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For the sixth time Southsea Motor Club and Bognor Regis Motor Club are delighted to welcome rally competitors back to the beautiful and historic venue of Goodwood, and, for the fourth year running, we are indebted to Towncross Engineering who have agreed to sponsor the event again.
This year we also welcome Highbury College as a partner to the event.
This year we hope to include a TR7 V8 challenge within the rally and to this end will reserve up to ten entries for entrants of this type of car.
It is therefore all the more important to secure an early entry to ensure a run on the day. Please could any potential entrant of a TR7 V8 contact either:-

according to the TR Drivers mag 7 cars already entered

[8 whole cylinders worth of punch to ram the world through the windshield and out the rear view mirror. Car & Driver]
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John

Some good drivers in the rally, Bert Smeets is coming over and Alister Flack is entered, should be a good day.

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Hi,
Got a email from Bert a couple of weeks ago with the entry list, going to take a drive down for sure, would be good to see a few from here down there.
Cheers John

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As well as Bert and Alister we have T R Drivers club member Paul Hunter and Steve Hall with his newly built top spec car.

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The response to our first TR7 V8 challenge has been very positive. Amongst the seven entrants so far are three ex-works cars. Bert Smeets is our first foreign competitor and brings from Belgium Per Eklund's BP Rallysprint winning car of '79 which was also driven by Simo Lampinen on three World Championship events that year.

Dave Rayner will be bringing the last car ever built by the factory and which was driven in 1980 by Per Eklund, Timo Makinen on the 1000 Lakes Rally, and finally John Buffum on the RAC Rally. He will be co-driven by Stuart Harrold who was co-driver in '79 for Graham Elsmore who should also be at Goodwood.

Hopefully Tony Maslen will be bring long the car in which Tony Pond/Fred Gallagher competed on the Welsh, Scottish and Burmah Rallies. In '79 Irish driver Derek Boyd took it on the Galway and Circuit of Ireland rallies and after that it is believed that it was used by Graham Elsmore and Terry Kaby.

With more modern engineered cars from Alistair Flack, Stephen Hall, David Pedley and Paul Hunter the challenge looks set to entertain!

As well as TR7 V8s there are two other noteworthy cars to look out for.

One is the Aston Martin Rally GT of Alan Thistlethwaite. The Aston, which is a rare beast to find in modern day rallying is based on the baby V8 Vantage and is one of four such cars built by Prodrive for Aston Martin in 2006 and is prepared by David Appleby Engineering. Four of these cars were built for rallying in Europe where they cater for this category of car. They were also used at the 2006 Race of Champions at Wembley where this car was driven by Alastair McRae, six times and current World Rally Champion Sebastien Loeb and seven times World F1 Drivers Champion Michael Schumacher.

In contrast to the sleek lines of the powerful Aston is the Morris Marina which will be having its debut outing after a ten year restoration by its owner and driver Trevor Godwin of Coventry Engineering. It is the ex-British Leyland Special Tuning car which their stalwart driver Brian Culcheth drove to a class win on the 1971 RAC Rally. Brian will be visiting the event to be reunited with his former steed.

Add to these the backbone of British rallying, the club drivers, with their many and varied machines which include two previous winners of this event #65533; last years victor Adrian Brown in his 2.4 Escort MkI and his predecessor back to try and reclaim the crown, Simon Mauger, this time with a new Millington 2.5 litre engined Escort MkII.

So if you like variety in your rallying and you want to be entertained and be able to see these cars and competitors up close then Goodwood is the place to be on February 6th.


[8 whole cylinders worth of punch to ram the world through the windshield and out the rear view mirror. Car & Driver]
1981 Grinnall TR7 v8
1981 Black FHC
1979 & 1980 Black Premium FHC(laid to rest) Sorry


John

Am I right in saying the entrance fee for this event is <font size="6">free</font id="size6">. Yes, that's right, I said <font size="6">free</font id="size6">.

Don't realy have an excuse not to go then [:D].

Sadly I can't realistically get there so Mr. Davies, don't forget your video camera!

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Should be a good day, cant wait to see Trevor in the Marina, Ive been following this cars progress these last few years. Has the A series engine with 4 Amal carbs. Be interesting to see how the works TRs compare to the newer cars.

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see you there then Chris

[8 whole cylinders worth of punch to ram the world through the windshield and out the rear view mirror. Car & Driver]
1981 Grinnall TR7 v8
1981 Black FHC
1979 & 1980 Black Premium FHC(laid to rest) Sorry


John

Yes,Il be coming down with Neil Sawyer, unfortunately Neil has not entered so we will be helping either Trevor or one of the TR owners.

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Hi Chris,
Look forward to seeing you mate.
Cheers John

LIVE LIFE A QUARTER OF A MILE AT A TIME!
1979 3.5 FHC(STATUS PENDING!!)

1982 2.0 DHC NOW A 4.6,ON THE ROAD NOW KICKING AR5E !!!!

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Yes,Il be coming down with Neil Sawyer, unfortunately Neil has not entered so we will be helping either Trevor or one of the TR owners.



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Chris, you can tell Mr Sawyer his old car LKG747X is still going strong and now residing in sunny Cardiff [:D][:D].

That was a very fast car, fast driver too.
A pity Neil hasnt entered the rally, his car is not ready.

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[8 whole cylinders worth of punch to ram the world through the windshield and out the rear view mirror. Car & Driver]
1981 Grinnall TR7 v8
1981 Black FHC
1979 & 1980 Black Premium FHC(laid to rest) Sorry


John

love it, great pics hope there are some videos floating around soon.

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