This machine was originally found serving as a customer courtesy vehicle at a Melbourne panel beaters. I had the opportunity to drive the car several times (not as a customer) and enjoyed it. I've grown up driving small FWD cars, and it is the style of driving that I relish. The car was small and agile, but with some handling problems and a slipping clutch. I figured that if the car could handle the punishment doled out by customers then it could handle a rough road or two. On hearing that the business intended to get rid of the car I negotiated a price and drove it home.

Then the fun started. With a little over a week I had to get the car reregistered and "rally ready". A new clutch, new lower control arms, lower ball joints, right hand steering knuckle, pair of driving lights, new L/H/R tail light, and cam oil seal later the car was ready (1am the morning of our first rally)

The first rally we ran the car in was an introductory trial and we were running the car in the road class. We soon learned the error of our ways....... trying to grip on gavel at speed with road tyres and standard suspension??!?!?!!. After this first event we went back to the drawing board. A rear sway bar from a G11 turbo tightened up the suspension immensely, a set of Toyo M&S tyres and suddenly she was a new car.

The next introductory trail proved to us the potential of the little car with a class win, and a much more stable (therefore quicker) ride.

From here we started on developments for safety, better handling, more power......... all a little at a time (as we can afford) but most importantly having as much fun as we can along the way.

On April 5th 2003, 200m from the end of special stage 7 of the Strzelecki Stages we left the road, rolled twice off an embankment and slammed into a tree. The damage to the car was too severe to repair and we had to make the difficult decision to write off our pride and joy. After we salvaged what little we could to transfer over to the new G102, the wreck of "Woody", as the G11 had become affectionately know, was donated to the CFA for use at their Carrum Downs training ground.