1960 Triumph TR3a in Liège-Brescia-Liège rally

falkor

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"Below on Deck 5 Yoo Hoo, my 1960 Triumph TR3a, is packed to the rollcage with all our gear and a few additions. What a ride it’s been over the last 11 days... "

"I didn’t get much sleep two nights ago in Bretten in Germany, tossing and turning with worry about the brakes, or lack of them. John Smallwood, my co-driver, and I had been nursing the car for two days with brake problems and both of us had quite near misses. We had talked to Simon Courtney and Mike Collins from the RAC and we’d deduced the front-brake master cylinder was sucking air into the system and was failing, but I hadn’t brought a spare.

"John and I decided to get up at 5am to bleed the system once more and then make a decision. We could continue to nurse the car, but the problem was getting worse and, as Courtney said: “It’s getting to be a road safety issue.”

"The security men hired by the mayor of Bretten to keep an eye on the cars were out there when we walked out at daybreak, along with some friendly but noisy drunks, who looked like they’d been there all night. We jacked her up and began to pump at each brake caliper, air continually spat and spluttered out of the pipe and the pedal was on the floor; this was hopeless.

We didn’t speak, just packed up the old car, both of us knew we were through. All that hard work, all the efforts of friends and family, the kindness of strangers and all that money, all for nothing. full story 'He's only gone and won it': Liège-Brescia-Liège classic car rally diary just imagine doing that in a P6 !
 

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