1979 Southern Cross Rally

1979 Southern Cross Rally Southern Cross International Rally AUS Australia Sydney Port Macquarie 13 17 October 1979 38 1563.72 2733.73 Tarmac and Gravel AUS George Fury AUS Monty Suffern AUS Nissan Motor Australia 40 17 The 1979 Southern Cross Rally, officially the Southern Cross International Rally was the fourteenth running of the Southern Cross Rally. The rally took place between the 13th and the 17th of October 1979. The event covered 2,733 kilometres from Sydney to Port Macquarie.https://southerncrossrally.blogspot.com/2015/01/1979-route.html Dan White 1979 Route It was won by George Fury and Monty Suffern, driving a Datsun Stanza. Results Pos Position No Car number Entrant Drivers Car Overall Time 1 6 AUS Nissan Motor Australia AUS George Fury AUS Monty Suffern Datsun Stanza 20hr 36min 9sec 2 4 AUS Nissan Motor Australia AUS Ross Dunkerton AUS Jeff Beaumont Datsun Stanza 20hr 49min 20sec 3 2 AUS Nissan Motor Australia FIN Rauno Aaltonen AUS Adrian Mortimer Datsun Stanza 21hr 53min 53sec 4 5 AUS Ford Motor Company of Australia AUS Colin Bond AUS John Dawson-Damer Ford Escort RS 1800 Mark II 22hr 5min 19sec 5 15 AUS Frank Johnston AUS Frank Johnston AUS Stephen Vanderbyl Mazda RX-3 23hr 18min 13sec 6 16 JPN Nobuhiro Tajima JPN Nobuhiro Tajima JPN Shoichu Hara Toyota Levin TE25 23hr 32min 26sec 7 10 AUS J. Parry AUS Doug Stewart AUS Col Parry Holden Commodore VB 23hr 41min 35sec 8 18 AUS Cascade Motors AUS Gordon Leven AUS Robert Wilson Datsun 1600 SSS 23hr 46min 30sec 9 9 AUS Autosport AUS Geoff Portman AUS Ross Runnalls Ford Cortina TE 24hr 5min 36sec 10 20 AUS Ron Marks AUS Ron Marks AUS Chris Heaney Datsun 120Y 24hr 36min 41sec 11 55 AUS Australian Sporting Car Club AUS Steve Blair AUS Ross Ferguson Datsun Stanza 24hr 37min 9sec 12 17 AUS Leon Progmet AUS Gary Mecak AUS Graham Gillies Mazda RX-2 24hr 44min 29sec 13 43 AUS Edward Knowles AUS Edward Knowles AUS David Officer Ford Escort RS2000 Mark II 25hr 27min 18sec 14 30 AUS P.R. Bramble AUS Paul Bramble AUS Arthur Evans Mitsubishi Galant 25hr 40min 43sec 15 34 AUS Deepwater Sporting Car Club AUS Ron Cremen AUS Alan Brooke Datsun 120Y 25hr 57min 11sec 16 24 JPN Eiichi Suzuki JPN Eiichi Suzuki JPN Takashi Yafune Mitsubishi Lancer 26hr 12min 39sec 17 50 AUS North Shore Sporting Car Club AUS Jim Casey AUS Les Oliver Ford Escort RS2000 Mark II 26hr 37min 43sec Source:https://southerncrossrally.blogspot.com/2013/11/1979-fury-makes-it-double.html Dan White 1979 - Fury makes it a doublehttps://southerncrossrally.blogspot.com/2014/04/1979-entries.html Dan White 1979 Entries References Category:Rally competitions in Australia Southern Cross Rally Southern Cross Rally