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<\/a><\/p>\nIt was pretty cosy in there. And hot. And very, very loud. Ideal for a 120 mile journey on a Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
I did try many times to chat to Ste about the car. He told me all about it in great detail. Sadly it was like one of those nightclub conversations where I caught the odd syllable while nodding and smiling a lot. Suffice to say both the engine and Ste were happiest bouncing off the limiter and the car was rapid, light, and insanely grippy in the bends.<\/p>\n The other car in our convoy was an old favourite, Ian’s S50B32 powered E30.<\/p>\n Following a lively curry we stayed the night at the frankly terrible Mount Pleasant hotel in Malvern. I had a room with a view.<\/p>\n In the morning I topped up the can of beans and curry with an appalling fried breakfast and we jollied off to Shelsley Walsh, firing on all cylinders.<\/p>\n Then came the cars. Oh the wonderful, wonderful cars. Here’s my favourite.<\/p>\n How good is that? What do you think about this?<\/p>\n Then this.<\/p>\n These all followed us into the car park within minutes. It was hilarious.<\/p>\n What I enjoyed most was the obvious respect shown for motoring heritage.<\/p>\n There’s nothing quite like an immaculate, unmolested MkI Golf.<\/p>\n Okay okay. So it wasn’t all comedy. Let’s try and fix things, starting with that Golf.<\/p>\n There were plenty of RS representatives.<\/p>\n Ste summed up this amazing MkI Escort carrying an RS Cosworth lump very well: “This is a beautiful conversion. It’s really tidy and a great combination of car and engine. However it is four wheel drive, and that makes me very sad indeed.”<\/p>\n Then I found RS500 number 159 and time stopped.<\/p>\n Once I’d tidied myself up we headed to the paddock at the bottom of the hill sprint route, where some interesting kit was waiting for us.<\/p>\n We walked up the hill. It was knackering. We should have taken a car like the sensible folk.<\/p>\n Ian even stretched the old girl’s legs…<\/p>\n But entertaining as that was, the comedy cars really were the highlight for me.<\/p>\n This Volvo had a T5 engine under the bonnet. And one in the boot.<\/p>\n This thing was powered by something insane – probably a Porsche engine. Went up the hill like a rat up a drain pipe!<\/p>\n To finish off, some more photos from the paddock. All in all, an amazing day out. At \u00a37.50 a ticket, great value for money and highly recommended! <\/p>\n All 106 photos can be found here<\/a>. Any photo both here and on the all photos page may be clicked to view a high resolution version. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last weekend I journeyed off with some old friends for a weekend of curry and cars. What a weekend it was! Naturally I began proceedings on Saturday morning with more than a hint of a hangover, so put in a can of beans on toast and awaited the arrival of Ste, my taxi driver for […] Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3187,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions\/3187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n