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10 Apr 2009, 21:27 (Ref:2438310)
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Old Rally Photographs.
When I lived in a small village in Staffordshire one of my neighbours was Liz Crellin. Liz, as you Rally enthusiasts will know had a car entered by Woman Magazine, and along with Jean Denton and Pat Wright drove in a few International Rallies. Now...not being a RallyMan, I was mainly interested in the cars that were being used and took a few photographs which I hope will be of interest to you. They were all taken at my home circuit Mallory Park, in 1967. Know doubt you will recognise the cars and drivers. Anyway, here we go.
Note to Mod's, if these are in the wrong place to post, please move to the correct place. Thanks, Gerry. |
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10 Apr 2009, 21:32 (Ref:2438312)
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1967 RAC Rally Mallory Park
Here's a few more I've found in my attic. Hope they are of interest?
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10 Apr 2009, 21:35 (Ref:2438313)
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1967 RAC Rally at Mallory Park
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15 Apr 2009, 12:04 (Ref:2441290)
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Some interesting pics there Gerry- I'm wondering about the date though? Looks like they're from the RAC, which was cancelled in '67 due to the foot and mouth disease outbreak. Possibly '68? The orange rally number backgrounds date it to the period when the event was sponsored by The Sun, so something like '66-'69 or thereabouts? Anyone able to confirm the year or identify cars? One of the Minis and the Rover P6 ring a vague bell with me, but not sure where from...
The BMC 1800 is 'The Beauty Box', the 'Woman' magazine-sponsored car Jean Denton shared with Liz Crellin and Pat Wright on the backed World Cup Rally in 1970- it was one of several Landcrabs prepared for private entrants on that event by Special Tuning, with the factory team having moved on to Triumph 2.5PIs |
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15 Apr 2009, 12:21 (Ref:2441307)
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A quick Google and an entry list posted on another forum suggests the red/white Mini #28 'RJB326F' is Phil Cooper/Mike Bennett, on their way to 4th overall
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15 Apr 2009, 19:43 (Ref:2441690)
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The Sun did sponsor the 1968 RAC Rally and I am fairly certain that these pictures are from 68. The door numbers on the 1800 seem to be from a different year though.
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15 Apr 2009, 22:55 (Ref:2441814)
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16 Apr 2009, 10:14 (Ref:2442065)
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As I said originally guys, I'm no Rallyman, so bow to your greater knowledge. Paddy Hopkirk was a regular visitor to Ron Crellin and Liz who lived near me at the time, and the LandCrab would have been 1970 I guess.
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16 Apr 2009, 10:20 (Ref:2442075)
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No worries Gerry- they're great pics- it's always interesting to see pics other than the 'big names' and works drivers at the top of the field, and for some reason (not sure why as I wasn't there at the time, not being born until '67!) I've always found this period of rallying fascinating. I've got a copy of Tony Gardiner's book 'RAC Rally Action' at home, which is a good source of pics for the privateers further down the start list, and I think I recognise one of the cars (the Rover) from that. I'll have a look and see if I can i.d any more of them.
....and if there are any more of these in the attic, I'm sure no-one's going to complain if you post them... 
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16 Apr 2009, 10:37 (Ref:2442093)
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I'm glad that someone's pin-pointed the years of these photographs. I nearly made myself look very silly by suggesting the Rover was Roger Clark's famous 4KUE (now why did he choose THAT registration I wonder?) from many more years ago!
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16 Apr 2009, 11:10 (Ref:2442122)
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16 Apr 2009, 11:29 (Ref:2442137)
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It was interesting when I was a young child as the Clark family bought the 4 KUE (or maybe Rover gave it to them?) registration so I'd see Roger's Mum driving her Renault's (they were Renault dealers) with either 4 KUE or 2 ANR (the registration Roger used on his own private rally cars) registrations.
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16 Apr 2009, 14:10 (Ref:2442267)
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My God - this thread is bringing back the memories!
 Back in 1969 I did the Polish rally in an Escort twin cam with Nick Ward. There were only two other Escorts in the rally, one from Ford France (whose crew I cannnot remember) and another English one driven by Pat Wright and Margaret Lowry. (there were however a whole gaggle of Trabants!!) The rally was over the same dates as the American moon landing which we watched live on Polish television. But that's another story!! |
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18 Apr 2009, 21:35 (Ref:2444069)
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Here are some photos that I took of the 1966 RAC rally which was sponsored by The Sun newspaper. The first two photographs are of Jim Clark and Brian Melia. The third photo is of Bengt Soderstrom and Gunner Palm who went on to win the rally. The fourth photograph is Paddy Hopkirk and Ron Crellin and the last photograph is Timo Makinen and Paul Easter.
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25 Apr 2009, 22:41 (Ref:2449556)
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More From MALLORY
Just found yet another box of old slides. Here's a few more from the mists of time. Hope you emjoy them.
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26 Apr 2009, 22:38 (Ref:2450235)
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Great stuff Gerry. According to the results as listed at http://www.teamdan.com/archive/www2/euroral/68euro.html
these three are: Mk2 Cortina- Summers/Christopher, finished 31st Escort TC- Sutton/Johnson- DNF Mini- Davies/Kahn, finished 15th Going back to the Rover in the pics at the top of the thread, it's the automatic-transmission 3500 of Mike Howells/Malcolm Hamer, which finished 13th, while the Anglia is the car of Neville Cooke/John Brundle-- http://www.teamrubbish.org.uk/History.php There are more pics of both of these in the recent book 'RAC Rally Action' |
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27 Apr 2009, 06:22 (Ref:2450386)
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Great photos, thanks for airing them!
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28 May 2009, 23:37 (Ref:2471290)
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Thanks, back to the photo topic
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