1976 Southern Cross Rally

1976 Southern Cross Rally Total Oil Southern Cross International Rally AUS Australia Sydney Port Macquarie 9 14 October 1976 48 2132.50 3334.41 Tarmac and Gravel GBR Andrew Cowan AUS Fred Gocentas AUS Mitsubishi (Australia) Pty Ltd 88 22 The 1976 Southern Cross Rally, officially the Total Oil Southern Cross International Rally was the eleventh running of the Southern Cross Rally. The rally took place between the 9th and the 14th of October 1976. The event covered 3,334 kilometres from Sydney to Port Macquarie.http://southerncrossrally.blogspot.com/2013/11/1976-route.html Dan White 1976 Route It was won by Andrew Cowan and Fred Gocentas, driving a Mitsubishi Lancer GSR. Results Pos Position No Car number Entrant Drivers Car Penalties (Points) 1 6 AUS Mitsubishi (Australia) Pty Ltd GBR Andrew Cowan AUS Fred Gocentas Mitsubishi Lancer GSR 157 2 9 AUS Mitsubishi (Australia) Pty Ltd AUS Barry Ferguson AUS Neil Faulkner Mitsubishi Lancer GSR 203 3 4 AUS Nissan Motor Australia KEN Shekhar Mehta AUS Adrian Mortimer Datsun 710 SSS 205 4 19 AUS Mitsubishi (Australia) Pty Ltd AUS Doug Stewart AUS John Dawson-Damer Mitsubishi Lancer GSR 271 5 14 AUS Mitsubishi (Australia) Pty Ltd JPN Kenjiro Shinozuka AUS Garry Connelly Mitsubishi Lancer GSR 324 6 16 AUS Nissan Motor Australia SWE Per-Inge Walfridsson AUS Peter Godden Datsun 710 SSS 348 7 34 AUS I.W. Hill AUS Ian Hill AUS Graham Roser Mitsubishi Lancer 391 8 27 AUS David Bond AUS David Bond AUS Ian Richards Mitsubishi Lancer 418 9 31 AUS Murray Coote AUS Murray Coote AUS Brian Marsden Datsun 1200 437 10 28 AUS A. Crawford AUS Peter Janson AUS Paul Paterson Mitsubishi Lancer GSR 453 11 64 AUS B.E. Clark AUS Brian Clark AUS Peter Hardy Mitsubishi Galant 561 12 46 JPN Mitso Ayabe JPN Mitso Ayabe JPN Shigeru Imai Toyota Trueno 670 13 48 AUS Gary Meehan AUS Gary Meehan AUS Martin Fell Toyota Corolla 688 14 2 AUS Ford Motor Company of Australia GBR Roger Clark GBR Jim Porter Ford Escort RS 1800 Mark II 855 15 25 AUS Jim Reddiex AUS Jim Reddiex AUS Greg Sked Citroën CX2200 1069 16 58 AUS Dr. J. Munro AUS John Munro AUS Wal Harris Datsun 180B 1146 17 51 AUS David Balmain AUS David Balmain AUS Guenter Nowacki Mitsubishi Lancer 1355 18 53 JPN Hideya Satoh JPN Hideya Satoh JPN Tarao Mitsuaki Mitsubishi Lancer 1805 19 65 JPN Akira Tezuna JPN Akira Tezuna JPN Yukio Iwashita Mitsubishi Lancer 1942 20 69 AUS W.C. Adams Racing AUS Bill Adams AUS Keith Snowball Holden Torana LJ XU-1 2530 21 20 AUS Brut Team Alfa AUS Evan Green AUS John Bryson Alfa Romeo Alfetta GT 2905 22 76 JPN Team Route 6 Japan JPN Hisashi Shimura JPN Kazuo Takahashi Honda Civic 4935 Source:http://southerncrossrally.blogspot.com/2013/11/1976.html Dan White 1976 - Cowan's last winhttp://southerncrossrally.blogspot.com/2013/12/1976-list-of-entries.html Dan White 1976 Entrieshttps://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tvpjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XeYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=855%2C4076148 Cowan wins Fifth Rally in a Row The Sydney Morning Herald 14 October 1976 References Category:Rally competitions in Australia Southern Cross Rally