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Paddy Hopkirk's BMC 1800 in Gaydon Museum
Paddy Hopkirk - second place in the London-Sydney Marathon and Bill Price former Workshop Manager and Head of the Competitions Dept. at Abingdon, Longbridge.
Photo courtesy Paul Phelan (c) 2004
Alec Poole and Paddy Hopkirk team up once again.
Sadly Tony Nash passed away shortly after the Marathon.
Photo courtesy Paul Phelan (c) 2004
MTB 150G Car 77 known as "Lurch" was also the winner of the Historic Monte Carlo Rally - January 2004, owned by Peter and Ann Lochs and participated in the 1970 World Cup Rally
Pic was taken on this winning rally. ...and still going strong.
SMO 227 G Car 31 finished 21st. in the 1968 London-Sydney Marathon and also competed in the 1970 World Cup Rally.
Ironically this pic shows Paddy Hopkirk flagging off Ken Green in the GT Rally in October 2005.
Car is now owned by Ken Green (UK).
Pic courtesy Ken Green (c)
Paul Easter of the Aaltonen / Liddon / Easter BMC Team car 61 registration no SMO 225G. Paul is standing beside SMO 227G that was driven by 'Gelignite' Jack Murray, Evan Green and George Shepheard. Now owned by Ken Green (UK). Finished 5th Overall.
Photo courtesy Ken Green (c)
Andrew Cowan - winner of the 1968 London Sydney Marathon standing beside SMO 227G that was driven by 'Gelignite' Jack Murray, Evan Green and George Shepheard. Now owned by Ken Green (UK).
Photo courtesy Ken Green (c)
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Andrew Cowan reunited with his winning Hillman Hunter in 2006
Photo courtesy Ken Green (c)
Revival weekend at Knockhill
Photos kindly supplied by Charlie Donaldson
An interesting interview (possibly in 2004) with Andrew Cowan, Rosemary Smith, Brian Culceth and Tony Fall.
L to R:
Car 31 - finished 21st overall in the 1968 London Sydney Marathon SMO227G (owned by Ken Green UK)
Car 21 - DNF (missing after Teheran)
Car DBC 33K
Car 71 - finished 28th overall in the 1968 London Sydney Marathon
NKG777G
Taken at the Coleford Festival of Transport Easter Monday 2007
Photo courtesy Ken Green
At an auction at Goodwood in the UK last weekend (1st September 2007) an Austin 1800 London-Sydney Rally car sold for what must be a world record price for a Landcrab.
The car SMO 223G which was the works survey car and which at some time had been crashed and totally re built sold for over £30.000 - that's getting on for AU$80,000.
Photos and interesting story courtesy Ken Green
