Okay, okay, so I’m an old bugger these days. And if you don’t believe me, here’s proof: I drove both these cars and road-tested them for magazines back when they were brand-spankers. And this aint no rose-coloured look-back with the mists of time, smoothing the rough edges; I remember both cars with ultra clarity because both were, at the time, tarmac sensations.
The LE was first for me, of course, and I very much doubt whether you can possibly imagine the feeling I had as a 20-something kid waltzing down to HDT’s head office, rocking through the front door and asking to see Peter Brock ’cos I was picking up his car. Yep, Brock’s personal LE was to be mine for a week. How so? Just lucky I guess, but it came down to another journo from another publication having blown up the official HDT test-car (an auto) by going for a top-speed run,
