The chaps at Southam Mini and Metro Centre at Napton-on-the-Hill near Southam in Warwickshire have done a fantastic job in putting the car back together after its gearbox refresh by lunch time on Friday. Their sterling efforts have enabled us to have the car as planned to support our team day Sunday on 12th December, although it will need to go back on Monday for some final fettling.
Peter Moss travelled up from Surrey, and Nigel Chetwynd from the Cotswolds to spend the day together pouring over route instructions and maps to work out the route, and to agree on the final jobs list to improve the car. Our meeting was very necessary in order to start to build up our team relationships, be aligned on where the rally is going, and select the best places for the Mini to receive service.
We have a new team member joining our service crew - Lisa has had to bow out due to unavoidable prior committments during the rally period, so we are pleased to announce that Simon Wheatcroft has agreed to join the team. Simon will be well known to many Mini Cooper enthusiasts, but was not able to join us today at such short notice.
An objective for the day was to have Peter sit in the car in order to assess what we might need to adjust in order to make him feel comfortable. Peter is quite tall so we will have to change the navigators seat in order to get him sitting lower in the car. He has also given me some other co-pilot aids to wire in so that he can feel really at home and be able to concentrate on the job in hand.
The Automobile Club de Monaco http://www.acm.mc/rmch/rmch_main.php have now issued the list of 328 starting numbers for the rally, and we have drawn 282. The other minis in the Mini Cooper Register team are listed as follows:
218 - Gandy/Stephane Campo F 1969 Austin Mini Cooper S Glasgow
222 - Jean-Paul Burnier/Patrick Alibaux F 1975 Innocenti Mini Cooper Glasgow
273 - Peter Barker/Willy Cave GB 1965 Austin Mini Cooper S Reims
282 - Alastair Vines/Peter Moss GB 1964 Austin Mini Cooper S Reims
319 - Anthony Hart/Graeme Allan GB 1965 Morris Mini Cooper S Glasgow
321- Bill Richards/William Morrow GB 1965 Morris Mini Cooper S ReimsMany of the crews will come together for a Mini Cooper Register Rally Team meeeting on the 8th January in Coventry in order that our individual preparations can be aligned with our team mates in an effort to maximise co-operation and mutual support.
It's getting very exciting now with so much beginning to happen.
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