Now here is a car that was made in a bloke’s garage
Nick Mann took several years home building his Manic Beattie
4 wheel drive, 1700cc push rod engine with a helicopter turbine engine to boost the turbocharger!
600 BHP !!!
he comes back every year & takes the special hill climb class prize.
he had a bit of a crash last year & as it is all home made it takes time to fabricate replacement parts & we hope he will make it on Sunday at Shelsley Walsh.
Just watch & be amazed how long it takes to do 1000 yards up a bloody steep hill
Two of us from Special Facilities fitted cameras on some of the cars on the Esgair Dafydd Welsh Rally Sprint in 1982. My colleague Peter reloaded the film at the top and I did them at the start at the bottom. The Quattro had five cameras, all 16mm film and the small ‘gun cameras’ had 1minute 40 seconds of film, so it was touch and go for a 1’20" sprint. The ST Arri on the roll cage looking forward past the driver had five minutes of film. The whole program was shot on film, because it needed no rigging or de-rigging time and allowed for more camera positions, unlike a video OB which usually took five days crewing time for a two hour event. Autosport featured the Audi in a centre spread soon after and never noticed the cameras, not even the small one on the front bumper or the bigger one on the roll cage.