website goes offline. In this case, we’ll be looking into setting up a premium service for the website in the next year or two. Although on a personal note I am very saddened to attach a price to history and knowledge… but you have left us with little choice!
That being said, I must thank our little team of passionate people that, besides the strife that life puts us through on a daily basis, has given much time and effort to the Rally Group B Shrine’s cause this past decade. With your help, we can look to greener pastures ahead!
Please show your appreciation for the immense efforts we have put in the past 10 years by donating with the link below… even a small sum will make a difference! Your help will fund the Shrine’s interminable work; past, present and future, plus giving the people who made Group B history a proper, lasting legacy.
Lastly, we wish to thank the handful of kind souls that have supported us throughout the years!
–Jay Auger
Rally Group B Shrine owner
This Renault was built already in 1996 with many original parts and new fabrication where necessary at a time when it was not popular to copy group B cars. Arguably the earliest and most accurate recreation of a 
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Apart from Group B rallying, Henk van der Linde had always been a fan of the Opel 400-series (Ascona and Manta). When he heard at the beginning of the new century that there had also been a “
This Renault came as a 
This car (chassis 006) is one of three 
Rainer Lohr owns this quattro since the year 2000 and began in 2005 to rebuild it into a copy of the 
Christian Klein bought this 
This is the third 
In 2022, Frank Höhner took over this 
John Wheeler is the spiritual father of the 
It took Jürgen Reeb two years (2011 to 2013) to build this 
The Kaiser family tried to find the original Hero 
As for many years he ran the engine workshop at TEE and later at TMG in Cologne, it is only logical that quite early on Gerd Dicks secured himself one of the cars they built and so this 
Rolf Wyss found this 
This 
Several years ago, Dermott Simpson bought the original 
Claude Millet drove for three years in the Peugeot 205 Rallyecrosscup and thus is used to motorsport. As he could not find an original 
This 
Father and son Berghaus upgraded their 
This Audi came from Dubai in pretty poor condition with two other quattros and was restored to competition standard by Kessel and the engine by Lehmann. In 2016 and 2017 it was still rallying with Michael Hinderer in the Mitropa Cup in Germany before Michael Brechmann took it over.
This Peugeot 205 T16 remained with Peugeot Germany in Saarbrücken for many years after 1985 and later in Cologne when the company moved and merged with Citroen. It was often exhibited in public. However, Peugeot was not in a position to prepare it ready to drive and finally sold it to Ludwig Biewen.
The car was found in a museum in Las Vegas having sat on display for nearly 25 years following its sale from the factory. Although non-running, the car was superbly untouched and original and has just completed a comprehensive but carefully sympathetic two-year restoration.
The former German Rally Champion Codriver Wolfgang H. Inhester took a Porsche 911 SC 3.0 from 1983 to transform it as close as possible to a copy of the SC/RS that Henri Toivonen drove to victory on the Costa Smeralda Rally in 1984.
Since there are only very few original Sport quattro E2, Klaus Herchenbach had no choice but to consider a copy. With Dirk Schauf in Thuringia a specialist was finally found who could realize that project. The body was built from the front end of an Audi 80, the floor of the Urquattro and the rear section of the quattro Coupé.
This Lancia 037 chassis 131 was first prepared by Beppe Volta to Evo 1 specifications and registered already in 1982. It was than used by Sergio Barbero in 1983 in the Italian Championship. In 1984 it was active by Beppe Volta as a test car for Cunico and Vudafieri and than upgraded to Evo 2 spec.
In the Dutch town of Veghel, Coen Donkers runs his own Audi workshop and apart from repairing road cars he specialized in the replication of famous rally cars. His favourite cars have always been the Sport quattro, the winged Sport quattro E2 and also the Pikes Peak version of the E2 driven by Walter Röhrl in 1987.
