{"id":497245,"date":"2018-01-01T01:47:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T09:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=53377"},"modified":"2024-12-27T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T12:59:00","slug":"1988-f3000-reynard-88d-cosworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1988-f3000-reynard-88d-cosworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Racecar? 1988 F3000 Reynard 88D-Cosworth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 1988 season was one of those years when I was truly up against it, my wife was pregnant with our daughter and I desperately needed to race. All other options had failed, so I went back to my roots in England and spoke with some teams I\u2019d previously raced with who were in the market for paying drivers. After a time searching, Bromley Motorsport became my only chance. Their engineer, Gary Anderson, a man I\u2019d worked with in Indycars some two years before, had so much confidence in my driving ability. He said I should try and get hold of a free engine and chassis to race in the first three races of the F3000 Championship, if I were successful in those races, he could convince the owner that it would help them find a paying driver. Very much easier said than done!! However, I drove to the Reynard factory in Bicester, near Silverstone, and spoke to Adrian Reynard, but he wouldn\u2019t give me a free car. I left the factory and drove around a bit, I was very emotional and crying in my car. Eventually, I found a lay-by, stopped the car, and phoned Gary Anderson at Bromley Motors. I told him I\u2019d failed to get a car and would have to give up, \u201cBollocks! If you give up I\u2019m out of a job, you can\u2019t give up. Go back and get a car!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

By now the Reynard factory was closed, so I parked my car and slept in it until the next morning. I kept the engine running for some time to keep me warm\u2014after all it was winter. The next morning, as the factory opened I asked to use the Reynard toilets and washroom, I had a \u201ccat bath\u201d and cleaned my teeth. Once refreshed, I went to see the sales manager and told him I wanted to buy a F3000 racing car. He looked very happy. After carefully working out the price he showed me and asked, \u201cHow do you want to pay?\u201d I was anxious to see his face when I answered, \u201cAt the end of the year, of course.\u201d As the words left my mouth, I saw his face drop lower and lower. He dragged words out of his mouth, \u201cYou mean to say, I\u2019ve wasted over an hour of my time for you to tell me you have no money?\u201d Our conversation continued around the possibility of me finding a guarantor to allow me to pay for the car at a later date. It\u2019s at times like this when it is good to have real friends in and around the sport. I made a phone call and explained the whole scenario to my friend, the sales manager took the phone, spent one minute on the phone to my friend and then said to me, \u201cOkay, you can have the car.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n