The Boss's New Toy - Rally Prepared Mk1 Escort

Steering wheel supplied by Momo. We opted for the Model 08, alcantara with blue centre.
We insure our car with Competition Car Insurance.


The Solway Coast Rally was my first forrest event in October 2008. Due to delays in getting the car ready, I didn't get any testing in first. In fact I'd never driven a car in anger in any forrest before....

and unfortunately I did this to it........

My excuse is that I was doing the rally blind with no pace notes and another crew who were using pace notes told me that before the corner where I went off the call was "warning slippy" and even they had a 'moment'. We went off down a banking into a stump field at about 60mph.

Car is now being repaired at Johnnie Johnston Motorsport in Tarbolton, Ayrshire. We are keeping a photographic record of the repairs on Johnnie's website. Click on the logo below to go there.

Johnnie Johnston Motorsport