Extreme makeover from a fire truck into a 'service' car

[Z-point]

This is bizarre! You marshalled the Tulpen rally, you must be a Dutchman…..
I’m in mail contact wit Bob because he navigated in some Works Datsun’s
Why I must have a Helphos, I better put a searchlight on the roof.

I also have my hesitations about the black bonnet. It makes the front/nose to small, to dark. Perhaps it is different when you bring in the Oscars. or still a white bumper??

[Terry]

Sorry not a Dutchman, but a (then) crazy Englishman, Rallying was EVERYTHING.




For the Tulip I asked for the Monday (after the event ) off work and the company said NO, so I quit & they said the classic' You can't do that' & I replied with the classic 'Watch me'

It went on for quite a while...........


And it all got so expensive.


Even ( freelance) 'servicing' which is what I did was prohibitively costly.
So I got out !

[Z-point]

Sorry not a Dutchman, but a (then) crazy Englishman, Rallying was EVERYTHING.

For the Tulip I asked for the Monday (after the event ) off work and the company said NO, so I quit & they said the classic' You can't do that' & I replied with the classic 'Watch me'

And it all got so expensive.


Even ( freelance) 'servicing' which is what I did was prohibitively costly.
So I got out !

Very classic indeed, loved to see his face
Oh my God, he has got the TAP road book !!!!!
Two Datsun took part as far as know. Chris Sclater / Bob de Jong (UK/ NL)
Antonio Carlos de Oliveira

[Z-point]

I forgot to say you have been where we all are dribbling of. A boys dream came through..

[Terry]

Photo bucket is having problems, but all I had to photograph were a couple of handwritten lists of the running order ....
One shows.....

15th March , Car order at Figuera da Foz ( before stage 2)
4th car 18 Datsun (Withers),
13th car 7, Sclater (Withers),

The second sheet.
16th March after Stage 9 (Penacova Bridge)

16th car 18 Datsun.

This list stops at place 20 !
I don't appear to have an entry list.

[Z-point]

They both didn't finish

[Z-point]

If I let go of the old rally colours red and black and go this way, what do you think? Cheerful is it not?

The example I found on the website, changed the colours a bit. Now it has datsun colours on it; red, white and blue.

[piazza]

I've got a pair of lucas sealed beam fog? and driving lamp wonder if there's money there?

[Z-point]

I've got a pair of lucas sealed beam fog? and driving lamp wonder if there's money there?

The Lucases are 5" and to small for this kind of Van's, they are doing good on MG's. Might try sell them on eBay.

[Mike N]

Why not paint the top of the front wings black, that would match the black bonnet, it would look good as if it should be there and not like a new unpainted spare had just been chucked on?

Mike.

[captain hook]

I've still got the 2-way radios from my 1974 Escort and Transit service barge in the loft! Should still work!

[Terry]

Ah Captn Hook, tell (S)me(e) more about the radios, are they likely to be for sale ?, assuming they work

[captain hook]

No reason why they shouldn't work.........£40pr

I'll try and source some aerials too if you're serious...

Might still have some other bits, lights etc.

I'll take a look in the morning.....

[Terry]

I am serious, a friend races an Integra and we need pit to car radios
We have a set ex Carling but they don't work & the (original supplier people) in Dartford say they can't get bits, and none of us are radio people ! Are they 'in car' or handhelds ?

[Z-point]

Captain, do you have pics from your old barge?