23-04-2020, 11:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 23-04-2020, 12:00 PM by Tony Griffiths.)
(21-04-2020, 08:50 PM)Steve kay Wrote: Is the Austin 8 a hidden trialing possibility? Might it take a confident place in class zero on the Exeter or Lands End next year? The crew's smart phones will be able to record the whole event if that were ever to happen.
Absolutely! The "Eight" was based on the Big Seven and, Bert Hadly, Austin works driver and trials competitor in a Grasshopper, also used his Big Seven to good effect: "I took my Big 7, accompanied by Bob in the Exeter Trial of 1939 and gained a premier award. It made us wonder why we had endured all that open car and drenching rain nonsense."