Or having friends in the right places to cover up your lies...
Not really lies, different times when originalty was not a priority but winning events was....as has been said many times the Works Mini Rally cars were regularly re-shelled and numberplates and chassis plates swapped depending on availability and convenience for a forthcoming rally. If the BMC advertising and marketing dept required it, the Austin and Morris plates and badges were also swapped to suit.....there are even some photos of Works cars with Austin Cooper S badges on the bonnet and Morris on the bootlid and the same cars running different numberplates on different events!
Nobody at the time could have known these cars would one day be worth a small fortune and they were eventually sold off at the end of their works days for bargain prices to be thrashed and crashed by privateer race and rally drivers throughout the 1970's and beyond.......
The same is true of most other manufacturers at the time like the Ford Escort rally cars, etc....
Edited by mab01uk, 31 August 2016 - 05:52 PM.