What radio station did Abingdon favour

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What radio station did Abingdon favour

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:D Not seen this before , 737 ABL with an aerial!!

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My guess would be the BBC World Service.
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What's the sticker on the rear window below the Demister?
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Looks like BRDC to me.
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Some thing else I noticed, the car had a black roof on the Monte
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and the Yorkshire Rally
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Repainted or a re-shell??
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Green shell and black roof :?:
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It seems ABL retained its original shell while at Abingdon, never crashed and always tarmac events, though it did do several Motoring News English events while a works car, 62 Monte in standard colours, along with its first MN rally, the Yorkshire thereafter with a white roof, Vitesse models got it wrong with the green/black combo :oops:
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Cheeser wrote:Looks like BRDC to me.
Any confirmation of this?
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SMOKE GREY wrote: Vitesse models got it wrong with the green/black combo :oops:
Here's the wrongly done Vitesse

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and here are two correctly liveried versions (first two in line). The black roof 62 car is a Vitesse and the white roof 63 car is a Spark

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