Friends, May 3 to 9, 2009, the Dutch Tulip Rallye will run again. Just go
to website www.tulpenrallye.nl, click the British flag in the top right
hand corner to get the English version and you can enjoy the list of
participants ('competitors') together with photographs of their vehicles.
You ain't seen nothing yet! Have fun
Jack Aeckerlin, The Netherlands
1964 BJ8 29432
2009/3/19 Peter Hunt <peter@easterton.com>
> The Dutch Tulip Rally (as we all know, Holland grows millions of tulips)
> was
> held in late spring and proved very popular with private entrants.
>
> There were no cash prizes but the organisers presented beautiful hand-made
> silver tulip clusters for first, second and third places in the class,
> these
> unique awards becoming prized possessions.
>
> This event was famed for its clear and concise "tulip" route cards. Austin
> Healeys consistantly did very well in The Tulip Rallies.
>
> I assume that BMC came up with their Tulip gearbox for this rally.
>
> Thanks go to Peter Browing's book The Works Big Healeys.
>
> Peter Hunt
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