Last week AUSmotive showed a great rallying montage from YouTube. Well, for your enjoyment, here’s another one. Albeit on a slightly more local and humble scale. This is some rare footage of the 1981 Castrol Rally which included a few stages on the streets of Canberra’s southern suburbs.
In the good old days of Canberra’s development the NCDC had control of the city and infrastructure for new suburbs was completed well before any houses were built. The perfect location for a tarmac rally, then.
The footage captured in this clip was filmed in the suburb of Fadden—near Bugden Avenue, Partridge Street and Airey Crescent. Make sure you watch for the Datto 1600 right at the end!
[Source: RiotACT]
3 replies on “This is also rallying – Canberra style in 1981”
Comon you have to follow that up with 40 Split Seconds. Same rally but I think it may have been 79 or 80. Features a great battle between Ari Vatanen and Greg Carr, even Brocky has a go in his VB Commo!
Where are the 200B’s these days?
Finally got around to seeing the video you mention Ben. Will post it up soon.