Castrol, Express & Star Rallys, 1958-80

[austinisuseless]

Held in mid-Wales and english borders. Excellent photos dotted around these pages.
http://jtrev.f2s.com/Selectayear.html




Spot the rear subframe strengthening, from 1967,

[LMM76C]

The 1964 edition passed my current house (30 years before it was built...) on an early section.
Most of the top runners are reported to have hit a tree (recorded as a tree stump in some reports) nearby. This tree, 45 years on:

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Not too good a Mini surface then(?) or now:

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The 64 report mentions Roger Clark/Jim Porter (3rd) only in passing. This would have been in his white Cortina GT 2ANR, a few months before he came to fame by winning the 64 Scottish in it.

[steady eddie]

Held in mid-Wales and english borders. Excellent photos dotted around these pages.
http://jtrev.f2s.com/Selectayear.htm]

What an amazing nostalgia trip, even we feature as non finishers in 1972 albeit in a Sprite, a holed petrol tank in Brecfa put us out, scraping on the bottom from the start, how on earth a Mini won I have won I never could fathom, the ruts were so deep. Probably Ryan was airborne for most of the stage?

Eddie

[SMOKE GREY]

One of my favourite website's this one

[LMM76C]

What an amazing nostalgia trip, even we feature as non finishers in 1972 albeit in a Sprite, a holed petrol tank in Brecfa put us out, scraping on the bottom from the start, how on earth a Mini won I have won I never could fathom, the ruts were so deep. Probably Ryan was airborne for most of the stage?Eddie

Yes, I did 72 co-driving a 998 Mini and I don't remember most of it being particularly smooth. Seem to recall Dyfi was. It was quite a shock to discover Ryan had won.

[austinisuseless]

For those that are not familiar on the one inch to the mile road book map referennces above, which was until about 1973, here is a guide what map is where, and a list numbered of every one, in the 1960s.

[austinisuseless]

And the pre-1973 OS imperial map numbers are in this list, when Britain was great, and all that gumf,
http://www.watsonlv.addr.com/np7.htm