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DRIVE IT THE SPECIAL STAGES

Next time you’re planning a roadtrip in your classic Ford — or just for the hell of it — why not make a diversion to drive some of the famous rally stages of the past? Recall Roger Clark, Hannu Mikkola, or any of your Ford-driving heroes, and think what it must have been like to tackle such roads.

We only have space to choose a handful of our favourite special stages — in the UK, in France and in Italy — and we hope you will see why we love them, too. Unhappily, some of our all-time favourites are on private ground, so we can’t encourage you to break the law on territory like the military roads across Epynt in south Wales, Oliver’s Mount in Scarborough, or private estates in

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