30 Mar 2021, 19:32 (Ref:4043970)
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Originally Posted by GORDON STREETER
It's a pity that we didn't know what was going to happen with cars such as the RS 1600 in later years. A friend of mine bought a gold coloured one brand new and used it for about a year thrashing it through the country roads in our area, he put it through a hedge one night and we went to recover it the next day minus it's wheels/battery/carburettors ! He had it sitting in his garage for a while and eventually flogged it for £300 !!!. I don't remember the reg number and I wonder if it has survived .
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Like I stuffed a Mk1 Aeroflow Lotus Cortina (66 model) through a stone wall on Anglesey.......dragged it home and broke it because it was just an old Ford.....all I have left is the Lotus badges off the rear quarters...... 
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Richard Murtha: You don't stop racing because you are too old, you get old when you stop racing! But its looking increasingly likely that I've stopped.....have to go back to rallying ;)
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