Someone sent me this on a DVD this morning so I thought I'd share it

It's Colin McRae showing off his collection of cars and bikes to John Desborough. That offroad kart looks like fun I didn't know he had the 3 door cossie I hope it still gets restored.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEpHqd-cSEE

 

 

remember watching that on vroomvroom . . .the roads only 10mins up the road from me!!!!

 

Brian

 

nice find shame they didnt show the mark 2 escort

 

 

Nice wee vid m8.

 

seemed such a friendly bloke, and very down to earth.
nice garage aswell!!

steve

 

Will look forward to watching this when I get in tonight

Any chance you could do me a DVD of it please mate?

 

just spied the mk2 in the back ground





LEGEND

 

Remember watching this on the telly, Nice collection he has, The Man is a Legend!

 

Cheers for that mate

 

i remember reading that he lost a few cars in a fire including a propper 6R4

wasent there a 3dr going about for sale a while back & the owner said it was an ex collin mcrae car??

nice garrage tho

 

Fantastic video! Just watched it now, lovely short film!

 

Just watched this vid and a few others...He was the man

 

his offroad buggy thing with a 1300 hiyabusa engine looks like fooking madness..... hes pushing it proper too

what about the mk2 escort in the background

 

Cool Video, gutting

 

Remember watching this on tv as well,quality

 

I've just run off a copy for you. Let me know your address

 

 

His Mk2 is unbelievable, no expense spared although rumour had it that the IRS didn't work as well as expected.

Certainly looks VERY impressive in any videos I have seen of it

Although a Skoda on 3 cylinders would of looked impressive with Colin McRae driving

 

Yeah his mk2 is a right toy.Had the chance to see it up close and personal on one of the rallys.The work that gone in to it is unbelievable

Certinaly got the best of everything on it. I wouldnt like to see what he actualy spent on it.

Think they had a lot off trouble with the rear diff IIRC

The 2.5 millington engine has some bark to it

 

i knew his 22b was special as it was up for sale for 100k not long ago but didn't know it was one of the prototypes.
hes also what this site is all about really.he could have chosen any rally car for himself but he wanted to do it in an old ford
everyone knew he wasn't quite right but that confirms it

 

legend in my eyes
wonder what the 3dr is worth now priceless

 

i remember seeing it cost near 100k to build

 

Think most of his car would be price less.I would hazard a guess tht the mk2 may be worth the most poss the 3dr if it was to go to the likes of a charity auction

 

Great Vid Still hard to believe he's gone!!

 

That's what I was about to say too. It's probably the best mark 2 escort ever built though

 

Yeah i think it was some whare about that the engine alone is in about the 30k mark then u got things like magnesium seq g/box/, lots of carbon, proflexes all round, Ap's an loads of other stuff plus DJMs time

 

IIRC it was nearer 150k, quite sure there was 2 cars built that were very similar and one was for sale in Motorsport News for a serious amount of cash !

Made the world cars look cheap

 

such a nice chap, such a shame


been a fan for years


great vid

 

I know there was one for sale in ireland a white one that had same engine and gear box in it.Think it was craig bennet that had it for sale. I will have a hunt for the fast ford mag that they featured mcraes car in.

This is a quote from the man himself when he done the manx in it

“It was still damp on Saturday morning, but the stages were drying. The best stage for me was Tholt-y-Will. It’s a very fast stage, mostly 5th and 6th gear, with only a couple of hairpins,” McRae said on his website.

“That meant we didn’t lose out as much to the 4WD machines. They really score on the twisty stages where exit speed from corners is much greater than a 2WD car. So we were only 1.2 seconds behind Kenny McKinstry in the WRC Impreza - the Escort was working well in there!

McRae in typical pose on the Manx Rally“If that was my best stage, Campbell’s (his co-driver) was possibly stage 12, although he got a bit nervous when I started looking for 7th gear. The Escort is geared for 139 mph in 6th and it was on the rev limiter at times, but it only has 6 gears - I could really have done with a 7th gear!” McRae said

 

Shame he was interviewed by him and not someone who also had a passion for cars, I can't believe he walked up to the cosworth and asked 'What's this'. Awesome video though.

 

Is that true about the Manx? I didn't know he'd competed on the Manx, that would have been spectacular to watch.

 

Yes he did and there is videos on You Tube of it

 

I've got to watch them then. I saw a Duke video that was shot on the Isle of Man in the mark 2 but I didn't know it was competitively.

 

Clarkson maybe .... that would have been cool.

How comes collin didn't do the "star in a resonably priced car" thing....he should have

although i remember when he came on top gear for that three car race around silverstone where clarkson set of first in a Ford Cougar and then collin in the foci and last the F1 car.....

 

That was a awesome video, he was really hanging the arse out on that Focus too ! Really showed the pace of all 3 car down the pit straigth though

 

Thinking the same mate