A week ago the second running of 'Targa Adelaide' took place here in Adelaide, South Australia, but for the first time it was open to modern cars as well as classics, so the field ranged from a Hillman Imp to a couple of Lamborghini Gallardo's - with the usual Escorts, TR's, Evo's, GTR's etc inbetween. This time round I was navigating in a huge V8 Aussie 1969 Holden Monaro. There was also a Triumph Mk1 in the field:
The 'Modern' section of the rally was won by one of the Gallardo's, but the overall Classic section of the event was won by my ex-driver, Craig Haysman, in the TR7V8 he recently aquired from Ian Wilson, (of Triumph Rover Spares here in Adelaide), he now has our previous car, the 'red' one up for sale.
The yellow car was purpose built as a tarmac rally car by TRS from a bare shell, pictures of the build being on their website - it is a beast of a thing!
For you that imagine that Australia is the land of the sun, wrong! The event had everything weather wise, rain, (lots of!), gale force winds, hale, fog, low cloud, then sun on the final day. All in all it was atrocious, had better weather doing Targa Tasmania and that is reknowned for being horrible!
And this is the Monaro I was strapped in to, (BTW: I'm the St George flag part of the team [:)] ):