The 1976 Southern Cross Rally, officially the Total Oil Southern Cross International Rally was the eleventh running of the Southern Cross Rally. The rally took place between the 9th and the 14th of October 1976. The event covered 3,334 kilometres from Sydney to Port Macquarie. It was won by Andrew Cowan and Fred Gocentas, driving a Mitsubishi Lancer GSR.
Results Entrant Drivers Car Penalties (Points) 1 6 Mitsubishi (Australia) Pty Ltd Andrew Cowan Fred Gocentas Mitsubishi Lancer GSR 157 2 9 Mitsubishi (Australia) Pty Ltd Barry Ferguson Neil Faulkner Mitsubishi Lancer GSR 203 3 4 Nissan Motor Australia Shekhar Mehta Adrian Mortimer Datsun 710 SSS 205 4 19 Mitsubishi (Australia) Pty Ltd Doug Stewart John Dawson-Damer Mitsubishi Lancer GSR 271 5 14 Mitsubishi (Australia) Pty Ltd Kenjiro Shinozuka Garry Connelly Mitsubishi Lancer GSR 324 6 16 Nissan Motor Australia Per-Inge Walfridsson Peter Godden Datsun 710 SSS 348 7 34 I.W. Hill Ian Hill Graham Roser Mitsubishi Lancer 391 8 27 David Bond David Bond Ian Richards Mitsubishi Lancer 418 9 31 Murray Coote Murray Coote Brian Marsden Datsun 1200 437 10 28 A. Crawford Peter Janson Paul Paterson Mitsubishi Lancer GSR 453 11 64 B.E. Clark Brian Clark Peter Hardy Mitsubishi Galant 561 12 46 Mitso Ayabe Mitso Ayabe Shigeru Imai Toyota Trueno 670 13 48 Gary Meehan Gary Meehan Martin Fell Toyota Corolla 688 14 2 Ford Motor Company of Australia Roger Clark Jim Porter Ford Escort RS 1800 Mark II 855 15 25 Jim Reddiex Jim Reddiex Greg Sked Citroën CX2200 1069 16 58 Dr. J. Munro John Munro Wal Harris Datsun 180B 1146 17 51 David Balmain David Balmain Guenter Nowacki Mitsubishi Lancer 1355 18 53 Hideya Satoh Hideya Satoh Tarao Mitsuaki Mitsubishi Lancer 1805 19 65 Akira Tezuna Akira Tezuna Yukio Iwashita Mitsubishi Lancer 1942 20 69 W.C. Adams Racing Bill Adams Keith Snowball Holden Torana LJ XU-1 2530 21 20 Brut Team Alfa Evan Green John Bryson Alfa Romeo Alfetta GT 2905 22 76 Team Route 6 Japan Hisashi Shimura Kazuo Takahashi Honda Civic 4935 Source:
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