Sporting Favourites

Although people would believe that Colin’s interest for cars came from his father’s history of cars but in reality he had always been interested in cars and by the age of 2 he was begging to sit on the diver’s lap and drive the car.
Not even his mothers’ fear of two-wheeled vehicles could squash his passion for speed. Once Colin was 7 he was riding motor bikes even though he could hardly reach the handle bars and fell off when having to stop but never gave up.
During this time he also built his own partly assembled kits. Less than 5 years later he began competing in.
Once he started driving scrap yard cars which had been weldeed up with his mates on private land near his home he lost his interest in trial bikes and swapped them for an autotest car. The autotest car was a an old mini which won him the West of Scotland Autotest title.
After this in 1985 Colin was ready for his first rally and he made a deal with a friend which was that he could borrow the car if he fitted a gearbox. He made his first rally appearance in an Avenger on the Kames Stages (which was a single-venue event in Scotland).
He was doing well during this untill his car dropped off the side of the road. However during 1986 the Esso Scottish Championship bought him rewards and observers began to realise Colin had “something special”. The Jaggy Bunnett
Flying Brick award (for hardest trier) was earned to him by becoming the third challenger in the series and 18th overall.
By this time he was ready for something a bit more.