The 2019 (90th) Exeter Trial
Contemplating the route card over Christmas I have just been plotting with my mud brother, the irrepressible Lee Peck, about the forthcoming 90th Exeter Trial. The 90th! Lee's Christmas shopping in Oxford. I had barely woken up as I am trying to bank sleep before the excitement of the festive season begins - Christmas, New Year, Exeter Trial. There is a LOT about which to get excited. Lee will be passengering me in my recently acquired Arkley-MG Midget, running in Class 7. We'll be starting from Sourton Cross near Okehampton and as this is only the second outing with this car, after the Camel Classic earlier this month, we are out for the crack and a Finisher's certificate. So what's new? Anything more than that is a bonus. Shiny new trials car The Arkley was owned by Ray Goodwright for many years and has been developed for much of that time by another mud brother, Adrian Booth. Age bought it last year and brought it back to life with lots of new p...