Hello Pete,
Al these rallies, described in the book, during the ’73 Motoring news Championship did Kevin do this the same car the “KEU”.?
Nutcracker Rally Motoring July News Champ. Car #18 place 6th overall
Stocktonian Rally Motoring News Champ Sept 1 5th overall
Cilwendeg Rally Motoring News Champ. Sept 25 car #8 place 4th overall
Rally of the Vales Motoring News Champ Sept 29 1st overall
Guus
What happened was that we had a huge 'shunt' on the Gremlin when the Trelleborg tyres melted when braking for a T-junction on the Eppynt army ranges and we went head on into a big bank, destroying the bodyshell.
Back at old Woking there was a 'works' car and the UK registration was transferred to that for the next event. So thereafter KEU824K was on a 'works' car and the works car was technically broken up.
KEU 824K was originally RH drive, but had full works parts before we crashed it. After that it was LH drive. Check the photos.
There was a lot of 'plate swapping' in those days and not only on 'Big Z's'. The 'works' Minis were similarly treated in the 60's as were Fords back then.
That's why I'm always sceptical when someone tells me that he "has a genuine 'works' car" of any make or type.
Of course, no-one back then gave a thought to how motoring history would want to catalogue and get the actual history of each and every rally car and how perceived values would be affected by this history. If we had known we might have kept better records at the time.
Peter