Try this one. The Galway + Clare hill climb from 2005. Same escort starts but the second car out looks like a 1200 sedan...
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Still getting used to your new avatar ca18det_man, if only you could change your login name to rb26dett_man....

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Great vid Gary - Mk1 Escort was 2nd car away.

Found another video of this awesome little car . One thing is for sure the guy sure can drive.Youtube

I wish they ran hillclimbs like this over here. I know there are a few hillclimbs in NSW and one in QLD that are held on closed roads, but they're still very short - around 1km

QLD only has one real hillclimb venue open to multi-club events - Mt Cotton. The Historic Racing Car Club's annual Noosa Historic Hillclimb is a multi-club event but good luck getting in if you're not a HRCC member!

I went to Grafton (northern NSW) for a hillclimb yesterday only to turn around and come home again when they called it off because it was wet! What the hell is that??? There was no dirt/mud washed onto the circuit to clean up, no standing pools of water, just a bit of rain!

I've run in torrential rain at Mt Cotton, with water literally running down the hills... I've run at Morgan Park where a bunch of drivers, myself included, have picked up shovels and brooms to clean up mud and rocks off the track from storms the night before while its still raining, so we could start the event.

I had the car off the trailer, discovered the wipers don't work... and was busy applying the rain-x and fog-x when they came and told me not to bother - "it's raining"

So 4hrs driving each way, $130 in fuel and $70 in accomodation for nothing... you NSW boys are bloody soft

Hey harry bad news about being canceled on the day sounds a bit soft. I have also run at bathurst in the rain as well as wakefield and oran park some organisers just have no idea
Did you figure out what was wrong with wipers? They should be working as I used them at Oran park in the deluge maybe a fuse???

nah, didn't even look for the problem - I've used rain-x before and wasn't too worried. I was more annoyed with the event being cancelled after that drive.

There is nothing more annoying than a cancelled event that you have been psyched up for. R-fast and I have raced at Bathurst in the sleet! Hard to get tyres warm!!