In 1976, the FIA introduced a four-generation take on Group 5. The first version had been highly modified touring cars and the second and third were for sports cars. The fourth-generation cars were extensively modified forms of production vehicles with a standard width, which will explain why ever car you will see here has some form of gigantic flares on it somewhere. In fact, only the hood, roof, doors and rail panels were left alone. Everything else was fair game. When Porsche wanted to get an advantage, they moved the headlights to the bumper and the flat-nosed 935 existed.
The fourth iteration of Group 5 ran from 1976-82, before being pushed aside for Group B. Besides such notable cars as the 935, Ferrari 512BB LM, “Batmobile” BMW, and the Greenwood Widebody Corvette, you have the origin of a style of car modification (the bōzōzoku style that is famous in Japan) and an era that of racing that put style on par or above performance…strange to say, but cars like BMW’s “Art Cars” and some of the most well-known liveries ever created came out of this time period. But don’t think that it was all show, no go…hit play below and return to the era of playboy racers and wild times!
