tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52788227325952377732024-02-08T01:47:40.182+00:00Russ Cooper RallyingA ramble through my rally history.Russhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03529213210045710688noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278822732595237773.post-57896560102201098372015-03-16T15:54:00.000+00:002015-03-16T16:34:32.341+00:00A Bit About MeI began competing in rallies soon after learning to drive at the age of 18 in 1968. I competed on my last event (so far) in 1992 but have been out quite often since then assisting or as service crew for friends.<br />
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It was a great time to be involved in rallying, with most of the iconic cars being there during this same era.<br />
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My first rally car was the family's 1959 Ford Prefect 107E and the last one was a 1987 Ford Sierra Cosworth 3 door which we built from a bare shell. The Prefect had 39 bhp and the Sierra about 250+ bhp.<br />
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We went from small club 12 car night navigational exercises to large International rallies in various parts of Britain and Europe.<br />
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We met a lot of like-minded people from all over and made a lot of good friends along the way.<br />
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We also spent a lot of money, but I wouldn't want to have missed it for anything.<br />
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Rallying is very much a team sport and I was very lucky to have a group of good folk around to help and make it all happen at each stage of the journey. Most of them were fellow competitors who gave their time to help us and we tried to do the same in return.<br />
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This is their story as much as mine.Russhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03529213210045710688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278822732595237773.post-54203507499160057532013-03-24T15:30:00.000+00:002016-02-16T00:09:51.108+00:00The People This page will be an account of some/all of the people involved.<br />
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Co-drivers, service crew members, "sponsors" and all those we met and who helped along the way.<br />
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Here is a picture to be going on with, photo from 1990 taken outside the Corner Pub in Ypres, Belgium.<br />
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From left to right back row, Mark Poole, Fred Brunsdon, Pat ??, Barry Sugondo, Geoff East, Chris Riley, Frank Round.<br />
In the front with flowers(!) Russ Cooper, Oliver Tomlins with trophy.<br />
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Trying to list all the people who have helped along the way is pretty much impossible but lets start with the navigators/co-drivers that I can remember. If I leave anyone out please feel free to shout.<br />
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Oliver Tomlins (about 60 events), Malcolm Jones(28), Linda Craske(15), Sue Sanders(7), Frank Round(6), Pete Raine(6), Dominic Hodge(3), Kathie Best(3), Chris Riley(2), Terry Harrison(2), Rick Lees(2), Martin Saunders(2), Bob Tozer(2), Maf Wilkins(2), Geoff East(1), Bob Major(1), Trevor Panter(1), Brian Roseblade(1), Tony Williams(1), Alan Say(1), Barry Sugondo(1), Stuart Taylor(1), Lisa Mitchell(1), Sally Prout(1). <br />
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<b>Oliver Tomlins</b> has been with me for far more events than anyone else. I met him at school and we did our first rallies together back in 1968. We have been great friends to this day. Its hard to explain but we developed a kind of unspoken understanding in the car so that many things became almost second nature to us.<br />
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<b>Malcolm Jones</b> stood in when Oliver went to work for Shell Oil overseas in the 1970's but Oliver always did the rallies when he was back home on leave.<br />
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<b>Linda Craske</b> and I met when we competed against her and husband in Belgium. Later when they split up she moved in with me and we rallied together.<br />
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<b>Sue Sanders</b> was introduced to me when I needed a co-driver for the Rallysport Magazine Championship in 1981. We had a great time that year and won our class. She has since gone on to run the radio safety net on many top rallies like the Lombard RAC, and is today involved in running motorsport events all over the world. For example, the 2014 Race of Champions in Barbados and more recently this year (2015) events in Rwanda and Kazakhstan.<br />
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<b>Frank Round</b> had his own bodyshop business so when he offered to help in 1983 I jumped at the chance. We built the fantastic 2 litre Alfa Romeo powered Sunbeam in his workshop and he kept my cars going until he gave up the business in 1990 when he went to work for Mitsubishi Ralliart on their WRC team.<br />
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<b>Pete Raine</b> was a fellow member of 143 Motor Club back in the late 1960's. We did both road rallies and stage events between 1974 and 1976.<br />
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<b>Dominic Hodge</b> was another 143 MC member and we competed on four events together, three with Dominic navigating for me and one road rally when I navigated in his fiercesome Mini CooperS. <br />
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<b>Kathie Best</b> was another 143 MC member who did a lot of road and stage rallies as a navigator and some as a driver. She navigated for a number of club members and several other drivers including <span class="st">James Prochowski. She had quite a bad accident in Belgium with James</span> and retired afterwards although she tried a couple of later test events with me. <br />
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<b>Chris Riley</b> was another 143 MC member who competed in Mini's and later was a key member of my service crew, not to mention providing huge amounts of invaluable help building and running my Toyota Corolla and the Sierra Cosworth. He still helps me to this day tinkering with my TR7. <br />
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<b>Terry Harrison</b> another 143 MC member who mostly did events with other drivers but sat in with me on two Wyedean rallies. Terry is currently working with Hyundai on their WRC programme.<br />
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<b>Rick Lees</b> another 143 MC member did three events with me in the late 1980's.<br />
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<b>Martin Saunders</b> was not a 143 MC member but was a top local road rally navigator who I persuaded to come along on the Cork 20 International and try pace-notes. Must have worked we finished 8th overall. <br />
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<b>Bob Tozer</b> a 143 MC member, we did some local stage rallies together.<br />
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<b>Maf Wilkins</b> worked with me at Post Office Telecomms (later BT) and did a couple of local stage rallies. <br />
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<b>Geoff East</b> was an excellent co-driver for several well know drivers such as Charlie Eveson. He came along on a Belgian Open Championship event when none of my usual co-drivers were available. <br />
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<b>Bob Major</b>, a 143 MC member and mechanic. We did the Welsh International together in 1975. <br />
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<b>Trevor Panter</b> worked with me at Post Office Telecomms and was a racing driver himself. He had never been on a rally so I asked him along for the experience. He got more experience than expected when I put us on the roof but we still went on to finish the rally.<br />
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<b>Brian Roseblade</b> was a navigator for several drivers in EMCOS motor club and came along on a couple of stage events. <br />
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<b>Tony Williams</b> was the sports editor of or local paper, the Stroud News and Journal. I had just won the West Midlands Stage Championship in 1979 and asked him along as a publicity idea. We finished fifth overall and got a good write-up in the paper. <br />
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<b>Alan Say</b> worked with me at BT. Alan had never seen a rally but came along on a local event where no navigation was required. We finished first overall so he went home with a winners trophy but vowed never to sit in a rally car again!<br />
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<b>Barry Sugondo</b> had his Toyota Corolla prepared by Frank Round at the same time Frank was helping me with my car. He sat in with me on a local stage rally as a bit of fun. <br />
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<b>Stuart Taylor</b> ran a travel agency organising ferries for us to Belgium and Ireland. He also competed himself and came along with me on one Belgian event.<br />
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<b>Lisa Mitchell</b> was a 143 MC member. She was going out with Dave Tigwell at the time but wanted to navigate on a stage rally. Dave was committed to championship events so she came with me. <br />
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<b>Sally Prout</b> was the girl friend of a fellow 143 MC member, Clive Spencer. She wanted to do a rally but didn't trust his driving (!) so sat in with me. Suffice to say I rolled the car.Russhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03529213210045710688noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278822732595237773.post-43435105741792904402002-01-02T00:00:00.000+00:002016-01-22T01:24:25.553+00:002002, Triumph TR7, new toy. After I stopped rallying I finally realised I needed a new toy to give me something to tinker with and keep me out of mischief, and look what I ended up with<br />
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<br />Russhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03529213210045710688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278822732595237773.post-28762449432433562441994-01-02T00:00:00.000+00:002016-01-22T01:16:39.382+00:001994, Last year with the Cossie<div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />Russhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03529213210045710688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278822732595237773.post-18059649232141439301993-01-02T00:00:00.000+00:002016-01-22T01:17:04.104+00:001993, More Cossie fun<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>Chris is lying down on the job fixing the radiator</b>Russhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03529213210045710688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278822732595237773.post-58612444283630384831992-01-02T00:00:00.001+00:002016-01-22T01:18:03.560+00:001991, Quiet year service crew only<br />
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<b>During the year we were asked by our Dunlop tyre supplier if we could take the rally car and service van to Avening school where his wife taught as the children wanted to know about how the tyres were used. I was surprised they asked some really good questions. We let them sit it the car and talk to each other on the radio which was very popular!</b>Russhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03529213210045710688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278822732595237773.post-74683580359324291591989-01-02T00:00:00.000+00:002016-01-22T01:18:47.941+00:001989, Belgian Open Championship<div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />Russhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03529213210045710688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278822732595237773.post-5661208075978150581986-01-02T00:00:00.000+00:002016-01-22T01:19:55.256+00:001986, More Motoring News and France<div style="text-align: center;">
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Baased on the Hamlet Cigars "Carlos Fandango" advert current at the time in 1984.Russhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03529213210045710688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278822732595237773.post-18499471056853612811983-01-02T00:00:00.000+00:002019-04-24T14:05:55.791+01:001983, 2000cc Alfa Romeo power<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After the pretty successful 1981 season I was trying to work out what to do next. Sue Sanders work was becoming more demanding so another friend Malcolm Jones agreed to take the co-drivers seat. </div>
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The 1600cc class had been very competitive with lots of fast teams so it seemed that the 1300cc class might be the way to go. I had also met a charismatic engine builder called Terry Brown who reckoned he could build a really quick 1300cc Alfa Romeo twin-cam unit at a pretty cheap price.</div>
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Terry Brown was very well know in grasstrack racing and had his own built supercharged 2000cc Alfa Romeo engine in his car. He was also in the process of fitting a V8 Alfa Romeo Montreal engine so you can tell he is a bit unorthodox. Anyway, I found a cheap Alfa 1300cc engine in a scrapyard and took it to Terry for him to work on. </div>
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Fitting the Alfa engine in a Sunbeam is quite easy and had been done before. I spoke to a guy called Pat Messer who had already done it and he sold me a pair of his engine mounting adapters so it fitted straight onto the standard Sunbeam mounts. We made up our own gearbox mounting to take the Alfa box which had come with the engine and had a prop shaft made by Transcarden in Worcester. The Sunbeam exhaust lined up quite well with the Alfa manifold and that was it.</div>
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Terry had now finished the engine and had it running on Weber 45DCOE carbs. It revved very freely and promised a fun season to come. </div>
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<br />Russhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03529213210045710688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278822732595237773.post-56129450566109273351981-01-02T00:00:00.000+00:002019-04-24T11:50:45.599+01:001981, Century Oils Rallysport Magazine ChampionshipCompeting on the National status rallies in 1980 had been great but it was also pretty expensive so I decided it would be a better idea to find a less expensive championship for 1981. The obvious choice was the Century Oils Rallysport Magazine championship which was aimed at the club driver and with a good selection of rallies.<br />
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Over the winter I had been introduced to Sue Sanders who was a keen co-driver and looking for a ride. Oliver's work was now taking much more of his time so he needed to take a step back from co-driving and it was agreed that I would do the Century Oils Rallysport Championship with Sue in 1981.<br />
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First round was the Red Garages Cambrian Rally based in Llandudno. The weather was very cold, with snow promised as we set off on the first stage round the Great Orme toll road.<br />
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The next few forest stages were a mixture of snow and ice and I made a mistake on a downhill corner and put us off onto a log pile. With me pushing and Sue driving we got the car back on the road but a lot of time was lost and so there was no option but to retire. <br />
The problem now was that it was getting dark, it was snowing heavily and we were in Blaenau Ffestiniog which is miles away from our base in Llandudno. We abandoned our Granada service barge at a local garage and all set off for Llandudno in the rally car which was now fitted with snow tyres. To get there we had to cross the Crimea Pass and we found a couple of policemen at the bottom who told us the pass was closed until the snowplough arrived. Great, no option but to wait for about an hour until the plough arrived. By now quite a few other cars had turned up and we set off in a convoy following the plough.<br />
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All went well until we got to a much steeper section near the famous Llechwedd slate mines. The snowplough slowed right down and was now going so slowly I was having to slip the clutch in first gear to stay behind it. When the smell of the burning clutch finally got too bad I decided to take a chance and overtook the snowplough. With the rally car on snow tyres and LSD working well we were able to cruise gently across the top of the Crimea Pass.<br />
It was a pretty surreal experience passing some stranded cars as we slowed to tell them " Don't worry, there is a snowplough following behind us". You couldn't make it up.<br />
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Sue Sanders was a very good co-driver and we had a good season, with a string of good results that ended up with winning the 1600cc championship class. There were some notable results along the way, including 9th overall on the Rothmans National Rally in Somerset, and 4th overall on the Trentham Stages near Stoke on Trent which was the last round and Sue's local event.<br />
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<b>Yes its Sue and me collecting our Century Oils Rallysport Magazine Championship awards</b>.<br />
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After the success of winning the West Midlands Stage Championship in 1979 it only seemed right to step up to events at a National level. As luck would have it Chrysler/Talbot were starting a championship for their new Talbot Sunbeam TI cars in 1980 so that was obviously the way to go.<br />
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There were several reasons for this decision,<br />
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2. I still had backing from Gordons of Stonehouse, so could rely on their help as well.<br />
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With Glenn Gordon's contacts I was able to buy a brand new Sunbeam shell from the factory. This of course came as a completely bare shell with not even any glass or wiring. Ironically it <b>did</b> come with all the seam sealer and soundproofing pads so they had to be laboriously scraped off before the shell could be seam welded and the roll cage fitted.! A horrible job.<br />
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Bob Major helped out with the welding and cage installation in his own workshop in Gloucester. I bought the parts to build a brand new 1600 engine from Dave Vanderlist ( Dutche Components ) and most of the suspension was my ex-Avenger stuff.<br />
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First event for the new Sunbeam was the Granite City Rally based in Aberdeen, over 500 miles from home. At 3:00am on the day before the rally we were still fitting the exhaust system in Gordons workshops so it was going to be touch and go.<br />
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The 1980 season was a bit of an eye-opener. All the rallies on the Sunbeam TI Champioship were National status events so were on a much bigger scale than we were used to and also much more expensive. Next event after the Granite was the Manx National on the Isle of Man, so that involved ferries as well as hotel bills. We were just getting to grips with the car on tarmac stages when the engine expired in a huge cloud of blue smoke. I had put some standard spark plus in to get the engine warmed up but had forgotten to swap to the harder racing plugs before we started the rally. Result was a melted plug and a melted piston.<br />
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The rest of the TI Chamionship events went much better. We had some good results and usually featured well in the Sunbeam TI Championship class, typically 3rd or 4th. With it being a pretty hotly contested championship we considered this was a good performance for us.<br />
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One exception was the Peter Russek Manuals Rally run on the Epynt military ranges near Brecon. The rally uses the very fast tarmac roads and good pace notes are essential to be quick and safe. If you get the notes wrong however it can prove disastrous and there have been lots of big accidents as a result.<br />
We made just such a mistake at the notorious "Deers Leap" and went off at high speed but by a miracle did not roll and was able to continue.<br />
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I think we gave those marshalls a fright, they had been standing just where the car is shown in the photo.<br />
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Only damage was a bent halfshaft and a dent on the inside of the passenger door caused by Olivers elbow. <br />
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The Ebworth Chase Rally was run by Stroud Motor Club and my friend Glenn Gordon was involved with organising it. It is a single venue rally in local woodlands and no actual navigation is required so I agreed to take Sally Prout along so she could see what rallying was like. She was going out with another driver but did not trust his driving and I was considered a safe option! <br />
Francis Tuthill was leading after a few stages with us lying second so naturally I tried a bit harder to catch him on the next stage and the picture shows the result. I recall Sally was not too impressed to find herself upside down and covered in glass splinters. She found out a bit more about rallying than she expected.<br />
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Highlight of the year was another non-champioship rally, the Jason Hire Tools Stages. This was another event in a local woodlands and I took along a friend from work called Alan Say. He had never seen a rally except on TV so was keen to see it for real. <br />
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Result was an outright win with us finishing First Overall and Alan went home with a winners trophy on his first event.<br />
He descirbed it as "like being stuck inside a washing machine" and vowed never to do it ever again, but added that he would not have missed it for the world.<br />
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Around this time two of my friends, Bob Major and Dave Tigwell, had started a garage business together called Severnside Motors. They mostly did ordinary garage work but as both were keen rally drivers they offered to paint my car in their colours. I still carried Gordons advertising on the car and got help from Glenn Gordon. <br />
Severnside also had a Transit and trailer which we could use to get us to rallies and carry spares etc. A proper service crew for the first time! <br />
The Transit was called “Brian” and did excellent work for quite a few other friends on many and various events. There was an unofficial speed competition with crews using Brian, I seem to recall the record being 102mph (complete with trailer and rally car) coming down from Shap Summit on the M6. I should point out that it was not me driving at the time!<br />
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1979 turned out to be a great year with a string of good results and ending with winning the Association of West Midland Motor Clubs Stage Rally Championship. It was a hotly contested championship and great to win it outright in a 1600cc car. Several different folk came along as navigators during the year as Oliver was away working for Shell in Brunei most of the time. <br />
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Our local paper - The Stroud News and Journal - sent along their sports editor as navigator at the end of the year and I gave him a good day out finishing 5th overall on the Ebworth Chase Stages Rally. This was in the same woods where I had been on the roof a year before, luckily with no repeat performance. He did a nice little write-up in the paper which helped with publicity.<br />
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<b>More Pictures from 1979 </b><br />
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In 1972 I had bought a brand new Hillman Avenger 1500 as a road car for the huge sum of £1053. <br />
By 1976 I decided that forest stage rallying was the way to go but thought the Imp was a bit too small and low to survive in the forests. I sold the Imp to Phil Madely (another 143 Motor Club member) and swapped my nice Avenger road car for a slightly battered Avenger rally car registration RKX924H from Gordons Garage at Sonehouse who were a Chrysler dealership. I knew Glenn Gordon the garage owners son from schooldays so already had contacts there. <br />
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RKX924H had already had a pretty hard life before I got it but it was a good starting point to learn from. We did at least a dozen proper rallies over the next couple of years, not counting navigational exercises and by the end of 1978 it seemed time to move on, the pictures below show the old car on its last event.<br />
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Last rally planned for the old car was called the “And Now For Something Completely Different Stages” run by Dursley Motor Club at the end of 1978 using forest tracks in Ebworth Woods near Birdlip. I had invited a friend from work called Trevor Panter along as co-driver. He was a pretty serious motor racing type who was interested to see what rallying was all about and what better way than to actually sit in the car. He got more experience than he bargained for when I put us on the roof in the first stage. <br />
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The marshalls quickly had us back on the wheels and we finished the stage looking well battered. I was not worried as the shell was going to be scrapped anyway so we continued the rally in enthusiatic fashion finishing last - but having a lot of fun. <br />
It was here I first met Frank Round who helped us straighten the front suspension with a hydraulic body ram. He was to be a more significant part of the story later.<br />
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I had bought a bare Avenger shell and planned to re-build it over the winter of 1978/9. <br />
Glenn Gordon was kind enough to allow me use of their garage workshop and facilities after hours so this was big luxury for me. It was warm and dry with all the usual garage facilities like hydraulic lifts. Amazing luxury to me after working mostly outside.<br />
Glenn had previously taken me up to the “works” at Coventry to buy factory tuning bits for the Imp and now we did the same for the new Avenger and I was able to pay him later which was really huge help. <br />
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I took the “new” shell to Autopoint in Gloucester to be seam welded and have the roll cage fitted as this needed to be done professionally. Autopoint was run by Andy Chambers who was a pretty quick driver himself, but most of the work on my shell was done by Roger Coates who co-incidentally used to work at Gordons and had rallied my old car. Cost to supply and fit the roll cage and seam weld the shell was £150, see the invoice below.<br />
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<br />Russhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03529213210045710688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278822732595237773.post-17392381474019785551974-01-02T00:43:00.000+00:002016-01-22T01:22:57.760+00:001974, Hillman Imp Sport<br />
<b>Hillman Imp Sport – registration JDD 716 D.</b><br />
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After the demise of the Ford Prefect I wanted something newer and was offered an Imp Sport by one of my neighbours. Actually it was 2 cars, a damaged Imp Sport and a standard Imp but in good condition. Obviously all the Imp Sport bits got transferred to the good standard bodyshell. <br />
I built this up in a wet and very draughty garage opposite to the Royal William pub near Painswick. The garage space was good because it was free and was also used by some other motor club friends Dave Tigwell and Pete Raine who kept their 1275GT Mini Clubman rally car there. Pete lived nearby and I think he knew the owner hence the no-cost deal.<br />
The Imp was great fun to drive, lots of revs and a super gearbox. I ran it for a couple of years in 1975-6 and did at least 7 proper rallies and a number of motor club 12 car navigational excersises.<br />
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<b>With Pete Raine navigating on the Welsh Mermaid Rally in January 1975. </b><br />
<b><br />Looks like the Imp had still not been painted yet!</b><br />
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A friend from 143 Motor Club called Bob Major also ran a quick Imp and we agreed to do the 1975 Welsh together. His car was much better than mine so the plan was to use that but then his dad became ill and Bob never had time to finish getting it ready. Mine had to be pressed into service but there was only time to swap Bob's excellent Cibie Biode headlamps and his uprated dynamo onto my car.<br />
Our start number was 211 so that was over three and a half hours later than the top teams. We ran into trouble quite early on when the new dynamo started to play up. We changed it for the spare but the fault remained, suggesting that the fault was really in the control box. We found a kind garage man somewhere in mid-Wales who left his tea to find us a replacement in his stores which keep us going.<br />
In those days the rally ran from Saturday morning till Sunday evening without a break and by the morning we were completely exhausted. There had been a fuel problem during the night and some marshalls had given us petrol but we must have picked up some dirt with it because the car ground to a halt on a road section near Trawsfynydd in North Wales.<br />
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<b> 1975 Welsh International</b> <b>with Bob Major.</b><br />
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Our service crew ( Chris Riley & ?? ) arrived and cleaned out the carbs and off we went as good as new - but out of the rally.<br />
On reflection I think this was a good thing because I am sure we would have had an accident due to tiredness if we had continued.<br />
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The last stage of the rally was a series of actual races on Llandow Race Circuit. You only had to start the race to qualify as a finisher. I had to get a special Race Licence especially for this so I was determined to get my moneys worth and lined up on the grid to have a go. Also in my heat was Pete Raine in the Mini 1275 GT and I was hoping to beat him.<br />
Sadly it was not to be as the car went onto 3 cylinders towards the end. It had dropped a valve at about 7500rpm and destroyed most of the engine. We found an exhaust valve down on the sumpguard, so you can imagine the rest. All I was able to salvage were the carburettors, the rest was scrap. <br />
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Bill Baker at Chosen Engineering in Churchdown did me a new modified head, bored-out block with new pistons, reground crank with bearings, full balance etc etc to build a proper motor and the Imp was reborn. All his work including parts only came to £77.44. Hard to believe these days, but I still have the invoice to prove it!.<br />
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<br />Russhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03529213210045710688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278822732595237773.post-71596011048184928841972-01-02T00:00:00.000+00:002016-01-22T01:23:18.875+00:001972-3, Our "New" Ford Prefect 1500GT<br />
<b>“New” Ford Prefect – registration RDF980.</b><br />
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One of the top race or rally cars for clubmen in the late 1960’s was the 105E Anglia fitted with a 1500GT engine from the Cortina but they were too expensive for us so Oliver and I bought another Prefect from a bloke called Peter Hancocks in Gloucester. This had already been converted for the 1500GT engine but it needed a lot of work to make it roadworthy, and we spent most weekends for the next year or more working on it. <br />
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The car mostly lived on a wide grass verge outside Olivers parents house so work could only happen when weather permitted. I well remember tinkering and listening to Noel Edmonds Sunday morning show on Radio 1. Happy days !!<br />
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<b>Update: June 2013.</b> Sadly Oliver's Mum died recently and I called round at the house. The evidence of our rally car build is still there, as you can see from these pictures.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Trying out a logo for our company ToCo Engineering</span></b></td></tr>
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We learned a lot and did at least 3 rallies that I can remember before rolling it on the Halewood Rally down near Carmarthen in 1973 and it was scrapped after that. <br />
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Some more pictures of us with RDF980, some are poorer quality as they came from negative sized prints.<br />
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<br />Russhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03529213210045710688noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5278822732595237773.post-7030293478643473931970-01-02T00:00:00.000+01:002016-01-22T01:24:00.581+00:00Early Days 1968-1973In 1968 my first ever car was a Ford Prefect 107E registration number 680JYD. <br />
This model was based on better known 100E but Ford fitted their 997cc engine and 4 speed gearbox from the new Anglia 105E which had just been introduced in 1959. Mine was a 1959 two-tone example in white and pale blue. Ford kept the Prefect 107E in production for a couple more years because they wanted a small 4 door car.<br />
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As my interest in cars and rallying grew the Prefect got pressed into service as a rally car. You can imagine this was not the fastest thing around, but it was all we could afford. By then I had joined 143 Motor Club who were based in Gloucester. I did quite a lot of 12-car night navigational club rallies with various friends navigating and a couple of proper road rallies in the old Prefect. <br />
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One of its problems (apart from its general lack of performance, handling or brakes) was that the wipers were operated by vacuum from the inlet manifold. Hard to believe these days, but true. This meant that when you were accelerating or going uphill the wipers slowed to a virtual stop. This was to have an effect later. <br />
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<b><u>Our first proper rally 1970.</u></b><br />
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Top local road rally was the Mynd Trophy Rally organised by EMCOS motor club and which started in Stroud. Oliver Tomlins came along as navigator. We knew many of the roads used as they were all local to us, but the dodgy wipers caught us out near Fairford Air Base. It was a wet night and as a nice Lotus Cortina passed us at the end of a longish piece of straight road I lost sight in the spray and parked us neatly in a deep ditch. No damage to car or crew but no hope of getting out without help. When morning came we managed to find a friendly farmer nearby who towed us out with his tractor. It was the start of a long learning curve.<br />
We did several other road rallies but as far as I recall didn't finish any of them. Typical retirements were caused by bent steering on the Scorpio Rally up near Oxford and by a broken dynamo on the Omega '70 rally down in Somerset. <br />
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I also did a few rallies as navigator for various friends such as the Rally Of The Tests in 1972. This one was with Dave Tigwell in his rapid A35 on a very cold frosty day. <br />
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I also took a few pictures when we went out watching rallies, here are a couple of favourites<br />
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