Roof of Africa Rally, 1968

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Roof of Africa Rally, 1968

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In a very interesting article from a 1968 'Motoring Mirror' magazine, it is stated that William Ferguson and C. Pearce (name not mentioned) won the Roof of Africa Rally overall that year in a pretty standard Lolette Buggy. I found the following (re-typed) part in the article, refering to where they crossed the Sani Pass, simply hillarious :mrgreen:
It was grey - overcast and very cold at that altitude. The Lolette Dune Buggy of Willam Ferguson and C. Pearce, the ulitmate winners, started coughing and spluttering. Iced-up carburettor and intake manifold. The solution easy - wee all over it to defrost and proceed happily. The next time the procedure was the same but the third, alas - nature could no longer provide. Necessity is the mother of invention and a detached and rebent exhaust pointing onto the intake provided a highly successful modification.
This is the only pic of the buggy in the article, with the following text:
The Prime Minister of Lesotho studies the works end of the winning Lolette Dune Buggy. With him are the crew, Pearce and Ferguson. On the extreme right is the Chief Traffic Officer of Lesotho.
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A Porsche-engined buggy, driven by 'Mr & Mrs Louw' in the same event is also mentioned in the article, they had won the Lesotho Independence Challenge Cup for the fastest time from the bottom of Sani Pass to Buthe Buthe, namely 6hrs, 42 mins. This time was 11 minutes faster than the previous years' fastest time, in dry weather - and down the Pass.

If anyone perhaps have some more pics or magazine articles on the Roof of Africa Rally, please share it with us?


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