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When the Chieftain Rally accident happened, I was at art college in Winchester. I lived in Fordingbridge in Hampshire in a tiny, rented cottage. Students didn't have phones in those days. In fact, as far as I can remember, we didn't have a TV either. But we did listen to the radio. (How very old that makes me feel!)And it was on the radio that I heard that 'one of the cars' on the Chieftain Rally had been involved in a nasty accident and that the driver was in a bad way.
I went to the local call box (about 2 miles away) and called Service Garage and asked to speak to 'Uncle' Peter Schofield. Everyone called him 'uncle'.
He confirmed that it was my dad.
Nice one, dad.
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Eric Jackson's first rally car.
Eric Jackson’s first Ford rally car was a little 35 brake horse power Anglia. It had a three-speed gear box, a side valve engine – and windscreen wipers that stopped working every time the car went uphill. The first rally he entered with the Anglia was the the Yorkshire Rally. The registration number of the car was OYU 676. He also entered the Rally of Great Britain in the car. The photograph I have shows a remarkably old little car with a remarkably determined, be-goggled Eric at the wheel. The caption on the back reads Eric at speed.
His last rally car was a twin-cam Escort. Somewhere I must have a photograph of this car intact, but I have many more of it after it had somersaulted backwards at least seven times on the Chieftain Rally in 1973. The navigator, Don Barrow, emerged from the wreckage unscathed. The driver got pretty beaten up though.
Eric Jackson's last rally car
Note: It wasn’t Eric’s last rally, despite his injuries. But the Escort was the last rally car he owned. He borrowed them from Ford after that!