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History<\/h1>\n

We started rallying around 2001, buying our first car, a Talbot Sunbeam from a friend\u00a0in our motor club. We kept this for around 6 years, upgrading the engine from the\u00a0Fiat\/Lancia Twink to a Vauxhall RedTop, MBE Engine management, Quaife LSD, etc.\u00a0However a few things made us think it was time to have a newer car. Whenever anyone\u00a0who is not a rally person asks what you rally they look at you blankly when you\u00a0say Sunbeam – no real problem, but it demonstrates how old the car was. Secondly,\u00a0parts were starting to become rare and expensive, and thirdly I was unsure that\u00a0when I wrapped it around a tree I would be able to find a shell. I put it up for\u00a0Sale and it quickly sold and so we were Rally-car-less.<\/p>\n

I had been mulling over the next car for some time. Propshafts are in short supply,people like driving tuggers too much, and so those of us with a rear wheel steer\u00a0penchant have a limited choice. Enter BMW and the E36. My inital thought was to\u00a0buy something like a 316\/318, take everything out and throw away and install an\u00a0“M” engine. Then experience kicked in and I remembered how much trouble installing the XE into the Sunbeam was, so thought change of plan, lets get a 328. Nothing much happened on the enthusiasm front until Wifey (AKA Navvy) and I marshalled on the Fat Albert Stages at Keevil on Saturday in July. We were on the start line, so after letting 600ish cars go I spent that evening looking for 328s. Then I saw a page about someone racing an M3, so as a matter of interest I looked at the prices. For relatively small amounts more than a 328 I could get an M3. Sunday I rang up a couple of owners and by Next Friday evening, and after a quick trip to Inverkip\u00a0 Nr Glasgow, we owned an M3.<\/p>\n

I feel that it is only appropriate that I mention someone called Lindsay here. Lindsay\u00a0lives in Inverkip Nr Glasgow (Co-incidentely where I went) and is the girl I bought the M3 off. I made no bones about what I wanted the car for, but poor Lindsay didn’t\u00a0quite appreciate what turning a car from road use to rallying use meant. I told\u00a0her I didn’t care about the Radio being less than functional, as it would come\u00a0out. I told her that I wasn’t stressed about the mirrors not working, as they\u00a0would be changed, but still after looking at this page too often I got an email\u00a0from her shortly after I started this web page entitled “Traumatised”.\u00a0On the bright side she still talks to me but thinks, in Lindsay’s words that I am,\u00a0“off my head”. Good job that she has not met some of you then. More alarmingly\u00a0she has now informed me the car is called Eric. I have never understood naming cars,\u00a0and certainly not Eric.<\/p>\n

The owner before Lindsay, Jim, has also been in touch but doesn’t seem quite\u00a0so stressed, maybe Lindsay prepared him for the trauma.<\/p>\n

\"Finshed<\/a>

Car with new wheels fitted, just waiting for it’s first event now<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

History We started rallying around 2001, buying our first car, a Talbot Sunbeam from a friend\u00a0in our motor club. We kept this for around 6 years, upgrading the engine from the\u00a0Fiat\/Lancia Twink to a Vauxhall RedTop, MBE Engine management, Quaife LSD, etc.\u00a0However a few things made us think it was time to have a newer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m3rally.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m3rally.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m3rally.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m3rally.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m3rally.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.m3rally.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/www.m3rally.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m3rally.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}