A fairy tale, or fake news? …. The following two images are taken from the rally programme for the 1990 Johnstons & Paton Rally in Argyll. This was the fourth round of the Esso Scottish Rally Championship that year and the event preview highlighted the appearance of another promising youngster while previewing the championship’s progress so far. Oh! And by the way, the entry fee was £140 plus 10 quid for event insurance while the 122 mile rally route, which started from Dunoon, contained eight Special Stages with 48 miles of forestry roads. And another thing, the rally started at 11.00am and the first cars were back in Dunoon just after 5!
The rally was won by Donald Milne and Bob Wilson in the Metro 6R4 from the Toyota Celica of Jimmy Girvan and Campbell Roy with the Mazda 323 of George Gauld and Stella Boyles in third place. As for the ‘hero’ of the preview, after setting third fastest time over the opening stage the gearbox of Dom Buckley and Doug Redpath’s Mazda dismantled itself rather violently!
Anyway, you might (or might not!) enjoy the preview as printed in Lanarkshire Car Club’s 22 page rally programme which was priced at 50p ….
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