I u-turned at bit further down the road, and wnet for a ganders. Turned out to be a clubmen Group A Peugeot 106 Rallye Series 1, 1294cc. Mmmm, interesting. Turned out the car was there as a favour for the guy who looked after it, for the man who owned it.
Dazed and confused, I left with a phone number for Simon Galliford of GalRal to ring for more details. A brief test later that week on Visions stage at Westcott, and the deal was done with Phil Morgan (the owner) for £7K and it's all yours...
Not knowing what to do with it, I thought the best thing was to go to Vision's stage again, and have a practice - much to Dave Nutts annoyance, as he kept telling me to 'just go and do a rally!" 10 minutes later we are heading towards a concrete fence post at 60mph, when Dave pulls the handbrake so we go in backwards ripping off the rear bumper - good start!
So its a quick repair before our first event (eh???) which we decided to do at Snetterton circuit in February. Well after smacking it on the gravel airfield, maybe I will be safer on tarmac for a while???
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