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[brucemoxon]

Lynton's suggestion is great. I'll start then...

Gee, 1982 I think, near Taree on the NSW mid-north coast.

Geoff Briscoe (Ryan's Dad) in an Escort. I posted this before but I'm sure it can be two places at once.



Keith Byrn, Sydney Panel Beater to the motor sport industry, in a ubiquitous Datsun 1600



Actually much more recent - last few years actually - a 2 litre Escort running in the 'classic' class in Canberra.



Triumph 2500, same corner as the Escort. This was a very hot day, so I'm wondering what they've done (if anything) to stop the car overheating.



Wyong rally, 2000 or so. A V8 Falcon GT replica. Yes, I was standing in a really dumb place, but I'd underestimated how long it was going to take me to get out of the road.






Bruce Moxon

[brucemoxon]

Rally Australia, 1990. Early-ish in the Group A days, this was the second time it had been a round of the World Championship. I drove from Sydney to Perth (4500 kilometres) to see it. Worth the trip.

Carlos Sainz. There was a huge rut in this corner, a dead-stop hairpin and this was the second run through the stage.



Aussie Ross Dunkerton in a Galant VR4. I remember thinking these were just the thing - how technology moves on, eh?



Juha Kankkunen. To my mind, the best rally driver of all time, until Seb Loeb came along. Juha was just so smooth and precise.



Different dead-stop hairpin. Nobihiru ('Monster') Tajima. He always looked like he was about to crash - very spectacular in a type of car (FWD) that was supposed to be boring to watch. Late in the event he arrived with the side of the car all pushed in. "Oh, yeah", we thought, "he's finally done it." Turned out it was on road stage and wasn't his doing!



Local entrant Tolley Challis in a Group N VR4



Louise Aitken-Walker and Tina Thorner in a Vauxhall Astra. Did us good to see that you can rally a FWD car well.



Semi-works Audi. Another all-women team, but I can't remember the driver's name. The Audi was underpowered and heavy - but still made a good account of itself.



Another Aussie, Ron Cremen.



The late Possum Bourne. We'd never heard anything like this before - the bark of the Subaru flat four was a revelation. Now we're probably getting tired of it!



Kenneth Eriksen



Sainz again



Dunkerton. They crashed heavily while running near the head of the field. The engine cut out right at the end of a stage and Ross tried to just coast, without braking, but failed to take a corner with no power to drive through it. Crash or crash through, eh Rosco?




Bruce Moxon




Bruce Moxon

[GeoffR]

Ian Hill, Escort RS1800, Alpine Rally 1984


George Fury, Datsun 120Y, Alpine Rally 1984


Jim Kennedy, Mazda 626 Coupe turbo rotary, Alpine Rally 1984


Colin Bond, Escort RS2000, Southern Cross 1976


Colin Bond, Rscort RS1800, Endrust Rally 1978


David Rose, Lancer, Forest Rally (Tas) 1977


One of the above features yours truly in the silly seat. Also had boxes of Southern Cross slides that were chucked out some time ago in a fit of madness!!

Plus a couple more personal ones, part of the inaugral Toyota Team Australia in 1990:

Edited by GeoffR, 21 January 2011 - 09:54.

[Wirra]

From the London to Sydney thread.

I was at Warwick Farm to see the finishers. I always considered Lucien Bianchi the moral victor.

[GeoffR]

My god, the London to Sydney which influenced my decision to buy a Hillman Hunter; and what a bad decision that was!

Here's mine, a far cry from the Andrew Cowan machine, the resembance was superficial only!!

[Lee Nicolle]

Bring back 2wd rallying. Those cas looked spectacular and generally sounded good too. Unlike the woosh bang pop 4wd things.

[GeoffR]

Bring back 2wd rallying. Those cas looked spectacular and generally sounded good too. Unlike the woosh bang pop 4wd things.

Agree absolutely Lee, 2 (Rear) WD rally cars rule. However having said that the Celica GT4 was the quickest rally car I had been in at that time, drift into a corner as per RWD and then just boot it. No time sapping oversteer slide on corner exit, just full on acceleration.

Still nowhere compared to a BDA/Millington engined Escort though.

[Kevan]

Rally Australia, 1990. Louise Aitken-Walker and Tina Thorner in a Vauxhall Astra. Did us good to see that you can rally a FWD car well.

Semi-works Audi. Another all-women team, but I can't remember the driver's name. The Audi was underpowered and heavy - but still made a good account of itself.

The Audi driver is Paola di Martini

Back then the WRC included a championship award for female drivers, and these two were the main contenders in 1990- Louise taking the title. This was the same season that Louise walked (or rather swam..) away from her infamous shunt in Portugal which ended with the Astra in a lake...

Edited by Kevan, 21 January 2011 - 14:17.

[brucemoxon]

The Audi driver is Paola di Martini

Back then the WRC included a championship award for female drivers, and these two were the main contenders in 1990- Louise taking the title. This was the same season that Louise walked (or rather swam..) away from her infamous shunt in Portugal which ended with the Astra in a lake...

Thanks Kevan. All my entry lists and things like that are packed up at the moment. No, really!

And how do I fix the spelling of 'Antipodean'? I'm so embarrassed!




Bruce Moxon

[Tim Murray]

And how do I fix the spelling of 'Antipodean'? I'm so embarrassed!
Bruce Moxon

Drop Twinny a PM - he usually sorts things very quickly.

[BRG]

Juha Kankkunen. To my mind, the best rally driver of all time, until Seb Loeb came along. Juha was just so smooth and precise.

Sorry to be picky, Bruce, but much as I too liked Juha - a fine driver and a real character - but he never won a tarmac rally and I reckon that you cannot be considered the best rally driver of all time if you can't win on all surfaces.

Anyway, Stig Blomqvist was the best rally driver of all time, until Seb Loeb came along.....IMO! Great pictures from everyone!

[Lee Nicolle]

Agree absolutely Lee, 2 (Rear) WD rally cars rule. However having said that the Celica GT4 was the quickest rally car I had been in at that time, drift into a corner as per RWD and then just boot it. No time sapping oversteer slide on corner exit, just full on acceleration.

Still nowhere compared to a BDA/Millington engined Escort though.

4wd will always be quicker, as in theory will be turbo engines. But never as spectacular. The last rally I was involved directly with was a road closure in a SA state round in the late 80s. Even then the 4wd turbos wooshed around and were at the front but very close was the older style cars, Mazdas, Dazdas, Escorts, 1600s and the Falcons and even a Torana or 2.Which were fun to watch.
These days I am mostly doing hillclimbs, dozens of boring 4wd things. Fast but boring. A chap I know observed that his Subaru was the fastest thing he had driven at Collingrove and the most boring!! In over 30 years.

[GeoffR]

A few more:

Alpine Rally 1979 - Greg Carr/Fred Gocentas, Escort RS1800 (the legendary IYK-000)


Alpine Rally 1979 - Chris & Simon Brown, Datsun 180B SSS (Dry Saturday)


Alpine Rally 1979 - Dennis Wood, Datsun 180B SSS (Wet Sunday)


Alpine Rally 1984 - Dinta & Kate Officer, Galant


And yes, I did go to a few Alpine's.

Edited by GeoffR, 22 January 2011 - 07:33.

[cooper997]

Geoff,

The Boreham-built Carr/Gocentas RS1800 was on display in March last year with an Abingdon-built Cooper S at the Austin Healey Owners Club rooms. The two cars were brought together because Stuart Turner was in Melbourne to guest speak and be part of the 2010 AHOC Nationals.

Both cars are now very nicely restored and made wonderful noises when fired up to leave the premises that evening.

Stephen