SA: Historic car trial to be re-run
ADELAIDE, April 7 AAP - Fifty years after the first Redex around Australia reliabilitytrial the historic event will be re-run.
Peugeot Australia and the Peugeot Car Club of Victoria have combined to organise thisyear's trial, which will take the cars over an 11,000 kilometre route starting and finishingin Sydney.
It kicks off on Sunday, June 22 and will finish almost a month later on July 20.
A Peugeot 203 driven by Ken Tubman and John Marshall won the first Redex trial in 1953,the small French car upstaging bigger and more powerful models.
This year's event is expected to attract about 80 pre-1970 Peugeots and about 20 carsfrom other brands dating back to the 1950s.
Peugeot Australia said the Redex re-run would be highly visible as the convoy makesits way around the country.
"Receptions and displays have been organised in the towns and cities along the wayand the public will be given many opportunities to view this historic event," the companysaid.
The trial will start from the same place it did in 1953, the Moore Park location nowoccupied by Fox Studies in Sydney.
In that year 50,000 people were on hand to watch the cars leave and an estimated 150,000lined the route out of the city centre.
The 1953 event was run over 6,500 miles in two weeks and took entrants from Sydneyto Townsville then west to Darwin, south to Adelaide and then back to Sydney via Melbourne.
The next year the event was extended to take in Western Australia and was won by thelegendary "Gelignite" Jack Murray in a Ford.
The last Redex event was conducted in 1955 and was again won by a Peugeot althoughthe winning car was eventually relegated to fifth after a successful protest by Volkswagen.
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