It is indeed Roy Fidler and Barry Hughes on the '72 Mintex Rally (Feb. 26th & 27th) in the Withers Of Winsford-owned ex-Works 240Z wearing Cal Withers' personal plate 'KEJ 1'. I don't see them in the results for the rally, so I believe they retired and were 'Unclassified'
The same car (ex-'TKS 33 SA 696') had first been used in the 1970 RAC Rally (John Bloxham & Norman Salt) and then went on to be used by Tony Fall & Mike Wood in the 1971 Welsh Rally, which they won outright. Fall then used it on the Castrol Rallypoint event (something of a car killer) and the 1971 Scottish Rally (retiring with a broken transmission) before Shekhar Mehta and Lofty Drews used it on the 1971 RAC Rally. So it was already fairly 'tired' by the time Withers took ownership...
Same car also wore Wither's 'CAL 1' personal plate occasionally:
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Brilliant stuff . Thanks for posting .
it was a picture of a rally z , in one of my late dads books, that first got me into these cars in the first place. sent me off looking today (avoiding kitchen duties).
https://s30.world/galleries-rac-rally
Superb find!
Stupid question, is 'old Woking service station' the actual old woking service station, near Send?
Yes, although it does not exist any more. It was the de-facto Nissan 'Competition Department' base in Europe from 1970 for a few years.
O.W.S.S. was a small, family-run business. An old-school petrol station and early Datsun dealership which took an interest in rallying the Datsun product (first of all with the 510) and which Nissan chose to act as base of operations for much of their European rallying activity of the period. O.W.S.S. provided Works team logistics, service and support starting from the 1970 RAC Rally.
Its physically still there though, the building?
Superb find!