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A few more of the late great Kenyan Simba of The Safari.

 

Seatbelt has merely decorative purpose:

 

 

Joginder being happy:

 

But no one ever managed to look as pissed off when being pissed off as he did:

 

 

He did his thing at the Sweden Rally without ever even having SEEN snow in his life before!

 

Local Swede looks surprised seeing two Sikhs with an Analzone:

 

 

Back on more familiar grounds - this is how to win a Safari.

 

On two wheels:

 

On no wheels:

 

"It's pretty pointless to slam the brakes while you are airborne, or sliding on the roof"

(Joginder Singh)

 

 

Game pass Kenyan style:

 

 

It all started in 1960 with his daily driver:

 

 

How ice kewl is that? Boiling the Stroppe Mercury's rear hides, while cruising with the elbow out:

 

 

President Kenyatta congratulates an unusually obedient Joginder for winning the Safari:

 

 

Few people know, that this heap he won the '65 'Fari with, had already clocked 42k rally miles when it was assigned to him:

 

The car was later fully restored by Volvo and is still with us. Revell made a 1/18 scale model of it.

 

Although Ugandan rival Shekhar Mehta has ultimately won the Safari more often than Joginder (a record 5 vs. 3), he cannot be beat for consistency and sheer determination.

The two men also couldn't have come from more contrasting backgrounds. While Shekhar was born into a filthy rich industrialist dynasty and didn't have to work a day in his life,

Joginder was one of ten children from a family, who had a local garage in Nairobi. His first job was spanner boy in his father's shop.

 

Singh's record of 19 Safari finishes in 22 attempts is an unprecedented feat in what has long been regarded as the world's toughest rally, where the attrition rate can exceed 90%. He was even one of the so-called "Unsinkable Seven", the only crews in the 1968 event, who reached the finish at Nairobi, when the rest of the entire field of 74 were stranded on the Mau Escarpment along the western rim of the Great Rift Valley.

He had no motorsport experience until he was 26, but made up for his late start by eventually accumulating over sixty wins in the East African Rally Championships in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Aside from winning the Safari Rally three times, he also scored three top five finishes in the Southern Cross Rally in Australia in the 1970s, and was twice awarded Kenya's Motor Sportsman of the Year title (1970, 1976).

 

He lived in that there London from the 1980s onwards and died of heart failure at his home on 20 October 2013, aged 81.

 

For me, he was one of the sport's true heroes, a term way to loosely used nowadays.

Joginder was right up there with Eugen Böhringer and Rauno Aaltonen.

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Top stuff, JM, he's always been a hero of mine....."Moonlight Driving School" - Love that!

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This rare photo shows what is believed to be Britain's first drive-in.   Mrs Doris Binks of Edgbaston got the idea after her second cousin sent her a postcard from Albuquerque showing a McDonalds there in 1958.   

 

Due to the draughty nature of the only available local building with a door at each end Doris decided to eschew the adapted ice-skating outfit she had intended to wear. Continual oil leakage from customer's cars also forced her to give up on the roller skates after a disastrous failure to stop saw her serving a pink French Fancy directly into the face of local dignitary Sir Nigel Torey-Uppstart in the back of his A110 Wesminster de Luxe.    

 

This shot shows the Mk2 Tea Tray in operation which was fitted with castors enabling Doris to ensure the unit was never exactly where it was needed, forcing drivers into frustrating shuffling to get their car close enough to actually warrant a drive-in operation.    This usually resulted in them ordering a second cup of tea.   

 

The large kettle on the lower shelf is not, as might be expected, a reserve beverage supply but an additional service offered by Doris to owners whose cars overheated in the peak queuing hours when Doris was still warming her pot.    Unfortunately, the drive-in was commandeered shortly after opening by the neighbouring BMC dealership to store unsold cars.   Mrs Binks found a happy ending, though, as telephone receptionist in the Warranty Department.....   

 

 

 

 

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