Anyway back to the message. Steve, my friend in Abingdon, had seen I had been prepping my MK3 for the Winter rally in Switzerland, and asked if I new anybody who might be interested in a roof rack from the works! The story is, late '66 when the works cars were to carry all their spare wheels for the '67 Monte, the Comps dept ordered a batch of roof racks, which were to be modified to carry two wheels. This rack was "borrowed" before being modified, and then became the annual holiday lugger when starpped to the family Clubby estate!
To say I was interested, would be trifle understating it, but I made arrangements to collect as soon as I could. I decided to run the MK3 up on a "running in" trip, stop over in Abingdon for the night and head back the next day. An early start, saw me arrive at Steves for about midday (very slow running in from Cornwall), where we had a good old natter and catch up as it had been 10 years since meeting up before. Then he said "right, got to work this afternoon, so we better sort this stuff". Out to his garage and there was this beastie!
"There is also this box of stuff if you want it?" he proclaimed. Just scanning though it quick I found a NOS Lucas 576 back mount lamp. I had been wanting one of these for the car and excitidly accepted his offer of the box! At that he said" I have something else you might like. Had it years, but I've got load of old helmets. The Works used this one whilst testing! Supposidly Paddy's!"
Speechless!
, love stories like that, makes me wonder how much stuff is still kicking around in peoples garages in general, let alone in the abingdon area !
