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Stuart Turner (The BMC team Manager from 1962 - 1966) was credited with more or less inventing modern international rallying, after his time at BMC he had a short spell with Castrol and then went on to be the manager of Fords Rally team during their most sucessfull period ever. For my money this begs the question "Was it the Mini Cooper 'S' or Stuart Turner who gave BMC their fantastic rallying sucesses during the mid to late 60's?" I have recently been lucky enough to purchase a number of original 1966 Montecarlo items amongst which were a copy of the original team orders issued by Stuart Turner before their ill fated 1966 outing. I have reproduced all 12 of these sheets for you to see just how details the plans were. To be honest I am surprised just how little info the crews were given, a mere 12 pages of Foolscap! (old page size a bit too big for my scanner, thats why some pages are chopped awkwardly). Follow the links below to read this genuinely historic document. |
