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baby blue Morris 1800
Land Crab, which i never understood even then. Some rally success if I recall.
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Paddy hopkirk got 2nd in the London to Sidney rally. That car is in the motor museum at gaydon.
Also won a rally before, in chezlovakia? Think that was it.
Why that stuck in my mind and important stuff escaped is annoying
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I saw this in the metal at the Princes Risborough Kop Hill Climb either 2022 or 2021. My picture up-thread somewhere but nicked this one off the internet
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I still remember the first time aged about 10 I got a lift in my dad's mates 900 turbo, was black with red interior and I thought it was a space ship compared to the bangers my folks were driving.
And it had headrests in the back, which along with twin exhausts and electric windows marked you out as a millionaire or a royal in the early 80's.
I had a couple of old school spots over the weekend. Coolest car I saw in Mayfair yesterday, forget the wall to wall dead to me Lambo's, Porches and Range Rovers, was this little factory fresh gem. A boggo standard Mk1 1.1L Ford Fiesta, from the first year of release, 1976. Before this Fiesta was just a full bush grot mag you'd find in a hedge.
And this gave me a flashback to my folks' bangernomics car days as we had one of these for a while when I was a kid. All I remember about it was it seemed huge inside and was very comfortable on shit country roads, a baby blue Morris 1800.