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Display car needed

The Historic Marathon Rally Group are a part of the Competition car display at the British Motor Museum, Gaydon 6TH September. A couple of free car display passes are still available for this event.

Any make of MARATHON, ABINGDON WORKS, OR INTERNATIONAL RACE OR RALLY CAR is welcome to come. If you can get there, please contact us.

Full details of the event are on the British Motor Museum website.

New for 2020 – Abingdon Works Motorsport Celebration

There will be a special feature of ex-works cars prepared by the Abingdon Competition and Special Tuning Departments, a rare chance to see them together.

Some of the featured vehicles include Mini Coopers, Morris 1800s, MGBs, Austin Maxis, Austin-Healey 3000s and MG Metro 6R4s along with various experimental cars, prototypes and supporting vehicles.

There will also be the chance to meet the people involved in this golden era from the BMC Competition and Special Tuning Departments at Abingdon, Warwick Healey works and Downton Engineering.

This celebration is being run by the Mini Cooper Register, Historic Marathon Rally Group, Austin Healey, MG and Triumph Clubs.

Daily Express London-Sydney metal badge

Does anybody have a better photo of this badge. I understand that the above photo is of Ken Chambers badge and was taken by Máirtín Catháin. The badge is now in the care of his grand daughter.

John Vipond is looking to get his badge restored. This is how it looks now.

Hi, does anyone remember the badge that all competitors on LSM 68 were given? Mine is looking tired so I would like to have it re-enamelled. Could anyone provide me with a photo of one that shows the colours clearly please? Thanks in anticipation.

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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1970 World Cup Rally by Robert Conner

Evening all. Some of you may know that Robert Conner is writing an account of the 1970 London Mexico World Cup Rally as a follow up to his book about the 1968 London Sydney Marathon that was published in 2016.

According to Robert the project has been in the doldrums for a while, for various underwhelming reasons, but is now back on track.

He has access to more research material about the actual event than he can shake an Austin 1800 at but needs more personal stories (thanks to those who have already contributed!).

If you competed, or played a part in any way, in 1970 and would like to share your recollections, let us know.

50 years ago Lock Down Relief part 2

Daily Mirror World Cup Rally 1970 Road Book 4 cover

Following our efforts do do something to celebrate and remember the start of the 1970 World Cup Rally, we feel it is only right to do the same for the finish on the 27 May.

What we would like is photographs, stories, anything you like about the finish of the event and maybe what happened next. You can either send to us by email at [email protected]

or post to our facebook group