THE Highlands Special Stage Car Rally began on Sunday, 23rd November 1975, from the Ballyraine Hotel, Letterkenny.

The 1975 “Hills of Donegal Rally” was a great success, with 45 cars entered for the twelve Special Stage Rally, which ran all through Friday night after a 10.30 p.m. start from The Ballyraine Hotel, Letterkenny.

This has been the busiest month ever according to Des Bradley.

The venue chosen was the immense car park and environs of the Bass, Mitchell & Butler’s Birmingham Brewery.

This report by Brian Foley appeared in Autosport Magazine dated January 31, 1964.

James Gordon Bennett (1841-1918) was born in 1841 of an Irish mother and a Scottish father, who owned the New York Herald Tribune.

ARCHIE PHILLIPS brought the Erne Trophy with him to Rossahilly airfield last Saturday, having held it for one year, and took it home again.

Coleraine Motor Club held their first Eagles Rock hill climb on the 1.2 mile hill at Ballyleighery.

This article by Brian Foley is reproduced from Autosport Magazine November 8, 1963.