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Vintage Thing No.16 - the Cox Triumph outfit

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Binky and Ginger contemplate Bishop's Wood before nailing it and going BOBO - Ball's Out, Brain Off I have a great deal of affection for this machine as this is what Team Robert campaigned in the 2005 and 2006 Land's End Trials. It belonged until recently to my mate Rob Robinson-Collins. That's him driving and that's me poised to do some rapid gymnastics to stop us crashing. The photo above was taken by Charlie Wooding (the official MCC photographer) on the 2005 event in Bishop's Wood near Wadebridge moments just before our finest five minutes. This remains one of my highs in a sporadic competition career. Career? I didn't get any money from it - I paid to do it. We just careered everywhere and it felt great, me, Rob and the Cox Triumph all doing our own thing and somehow going in roughly the same direction. On this section, we had to cross a steep forestry track at an angle and then blast up a sunken lane between the trees. We went BOBO - "...