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ORIGINAL CAR

1970 HILLMAN HUNTER HE

OWNER

PAUL ANDERSON

LENGTH OF RESTORATION

2 YEARS

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RALLY LEGEND

PAUL ANDERSON SET ABOUT BUILDING A TRIBUTE TO ANDREW COWAN’S WINNING HILLMAN HUNTER FROM THE 1968 LONDON TO SYDNEY MARATHON

This rally car is one of a string of Hunters I’ve had and was pulled out of a swamp in Bargo and I paid $50 for it. It was a Hunter Royal with everything on it, including all the trim. It was an automatic and I didn’t want the auto. I have another Hunter.

My road-going Hunter is a Royal 660, so it’s a GT. I rescued that from a shed in Bega and I restored that partly because my passion is Chrysler, including Chargers.

How did the whole Hillman thing start? I was going to Chryslers on the Murray as ‘that guy who

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