"Streetly One"

Motorsports Association
Authorised Safety & Medical Frequency
Radio Operator

You don't need a specialist vehicle to get to your marshalling post, although do you really want to take your expensive sports saloon, with lowered suspension and lo-profile tires into the forest?

My vehicle of choice is a Vauxhall Frontera 2.8 TDi LWB 4x4. This gives loads of space for four adults and all the kit, reasonable comfort levels and the ability the go/park almost any where.

Vauxhall Frontera, shortly after purchasing it in October 2002

May 2005 -  Mainline Haulage stages

Whilst the Frontera is my daily driver (covering around 15k miles a year), it does attend events fitted with a demountable light bar, that incorporates:

• Double rotating amber beacon

• Public address speaker

• Siren

• Side illumination lights

• Rear facing flashing stop lamps

• Hand adjustable task light

• Two aerial mountings

You may have noticed that I have made a few modifications to the vehicle:

• Oversize tyres on a second set of steel rims

• Front brush bars (with obligatory spot/fog lamps)

• Rear light guards

• Steel roof rack (incorporating spot and reversing lamps)

• High level brake lights

• Reversing sounder

Modifications in the pipeline include (as funds allow):

• Snorkel

• 2" suspension lift

• Fabricated steel bumper

• Winch

Just for fun, the Frontera is fitted with a set of Dixie musical horns and hidden running lights.

In the cabin, all the additional equipment is easily demountable in about 5 minutes.

From the top:

• Satellite receiver

• MSA radio

• Home made control box for roof bar, which includes additional 12v power outlets and a flexible map light.

• Mobile phone/PDA, running navigation software

• A5 stage plans fit nicely under the air freshner.

• Terra-Trip rally computer, accurate to 0.01 of a mile.

• Also, not shown, is the CB radio mounted between the front seats that is used to power the PA speaker.

Origonally, all the stuff carried to/from events was loaded into crates before being stored in the boot. Feeling handy with a jigsaw one weekend, I came up with a lockable boot box:

Boot box

Having a 4X4 also allows for some excellent outdoor motorised recreation, whether it be in the form of Green Laning or even a 4X4 Play Day:

Green Laning through mid Snowdonia

4x4 Play Day at Aston Cantlow

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