Andrew Cowan Passes Away

[Peter M]

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]

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]

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.