This three car A35 set depicits the cars built and driven by Rae Davies in the Top Hat "Oldies But Goldies" pre 60's Touring Car series, followed by invitations to the Goodwood Revival Races.

Rallying has produced many great drivers and Rosemary Smith is certainly one of them, but non-are anywhere near as glamorous as the Dublin based fashion designer and model. She is synonymous with Imps and won the Tulip Rally outright in 1965, in a car similar to the one modelled here. EDU 710C was her car on the 1965 RAC rally and was works built. Rosemary purchased it in 2003 and has had it restored to 1965 specification for use on historic events.

Dertermined to stand out from the crowd, the experienced classic saloon car racer, Tony Lake set out to build something different. His self-prepared car is unique in the historic touring car fraternity and the spectators always gave a very positive reaction to seeing something completely different on the racetrack.

A young Roger Clark was starting to make a name in the rally world, while driving a white Ford Cortina MkI GT he had prepared at his family's Ford dealership. After winning the Scottish Rally in 1964, the basically standard white bodyshell was starting to literally fall apart and by then the young talented Roger Clark was able to secure a full-strength 'works' bodyshell in Red. The car was built up using many parts from the old car and so was able to retain it's 2ANR registration that it carried on the white car and before that on his original Mini Cooper.

In 1971 the then Brands Hatch MD, Jon Webb, organised a race that pitted F1 Grand Prix drivers against their team managers in Ford Escort Mexicos. This event was a graet success and this led to Ford loaning Webb twenty mechanically identical Mexicos in Febuary 1973. After sponsorship had been obtained from Shellsport and Avon Tyres the cars were known as the Shellsport Mexicos and ran on Avon cross-ply tyres which were inflated to 45psi. Modifications to the cars were carried out at Ford AVO facility in Aveley and were limited to the fitting of Britax three point harnesses, Bilstein shock absorbers, roll cage, battery cut off and four spoke RS alloy wheels.

It is no exaggeration to say this model repersents the start of a legend, for XOO 262F is the first Escort to win an international rally. Over the Easter weekend of 1968, Roger Clark and Jim Porter convincingly won The Circuit of Ireland and demonstrated the potential of Ford's new small car.

H161 HHJ was built as a show car by sponsors Q8, and faetured in a great deal of pre-event publicity as the car that Malcolm Wilson and Nicky Grist would drive on the 1991 RAC Rally. The actual works car featured four round headlights in place of the standard Sierra ones seen on the publicity car modelled here.

KDU 497N was the first TR7 rally car to be built and was used as the development vehicle for the programme, the first test of which was on 4th March 1976. Although the TR7 was not yet available to buy with the 16 valve Sprint engine, this power plant was homologated from the beginning and was used for nearly two years before the V8 powered cars appeared in April 1978. The TR7 rally programmes third test session, held at Chobham, was also used as a publicity opportunity with the press being given rides in KDU 497N.

In late 1979 Julius Thurgood puchased a venerable 1967 MGB Roadster that had been used as a racecar for most of its life. Fuelled by ambition to compete in long distance events, Julius teamed up with brothers Rae and Graham Davis to form the Moto-Build racing team in order to contest the inaugral 1980 Willhire 24 Hours at Snetterton. The rebuilt MG stood up well against modern machinery in this gruelling marathon, despite being sidlined with a broken differential in the early hours of the Sunday morning. The errant axle was rebuilt in the pits using parts from an A60 van retrieved from a local scrapyard. The team resumed the race to finish 16th overall, winning £200 in prize money for their efforts.

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Ford put a tremendous amount of effort into the 1967 Safari Rally, entering seven cars in total and spending a budget of £50,000 on the event. However the car developed alternator trouble during one of the stages and were unable to use all their lights, causing them to plunge headlong into a huge trench running across the track which finished their rally. The rally was won by the previous years winner Bert Shankland and Chris Rothwell in a Peugeot 404.

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Introduced in Feburary 1956, along with its 204E / 206E Consul and Zodiac sister cars, the Zephyr was the mid-point of a successful range of cars that lasted until April 1962.

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Ivan Dutton's success in saloon car racing started in 1972, when he drove the Lyons Quick Brew Ford Escort to a class victory in the Britax Production Saloon Car Championship. Ivan followed the debut by both winning the 1973 Britax and Castrol production championships outright in his quick Escort. By 1974 Ivan had swapped to Capri's- winning the first ever Gp.1 race by beating Tony Lanfranchi and Tom Walkinshaws Works Capri's in a self prepared entry.