In memoriam of rallies we have missed out on this winter here are some of the nicest events photos of yore that I have come across for a good while. They're amongst the favourites in my collection. Pictures from someone's album of days gone by of a trip to the Elefant Rally in 1966.
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| Top right a winterised BMW combo - check the homemade muffs around the heads and barrels to stop it getting too cold! As a testament to their quality you still even now see BMWs like this doing the rounds of the winter rallies. Bottom left the Nurburgring pits and grandstand area. Bottom right. Well done sir! A venerable plunger framed Golden Flash BSA has made it along from the UK. |
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| Top. Tents under the trees with a Jawa combination. Bottom a very smart Vincent Black Prince combination. Note the Harro Elefantenboy tank bag and five inch Black Shadow rev counter. The Black Knight was already out of production for more than ten years by the time this picture was taken but it would have still been the most potent bike at the event. |
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| Top left a pair of Harleys. Top right, those Harleys again. The license plates are US forces in Germany type. Bottom left. A glamorous visitor from Britain - Vincent Black Shadow with Watsonian chair. Bottom right. A NSU 501T from the late twenties. |
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| Top left a sweet cafe racer based on a DKW RT350 twin. Bottom left a Beemer combo alongside another DKW - an RT200(?) this time. Bottom right. US visitors. A Harley Duo-Glide to the fore. |
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| Top right a Triumph hitched to a child-adult chair leads a Royal Enfield with Wessex sidecar. Bottom left, the pit area at the Nurburgring. Bottom right another Brit bike, an Ariel Square Four MkII. |
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