Tag: Historic Rallying

And we’re off! Enjoy the noise in the tunnel!

At 4 am the alarm awoke me rudely to the first of 8 days of early 911 fun. After a nice wonderful breakfast prepared by Mrs S, I set out to pick up my co-driver Joost in Zeist. Our schedule permitted a quick espresso and we left to meet Fer and Gerard and their red 1973 2.4S Targa at the Dutch German border.

In the meanwhile we are at 1/3 of the 1.000 km track from Amsterdam to Sankt Wolfgang near Salzburg, from where the Winter Trial 2010 departs tomorrow morning. We have dodged two traffic jams already and missed a pile up by 2 minutes, judging by the limited size of the traffic jam…

Our 2.7 RS engine hums away beautifully and Joost and I discussed what a huge job it is to get everything, particularly the car, ready for a rally of this magnitude. Then again, the way our Silverado behaves, drives and [...]

Joost Cohen, my co-driver, and I collected Silverado from the Blankemeijer Brothers today, who had niggled the final details on the car. The rattling sunroof now behaves nicely and has gone quiet and the spare Messerschmitt fuel pump went into the smuggler’s box. Frans found a blister on the inside of one of the rear tires, both got replaced by SnowTrac 3 Vredensteins. We had two outside mirrors RS style fitted and what a difference in visibility!

At scrutineering one of the officials thought we were running modern bulbs in our headlights and driving lights, but once they warmed up the blue glow disappeared. That was all they could find…

As a snowstorm was arriving we left Veenendaal with all our goodies and I drove Silverado to its birth. On a quiet strip of highway I could dip into the power of the 2.7 RS engine and managed to shoot a few seconds of [...]