29-08-2020, 11:44 AM
(28-08-2020, 09:29 PM)Steve kay Wrote: Cor, if I ever swap trialling and go into stage rallying, an Austin Ten must be the very machine!The prewar Austin 10 Cambridge is regarded as one of the sturdiest cars around. Rivalled perhaps by the post-war SAAB 96. When I was in my teens I had a weekend job at nearby garage JCT 600 which was owned by Jack Tordoff who at the time rallied a SAAB 96. His stage rally car had rolled seven times but the standard body had never deformed onto the internal roll cage. The works rally cars had standard body shells apart from small pieces of angle steel reinforcement along the tops of the front wings. Even a strut brace between the tops of the front suspension mountings was standard.