....please stand up?

Just been reading the new Performance Ford mag, in particular the article on Justin's white Sapphire ( the phoenix from Mike R's old car ).

At the end he thanks Mike for writing it off originally ......and then thanks the "Mike at R&B Motorsport"......

How many of him is there????

 

They all Mike Rainbird, and only one... hopefully.

 

strange post

 

Maybe there are 2 Mikes. An extra one to act as a stand-in for when the real one is washing his hair.

 

just the one

 

Maybe he was "beside himself"

 

Maybe he's like the stig?

 

the Rainbird is a legend indeed

 

"I am the one and only, can't take that away from me" .

I understand that the car is also for sale as well, so can the new owner PLEASE take it to Brunters and see what it will do on that standard gearing, as I'm desperate to know (but not desperate enough to buy it to find out ).

Thanks for kind words, I owe it all to God, my agent, Phil, my cat, my woman and everyone else who knows me .

 

Out of interest what does the "b" stand for in R&B ?


Mike

 

"Beale", but he is no-longer anything to do with the business, as he moved to work in Dubai (oil & gas industry) .

 

Mikes stand-in is currently still filming corination street

 

Spooky!

Today's the anniversary of the Rockets demise

R&B = Rythm & Blues Motorsport, thought everyone knew that

 

OMG..........type in a web search "Mike Rainbird" and the first three/four pages are all links/quotes from "our" Mike.........well on the AOL browser that is what happens. There are other Mike Rainbirds (worldwide) but not until page 4

 

Shit, how many years is that now - four? Where has the time gone?

 

Out the back, like a T4'd.... I mean Mini

Aye four years now

 

cant believe you used to be partners with ian beale has he still got that chippy on albert square

 

Funnily enough, wrong Beale . This one used to own that wide-arch R5 4x4 Cosworth that was on the front cover of Revs magazine (painted Lotus Carlton "green") with Gold 18" RL7s - with only 310bhp it did a 12.6 quarter at the Pod, due to the fact that it only weighed 1100kg .

 

Ooh, I remember that car!! (another R.I.P.)

 

http://www.btinternet.com/~chris.sta...ns/finsres.htm

Bridge, sir??

 

I'm unbeatable at "Snap" as well

 

Mike,
I'll pack a deck of cards for the ring then
havent seen the feature yet as the mag doesn't come into the shop until the morn
Bill,
your right those 4 years have flown

Doug,
your fairly hand with the scanner have you a copy

 

Car look great Justin I liked it with gold wheels as well though

 

Goregeous car and thank fuck there is only one mike rainbird.

 

Cheers Lee was going to put on the gold mo's for the feature but they have slicks on and we had to go to Mondello Park for the shoot..........the per ford boys were a little surprised when they found 2 wrc focus's out testing for the Monte

 

4 years!

Good lord - that was when my old old saff was in at SCS for a headgasket change!

 

Hey Mike popped to see the main man at Peterboghorror, see your cars there looking sweet as ever, you having anything nice done

 

Hi Cossie 350,
I took the car to have the alignment all set up for the Ring on Saturday and the rear beam main pins had ovalised the holes in the arm, so made adjustment impossible, so Harvey had to weld some washers on so that the arm couldn't move around within the holes to give random adjustable geometry .

 

Those Focus's at Mondello were the lick Justin!

I've sent a load of mags out to you, oh and don't worry I didn't use a pic of you in the feature...


















... It's in first words instead

Seriously though thanks to the both of you for putting up with us when we came over, your a star... just like Mike 'infamous' Rainbird

 

Dave,
Shame you misquoted the top speed as 180.6mph several times in the mag, at least you got it right in the main article . It's also a Stack "8130P" .

Regarding the feature on my car, it's still a continuing development, so you can have it now if you want it without the trick Mountune bits recently acquired that will be going on later?

 

Cool Mike, Dave has already said we can possibly have a grudge match (before new bits )

 

Its the "Toothpaste ad smile" that i like

 

Bill,
You're going DOWN . Found a problem on mine and it is now CONSIDERABLY sharper according to Harvey .

 

Ah, bugger

Plan B then, 15" wheels and an anchor

 

Bill and Mike,
when the scort is ready we can do a 3 way grudge match

 

Oooh, a threesome .

Actualy that would be cool, a 550bhp car, a 500bhp car and a 450bhp .

 

Mike looks quite at home up there

 

Baaaaaaaaaaaa