Reliant Factory Photos

When we used to have a Scimitar Club national camp for the spring Bank Holiday weekend at Drayton Manor Park, at some point a group of us would head into town to see what was going on at Two Gates. Sometimes we could just look through the fencing and wish; other times the place was open and we could stroll around.

I remember one Saturday there were a few men with spanners and rattle cans in a shed with six SS1s, minus headlamps. The cars were due for delivery to Germany, when someone had realised that no-one had painted the rising headlamp pods. This led to a gang doing overtime on a Saturday, dismantling and spraying them. As they say ... Only at Reliant!!

Still, one of our group did manage to go back to camp with a much-coveted rear spoiler for his SS1, for not a lot of money, after a clandestine meeting with one of the gang in a café down the street. It wasn't painted, of course, but then...