Classics Monthly

GRAHAM ROBSON

Occasionally, just occasionally, I’m allowed to talk about motorsport in the classic era, and this issue I want to recall the real harumscarum road rallies of the early 1960s, a period when I started rallying seriously as a co-driver. Those were the days just before the first 'homologation specials' had been invented, a time when most rallies started at pub-closing time on a Saturday and ended in time for breakfast the next morning.

Even though the UK’s organising body

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