Vintage car trials

[austin]

I'm sure some will be horrified by how we treat this car, but it has been doing trials like this for nearly 70 years. Despite looks it is looked after and is currently driven to and from events if they are local enough.

We were double entered as normal but this year dad had another passenger so I could take a few videos / photos etc.

750MC Cold Turkey Trial (short video)

[TooMany2cvs]

<applause>

"Your turn next..." <points to modern Mini>

[threespires]

Trilling is a great sport. Thanks for the link..

[Riley Blue]

Bravo!

An event I try never to miss spectating at each year is the VSCC John Harris Derbyshire Trial; it looks so much fun, pity I don't have an eligible car.

[healeyneil]

Brilliant !

[Norfolkandchance]

Riley Blue said:

Bravo!

An event I try never to miss spectating at each year is the VSCC John Harris Derbyshire Trial; it looks so much fun, pity I don't have an eligible car.

You can do very similar things with non-vintage cars.

http://shoestringmgracer.com/production-car-triali...

[john2443]

austin said:

750MC Cold Turkey Trial (short video)

I'd be very surprised if most moderns could do that! (too big & heavy, tyres too wide, too much power & overhang, less ground clearance)

[Riley Blue]

Norfolkandchance said:

Riley Blue said:

Bravo!

An event I try never to miss spectating at each year is the VSCC John Harris Derbyshire Trial; it looks so much fun, pity I don't have an eligible car.

You can do very similar things with non-vintage cars.

http://shoestringmgracer.com/production-car-triali...

i know, I bounced for a mate years ago in his Beetle and currently have a Riley One-Point-Five that might be suitable but I doubt my O/H would approve of it being used for trialling, she'd have to be ballast...

[Norfolkandchance]

john2443 said:

austin said:

750MC Cold Turkey Trial (short video)

I'd be very surprised if most moderns could do that! (too big & heavy, tyres too wide, too much power & overhang, less ground clearance)

My point was that it would be similar fun. These ones look to be having fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJit1wVKCfM&t=...

It really is fun - I've done it in several cars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5U4JKvs88g is me and a mate in his Charade, we competed with the child seats still in the back.

[velocemitch]

Car trials, or production car trials as they used to be known are a great way of enjoying budget motorsport. Our club runs about 6 to 7 a year, we get 20 to 30 entries at each.

[lowdrag]

In my yoof I was the sidecar wallah at scrambles meets. I should have moved on to being a "bouncer" in car trials but I never did and I'd just be a dead weight now! Life's love lost.....

[threespires]

Great fun and sometimes very scary and you don't do much more than 10mph --

Troll - Merve's Swerve on Cotswold's Clouds 2005



Troll - Kyrle Trial 2003

[threespires]

Troll, forget which event.

[epoch911]

I LOVE trialling. It’s an absurd sport...utterly ridiculous but so much fun. And surprisingly technical ...assessing conditions, adjusting tyre pressures, changing driving style and line of attack with no prior sight of the section takes real skill. I just bounce and map read...though a 1921 chain-drive 3.4 litre V-Twin GN in the middle of the night, with no roof, windscreen or map light can be challenging enough in itself. oh and no front brakes.

Have done pretty much all of the VSCC Trials as crew in the GN though the highlight has been completing the MCC Lands End Trial. All 24 hours of it. Won’t forget Blue Hills Mine in a hurry.





Have also done the Amsterdam 100 night trial in the GN. Last weekend before Christmas. When we did it, it was -15 deg and lots of snow but it’s a fab event if you ever get the chance. The Dutch are bloody bonkers. We came last.



It’s not all classics tho. We do the MCC Exeter Trial in a TVR V8S. First weekend of January. Roof down of course. Can’t beat a V8 screaming through the forests in the middle of the night. Gutted to be missing it this year.

Ant

[threespires]

epoch911 said:

I LOVE trialling. It’s an absurd sport...utterly ridiculous but so much fun. And surprisingly technical ...assessing conditions, adjusting tyre pressures, changing driving style and line of attack with no prior sight of the section takes real skill.

Great pix, thanks
The GN must be great fun.
I wonder if I sold that V8S when new?
Team Central..

[TooMany2cvs]

epoch911 said:

It’s not all classics tho. We do the MCC Exeter Trial in a TVR V8S. First weekend of January. Roof down of course. Can’t beat a V8 screaming through the forests in the middle of the night. Gutted to be missing it this year.

Ant

The internet has just found a winner.

[MGJ2]

Dutch Trial:





I love the OP's Austin. One year we used an Austin Saloon as our "safetycar" on the circuit of Zandvoort:

[cjb44]

lowdrag said:

In my yoof I was the sidecar wallah at scrambles meets. I should have moved on to being a "bouncer" in car trials but I never did and I'd just be a dead weight now! Life's love lost.....

I am pleased that I am not the only one on this forum who takes his brain out and puts it in a glass jar before putting on a crash helmet.

[Skyedriver]

MGJ2 said:

First mistake:

Don't stick your arm out to stop you rolling over!

[Skyedriver]

Years ago in a life long past, in a land far far away I used to do Production Car Trials in a Hillman Imp. A great car for that sort of thing as the engine was over the driven wheels. An old car built for road rallies I used to just attack the hill rather than the more preferred subtle approach.
won the club championship one year though brute force and ignorance.