The Gil Davis Rally Diaries
The Gil Davis Rally Diaries Chapter One Gil Davis asked me in late 2000 if I wanted to fill the Navigators seat beside him in the then Burnt Orange 180B SSS, complete with auto trans, taking over from his long-term Navigator David Long. The first event was the 2000 Millennium Alpine Trial run by Gordon – Trout – Douglas for the Albury Wodonga and District Car Club. Strangely enough, nearly 25 years earlier, in the 1976 Kleber Alpine Rally Gil Davis /David Long and Chris Brown and myself finished equal 8 th . The Millennium Alpine Trial was a different Alpine thou, more like an Experts Trial rather than those Alpines between that Kleber Alpine Rally in 1976 and last one in 1994; being a night of difficult navigation, which was a big wakeup call for me as hadn’t competed in many similar event for about 15 years! What was obvious straight away was the Gil was a stubborn old rally professional who would never give up and we finished in 4 th place finishing around 4.00am. Th...