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DETAIL: high with interior
LIGHTS: None
MOTOR CONFIGURATION: Sidewinder
DRIVE: Rear wheels
GEARS: Plastic
SCALE: 1:32
ISSUED: due December 2026
Fly released the #58 car in June 2024 under the stock code E2054. It was sold out to preorders.
MORE ABOUT THIS MODEL:
The 1968 London Sydney Marathon, officially Daily Express / Daily Telegraph London Sydney Marathon was the first running of this Marathon. The rally took place between the 24 November and 17 December 1968. The event covered 10,373 miles (16,694 km) through Europe, Asia and Australia. It was won by Andrew Cowan, Colin Malkin and Brian Coyle, driving a Hillman Hunter.
The original Marathon was the result of a lunch in late 1967. Sir Max Aitken, proprietor of the Daily Express, and two of his editorial executives, Jocelyn Stevens and Tommy Sopwith, decided to create an event which their newspaper could sponsor, and which would serve to raise the country's spirits. Such an event would, it was felt, act as a showcase for British engineering and would boost export sales in the countries through which it passed.
The initial UKA?10,000 winner's prize offered by the Daily Express was soon joined by a A?3,000 runners-up award and two A?2,000 prizes for the third-placed team and for the highest placed Australians, all of which were underwritten by the Daily Telegraph newspaper and its proprietor Sir Frank Packer, who was eager to promote the Antipodean leg of the rally.
An eight-man organising committee was established to create a suitably challenging but navigable route. Jack Sears, organising secretary and himself a former racing driver, plotted a 7,000 mile course covering eleven countries in as many days, and arranged that the P&O liner SS Chusan would ferry the first 72 cars and their crews on the nine-day voyage from India, before the final 2,900 miles across Australia.
