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Originally Posted by atr_hugo
cozza - Speaking of Cannonball Baker, I was browsing through my collection of Automobile Quarterly mags earlier today and ran across the REDeX trials that used to be held in Australia - do those still get mentioned?
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The old REDeX trials, even I'm too young to remember them, but my mum has told me all about them. She used to rally drive an MGB and a Honda S600 in the 60's and 70's, but crashed both before I was born, damnit!
The trials only ran for a few years in the 1950's. Would have been a tough time to drive around this huge country of ours in those days, especially without aircon! Average speeds were only around 30mph.
Check out this video:
http://www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au...redex_1954.htm
There's some more info here:
http://www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/redex_trials.htm