Engine Punk

In the dark on Simms. Did we get up? Read on (Photo : Peter Browne) For once preparations were well in hand for the Exeter Trial. I had proved the car was running well in a couple of day trials and fitted a new hood. It was even clean and polished before Christmas. Then I got a phone call from Binky. The prangs we’d had with the Honda outfit on the Testing Trial back in the summer had damaged his shoulder and a combination of poor posture and stress at work had put him in a lot of pain. He said he would come down to Cornwall for the start but then went on to ask me about comfortable seats and what was the heater like because the cold upset his neck. I pondered my options. I couldn't put my pedigree chum through a trial in that state. Everyone I knew down this way was either competing or marshalling or on holiday. Nigel Cowling was keen but full of cold and had volunteered to send off the entrants from Betty Cottles at Okehampton. He was prepared to re-arrange but his wif...