Southern Cross

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The Southern Cross Rally was a major international rally mainly held in the Port Macquarie region of New South Wales, Australia, between 1966 and 1980. The rally attracted many of the world's leading rally drivers and factory teams.

Datsun Sunny

1973
10th place: W. Evans - Bill Evans/Mike Mitchell, Datsun 1200

1976 Entries
M. Coote Murray Coote Qld Brian Marsden Qld. Datsun 1200
Y. Iwashita Yoshio Iwashita Japan Nobu Yasuoka Japan Datsun PB210
Team Route 6 Japan Kazuo Hamada Japan Takeshi Kekoya Japan Datsun Sunny
The Road & Rally Centre Geoff Goodwin N.S.W. Arthur Evans N.S.W. Datsun 1200
North Shore Sporting Club John Graydon NSW, John Sullivan NSW, Datsun 1200

Video: '76 Southern Cross Rally including PB210

1977
6th: Shekhar Mehta/Adrian Mortimer, Datsun PB210, 164.32
Kiwi Stewart McKenzie (Datsun 1200)

1978
Stewart McKenzie (Datsun 1200)

1979
10th: Ron Marks/Chris Heaney, Datsun 120Y, 24h36m41s
15th: Ron Cremen / Alan Brookes, Datsun 120Y, 25h57m11s

1980
13th: Nobuhiro Tajima/Kiyoshi Kawamura, Datsun Sunny, 1004.24
      retired with water pump failure