i not long started a rebuild of a well known irish tarmac 3dr. it was setting top ten times the donegal international rally in 1991. it was owned by Mickey Farrell and other well known drivers of the time.

 

the reg is : ABZ 196 the car has been sold three times in the last 8 yrs and has never been touched!! i got it with only the engine ,gearbox and diff on it, and thats how it was sold 8 yrs ago. it wll be great to get it back on the stages as these cars should be!!

 

Looks great! Whats the plans with it? Gonna compete or just a track toy?

 

i will be competing in it, hopefully do the scottish tarmac championship next year. but l hopefully get some events done later this year aswell , bring on the sideways action !!!

 

 

Nice looking project there

 

cheers mate, when its fnished it will be group a spec antilag etc etc . ve always wanted one after watching jmmy mcrae on the manx!!

 

 

Great looking project, looking forward to seeing this one

 

this should be a brill project keep plenty of pics coming

 

that car was on southern irish plates when it was driven by Ardee's Mickey Farrell, i fookin bet you would like to see Irish Champion Mickey Farrell RIP driving her???????????????????????????????????

http://www.motorsportmad.com/view/57...mickey-farrell

 

Any pics of the car in it's original form?

 

 

this is a picture from the original logbook when it was first built by collins motorsport !!

 

Very cool and interesting project mate and another piece of motorsport history sort of saved
Are you putting it back to original livery or your own ??

 

nice project peter ,did you buy it in southern ireland

 

think im going to do my own livery, but not 100% yet.. i bought the car in fife but it was sold from ireland 7ish years ago and hasnt been touched since, which i really cant understand!!

 

collins motorsport ?? collins as in collins congleton or collins cars pontarddulais, both built sierra cosworths, phil collins was a expert sierra cosworth driver as well as a rally car builder, he drove in the securicor sierra cosworth challenge.

 

did the car ever belong to frank meagher around 1999 ??

 

phil collins i believe, and i dont know who owned it then, ive heard the name mentioned about the car though i think

 

cozz father ,you brought memories flooding back of the manx he won in the escos ,he was fooking flying,best rally i ever saw
frank meaghar rip

 

collins engineering from hereford

 

awsome

 

afaik phil collins was from hereford but his buisness collins cars was building rally cars from ponty and making seats, he hired them out to anyone who had the money,i know some drivers who hired his cars. there is a reason why i asked if frank meagher owned this car.

 

he could well have i put a post on the irish rally forum and his name came up so maybe

 

in 99 frank meagher died testing a 3dr cosworth, he had the car for sale. both frank and mickey were car dealers from southern ireland and they both had 3dr sierras the 3dr that frank drove had duckhams and lombard sponsorship it was looked after by Smith Auto Developments S-A-D. if you look at the reg on the video i posted of Mickey the car is on southern irish plates starting 90, Franks 1995 irish tarmac championship winning escort was a 1990 southern irish reg too. is the ni reg on the 3dr now a 1990 registered car or a 87?.

both were drivers i loved to watch RIP

 

keep the info comin

rob v

 

its '87 mate on the registration document

 

im pretty sure mickey owned the car so it maybe isnt the one that frank died in, but you will know better than me. although! i know it was in a bad crash around 8 yrs ago and got reshelled so maybe it is?

 

I know some southern irish drivers muck about with the plates on the cars because they don't want to pay tax on them,if you got hold of anthony nestor you would get the crack about the sierra. looking again at the video link i posted the car has a fuel cap in the rear qtr panel. the only 3dr's i saw like that were early works cars. franks sierra 3dr was early on a d***svw car then it went onto a 1990 si plate.

i have a really good video with some of the drivers who made the sierra 3dr a force in british rallying,not one has anti lag but the 3dr cos made a noise unique to itself.

 

it also says on the reg doc " previously registered and/or used outside the uk to 1st registraton in NI declared manufactured '87. so presume that means it was in southern ireland before

 

who is anthony nester? and how do i get hold of him?

 

yes.

you do know phil collins is still rallying ?? he would also know the crack about the car.

listen and watch this video, you will here 3dr cosworths screaming on tarmac and your man phil collins is flying in a 3dr.mark lovell,jimmy mcrae they all drove them hard.

http://www.motorsportmad.com/view/62...x-rally-part-1

 

if you watch the video link i posted, you will see mickey farrell and anthony nestor, Nestor was mickeys navigator in the 3dr.

 

one carefull owner lol

 

It looks to have been transfered into a base model 3dr shell at some point in its past if its the same car being discussed, as the one in the first set of pics is not a cosworth shell.

 

how can you tell?

 

id guess hes on about the front tow hitch??

still a good lookin motor though mate

 

front tow eye is the obvious pointer, but also the non abs servo hole in the bulkhead

If you take a look at the door latches on the A pillar they will be the old style single point ones, where as the cosworth shell uses the anti burst latch held on with two screws

No big deal anyway if its a rally car as they are essentially the same shell apart from a few odds and ends

 

well dont matter as the shell is now group a spec so makes no difference to this project as its a rally car!