Excitement is building ahead of this year’s Voly Grampian Rally on the 7/8 August and rightly so. Ahead of next year’s anticipated WRC visit, this year’s Scottish Rally Championship counter is attracting interest from much further afield with some of the top international teams sending crews to what was once the UK oil capital – before the politicians started to interfere!
And in a bid to make the newcomers feel right at home, the north east has its own over abundance of top quality stoor. That is the ‘rightful’ north east, the one with Peterhead and Aberdeen and not Newcastle Upon Tyne and Middlesbrough, but I digress, the recent Acropolis Rally featured Greek ‘stoor’ but Scottish stoor is a far superior grade. It is comprised of a very fine strain of celtic grush which is not as cloying and gritty as furrin stuff. That is down to centuries of hie’lan coos hoofing across the landscape, water from illicit stills cascading over the rocks, porridge eaters tramping across the ground, redcoat footsoldiers marching over the hills and glens and the spillage of blood, snot and other fluids which acted as a grinding paste on the Scottish granite. It is however a grade much favoured by the Scottish midge which can safely take to the air when the stoor is flying!
So visitors can be assured of a warm and welcoming reception when they arrive in the north east to sample the local forest fayre as demonstrated here on the 1982 Granite City Rally by the Vauxhall Chevette of Terry Kaby and Rob Arthur, the Opel Ascona of Bill Dobie and Dilys Rogers and catching the dust of the car ahead is the Talbot Sunbeam of Robin Eyre-Maunsell and Peter Scott. As for the final pic, that’s the Ford Escort of Darryl Weidner and John Parker disappearing into the distance followed by a tasty plume of stoor!
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Other pictures of stoor are available and can be posted here if required by other explorers, missionaries and rally fans!
