Cortina wrote:Looks like UWD774G is still waiting for it's first MOT !!!! .............. where is it now ?
PS Looks like a Craigantlet corner ??
It was MoT'd regularly at the time, but it was way before electronic records!
We bought it in 1979, just before our first baby (!) having had an Irish Green 914 before that I had rebuilt from fire damage, and taken out to 2.1 litre on twin SuperVee Solexes, and a few other nice bits.
The 911S had already been welded , and fitted with fibreglass front wings, at 10 years old, remember! I also had to do more welding around the sills and kidney bowls to get it through one MoT..........
The buzz of getting the 2litre engine set up right, and then keeping the needle between 5 and 7200 is still fresh in my mind. On that car, it made a big difference getting the dwell angle set accurately, even though several experts told me it didn't make any difference with CDI.
Unfortunately it lost an argument with a dry stone wall behind the rhododendrons to the left of the Gate at Wiscombe Park in September 1981. There were various extenuating circumstances involving a very late night, copious amounts of alcohol, and a very early start to change the brake master cylinder at 5 in the morning before the event, but that was life at the time.............
Anyway, we took it down the road to Oak Tree Garage, and Crispin and Josh Sadler checked it over. It was about 5" shorter one side than the other. The considered opinion was that it needed about £1500 of accident repairs, and about another £1500 to sort out all the rust damage. As it was only worth about £3000 at the time (I paid £2650 for it!) it wasn't worth doing, and we broke it.
And that explains in a few short lines why so few of those lovely cars survive today!
The corner isn't Craigantlet, unfortunately. We didn't get to bring that car over for it, it is Ashes at Gurston Down.
Here's the same corner in not quite so nice conditions a couple of years ago in our present car.
We brought this car to Craigantlet and Kirkistown in 1987 when they had both events the same weekend, which made it worthwhile. My brother Mervyn shared the drive at Kirkistown. That was a great week-end!
Life's a single timed run with no practice....
1970 914/6 2.4E/Webers
1970 VW Beetle project
1972 911 Hillclimber 3.2 MFI. Part of the family for 30+ years!
2006 Hymer Merc Starline 630
2000 T4 Van LPG
2000 Golf V5 Estate GT (Greyhound Transport!)