Salt, snow, frozen carbs and rallying 911's

[bjmullan]

Decided last night (after looking at the weather forecast) to go and watch a couple of stages of the RAC (Roger Albert Clarke) rally and I took the Porsche. Well it was obvious from the start that salt had been put down last night but I thought what the hell....then on the way over Beattock summit on the M74 the car started to lose power, I limped off the motorway at Beattock and when I took a look there was ice formed around large parts of both carb banks I waited for over 1/2 hour for the sun to come up and defrost me and the car. Got her started and drove 2-3 miles in forest tracks to get to the stage. Had a great, if cold and wet day and other than the frozen carbs my Honey was fantastic And getting to see the Lancia Stratos on a rally stage for the first time in 30 years made the day just FANTASTIC.

And here is a couple of picture from the day ....





And if you want to see more then check out the following link...

RAC 2006

[rafiki]

Looks like Lepley's Prepfab Porsche usually driven by Jimmy McRae on the Armajaro series. (He should have been in the next car...the Prepfab prepared Escort entered by Stobart.)

[Gary71]

Lovely set of pictures Brendan, I'll spend some more time browsing on Flickr later.

[dugsud]

Nice pictures Brandan, also good to see early 911 being used in all weathers from time to time!

Hope you gave her a good blast under the arches when you got back

Doug

[bjmullan]

I now have posted a couple of videos to youtube.....

Lancia Stratos

911