AN IDEAL TARGA CAR — AND ONE WITH HISTORY, TOO.

If you are looking for a way to take part in the Targa New Zealand, the tarmac rally which lets you drive as fast as you can on closed sections of some of New Zealand’s best back country roads, then this has to be the most cost effective way in — with a genuinely interesting historic car factory-built for hard-charging, competitive use.

This rally car was built by British Leyland’s Competitions Department, in Abingdon, UK. GC2 was one of a pair of Morris Marinas built for the 1972 Heatway Rally, along with a pair of Mini Clubmans.

Originally entered for Andrew Cowan and Jim Scott — who eventually won in a Clubman — this car was driven in the event by Jim