If your talking weird ‘classics’
My road car was in bits and I had bent the rally MGBGT, and because that had broken a wrist I hadn’t got either car back together and it was 5 days before the Esso Starlight Rally (Tarmac event), the garage partsman had a Vauxhall 101 for sale as an MOT failure. I bought it for £25, put an MOT on it (just a patch on a sill and some draglink bushes) and we entered the event.
They were laughing at the start but not at the finish, there was not an undamaged panel on the car, even the roof was creased, we didn’t get a results pot but we did get the ‘Spirit of the Event’ award. Apparently for sailing through a control with total brake failure as the all round drums had overheated then the Navvy running back shouting ‘What time you got?’....
Happy days when such madness was allowed!
BR
Colin
