Mr Mcrae's Personal 22b

[trackhound]

I regularly visit Alex Noble & Son on a Sat morning to pick up parts for the forged 2.5 project I am building.

Colin Noble mentioned he had something special in the workshop I might be interested in. Low and behold it was Colin MacRae's personal 22b. It had only covered 10,000 KM and was absolutely immaculate. It was almost as if it had just rolled off the production line. Turned out the garage had sourced it specially for him some years ago and had purchased it back from the MacRae family following the sad demise of the great man.

Good to see such a fine example of such a wonderful machine.

http://s432.photobucket.com/albums/qq50/tr...acrae22b003.jpg

http://s432.photobucket.com/albums/qq50/tr...acrae22b002.jpg

http://s432.photobucket.com/albums/qq50/tr...acrae22b001.jpg

Edited September 20, 2008 by Trackhound

[ed-209]

You links didn't work for me so here's your pics

I'll leave out the wrx heads

[trackhound]

  ed-209 said:

You links didn't work for me so here's your pics

I'll leave out the wrx heads

Thanks - not sure what the problem is with photobucket

[seafar99]

Did they give any clues as to what there going to be doing with it?

Edited September 20, 2008 by seafar99

[trackhound]

  seafar99 said:

Did they give any clues as to what there going to be doing with it?

I got the impression Colin was the new owner rather than it being for sale.

[the squiggle]

AFAIK Colin Noble is keeping in his private collection

Stunning car with a stunning history

[superstar_tradesman]

if my 6 numbers ever came up that is what I would buy.

[wulsey]

Great car with great history!

[t3hWIT]

Very lucky. Thanks for posting that.

[DR Motosport]

  Trackhound said:

I regularly visit Alex Noble & Son on a Sat morning to pick up parts for the forged 2.5 project I am building.

Colin Noble mentioned he had something special in the workshop I might be interested in. Low and behold it was Colin MacRae's personal 22b. It had only covered 10,000 KM and was absolutely immaculate. It was almost as if it had just rolled off the production line. Turned out the garage had sourced it specially for him some years ago and had purchased it back from the MacRae family following the sad demise of the great man.

Good to see such a fine example of such a wonderful machine.

http://s432.photobucket.com/albums/qq50/tr...acrae22b003.jpg

http://s432.photobucket.com/albums/qq50/tr...acrae22b002.jpg

http://s432.photobucket.com/albums/qq50/tr...acrae22b001.jpg

Colin's 22B never came from Nobles originally.

It came from Prodrive.

Nicky Grist and Dave Lapworth also were given one each at the end of 1998.

And they all had build number 000, on the interior plaque.

David

[trackhound]

  DR Motosport said:

Colin's 22B never came from Nobles originally.

It came from Prodrive.

Nicky Grist and Dave Lapworth also were given one each at the end of 1998.

And they all had build number 000, on the interior plaque.

David

That's interesting - Colin N said he had sourced it for the big man!

[terzomark]

  Trackhound said:

That's interesting - Colin N said he had sourced it for the big man!

I believe that's right- although I was told many moons ago that it was David Richards rather than Lapworth who had the third 000/400 22B. The 000 cars were prototypes, (please, if I'm wrong here somebody correct me) and were offered for sale to the above 3 people in 1998. Nicky's is now owned by a very amiable guy who was at the McRae Gathering, based in Ireland. He told me (or maybe his mate did, can't really remember) that McRae's was indeed now owned by a garage up in Scotland, so I'm assuming that's it right there...let's be honest, you'd give your left nut for that there motor...

[the squiggle]

The 3 prototypes went to Colin Nicky Grist and David Lapworth

The 3rd prototype, Lappy's old one, is now residing in Italy after a pain staking search trying to track all 3 down for the Gathering

2 out of 3 aint bad

[the squiggle]

Oh and another point

Colin traded the 22b in for a

Mk2 Escort

[StrikE]

That is a lovely car..............if i win the lottery

[DR Motosport]

  The Squiggle said:

The 3 prototypes went to Colin Nicky Grist and David Lapworth

The 3rd prototype, Lappy's old one, is now residing in Italy after a pain staking search trying to track all 3 down for the Gathering

2 out of 3 aint bad

S446 was that Nicky's original 22B?

He sold his, then bought a different 22B.

What reg No. did Dave Lapworth's have? A guess at either 445 or 448

They weren't really prototypes.

They were JDM import cars, with a few bits fitted from the UK official models (diff's / gearing)

Dave

[the squiggle]

  DR Motosport said:

S446 was that Nicky's original 22B?

He sold his, then bought a different 22B.

What reg No. did Dave Lapworth's have? A guess at either 445 or 448

They weren't really prototypes.

They were JDM import cars, with a few bits fitted from the UK official models (diff's / gearing)

Dave

IIRC it was 445. The car is in a private collection in Italy and the costs involved in getting it across was astronomical

Next time i see David i will ask him.

They are referred to as prototypes as they do not fall into the official series of xxx JDM cars and xx UK cars. Only UKification was the Alarm system fitted at Banbury, MAP was even JDM

[jac]

No, not for me the no plate is to big

[fai17]

Lovely

I like and that is the only classic to HAVE....

[Neil82]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-mUC0qVrFU

[colzo]

IMO the 22B is the ONLY Impreza you can call Classic.

[frank c]

  COLZO said:

IMO the 22B is the ONLY Impreza you can call Classic.

Unless you get an Import of course