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Reading McRae R4. Share Tweet. Tolu Akinshete. Skip 6 photos in the image carousel and continue reading. Turn on Javascript to see all the available pictures. Advertisement - Page continues below. Top Gear Newsletter Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter. Sorry, something went wrong Please try again. Motorsport News. With only 2 weeks to go, we made moulds of the full sized R4, allowed 6 days for them to cure, made panels in them had them painted and finally fitted them to the now finished chassis 2 days before the show.
Each and every part was then fitted onto the car, some of them for the first time and we made it by the skin on our teeth!! The car was very well received and made for yet another surreal weekend!!! Standing back watching hundreds of people queuing for Colin's autograph whilst Colin overlooked his new pride and joy!! Another interesting part of Goodwood was to be there early in the morning, before general public arrived, to watch many rally and racing stars take a look around the new car!!
Post Goodwood the race was now on to get the R4 now being talked about throughout the world ready for its first test. We were determined to be ready for testing by the end of that year as there was now a lot at stake for all concerned. Towards the end of the MSA once again became interested in the R4 and so in a bid to prove it had a place within the current and future regulations, all parties involved agreed we would sacrifice an initial pre Christmas test to get the car into a road legal, road registered and MSA log booked vehicle.
This test also meant for the first time the number of cars to be produced would become relevant as we would SVA the cars under the low volume banner. In making the car road legal we also became the first ones to drive the R4 wow! This was to be a totally secret affair. But to Colin this would prove if all the theory and hard work was in fact correct. To add to this Colin told us he would be borrowing his old 6R4 to do some back to back tests between the two cars.
This left us a little apprehensive as, to date, the only mileage the car had done was to and from the SVA. February became a blur and we cannot remember just how many late nights were worked!! David was fortunate enough to have the first ride in the car with Colin on the roads and lanes around his house. The smile on both his and Colin's face made 4 years worth of planning and hard work very satisfying. The majority of that day was spent tinkering with the R4 in Colin's garage in readiness for the gravel test.
That evening we traveled down to New Galloway next to the gravel test. After a hearty breakfast, the following morning we headed off into a rain soaked forest to meet up with the test organisers and safety team.
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