Hemmings Daily: Single-owner collection of Group B greats heads to auction in California

All six Group B cars, and the Group 4 Lancia Stratos in the foreground, head to auction at no reserve this August. Photos by Pawel Litwinski, courtesy Bonhams. Thirty years after the demise of the World Rally Championship's (WRC) Group B, the cars that once competed under its regulations remain the stuff of legend. Surviving examples don't trade hands all that often, making a collection of six Group B homologation specials (and a 1975 Lancia Stratos, the car that helped prompt the development of the category) not [View in Browser | Subscribe]( [Hemmings Daily] Monday, June 19, 2017 [Single-owner collection of Group B greats heads to auction in California]( [Single-owner collection of Group B greats heads to auction in California]( Posted by Kurt Ernst - All six Group B cars, and the Group 4 Lancia Stratos in the foreground, head to auction at no reserve this August. Photos by Pawel Litwinski, courtesy Bonhams. 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