Five days on the road

Press, 20 February 1986, Page 23

Five days on the road

The Pan-Pacific Rally entry of about 750 vehicles will be divided into 22 classes ranging from veteran solo fixedspeed motor-cycles to combination motorcycles and sporting threewheelers, to veteran and vintage cars of varying engine capacities, as well as veteran, vintage, post vintage and post-war commercial vehicles over and under 30 hundredweight unladen.

Five rally days have been allocated and for the purpose of selecting suitable roads and distances

for all types of vehicles, the entries have been divided into five groups. The vehicles in each group will be compatible in respect of speed and endurance. The key factor in determining the group to which an entry has been allocated will be its cruising speed, which will be the distance the vehicle can travel in an hour over normal roads in normal traffic and weather conditions. On each of the five rally days, the routes will start in Christchurch and

end at points of interest beyond the city. Entrants will return to Christchurch in their own time. The rally has been arranged in such a way that by the end of the event all entrants will have been over all sections but not simultaneously. Broadly speaking, vehicles eligible to take part in the Pan-Pacific Rally comprise any vehicle constructed prior to December 31, 1931, and post vintage vehicles manufactured between January 1, 1932, and December 31, 1945.