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Team Mountain Pass
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The team
The first member of team Mountain Pass and team leader is Pierre Mountbatten, a 53 year old Australian car journalist who founded the iconic hot hatch bible, Mountain Pass, in 1984 to capitalise on the emergent European hot hatch scene. Pierre is not French and neither is anyone in his family; his mother thought it sounded “posh” and Pierre has hated it ever since…
Pierre’s companion for this competition isn’t the curvy blonde he was wishing for but his protege Andrew Morgan; another Aussie journo who introduced Touge to the Mountain Pass repetoire. Andrew is a regular columnist for Mountain Pass and is very active in the grassroots motorsports scene…
The Car
Since the whole shebang would feature in a future issue, the car selected for the race had to be both obscure and front wheel drive and so, after weeks of searching for something suitable, Team Mountain Pass had found their car…
Presenting the 1993 Bogliq Kitten Ralleye!!!
Pierre had some contacts in the classic rally scene but it was Andrew who eventually found it, buried in the back of an old farmers shed. They were both ecstatic to find out they’d got their hands on an obscurely rare, Eastern European imported, variant of the regular Kitten which was fitted with parts that were sporty for the USSR but a bit weird for the USA… DOHC 2v, alloy headed 2L four cylinder; twin Boglex sidedraught carbs; Locker diff etc.
The price? $499 and three hours listening to the old farmer drone on about the day the Commies tried to destroy his barn!
After installing a new battery and replacing the oils and fluids the little Kitten spluttered into life. Emboldened by this good fortune, Pierre stripped down the Boglex carbs and cleaned them out, then rebuilt them without changing any settings. Now the l’il Kitten purrs and roars and Team Mountain Pass are looking forward to trying their hand at automotive roulette!!! 