<VV> Canadian Winter Rally

[Jim Simpson]

I have some original materials from the '65 Canadian Winter Rally 
that I need to deliver to the Corvair historical collection.  This is 
material provided Terry Lynn Benson who piloted a '65 Corsa in that rally.

Unfortunately for your Australian friend, the rally was February 12 
-14, 1965.  I don't know of any '65 model year cars involved in 
international rally driving earlier than that.

FYI, the rally conditions were "appalling" that year.  Out of the 132 
cars that started, only 23 finished and unfortunately Benson's 
Corvair was not one of them.  They made it about 200 miles into the 
rally, a point at which 80 cars had already dropped out, when they 
stopped to help out another competitor driving a Ferrari that had 
gotten stuck.  An Austin Healey, followed by a Porsche and a VW all 
ended up plowing into the back of the Corvair.  That finally put them 
out of the rally.  But they had fought horrendous icing conditions 
that froze up both the brakes and accelerator linkage -- not a great 
combination.  Terry Benson figured that they were carrying a thousand 
pounds of ice on and under that car!

Jim Simpson
Group Corvair