I also won a couple of 200 Mile Restricted Rallies with my younger brother Peter Barrow in his Mini-Cooper on Derbyshire.

Have no illusions, Super Stars today get paid megga bucks, I was paid a miserly fee of £50 plus a few Trade Bonuses for the 1964 RAC Rally ! Gratefully received, of course.

The overnight stay at the Salutation Hotel in Perth was an extremely cold night, I could not sleep through being so cold. So I had my anarak and the bedroom rug on top of the bed to keep me warm. Next morning around 07.15 hrs I was walking along a corridor on my way down to breakfast, and met team mate Paddy Hopkirk, who was wearing a resplendent blue and red striped dressing gown and complaining bitterly that there was no hot water for a bath. Later in the day, between the Stages Timo and I were talking about the previous cold night, I was explaing how I managed to keep myself warm in bed and Timo said, me OK, me leave hot water tap running all night !!!

Seen this picture before?
ARX 92B

Descending the Col d'Allos with Ian Hall in a LHD 'Works' Tiger, please note, it's always the Co-Drivers side that gets bumped.

I was very proud to be a member of the Works Factory Rootes Group Rally Team managed by Marcus Chambers and Chief Engineer Des O'dell. The Team consisted of Tiny Lewis & Robin Turvey, Ian Hall & Don Barrow, Rosemary Smith & Sheila Taylor and Peter Harper & Mike Hughes.

We all had T shirts with the ' Sunbeam Tiger Powered by Ford ' logo both front and back.

Read - Peter West's Exploits

The picture to the right shows NVW 241C on the RAC Rally driven by Jim Clark and Brian Melia alongside their teammates Bengt Soderstrom and Gunner Palm in NVW 239C, with a yellow striped clad Stuart Turner of Castrol in the background. This fuel station is somewhere before the event reached Glasgow, because. Jim Bullough and I were in big trouble with sump shield problems and after leaving the Turnberry Main Control we deviated off route to a local garage to effect emergency repairs. After welding into position a piece of steel off a farm implement - I remember one of the guy's saying it was now as strong as a 'brick shothouse' or words to that effect - this deviation delayed us by about 40 minutes and was followed by a long road section which I drove through the centre of Glasgow and on to the next Special Stage. From previous experiences in Scotland I was adhering strictly to the speed limits especially in the 30 areas, because the Police were using new roadside Radar units. However on the outskirts of Glasgow I became very aware of large crowds of people waving flags and hats as we approached, which I thought was most unusual. As we neared the centre of the City the crowds of people became stronger all cheering and shouting. As we travelled down the main street in Glasgow between the numerous traffic lights, something caught my eye in the rear view mirror, this was a full blaze of two headlights and four spotlights travelling at a fair rate of knots coming down the outside lane of the slow moving traffic. As I was pulling up at the red traffic lights, a policeman positioned himself in the middle of the road stopping all traffic and waved this fireball through which was of course Jim Clark in his Lotus Cortina, as he passed us at the red lights he must have been doing about 50 - 60 mph and continued on the opposite side of the road right through several traffic lights in the same fashion. This was a sight to behold and he was in a right flapping state, because someone had given him an eiderdown to stuff in the gaping door hole of his MK1 Lotus Cortina and naturally about a third of it was flapping outside the car. As soon as he had passed us the policeman simply disappeared leaving me to wait for the green lights. Later in the afternoon on the Newcastlton Stage we went off the track and slide into a ditch, this delayed us for about 30 minutes and badly damaged the cross member and steering handlebar, we emerged in the dark with our front wheels pointed outwards. As we left the Stage Finish Control, I caught a glimpse of a Ford service vehicle - their service cars were all adorned with a red fluorescent stripe down their sides - amongst the shrubbery, I dashed across and discovered Ginger Devlin and crew who were pretty reluctant to assist at first. However they managed to pull our wheels in a bit but they were still toeing out by about 2 - 3 inches. During this operation I asked Ginger why they were still waiting at the Stage Finish, he confided in me that Jim Clark's car was still in the forest, but added that the Road Book and Time Card were still on Time !! And that we have not seen them !! Did we, of course not !!! We eventually arrived in the Newcastleton Service area, much to the distress of Peter West and crew, who upon examining the damage had to change both struts, cross member, steering handlebar and other bits and bobs. I was due to book in at the Town Hall Control in about 15 minutes time when Peter said, "no chance mate, we will be at least another 40 minutes yet". There was only one thing to do under the circumstances, I hailed a Taxi, travelled to the Town Hall in my Dunlop Racing overalls with my Road Book, dashed in and booked in on time and returned to the Service area, I thought to myself, what's good for the goose, is good enough for the gander.

I was also part of the Rootes Group 'Ice Note' crew on the 1966 Monte, this was as near to competing on the event as I ever got.

However on the British Club scene, competition was getting tougher, and although we won numerous events in the 'MN' series, we finished off the season 2nd overall in the 'MN' Championship and 25th overall on the 1966 RAC Rally.