I wanted a competitive car for 1969 to use in Eastern Europe so I bought a very early production "Tin Can". in 1100 (1098cc) & 1300 versions (the smaller capacity versions were produced for specific European markets for taxation reasons). Escorts were originally marketed in the U.K. I read in "Motor Sport" last night the Lotus Cortina described as "the world's first homologation special", well the Escort became its younger cousin. Lying in a freezing puddle in the rain high on the Yorkshire Moors chipping brake pad material off the disc it had welded itself to, while Lockheed changed the master cylinder, was a new kind of fun.Ĭo-driver of No1 had won the Starlight (road) Rally earlier in the year, navigating her regular driver, some bloke from Brent Vale Motor Club named Tony Pond, in a Cooper S. In the same class (1), No.138, the Searle Siemssen/Barbara Sabey Mini Cooper (YPL406H - the French equivalent to this site is very big on "immatriculations") finished despite my new-found service crew "expertise" and Lockheeds best attempts to eliminate every Mini in the event by supplying a batch of faulty new dual-circuit master cylinders that jammed the brakes on at some unexpected moment.
I see Nick Wa's original choice of car/capacity class the previous year had found favour with a higher authority by 1970! What the current crop of WRC moaners would make of it I hate to think, now just one place on the road counts for so much. This time ladies first, followed by ordained ministers of the church.
The 1970 RAC seems to have adopted yet another new seeding system.
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