Mini Spares Articles - MiniSpares Historic Rally team Success
Held in north Wales the rally attracted a full entry of 70 Historic cars competing over regularity sections and special timed to the second tests on Saturday 1st September. We had a brilliant morning and were lying 4th overall at lunch with only our test times preventing a higher placing the mini struggling to match the pace of the Porsches and Escorts . The afternoon was less good with 2 tricky to find controls catching us out and giving us a maximum penalty on 2 regularities .
11/09/2012

With navigator Richard Dix in my Cooper S "277 BRX" we collected the "Elvet Pierce Trophy " for the highest placed mini on the Vale of Clwyd Classic Rally .

Held in north Wales the rally attracted a full entry of 70 Historic cars competing over regularity sections and special timed to the second tests on Saturday 1st September. We had a brilliant morning and were lying 4th overall at lunch with only our test times preventing a higher placing the mini struggling to match the pace of the Porsches and Escorts . The afternoon was less good with 2 tricky to find controls catching us out and giving us a maximum penalty on 2 regularities . We finished in 9th overall but were delighted to receive the award for the best mini out of the 8 minis competing .

Importation rules regarding vehicles are very specific: Only those over 25 years in age may be brought in to the USA without compilance to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS).

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