SJW888S was a rally car in earlier times .
Browsing through some old rally pages on Facebook I am always on the look out for any TR7 related stuff and I noticed a familiar registration number on the entry list for the 1985 Port Talbot Novice road rally,
TR7 SJW888S at start number 5.
Asking around on the page I tracked down the navigator David Collins so I contacted him to ask what he could remember about the car. He said it had originally been a BL managers car (hence the close registration number to the TR7 Sprint development cars) but had been rolled by the managers son. The roof was quite badly damaged so it was sold off and rebuilt by his driver Martin Hall as a rally car. They used it on quite a lot of events in the 1980s and he even sent me some pictures of them in action, see below.
When they rallied it the car ran a tuned version of the standard 8 valve motor and the obvious difference now is the colour was originally yellow. Apparently it went pretty well and they had enjoyed themselves getting some decent results.
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