Watch out Terry you will be giving you age away next mate.
:O)
Rick .
--- "Terry Rudd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
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>
><DIV><SPAN class=690135413-25052001><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>A nice
>blast from the past there Richard. You buggers south of the boarder had one of
>the classic rallies in those days called the "Alpine" with many freezing
>memories as it was held in the middle of winter, even black ice on the road and
>that was between stages.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
><DIV><SPAN class=690135413-25052001><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
>size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
><DIV><SPAN class=690135413-25052001><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
>size=2>(rooted alright, and you had to still drive home after it finished) I
>remember the last one I competed in was in the middle of a petrol strike (~73)
>and we had to limp home with a dinted floor and a broken header (was a 1200 not
>a 1600) We had a hot 1400GX in it with twin 40mm webers and had to get something
>like 35mpg from Wagga to Canberra after we scrounged up $2 worth of Super
>rations for 4 gallons (yes, Super was 50c/gal). Don't know how but me made it
>sitting on 50 mph all the way - very boring trip that.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
><DIV><SPAN class=690135413-25052001><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
>size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
><DIV><SPAN class=690135413-25052001><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
>size=2>TR</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
><BLOCKQUOTE>
> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>And
> the tracks they used make today's events look like they are run on
> freeways. Grotty, very rough, twisty, very muddy, obscure, the odd
> fallen log to get round, deep creeks and bogs, it was all fair game by
> Directors. </FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Motors and cars and crews had to be tough in
> those days. No time out for services, rebuilds or replacement of parts,
> if it was cracking up you fixed on the roadside in the timed stage or had
> to live with it, hence the success of Dattos, as they rarely broke down.
> </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Those events made today's 200Km competitive
> events on open graveled forest roads look like a warm up lap.</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rally's in those days used to be called
> "Trials" - and they were! No pace notes or prior knowledge of the
> course. A "route chart" was often jokingly called exactly that, a
> chart that rooted the car and the crew.</FONT><FONT face=Arial
> size=2> </FONT></DIV>
> <BLOCKQUOTE
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> face=Arial color=#0000ff
>size=2></FONT> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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