The Ford Corsair 200E
A British entrant, Peter Wilson's Ford Corsair 2000E, did a double roll after leaving the road 50 miles from Tehran, writing finis to its Marathon chances. Fortunately the three-man crew was not injured. Wilson, a driving instructor, returned to Tehran by taxi.

He said the car had overturned and hit a post at the top of a fifty foot drop when passing a Mercedes.
Alan Sawyer

Driven by Australian Ken Dwyer at the time, the car was eventually made drivable but the two English crew members decided to nurse it back to London while the two Australians, Dwyer and Ian Mackelden, flew on to Bombay.
John Smailes
Car 23 P.R.H. Wilson, Gt. Britain, Ford Corsair 2000E, P.R.H. Wilson
Photo courtesy: John Smailes and David McKay
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Car 23 Ford Corsair 2000E, leaving Crystal Palace at the start of the Marathon
Photo courtesy Ian Monastyrski