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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,

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

austinisuseless wrote: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

One of my favourite website's this one

steady eddie wrote: 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.

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.

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