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Hi. I feel like I'm the newbie here, but oddly not. I'll explain. Although I've just joined the group I've been involved with these cars right from the beginning, some of you might recognise my number plate, looks familiar maybe. Ford purchased RS02FLY, FUN, HOT and FMC and at the same time I managed to bag TOY. I've driven all of those cars, including test cars at a launch event held at Gaydon as I had one of the first batch of 35 cars to come to the U.K. The old expression, ‘it's not what you know, but who you know' played out for me very well.
A friend who worked high up in Ford U.K. a gent called Jeff Carr said once, ‘if you ever want a favour from me just ask'. 6 of his chums asked the same as me, ‘I want a Focus RS'. ‘You know there's a 8-10 month wait?' he replied when I asked the question, ‘yes' I replied, ‘OK, go put your deposit on at Stormont Ford in Tunbridge Wells and wait'. Here comes the crazy part, I had a phone call from the dealer principal at Kennedy Ford who were the satellite dealership handling my order, ‘Who do you know at Ford?' ‘What?' ‘You heard', ‘Why', ‘Your car is in the workshop!' ‘What!, how? ‘Well you must know, you know someone', 3 weeks after I ordered the car it was at the dealership. Just shows you what can happen if you just know the right person.
kept that one for a few years (trying to find the details still), regretted selling it then bought another a few months later (SM03OAN) from Scotland, kept that one for many years, won some cups with both and I've now recently purchased my 3rd. Just clocked 11,000 miles from new. So here we go again.
A friend who worked high up in Ford U.K. a gent called Jeff Carr said once, ‘if you ever want a favour from me just ask'. 6 of his chums asked the same as me, ‘I want a Focus RS'. ‘You know there's a 8-10 month wait?' he replied when I asked the question, ‘yes' I replied, ‘OK, go put your deposit on at Stormont Ford in Tunbridge Wells and wait'. Here comes the crazy part, I had a phone call from the dealer principal at Kennedy Ford who were the satellite dealership handling my order, ‘Who do you know at Ford?' ‘What?' ‘You heard', ‘Why', ‘Your car is in the workshop!' ‘What!, how? ‘Well you must know, you know someone', 3 weeks after I ordered the car it was at the dealership. Just shows you what can happen if you just know the right person.
kept that one for a few years (trying to find the details still), regretted selling it then bought another a few months later (SM03OAN) from Scotland, kept that one for many years, won some cups with both and I've now recently purchased my 3rd. Just clocked 11,000 miles from new. So here we go again.
..... I thought my car would walk it me being a purist 
and Glenn's car having the bonnet stripes but how wrong was I. 
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