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Originally Posted by chunterer
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I'm not a rally expert but that car was registered pretty late by 240RS standards as the cars ran competitively between 1983-85(ish)
There were a handful that ran in the UK Open or National rally series and one of them even found its way onto the circuits in the UK Thundersaloon series driven by one Barrie Williams, as well as the Northern Sports/GT Challenge centred around Oulton Park.
My recollection is that Tony Pond and Timo Salonen drove Nissan Europe entered cars in some World and European events in 1983/84, Terry Kaby joined the programme in 84/85 but that was mainly in Britain plus a few Euro rallies. I can't recall which other drivers used them?
I think Alistair Sutherland also rallied one quite well on the National scene in 1985 before he got his 6R4?
Hope that spurs people into further assistance for you.
My initial reaction is that your car sat somewhere unused and then was registered up to be sold on in 1986?
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Blydenstein ran a Nissan Europe 240RS appearing on UK events as late as 1986 for Louise Aitken-Walker
Apart from the already-mentioned Salonen, Pond and Terry Kaby at WRC and European/UK international level, Shekhar Mehta was also a regular in them, usually on the rougher WRC rounds where the 240RS was a bit more in it's element, and the long-haul trips to events outside Europe- Acropolis, Safari, Ivory Coast, New Zealand, Argentina- though he did at least one RAC in one as well
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45777493@N06/4315937909/
I can remember David Llewellin and the late Mark Lovell (IIRC he won a National Championship in one?) also appearing in them on UK national events around 1984/5, and there were quite a lot around at national privateer level in the UK and Ireland.
Bert Mk2 mentioned Ian Roberton currently running a 240RS- He had at least one back in the mid-80's as well, apparently the ex-Aitken-Walker car:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/howiendlynne/4102191381/
http://www.240rs.jp/HXI%207635.html
Another 240RS name that comes to mind on national events, and sometimes overseas is James Prochowski (with UB40 sponsorship)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16788879@N02/3120382111/
http://i78.servimg.com/u/f78/13/28/48/21/240rsp11.jpg
They were a surprisingly popular privateer car in the UK and Europe, bearing in mind that they weren't usually as competitive as something like an Ascona/Manta 400, especially on tarmac events