"Ermintrude Evo1"

Picture by Rachel James

CAR HISTORY

This car figures in early TBC history. Back in 1987 when IJ, AJ and Pete Boddy had been helping out marshalling at CDMC they used to see this car out on events. Quite noticeable in those days as not many Estelles were rallied at club level. Anyway, she started out as a Skoda Trophy car in 1985 driven by Chris Asquith and then sold to Peter Wise who kept her from 1986 until 2002. She last rallied with Pete in 1999. Fitted with a Favorit motor at some point which had been purchased from Paul Cook who used to rally a 1600cc X-Flow engined Favorit on local East Mids events. It's a small world round here.......

It was resurrected in 2003 and since then only comes out in the summer and not very often at that. 2006 saw the new colour scheme applied along with new wings and back panel and as there was still some pink paint left from last time it could only have one name. The old running gear from the legend that was the original Ermintrude has also been retained so at some point the straight cut box may well make an appearance.

CAR SPECIFICATION

Engine: Skoda 1289cc. Alloy 8 port head, alloy block. Standard valve sizes. 9.5:1 compression ratio. Weber 32/36 DGV carb along with original airbox from an Escort RS2000. Piper 285 camshaft. BTB 4 branch exhaust manifold, downpipes and silencer. Although "Silencer" might be pushing the boundaries of truth somewhat.

Transmission: 5 speed standard gearset in standard gearbox casing. 4.2:1 final drive. No LSD. Standard clutch

Suspension: Uprated springs all round. Spax dampers fitted. Front anti roll bar still fitted.

Brakes: All standard. 19mm diameter rear cylinders. Uprated brake linings on front. Brake lines split so all the front are fed off one half of the circuit and the rears are fed off the other half.

Bodywork: Front mounted fuel tank. Twin fuel pumps. Aleybars steel cage. 5 kilos of fire extinguisher plumbed in. AFFF handheld. Standard bumpers. Brantz tripmeter.

Wheels & Tyres: Currently wears a set of 5.5x13 "Minilite" style alloys with 175/70x13 Yokohama forest tyres. For looning on track, there's a set of Dunlop SPR3 185/70x13 on 6x13 Revolutions.

EVENT HISTORY SINCE 2002

May 2006: Got a Third best Estelle certificate at the
Eastern European Cars Day at Stanford Hall. Thank you. We'll take our awards where we can.
July 2006: Rallyday at Castle Combe - Drive from Leicester to Castle Combe,
failed noise test, didn't get on track. Hey Ho!
August 2006: Nottingham Classic. We came, we saw, we confused.
October 2006: CDMC Trackday - Curborough. Not very sideways I'm afraid.
August 2007: Nottingham Classic. Course closer car.
October 2007: CDMC Trackday - Curborough. Still not very sideways.
April 2008: National "Drive It" Day

Future Plans - Course car for the Huntsman Rally and possibly the Norwich Union in October - Amongst other things.

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