Jason's Blog

I'll write this up properly as soon as I have the time but here's a quick taster of what I've been up to. Brian Englefield, one of the privateers on the World Cup appeared on the Atlas forum I occasionally use, then popped up on the CT forum to set a few things right. I started corresponding with him and he invited me to go see him and his "box of World Cup stuff" - was I excited? Damn right I was! The unique things about Brian Englefield is that not only did he complete in a Triumph but he also bought 2 of the World Cup cars from the works, including the wreck of XJB304H which is now in the hands of Pat Walker. Now there has been some chat about the provenance of this car although having seen BYE377H the Buchanan-Michaelson car and WRX902H the test car, I now know exactly what would be needed to replicate a works shell and how difficult it would be to do now. So it was a great opportunity to speak to the guy who reshelled 404 and see just what was done. So I gath...

I've been playing with Google Maps to see if I could plot the rally route, I didn't quite manage what I wanted to do but I have managed to plot all the major aiming points, well those I could find! I wanted to try and link them up with the likely roads but I couldn't seem to make it work without a lot of work. Ultimately, if I can, I'd like to tag the photos I have with the places they were taken, once I've verified them! The maps are reproduced below, I think this should link you to them too European leg View Larger Map South American leg View Larger Map If you're viewing this from within the Club Triumph site then you may not be able to see the embedded Google map, click here to go to my Blog http://chinn.blogspot.com/

Trawling for photos, I stumbled across what I think is Dave Pearson pootling about on a sedate drive around Chatsworth in 2008, I say "I think" because I'm not sure if anyone else drove 5B that day - Dave, help me out with a comment mate. Click on each of the images to be taken to the owners pages and the image source with some bigger versions. Here he is again

1970 World Cup Rally 00 Originally uploaded by Paul Lowry Just mooching around the net for some info and found this phot I've not seen before. All three surviving works Triumphs are in there. Click on the image for a slightly bigger version hosted on Paul Lowry's pages. I've written to him, I wonder if he has anymore? The caption says SANTIAGO, Chile, May 13 (UPI) The 43 surviving crews in the London-to-Mexico City World Cup auto rally rested today after their grueling 3,800-mile nonstop drive from Rio de Janeiro Additional - I have now got the original image and it's a scanned negative at excellent resolution so I've uploaded it to my Picasa album here. From World Cup Rally 1970