Meeting Steve Rimmer: Collecting rally cars, aviation & road rallying (Part one)

[@richardguse3410]

Thank you from a 76 year old rally fan in Canada! This is for me the most meaningful interview regarding rallying and perhaps its future North America.

[@diocan7710]

I am tellin ya guys, this mister Rimmer will bring WRC to states. God bless ya Steve

[@MOSSFEEN]

1986 - 1988 ye had the Olympus rally which was part of the World Championship

[@olis_garage]

What a legend! This guy is living the dream

[@01FozzyS]

Great interview with the Bossman. Looking forward to the next part!

[@jamiemiller7752]

Excellent, always wondered what the back story to Dirtfish is. You guys do a great job on bringing it home to us who can't make it out to the stages anymore.

[@donswier]

Looking forward to part 2

[@kwiktrakmotorsport]

Steve comes across as a proper bloke. Living just down the road in Chorley, listening to him is like a local motor club meeting! Looking forward to Part 2

[@rny64]

I was a foreign university student in Seattle in the mid 80s, who grew up watching rallies in my native Philippines both live and on TV. I ended up a volunteer marshal at several Washington state rallies, including a couple of Olympus rounds, and THE world championship round as well (and even the not-so-secret debut of the S1 Quattro in plain off white!) Those days were, and still are, some of my absolute best motorsport memories! Thank you Steve Rimmer for bringing rally passion to the US, and most of all to the PNW!

[@bikerforever68]

A really great interview with Steve,was really interesting to hear about his life and how he created dirt fish. I’d love to visit one day especially when I found out twin peaks was filmed on your site. Looking forward to part 2 . 🙏

[@donswier]

Grp B BX4TC : Rare, infamous & cool. Didn't Citroen try to buy back and crush as many as they could?

[@designguy42]

Saw the sport quattro in the background and immediately clicked!

[@MOSSFEEN]

Currently sitting with over 140,000 miles on it (not exactly factory fresh)

[@designguy42]

@@MOSSFEEN Excellent that it's not a garage queen and properly used! My 83 urq has over 300k miles (not all from my ownership though!) I hope to one day drive a sport q

[@neilroskell578]

Nice to see someone local to us doing so much for rallying. Great show guys 👍

[@Rentta]

Bit of a mistake at @04:15, that's a mark 2 not mark 1 :P. Really cool collection and interesting episode.

[@ronaldroberts9556]

Fantastic interview. Memories of Motoring News came flooding back of an epic era. Surely worthy of a Dirtfish special???

[@chrisillingworth7967]

Fantastic vid Living in part of Preston on the Fylde coast and BAE systems on my doorstep! This just felt like a part of home. Amazing video Can’t wait to have a rundown of all the cars

[@markthibault8579]

Cool to learn the origins of Dirtfish. Looking forward to the next part. Love to attend a class to get a taste of rally driving some day.

[@andymurdoch1346]

Fascinating video Colin. I actually still work at the same Aerospace site in West of Scotland that Steve worked at many years ago and I remember seeing that red/orange MKII Escort on site a couple of times. Looks like dream car collection he has acquired.

[@alunjones2550]

I had the good fortune of attending, and marshalling, at a number of the Lombard RAC rallies when Group B existed. No form of motorsport or era of motorsport comes close to Group B. The Delta S4 was my absolute favourite, in the Martini livery. I also briefly knew Tony Ponds as a consequence of owning a TR7, as he used to rally one before he moved on to the 6R4.

[@EPSDaveRowe]

Thanks for this! lovely video and keep up the good work

[@mitch2208]

@dirtfish this was grandads Audi, I was brought up with both cars and traveled to many of the races with him. His other Audi the pikes peak version is now in the Audi museum. we have loads of pictures and videos of all the races in the family. It would be a dream to see the car again one day

[@DirtFish]

Hi Mitch! We would love it if you got in touch with us! Please email at [e-mail] 🙂

[@mitch2208]

@@DirtFish hi guys awsome thanks for the reply I'll email later on after work x

[@beachamgroup2482]

Fascinating. When the Motoring News dropped through the door the first thing you looked for was the road rally results, the second was the advertisements. Sadly both are shadow of what used to be. Road rallying is just as strong these days with ovetsubscribed entries. Don't be apologetic for the best grass roots area of our sport.

[@Aubrey_2_Hotty]

Great stuff, and what I wouldn't give to just see those incredible cars. Especially that 037.

[@sscottwilsonn]

What an amazing life journey this man has had hopefully he can use his influence to bring back proper homologation cars the kind of which we could buy close to the rally car in your local car dealership I mean look how many Subaru Imprezas sold down to mainly Colin McRae thrashing them round a stage flamboyant artistry driving style. Todays R1 cars hybrid etc space frame costing millions of pounds and unobtainable in your local dealership

[@jerrycotter4108]

Watching from Seattle 👍🇨🇮

[@JoshuaC923]

This is awesome

[@DrDreq]

Great job!

[@MOSSFEEN]

I could listen to Steve for a good few hours sounds like a down to earth guy Yes I remember that Yellow Ferrari 308 on my local Rally 1986 Zanussi West Cork Rally seeing the Ferrari was like seeing a Spaceship especially when the competition were driving Sunbeams, Escort G3, Fiats, Mantas. I saw it on a few more rallys after that early 1990s Dont know if it is still around

[@rallyvilden7738]

åååååååå so many nice rally cars i will test all love rallycars

[@ScuderiaTurini]

Would have been good to hear the next moves for Dirtfish in relation to the WRC. Promoter ambitions? .

[@alfiesmith4115]

Part 2

[@giovinazzo3gsmotorsport]

Ciao hello to all awesome 👋💛👍❤

[@181racing]

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[@warrenchristie7134]

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