Old school car show
Before fast and the furious played out the car scene....
A winning formula?
Unlike a large section of the population, I didn’t learn to drive in a Nissan Micra. I learned in a rather more powerful Renault Megane turbodiesel, which encouraged me to be confident about passing other vehicles from an early stage in my driving career. Still, despite the lack of Micra-ness in the formative months of my driving life, I think of the Micra mainly as something you drive at either end of your automotive career – first of all when you have a big plastic pyramid of ‘L’s top of the car, and then again when you’re wearing beige and proceeding to the shops at fifteen miles per hour.
I certainly don’t think of it as a vehicle you’d ever want to use to go anywhere quickly – but an experience at the weekend has gone some way to changing that. Sitting on a rally display at the Perth Motorsport Show was a shiny red Micra, all ready to go and take on the stages. And after a chat with the car’s owner, I found myself warming to the concept behind the car and eager to have a shot.
This might have been a Micra intended for rally driving, but that didn’t mean it had been pimped up to high heaven. Unlike the Micras I saw racing at a SuperGT support race in Japan last year, where super-tuned multicoloured screamers bearing as much resemblance to roadgoing cars as I do to Russell Brand hammered down the main straights at upwards of 120mph, this rally car was a Micra through and through. Apart from a set of chunky tyres and alloy competition wheels that raised the car’s ride height a little and gave the impression that it meant business, only a few stickers sprinkled over the scarlet bodywork set this car apart from something you’d see in Tesco’s car park.
The rallying Nissan was, then, pretty much bog-standard on the outside. And under the bonnet. The 1000cc engine remained standard save for the addition of a performance air filter, and even the rear drum brakes had been retained, much to the surprise of one of my fellow motor club members who took a wander round. The interior of the car had been stripped out in the way one would expect a rally car to be – seats out, fire extinguishers and rollcage in, competition seats in, sports steering wheel on. This example was clearly the product of some effort on the inside, featuring a flocked dashboard to cut down glare from the sun, a chunky weld-in cage and carbon-fibre door cards. The elephant’s-backside-grey window winders and handbrake lever remained, however, serving as solemn reminders that this was a car built to get involved in rallying as cheaply as possible.
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