Question: Facts: - teams: lancia , volkswagen , datsun , nissan motors - years: 1973 & ndash ; 1980 - races: 28 - death date: 13 july 2009 - podiums: 4 - points: 18 - birth date: 30 june 1939 - name: harry kallstrom - stagewins: 4 - nationality: sweden swedish - wins: 1 - death place: stromsund - birth place: sodertalje - championships: 0 Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of harry kallstrom .
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harry kallstrom -lrb- 30 june 1939 - 13 july 2009 -rrb- , nicknamed '' sputnik '' , was a swedish professional rally driver who debuted in 1957 and competed in the world rally championship in the 1970s .prior to the forming of the wrc , kallstrom won the rac rally in a lancia fulvia 1.6 coupe hf in 1969 and 1970 .in 1969 , he also captured the european rally championship title .partnered with claes-goran andersson , and driving a datsun 160j , he took his only world rally championship victory at the 1976 acropolis rally greece .at the same rally and in the same car , he finished third in 1977 and 1979 .his fourth podium appearance in the world championship was a second place at the 1973 safari rally in a datsun 1800 sss .this was the first wrc event to end in a dead heat ; he and shekhar mehta ended on the same penalty points -lrb- 6 hours and 46 minutes -rrb- but mehta was awarded the win due to being the fastest in the opening stages .at the 1985 rallye cote d'ivoire , toyota teammates juha kankkunen and bjorn waldegard repeated this feat .