Features winner of the 1976 Southern Cross International Rally, Scotsman Andrew Cowan in a Mitsubishi Lancer. Rauno Aaltonen, one of the "Flying Fins" is talking to Datsun team manager, Howard Marsden. Footage of a pair of Ford RS1800's driven by Timo Makinen and the late Roger Albert Clark. The best Southern Cross Rally with the largest international participation of any Australian motorsport event.
I worked for Dunlop Tyres in Port Macquarie in those days... Great memories ... We would fit new tyres one day and unfit them, destroyed, the next day - some of the tyres did only 100 klms before they were ripped to pieces..... Great people and great times - thanks for reminding me off them....
pyrofella 11 months ago