1974 Southern Cross Rally | |
Native Name: | The Sun-Total Oil Southern Cross International Rally |
Rallybase: | Sydney Port Macquarie |
Startdate: | 9 |
Enddate: | 13 October 1974 |
Stages: | 48 |
Stagekm: | 1919.60 |
Overallkm: | 3506.37 |
Surface: | Tarmac and Gravel |
Driver1: | Andrew Cowan John Bryson |
Team1: | Mitsubishi (Australia) Pty Ltd |
Teamsstart: | 61 |
Teamsfinish: | 7 |
The 1974 Southern Cross Rally, officially the Sun-Total Oil Southern Cross International Rally was the ninth running of the Southern Cross Rally. The rally took place between the 9th and the 13th of October 1974. The event covered 3,506 kilometres from Sydney to Port Macquarie.[1] It was won by Andrew Cowan and John Bryson, driving a Mitsubishi Lancer GSR.
Entrant | Drivers | Car | Penalties (Points) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 9 | Andrew Cowan John Bryson | Mitsubishi Lancer GSR | 209 | ||
2 | 1 | Joginder Singh Garry Connelly | Mitsubishi Lancer GSR | 272 | ||
3 | 22 | Tatsuo Yaginuma | Tatsuo Yaginuma Haruo Okada | Toyota Trueno | 441 | |
4 | 18 | Nissan Motor Australia | George Fury Monty Suffern | Datsun 180B SSS | 1051 | |
5 | 14 | Nissan Motor Australia | Yoshio Iwashita Nobuhiro Yasuoka | Datsun 710 SSS | 2021 | |
6 | 31 | Robert Jackson | Robert Jackson Ross Jackson | Holden Torana LJ XU-1 | 2528 | |
7 | 38 | Dr. J. Munro | John Munro Wal Harris | Datsun 1600 | 3708 | |
Source:[2] [3] |