Pic Request - 1982 Manx Rally - Ari Vatanen - Black Escort RS1800

[Ian A]

So, its my dad's birthday soon and I wanted to get him a banner made up of Ari Vatanen's RS1800 from the 1982 Manx Rally.

He was at the rally, and met Vatanen, so it seemed a good gift to be made into a banner to hang in our new garage which is mid way through getting built.

Trouble is, I can't find any decent pics of the car that aren't models, or blurry poor quality, to get blown up. So if anyone could either link me to some pics, or share a few that'd be great.
(Preferably with the escort mid corner at a ridiculous angle)

The car:

Cheers in advance.
Ian

 

[Bono872]

Don't know if you've seen Ian but search for blackwatergraphics on instagram. The picture taken today - You'd appreciate it! At the same time I'm sure they could do it for you seeing as they made for the graphics for the car in the picture and it wouldn't be hard to get a vector file of a RS1800

@Blackwater Graphics

 

[Ian A]

Jesus Brian that's a coincidence if ever there was one!!

The exact car I'm after! Your a star!

 

[Bono872]

Jesus Brian that's a coincidence if ever there was one!!

The exact car I'm after! Your a star!

Thought the exact same myself! Spooky! Hope you get sorted, nice gift idea!

 

[davecoupe]

To help with your search: It was nicknamed 'black Beauty'. It was a David Sutton or MCD prepared x-pack car that Ari used to win Donegal in 78 as well

Some pics here:

 

[jimcupra]

I remember watching him driving that in donegal, you have no idea how old that makes me feel

 

[pinto200]

Pretty sure black beauty is a different car, xpack arches. Is this not black magic, ultimate Tarmac spec. car.
Have a look on rallyretro.com, although it doesn't seem to have anywhere near the photos it had.

 

[Graham]

Jesus Brian that's a coincidence if ever there was one!!

The exact car I'm after! Your a star!

no it ain't the one BWG done is the COI car (in fact they haven't done the full COI rep as there are a few event sponsor logos not on it)

www.rallyretro.com for a photo or maybe even mail martin at www.rallypics.org (tell him i sent ya, he has a wall shelved full of old negatives)

i think Fergus has built a new site so maybe need to email him to purchase one.

in researching "black beauty" for BWG i found NAFF A:LL online in any sort of resolution

 

[pinto200]

http://z7.invisionfree.com/CEOCI/index.php?showtopic=13015

Check this out, some awesome pics.

 

[RyanM3]

no it ain't the one BWG done is the COI car (in fact they haven't done the full COI rep as there are a few event sponsor logos not on it)

www.rallyretro.com for a photo or maybe even mail martin at www.rallypics.org (tell him i sent ya, he has a wall shelved full of old negatives)

i think Fergus has built a new site so maybe need to email him to purchase one.

in researching "black beauty" for BWG i found NAFF A:LL online in any sort of resolution

Yeah give fergus a shout or like his page on Facebook, rallyretro. He probably has got loads of pics of that particular car from that event.