TMK:

Original model is no indicator of a homologated car's performance. A few years back I saw on TV, coverage of one of the races from Goodwood, where a big old Jag XJ6 had an Austin A30 (see below) all over the back of it for the entire race, in a fight for third place, I believe.

An A30:

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One of my neighbours soups up and races old MGs for fun - but in an official series. He's a little perverse, though, in that currently he runs an MG 1100, which he's got doing 0-60 in under 5 seconds!

MG 1100:

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evilC wrote:
...although I've got a soft spot for the sheer mentalism of the Metro 6R4:



That's brilliant. It looks exactly like it's made from Lego.

Just catching up on this thread a couple of days late - Peter Harper was one of my first motorsport idols, along with Hugh Wheldon, Rod Chapman, Jumping Jeff Williamson and Roger Clark he lit up my TV screens in the early days of televised rallycross from Cadwell Park (ITV World of Sport) and Lydden Hill (BBC in the Players No.6 series). Along with the muddied heroes of what used to be called motorcycle scrambling, they were responsible for kickstarting my lifelong love of motorsport.

Although I'm too young to remember rallying in the 1960s, events run to similar rules for period cars are becoming ever more popular. These are generally in the form of regularity sections, where competitors have to maintain an average speed for long periods (often on narrow mountain roads, and often with different target speeds in the same regularity section) interspersed with tests on private land to challenge the drivers skill at speed and manoevreability. One of the most famous is Le Jog (Lands End to John O'Groats), which is a winter event that has some seriously long days and spectacular roads.

nb - That Metro shot above - not only do I know who, where and when, but I can even identify the exact spot at the venue - how sad am I? [no answer required]

What is motorbike scramble? Motocross?

Indeed.

Speaking of which, I'm on my way home from work tonight and I pass Rogers Centre (formerly Skydome) and see a bunch of semis parked in the staging lot.

Some of them say odd things on the side like Kawasaki and Yamaha and such, and I think 'that's peculiar...it's almost like it's Supercross weekend, but I go to that every year' and then a big pixelboard flashes above me "SUPERCROSS...MARCH 13".

And I say "Oh, darn" only more sweary and loudly.

Sorry to rerail the thread, but does anyone else find this quote from Lady Susie Moss downright sinister?

"This was a very unfortunate accident, it could have just as easily been another member of the family stepping into where the lift should have been."

Gangster Octopus wrote:
My father's friends with Trevor Taylor, although, sadly, probably not for much longer.
And Taylor beats my father again. Alhough it'll not be my much...

Gangster Octopus wrote:
Gangster Octopus wrote:
My father's friends with Trevor Taylor, although, sadly, probably not for much longer.
And Taylor beats my father again. Alhough it'll not be my much...

Sorry to hear that, G.O.

Is it just me, or is Jim Clark looking strangely Rio Ferdinand-like in this photo:

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Look here. The plural of "snipe" is "snipe". Poor show.

One of the most famous is Le Jog (Lands End to John O'Groats), which is a winter event that has some seriously long days and spectacular roads.

I'm a bit out of touch, and too lazy too check, but I think the bloke who used to quite often win LEJOG, and who drove an open Willys Jeep (no mean feat, given the conditions under which it's often run) had a finger amputated one year rather than miss the event.