MISSING INACTION
What happens to top-flight competition cars when they reach their best-before dates? A lucky few lead cosseted lives as ornaments for rich folk and museums. Many continue in lower-profile series driven by privateers; some return to fight another day as historic racers. Others are simply scrapped.
And then there’s the handful that disappear without trace, holed up in barns or gradually broken for parts.
The car on these pages fits into almost all of those categories. But, finally, its decades of inactivity are over. And for that we can thank Fast Ford pal Paul Linfoot, aka Mr RS500, whose eponymously-named business (Paul Linfoot Racing) specialises in the creation and restoration of these iconic machines.
Eight-or-so years ago, Paul was displaying his self-built Caltex-liveried race replica at the Autosport show when he was approached by a chap named Ian Goff, who casually mentioned his own RS500 was an ex-Trakstar touring car. Paul stopped dead; he knew
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