How to Build a Successful Low-Cost Rally Car: For Marathon, Endurance, Historic and Budget-car Adventure Road Rallies

by Philip Young

This book sets out in graphic detail a hundred tips that cost very little but which will transform your car. For example, how a wire coat-hanger transforms an exhaust system so that it can survive the Sahara Desert, how a tube of bathroom silicone sealer waterproofs an engine, and how a garden chain ensures you don't break the engine-mountings. Simple, cost-effective, basic and reliable tips to ensure any rally car stands a chance of reaching the finishing line. From the lanes of Devon at night, to romping the wilderness of Mongolia, this book is full of illustrated detailed tips, as well as pictures of typical low cost cars setting out on international events. If you are planning any road-based rally, don't even think of leaving home before reading this book and implementing the tried and tested modes it describes so well.

96 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2009

About the author

Philip Young is the founder of the Historic Rally Car Register, the Endurance Rally Association, organiser of the London to Cape Town World Cup Rally and other long distance events. In the early 1980’s Philip Young was editing, writing for, and publishing his own motoring magazine, “Sporting Cars”. that twice won the premier award for journalism from the Guild of Motoring Writers. n addition to organising events Philip is a past-competitor on many long-distance events, including the 1977 London to Sydney Marathon, Paris Dakar, and five Himalayan Rallies.