Ploughing to the finish line

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The European Historic Rally season has started with a bang and vast amounts of snow. The 20th Rallye Monte Carlo Historique was not won by Rauno Aaltonen, who’d entered another Mini Cooper ‘S’ 50 years after he won the real deal, but by Belgians Michel Decremer and Yannick Albert on Opel Ascona.

Aaltonen had just come from Austria where there was even more snow on the Planai Rally (above). We take our hat off for Georg and Robin Dönni of Switzerland, who entered their 1958 Jaguar XK 150 Special to this rally, too, and sent over some photographs. This is how they found their car in the mornings and this is what it looked like when they filled it up at the end of the day. Or sometimes after a night stage… Brave men!

(Words Jeroen Booij, pictures courtesy Planai Classic / Dönni Classic Cars)

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