Skoda Rally Blog

There have been some doubts about us doing WRGB this year. Money is a bit tight for both of us, but this weekend we’ve decided we’re going to do it for sure.

Which means we’ll need a recce car. Handily the Felicia from last year has been at Paul’s since, well since we came back, so it’s been there for 6 months or so. Unloved. Unused. Unstarted. Unwashed.

But this weekend it became a bit more, er, urgent, ‘cos I had sold my Focus, and then on Saturday night, I sold the Fabia, which left me with no car to drive! So the resurrection began. Which was alarmingly simple – wash off six months of grime (which as I’d waxed the car before it got put away wasn’t too bad), change the forest tyres for something more suitable for an MOT (in this case the 048 Yokos I had as my tarmac tyres for the Sunseeker), and give it a damn good clean inside. And amazingly it passed the MOT straight off aside from needing the headlamps adjusted. It had a tiny split in the CV boot which needed superglueing up, but I’ll fix that properly soon. But I’m well impressed that a car that cost ?370, did all the WRGB stages (twice all except Crychan), and 1000 miles trolling about and then was left to die for 6 months can be as happy as larry within a day.

I just hope the rally car build goes as well – at the moment I’m STILL waiting for the tube notcher to arrive – the shell is largely welded up, so the cage is the next stage.