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Peter M
10-18-2019, 07:10 PM
I see where the very popular Scotsman has just died.
He won our 1972 Heatway Rally driving a Mini, also our 1976 International Rally driving a works Hillman Avenger.
Also he was a good friend of Jim Clark.
R I P Andrew

Roger Dowding
10-18-2019, 09:49 PM
Remember seeing the team at the start in Auckland - they were at Seabrook Fowlds - Symonds Street where I think scrutineering was taking place.- either there or at the Testing Station along Great North Road.

" https://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/october-2019/andrew-cowan/page/6755--12-12-.html ".

Ray Bell
10-19-2019, 12:15 PM
The highs and the lows...

He was heading into Sydney running second or third in the 1968 London-Sydney Marathon and suddenly Bianchi's Citroen was clobbered head-on by some jerks in a Mini. Paddy Hopkirk stopped to render assistance and Cowan went on to win in a most unlikely car.

In the next Marathon in 1977 Mercedes-Benz called on him and he won again. Along the way he dominated the Southern Cross Rally so he became a household name in Australian motor sport.

Some of his highs. But the low... reports are that his final years have been sad, a stroke and finally a fall which led to his death.

A lot of people are missing him now.