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Mosvitch in the WCR 1970

The Historic Marathon Rally Group are happy to have recently established contact with Mosvitch crew from the 1970 World Cup Rally.

Here are some photos that include the Mosvitch cars.

1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally, the motor rally started at Wembley Stadium in London on 19 April 1970 and finished in Mexico City on 27 May 1970, covering approximately 16,000 miles. Pictured, Cars at Docks, waiting to be loaded onto ocean liner Derwent, Lisbon Harbour, Portugal, ahead of Atlantic crossing. 26th April 1970. (Photo by Kent Gavin/Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

Mosvitch in the 1970 World Cup Rally on the road London

Start at Wembley of the World Cup Rally 1970

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Datsun 180B SSS to be restored

This is the Datsun 180B SSS from the 1977 London to Sydney rally that Craig Shiel is currently restoring in Australia. If anyone has any information on this car he would love to hear from you. Craig as been in touch with the original three drivers.

Datsun 180B SSS 1977 London to Sydney Rally car 53 team photo Rod Jones, Arthur Davis and John Latham

This photo shows the original crew of car 53 Rod Jones, Arthur Davis and John Latham

The Datsun 180B SSS is being restored.

1968 Marathon Rally start

Here is a gallery of photographs that taken at the start of the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon Rally on 24 November 1968 and at Warwick Farm Sydney on 17 December 1968. The images are scans of Agfa 35mm slides and come from a flickr gallery uploaded by Archie Hall.

Ford Falcon XT GT in the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon Rally

Ford Falcon XT GT car 2 in the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon Rally

Simca 1100 car 100 at the start of the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon Rally

Simca 1100 car 46 at start of the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon Rally

Porsche 911S car 58 at the start of the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon Rally

Porsche 911 car 55 at the start of the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon Rally

Volvo 144S car 8 in the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon Rally

Hillman Hunter car 75 in the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon Rally at the Warwick Farm stage in Australia

Renault 16TS car 11 in the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon Rally in Australia

Holden HK GTS car 36 in the 1968 World Cup Rally in Australia

Chrysler Valiant Safari car 5 in the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon Rally

Bentley car 84 at the start of the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon Rally

View from Ford Falcon car 97 at the start of the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon Rally - Crystal Palace London — View from Ford Falcon car 97 at the start of the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon Rally – Crystal Palace London

Ford Cortina Lotus cars 50 and 48 at the start of the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon Rally

A 1970 WCR Archive on eBay

I wonder who won the recent eBay auction for a large collection of documents. The archive relating to the 1970 World Cup Rally BMC 1800 entry by competitor, archive compiler and main driver Peter Jopp.

You can read the advert text over the page.

If you won the auction and would like to join this group please contact us.

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Perth to Sydney Marathon Rerun 2021 update

Route of the Perth to Sydney Marathon Rerun 2021

The Event Organising Committee will be meeting tomorrow to review the status of activity of what is turning out to be one of the largest Historical Rally Tours for many years. The Organising Committee approved an increase in Entries and we are pleased to confirm that within 3 days all places were taken. The event now has 80 confirmed entries and it is all steam ahead to deliver the event as outlined.

The Committee will release an Event Update following tomorrows meeting with updates also being published on the Historic Rally Club NSW and ACT Group.

President of the Historic Rally Club NSW and ACT Michael Batten has kindly agreed to join the Organising Committee.

Thank you to all Entrants and also to those entries on the Reserves List.

Kind regards,

Laurie Mason – Event Director.

If you want to know more about this event you can contact Laurie via the Perth to Sydney Marathon Rerun 2021 facebook group

You can read an earlier post about the Perth to Sydney Marathon Rerun here.