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This book sets out in graphic detail a hundred tips that cost very little but which will transform your car. For example, how a wire coat-hanger transforms an exhaust system so that it can survive the Sahara Desert, how a tube of bathroom silicone sealer waterproofs an engine, and how a garden chain ensures you don't break the engine-mountings. It offers simple, cost-effective, basic and reliable tips to ensure that any rally car stands a chance of reaching the finishing line. From the lanes of Devon at night, to romping the wilderness of Mongolia, this book is full of illustrated detailed tips, as well as pictures of typical low cost cars setting out on international events. If you are planning any road-based rally, don't even think of leaving home before you've read this book and implemented the tried and tested methods it describes so well.
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Philip Young was so determined not to be a spectator just standing on the sidelines of the 1977 London to Sydney Marathon he built a kit-car Magenta for GBP 1000, and entered the rally as the smallest car and certainly the cheapest international rallycar in the line-up. He has taken part in six Himalayan rallies, in everything from the Archbishop of Canterbury's Morris Minor, a works Skoda, to ex-works Healey and Triumph TR8. Philip is generally credited with having kick-started the historic rally movement with events such as the Pirelli Classic Marathon, the Monte Carlo Challenge, Around the World in 80 Days, Classic Safari, and, in 1997, the 90th anniversary of the Peking to Paris. Philip has seen the pitfalls of where entrants go wrong, and, how bush mechanics make roadside repairs to get a car going again. Having entered rallies himself with no money, he is a keen advocate that "a stitch in time saves nine" and that good preparation, even if from a garden shed, can help many a tortoise overtake a less well-prepared hare. Today he runs the Endurance Rally Association near Oxford.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Having competed in motor sport for many years I cannot believe how many good tips I found in this book - very useful for all rally people.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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A very candid view of what it takes getting a car to finish an endurance rally; with a lot of information that went against my intution and things I heard before in the short circuit racing world!
Written in a friendly tone with many examples of how not to do it.
A must read for any endurance preperation, seasoned or novice.
Written in a friendly tone with many examples of how not to do it.
A must read for any endurance preperation, seasoned or novice.
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If you are a petrol head of a mature vintage your will probably enjoy this, I did. Full of useful simple information and written in an easy and relatively jargon free manner. It has a bias towards endurance rallying. This fella seems to have lived the life I was supposed to be having, very envious of his determination to do what he really enjoys and he is now clealry giving somthing back in the form of this book and his organisational skills for events.
If it could be improved I would have like some more on GB club rallying. It touches on the subject but left me wanting to know more.....suppose I will just have to get out there and find out for myself by doing it, rather than reading about it!
If it could be improved I would have like some more on GB club rallying. It touches on the subject but left me wanting to know more.....suppose I will just have to get out there and find out for myself by doing it, rather than reading about it!
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