The cover photo... Ralph Brooks goes flying
Driver: Ralph Brooks
Event: Tulip 200
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: Ralph Brooks and Dick Messel give flying lessons during the 1975 Tulip 200 rally. This stage is located in Southeastern Ohio, and Tulip this year was a part of the Ohio Forest Rally series. (Those are my parents in the background...) Photo credit: Richard Christensen
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Rich and Linda Merritt (?) at speed
Driver: Rich Merritt
Event: POR
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: The Datsun 510 was the car to have in the early '70s because competiton parts were available and cheap. They weren't always the fastest, but they were durable.
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Doug Shepard codriving for Bob Hourihan
Driver: Bob Hourihan
Event: Unknown
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: Doug Shepard reads the notes. This is most likely a ride with Bob Hourihan, but I don't know where or when. Photo credit: Brian McMahon
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Eric Jones leaving Houghton MTC
Driver: Eric Jones
Event: POR
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: Based out of Columbus, Ohio, Eric Jones was one of the first to run a multiple-car team in Pro Rally events. Jones was long-time clerk of course for the Sunriser 400 Forest Rally. Both cars were bright green with a big British Auto Service (Jones' company) on the side. Jones drove one, Roger Koch was the usual driver for the second.
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Ralph Brooks sliding at the Marathon 400
Driver: Ralph Brooks
Event: Marathon
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: Ralph Brooks and Dick Messel slide their "Z" through the early morning spectator stage at the 1974 Marathon 400 rally. (Phot credit: Eric Anderson)
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Eric Jones at the 1981 Sunriser
Driver: Eric Jones
Event: Sunriser
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: This the Red Roof Inn Datsun 510. (Photo credit: Tawn Anderson)
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Jim Walker and Terry Palmer in a Volvo 142S
Driver: Jim Walker
Event: POR
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: This is the '73 POR.
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Another Datsun 510 sideways at the 1974 Canadian Winter.
Driver: Howard Wahn
Event: Canadian Winter
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: Car 14, Howard Wahn/Jim Pue-Gilchrist of Ontario slide their Datsun 510 through the 1974 Canadian Winter. Yavor Klostranec made the identication and recalls: The rally had over 90 starters but only 18 finished due to a massive road-blockage during the night. Most of us DNFs spent the night at a gas stop waiting for Bob Lindquist to declare if we are max late or still in the rally. Eventually, around 5 am, Bob decided that there's going to be no mercy.
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A Datsun 510 slides through Canadian Winter
Driver: Jim Callon
Event: Canadian Winter
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: Jim Callon/Roger Dooley of Michigan put their Datsun 510 sideways at the 1974 Canadian Winter. This is car 23. Yavor Klostranec made the identication and recalls: The rally had over 90 starters but only 18 finished due to a massive road-blockage during the night. Most of us DNFs spent the night at a gas stop waiting for Bob Lindquist to declare if we are max late or still in the rally. Eventually, around 5 am, Bob decided that there's going to be no mercy.
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Another unknown 510 sideways
Driver: Unknown
Event: Canadian Winter
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: This is from the 1974 Canadian Winter also. The license plate is Ontario EPX-464.
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Eric Jones trying to get a wheel up
Driver: Eric Jones
Event: Marathon
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: Eric Jones shows that it might be possible to get the front wheel off the ground during the 1975 Marathon 400. (Photo by Mike Creech)
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John and Carol Smiskol tackle the forest
Driver: John Smiskol
Event: Marathon
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: John and Carol Smiskol power their Datsun 260Z (?) through the woods at the 1975 Marathon 400 rally.
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Tawn and Eric Anderson in Southern Ohio
Driver: Tawn Anderson
Event: Sunriser
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: Tawn and Eric Anderson cruise through a southern Ohio forest in a Datsun 510 during a mid-70s Sunriser. Not long after this photo, Tawn slid the car off the road on a hairpin with only a 2-inch tree keeping the car from falling another couple hundred feet down a hillside.
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A Datsun Z at speed at night
Driver: Daryl Holder
Event: Marathon
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: Paul Jaeger offers: I believe the Red 240Z was Daryl Holder out of Huntsville, Alabama. They ran a MGB about 1972 in the POR and other events and then moved up to the Z. They deliberately had the Coopers mounted that way. The Z's last rally was on one of the Happiness is Sunrise rallies (maybe '75 or '76) They rolled the car badly somewhere north of Renova. They didn't have a service crew and I volunteered to drive them out to try to retrieve the car. When I left them they were getting a tow truck to get it out of the woods and arranging to fly home. This is also from the Marathon 400. (Photo by Mike Creech)
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Woodner's second place Datsun
Driver: Jon Woodner
Event: Sunriser
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: Chuck Ashton identifies this as a Datsun 510 that was Rod Millen's car for a while. In 1981 it was Jon Woodner's & had a Cosworth BDA under the hood. He and codriver Ginny Reese finished second to Millen. This shot was taken at the car park in Portsmouth, Ohio, just before the start of the Portsmouth spectator stage. (Photo by Eric Anderson)
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A Datsun 510 powers through Sunriser
Driver: Kim DeMotte
Event: Sunriser
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: Kim DeMotte confesses: The 510 you think might be Hendrik Blok is actually me...who else would have a 510 Tigger looking like a Mexican Taxicab?
"A Datsun 510 powers through Sunriser". And 'powers' was a term I wouldn't probably use! But I've got two in the garage and if I can ever get enough time away from Co-Driving for some wild-assed kid in a 350hp EVO and putting on Club Rallies, by dad gummit I'll get one of them running!
Thanks for the pic...I'm honored!
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A green 510 at speed
Driver: Brian Rebney
Event: Sunriser
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: This has to be one of the nicer paint jobs. It's Brian Rebney/Tom Bell in the 1978 Sunriser.
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Slippery when wet
Driver: Unknown
Event: POR
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: See the ruts? See the ruts go the wrong way. See the car follow the ruts? Oops. This is a Datsun 240 on the 1972 POR.
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A rolled Datsun 240
Driver: Karl Goering
Event: POR
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: This is Wayne Zitkus's Datsun 240 Z with a crumpled roof. co-drove for Karl Goering of Northville, MI in one of the Pacesetter Z's. The other two were crewed by Tom Jones/Ralph Beckman (who were the only finisher of the three in 2nd place IIRC) and Guy and Gilles Vanier of Quebec. This is the 1972 POR.
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Tackling Belle Isle stage
Driver: Maurice Blondin
Event: POR
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: Kent Gardam identified this as Maurice Blondin and Robert Thiebault of Quebec. The entry lists a Datsun 510 which this obviously isn't but I think it's a Datsun 610. This is the Belle Isle stage of the 1972 POR.
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Gardam tackles the Marathon
Driver: Kent Gardam
Event: Marathon
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: Kent Gardam tackles the 1975 Marathon 400 in a Datsun 240Z.
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John & Carol Smiskol dig through the ruts
Driver: John Smiskol
Event: POR
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: The Smiskols pilot their Datsun Z through the 1974 POR ruts.
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A Datsun 510 at Rideau Lakes
Driver: Unknown
Event: Rideau Lakes
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: An unknown Datsun kicks up the rear wheels at the 1974 Rally of the Rideau Lakes.
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Eric Jones powers through Big Bend Bash
Driver: Eric Jones
Event: Big Bend Bash
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: This is the spectator stage during the 1974 Big Bend Bash in Texas.
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A Datsun kicks up dust in Texas
Driver: Unknown
Event: Big Bend Bash
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: This unknown Datsun 510 (note the car number) kicks up dust in the 1975 Big Bend Bash.
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An unknown Datsun at Big Bend Bash
Driver: Unknown
Event: Big Bend Bash
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: It's a pretty 510 at speed in the Texas dust.
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This stage looks like fun
Driver: Unknown
Event: Big Bend Bash
Vehicle: Datsun
Details: This looks to be a Datsun 510 leaving the start control (control car in background). The stage looks like it might have been a lot of fun if you like curvy gravel roads.
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