So, exactly which race cars are deemed 'Hotrods'?

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The late Jimmy Chrystall came equal top in the first year I was involved, when it was 1 scratch race and one handicap (which is a bias towards the fastest cars). The reason I even got involved is well known and also involved Mr C.

I announced at the last round (and after presenting the BMC trophy to Jim/Nick Wilcox) that the format was going to change to two handicaps only.

Jim's grip on the trophy tightened and his eyes blazed, his face reddened "You are turning it into nothing but a lottery!" With that, he turned on his heels and marched away clutching the trophy and he refused to return it. Poor Nick never did get his hands on the trophy.

A matter of months before he died, he did in fact return the trophy, so we renamed it the "Jimmy Chrystall Memorial Trophy" for 4 cylinder BMC cars.

"Turning the series into a lottery" may well have been just the spur we needed to construct our rules in a such a way that there was no guaranteed way to win. Jimmy was the also the reason why it was constructed (with legal advice) into an Invitation Series. The rest, as they say, is history.

Oh and 928, Mike John also tried bribery, but that didn't work either. If you want to win, the best chance is to turn up to as many events as possible - but our own meeting, the final round, is double points...

Good meeting TACCOC, yesterday, but the weather played absolute havoc being so changeable. The final HMC/Pre 78 grid down to just 4 cars risking it. John McKechnie and David Thompson, plus Ricky Cooper and John Sampson who had already raced in the Arrow Wheels race.

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you turned down money for more entries, scandalous I thought I that offering you the wife would win the series after 3 meetings. now you tell me double points at the last round. howabout the wife and her friend, and i will only run a 5 speed sequential at 2 meetings and a 4 speed at the other meetings.