![]() ![]() ( Also features Ray Tulloch in his Lotus twincam 1600 Escort)įrom the start of his rally days Colin had the full support of a service crew and backup with no need to spend late nights in the garage preparing cars and putting them back together again ready for the next rally like the rest of the car club drivers.īeing “totally wild” both in and out of the car and with no mechanical sympathy Colin set out on what was to be a very successful career. So on a cold and wet Saturday morning in February 1986 (usual rally weather) this picture was taken outside the front door of the Treetops Hotel in Aberdeen before the start of the Granite City Rally. ![]() Having only driven on a single venue event (Kames) in 1985 in a borrowed car (Hillman Avenger) Colin started out supported by his father ( rally driver Jimmy Mc Rae) and mother Margaret and young brother Alister.Īs a local to Lanarkshire, Colin and family were members of Coltness Car club who had an enthusiastic group of rally drivers based in around Hamilton at that time. ![]() 1986 Scottish Rally Championship saw a young seventeen year old make his rally debut in a Talbot Sunbeam. ![]()
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