Tag: 1968

1968 Queens Winter Rally – Autosport

Queen’s University MC got a good entry of 84 for their Winter Rally on December 13. Curley and Frazer did not rest on their laurels and came out very convincing winners of a very tough rally in the old style.

1968 Enniskerry Hillclimb

IRISH MRC ENNISKERRY HILLCLIMB This report by Brian Foley appeared in Autosport May 3, 1968. The Eire speed season opened with the Enniskerry hillclimb on April 20, with new classes introduced in the annual Sexton Trophy competition. In the up to 900cc saloon class, Alan Moore three-wheeled his very quick[Read More…]

1968 Newry Frontier Rally

Volkswagen wins in Ulster This report is reproduced from Autosport Magazine, October 18, 1968 ROBERT McBURNEY has won the Ulster Rally Championship five times on the strength of a high degree of reliability coupled with good driving. This year McBurney has been driving better than ever but his VW-Porsche has[Read More…]

1968 Omagh Pre-Circuit Rally

PRE-CIRCUIT RALLY 1968 Report by P.J. Winters as published in Rallyboy April 1968. Omagh Motor Club’s Pre-Circuit Rally attracted an entry of 40 cars, 10 of which were in the Experts class, 8 in Semi-Experts, and the remainder in the Novice Class.  Unfortunately, four were unable to take their place[Read More…]

1968 Scallon Cup Rally

1968 Scallon Cup Rally PREVIEW – 13 September 1968 Tyrone Constitution: Scallon Cup may have entry of 60 Friday and Saturday herald the start of the rally season in the Omagh area with the Scallon Cup Restricted event. This is the big rally of the year in West Ulster and[Read More…]