RESPECT YOUR ELDERS
Bad ass! It’s the only way to describe it. Sitting on Des Morris’s sofa in Saarf London, watching videos of him literally destroying Golf Rs while hitting speeds that we really shouldn’t mention here, it’s soon apparent that this car is mental.
“I can’t even tell the difference between high and low boost, to be honest. Either way it’s mad,” Des laughs.
Whereas nowadays ABS sensors and ECU-controlled systems are required to allow enough slip angle to make sideways tomfoolery artificially possible in modern day ultra-hatches, back in the late 1970s, twin carbs, a lairy cam and head work were pretty much all you needed to go everywhere in a cloud of sideways intoxication. Rally stages echoed to
