Rally anyone?

[EricB]

Fred,

Did you take any pictures for the rest of us?

-e

[Caen Fred]

go to the race section of the photo album...

Thats the car, no race shots, too wet for my camera...

[Doehring]

Howdy friends,

having been sick at home for some days I spent my time studying books, magazines, videos and photos on 240 Z/ 260 Z in World Championship Rallies ( + some Non-World-Championship events).

Thanks to Guus who's "V ictory lane" is a very good starting point.

the order to read the following is: Event, Country, Driver/Co-Driver Starting#, Licence Plate #, Ident#, Result. Enjoy and perhaps you can answer the questionmarks!

1970 1st official works engagement in Torbay Rallye (GB) at Okt.

31st Tony Fall/Gerraint Phillips Starting# unknown, TKS 33 SA ?, ?, Result ?

RAC-Rallye (GB) Rauno Aaltonen/Paul Easter, 18, TKS 33 SA 695,

HS 30 0000 25, 7th

Tony Fall/Gerraint Phillips ?, ?, ?,?

Edgar Herrmann/Hans Schuller, ?, TKS 33 SA 694, HS30 0000 24, ?

John Bloxham/Norman Salt, ?, TKS 33 SA 696, HS30 0000 26, ?

There was another high speed tender car

1971 (Datsun published no more Ident ## !)

40th Rallye Monte Carlo (MC) R. Aaltonen/P. Easter, 62, TKS 33 SA 985, 5th

T. Fall/Mike Wood, 70, ...... 985, 10th There were 2 more supporting cars in the rallye, one co-driver was van Bergen. One of these cars was TKS 33 SA 987 (ex ....694)

19th East African Safari E.Herrmann/H.Schuller, 11, TKS 33 SA 1223, 1st Shekar Mehta/Mike Doughty, 31, ....1224, 2nd R.Aaltonen/P.Easter, 12, ..... 1226, 7th

Jack Simonian/Bob Garrish, ?, ..... 1227, ?

TKS 33 SA 1225 was a spare car at that event, ..... 1228 was High speed tender car.

(Welch Rallye (GB)) T.Fall/ ?, 3, TKS 33 SA 696, 1st

(Scottish Rallye (GB)), T. Fall/ ?, 4, TKS 33 SA 696, retired,

RAC-Rallye (GB) E. Herrmann/H. Schuller, 5, TKS 33 SA 3646, 17th

S.Mehta/Lofty Drews, ?, .... SA 696, 19th

R. Aaltonen/ ? , ?, ?, retired

T. Fall/ ? , ?, ?, retired

1972

41st Rallye Monte Carlo (MC), R.Aaltonen/Jean Todt, 5, TKS 33 SA 4150, 3rd

T.Fall/M.Wood, 20, .....4151, retired

20th East African Safari, E.Herrmann/H.Schuller, 10, ? , 5th

R.Aaltonen/T.Fall, 5, TKS 33 SA 4538, 6th

S.Mehta/M.Doughty, 8, ?, 10th

Ove Andersson/M. Davenport, 7, ?, ?,

20th Acropolis Rallye (Greece),S.Mehta/P.Easter, ?, ?, 6th

TAP-Rallye (Portugal), T.Fall/ ?, ?, ?, 4th

Chris Sclater/ ?,?,?,?

(7th Southern Cross(Australia)) R. Aaltonen/ Halloran, ?, TKS 33 SA 8075, 2nd

(Scottish Rallye (GB)), S. Mehta/ ?, ?,?,retired

Roy Fidler/Barry Hughes, 13, KEJ 1, ?

T.Fall/M. Wood, 4, TKS 33 SA 696, 7th

(Montana Rallye (Portugal)), Antonio Carlos/ ?, ?, ?, 1st

(Kenia 2000) S.Mehta/L.Drews, ?, ?, 1st

RAC-Rallye (GB), T.Fall/M.Wood, 18, TKS 33 SA 3640 , 18th

R.Aaltonen/P.Easter, 6, ?, 11th

R. Fidler/B.Hughes, 34 ?, ?

S.Mehta/Martin Holmes,26, ?,?

Press on Regardless (Michigan,USA) Jons/ Beckman, ?, ?, 2nd

(Rallye of Camelias (Portugal)) Antonio Carlos de Olivera/ ?, ?, GA-83-34, 1st

Olympic Rallye (Germany) ?/?, ?, VEC-MA 65, ?

(24 H Le Mans(F)) Martin Birrane/ ?, 47, ?, not qualified

I will go on 1973 -1981 later

Rolf

[Doehring]

Let me go on with 1973:

42nd Rallye Monte Carlo, MC, R.Aaltonen/P. Easter, 10, TKS 33 SA 8512 , 18th

T. Fall/M. Wood, 17, TKS 33 SA 8514, 9th

21st East African Safari, S.Mehta/L.Drews, 1, TKS 33 SA 7924, 1st

E.Herrmann/H.Schuller, 11, ? , ?

R.Aaltonen/P.Easter, 6, TKS 33 SA ?391, ?

(Tranzania 1000) ? / ? , ?, ?, 1st

Maroc Rallye (Maroc) S. Mehta/G. Phillips, %, TKS 33 SA 7922, Totalled after a flat out 300 meters flight into the stony desert

? / ? , 44 ?, ?

(Scottish Rallye (GB)), S. Mehta/ ? , ? ,? , ? (Crashed?)

RAC Rallye (GB), Harry Kallstrom/ Claes Bilstram, 5, TKS 33 SU 4079, 14th

T.Fall/M. Wood, 17, TKS 33 SU 3444, retired

Chris Sclater/Martin Holmes, 22, ?, ?,

Kevin Vidan/Peter Rushforth, ?, ?, 21st

Press on Regardless (USA), Smiskol/ Smiskol, ?, BD 3358, 3rd

(southern Cross(Australia)), ?/?, ?,?, 8th

1974:

22nd East African Safari, H.Kallstrom/C.Bilstram, 14, TKS 33 SU 6468 (260Z) 4th

Zully Remtulla/ Givani, ?, ?, (260Z), 5th

TAP Rallye (Portugal), H.Kallstrom/C.Bilstram, 4, TKS 33 SU 6466 (260Z), 5th

Rideau Lakes Rallye (Canada), Burkhard Skowrennek/ Woodlands, 117, PDH 812 (240Z), 6th

Smiskol/Smiskol, ?, ?, (260Z), 8th

RAC Rallye (GB), Cahal Curley/ ?, 25, TKS 33 SU 6466 (260Z), ?

(Tranzania 1000) ?/?, ?,?, 2nd

Maroc ? / ?, ?, ?, 6th

(Hugenotten Rallye (Germany)), H.Schuller/G.Weitmann, 4, "Tuner Nippon Speed Car (see Le Mans Car), (260Z), 4th

Bandama Rallye(Ivory Coast), ?/?, 2, ?, ?

? /?, 6, ?, (260Z), 5th

? /?, 17, ?, ?

1975:

TAP Rallye (Portugal) Cortez/ Gomez, ?, ex TKS 33 SU 6470, (260Z), 4th

Figueredo/ Baraton, ?, ?, (240Z), 6th

Mepre/ Magelhas, ?, ? (240Z), 10th

(24H Le Mans, (France)), Schuller, Haller, Maechler, 72, TKS 33 SU 6466 (240Z (at least the engine)), "Tuned by Nippon Speed Car") , 26th over all, 1st in class

(24H Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium)),Delbar/Rubens/Miroux, 17, ?, 260 Z 2+2 !!!, ?

RAC Rallye (GB), Kevin Vidan/Peter Valentine ?, LPE 66 P, ?, ?

1976:

(Firestone Rallye (Spain)), K. Videan/ P.Valentine, ?, LPE 66 P, 6th

24th East African Safari, H.Schuller/Dieter Steinmann, 16, TKS 33 SU 6470, (260Z),"Nippon Speed Car", ?

(24H Le Mans (F)) Haller/Buchet/Favresse, 73, ?, (260Z) Totalled

1981:

(Jänner Rallye (Austria)), S.Mehta/Yvonne Mehta, ?, ?, ?; (240Z), 12th. In this event AUDI presented 1st times the works Quattro, the winner of theis event, starting a new aera, the 4wd

Rolf-K. Doehring

[Doehring]

Friends,

I got the information that a very few years ago (end of 90s ?) a 240 Z finished 2nd at a remake of the famous London-Mexico Worldcup Rallye. Winner was - as at the original event - Hannu Mikkola in his Ford Escort. I heard the 240 Z was Australien. There must have been another 240 Z. Who has informations an pictures on the car and /or the event?

Rolf

[HS30-H]

Hi Doehring,

You have really been data-crunching haven't you!?

Its going to take a while to wade through it all, but I think I can fill in a couple of gaps for you. I shall have to have a think of how to format it, though - otherwise the list will get longer and longer by repeating itself ( how many pages are we limited to here? ).

That Australian Z entry must surely have been Mr Ross Dunkerton? Our correspondents in Australia must surely be able to confirm this. He is a well-known face among the rallying Datto fans down under, and has a lot of successes under his belt.

Well done for all that data..............

Alan.

[Doehring]

Hi Alan and all other friends,

when I have a little more time I will repeat the data in an Excel-Matrix and send this to everybody who is interested. I don't know if I can attach an Excel-Matrix to this thread, Mike ? You can than easily fill the gaps. I'm not used to use Word. Perhaps that's easier. I will ask a secretary.

Dunkerton is a name I read already. Friends from "down under", can you find out more about the car and the event, perhaps with some pics? Would be great to see how good a Z performs still today in the toughest events.

Rolf

[EricB]

Doering,

I have already put your data up until 1972 in an Excel format so there's no need to repeat the process.... Shall I mail it to you?

-e

[Doehring]

Hi EricB,

thank you very much for the Excel sheet. Would you be so nice to add the figures from 1973-1981 that I collected in my 2nd part of the history ? That would be great. Please let the writing-rights (correct english?) open so that we can add informations where I left questionmarks ? Alan (HS30-H) already mentioned that he can fill some open positions.

Rolf

[Caen Fred]

Nicy, nicy...

It's alive!!!!

Well done boys, so this is getting somewhere now, I am interested by the sheet.

I have notice in the "for sale" from one of our papers a 240z prepared for dirt rallying (I don't even want to think what it should look like!!!) but that mean that a few are still rallying today. Beside Kevin Bristow any well known rallying Z that we could support and get exited over?

[Doehring]

Good morning CaenFred,

how is La Rochelle today? I have been there some time ago while sailing to Lissabon. There were the F1 Cat- and Trimarans in the harbour. Great ! La Rochelle is a wonderful place. Friends, don't miss it if you're going to France.

Fred, thank you for the pics from the Le Mans Z. You mentioned Kevin 's Z. I hope our Australien friends can find out more about the Dunkerton car Alan mentioned, must be a great marathon car.

Did you see mine in sportZmagazine. That was a good on, too. Shurely Guus will perform well when he starts the action

I'm very hopeful that we can fill the ??? in my table all together when EricB has sent the Excel matrix to you, me and all other interested Z rallyefans.

Rolf

[Z-point]

Good morning CaenFred,

Did you see mine in sportZmagazine. That was a good on, too. Shurely Guus will perform well when he starts the action

Rolf

Hi Rolf,

How did you become so famous? Did you volunteered or what. I do not have a membership but thinking about it, it’s rather expensive.

Guus

Z-point

www.z-point.nl/victory_lane.htm