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Old 19 Aug 2018, 13:41 (Ref:3844662)   #26
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Calder some time in 66, Neptune Racing Team, Beechey in the Nova, McKeown in Cortina and skinny Manton in the Mini
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Old 19 Aug 2018, 22:19 (Ref:3844843)   #27
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Calder some time in 66, Neptune Racing Team, Beechey in the Nova, McKeown in Cortina and skinny Manton in the Mini
Don't forget to mention you were already 21 by then...
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Old 20 Aug 2018, 02:23 (Ref:3844874)   #28
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Don't forget to mention you were already 21 by then...
Thanks AP. Forgot that.
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Old 20 Aug 2018, 07:24 (Ref:3844893)   #29
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This is a good topic; any chance the title can be changed on the thread?
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Old 20 Aug 2018, 07:27 (Ref:3844895)   #30
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Old 20 Aug 2018, 08:34 (Ref:3844903)   #31
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Old 20 Aug 2018, 08:43 (Ref:3844905)   #32
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Checked thread title looked interesting but did not realise it was exclusive to Australians? for the record I think the first motorsport event ,possibly the first sport event I atended was London-Brighton veteran car run when revived after WW2
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Old 20 Aug 2018, 09:56 (Ref:3844926)   #33
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Albert Park 1957 watching Lex Davison (grandfather of Will and Alex) and Stan Jones (father of Alan) race Ferrari 500 and Maserati 250F. A year later I remember running alongside Stirling Moss (being interviewed by legendary journo Mike Kable) as he headed for a helicopter to go Melbourne Airport. I was 11 or 12 years old!
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Old 20 Aug 2018, 12:21 (Ref:3844960)   #34
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Some of us were at Silverstone for 3 days. And maybe now you don't need us to hold hands all the time!

First motorsport event attended, RAC rally, 1982
First race meeting attended, European Touring Cars, Donington, 1984
First meeting marshalled, Curborough Sprint, October 1987
First meeting in Australia, Surfers Paradise 2005.
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Old 20 Aug 2018, 18:53 (Ref:3845055)   #35
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First motorsport event attended, RAC rally, 1982
First race meeting attended, European Touring Cars, Donington, 1984
First meeting marshalled, Curborough Sprint, October 1987
First meeting in Australia, Surfers Paradise 2005.[/QUOTE]

First motorsport event attended, Goodwood in the mid 60's
First race meeting attended, I competed in a Kart race @ Blackbushe in 1974
First meeting marshalled, 1st meeting of the year @ Silverstone in March 1986
First meeting in Australia, Surfers Paradise in 2000, part of my honeymoon after getting married on Buddina Beach near MooLoolaba
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Old 21 Aug 2018, 02:17 (Ref:3845106)   #36
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1991 Gold Coast Indy.

Living next to Alan Jones I was invited to a Friday night party and met so many of these drivers, but I had no idea who they were.

Addiction to motorsport was well truly alive.
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Old 21 Aug 2018, 04:33 (Ref:3845110)   #37
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Old 21 Aug 2018, 04:35 (Ref:3845112)   #38
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1991 Gold Coast Indy.

Living next to Alan Jones I was invited to a Friday night party and met so many of these drivers, but I had no idea who they were.

Addiction to motorsport was well truly alive.


What was it like having AJ as a neighbour?
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Old 21 Aug 2018, 21:05 (Ref:3845282)   #39
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My first race attended was at the quarter mile dirt oval at Sterling, IL sometime in the mid 1960s. Grandfather took us kids to see one of his friends' son race a 1955 Ford stock car.



First professional races were the USAC dirt champ cars and USAC stock cars on the one mile oval at Springfield IL circa 1970. Foyt, the Unsers, Mario were all regulars on dirt at the time. Quite a lot of history at the track. Wish I'd been there more often.


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First road race was the CanAm at Road America in 1981.
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Old 21 Aug 2018, 23:16 (Ref:3845295)   #40
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1980 Hang Ten 400 @ Sandown - dad had a Golf and I remember Chris Heyer in the Golf against the Triumph & Gemini's etc...

The old first corner sitting on the generators to keep warm

I also remember a car racing on LPG gas Falcon Hardtop
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Old 22 Aug 2018, 03:14 (Ref:3845314)   #41
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Living next to Alan Jones I was invited to a Friday night party and met so many of these drivers, but I had no idea who they were.
Living next door to Alan? There is a song in that
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Old 22 Aug 2018, 03:55 (Ref:3845317)   #42
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Living next door to Alan? There is a song in that
It exists, sung by Kevin (Bloody) Wilson.... Living next door to Alan. (Actually about Alan Bond.)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1Zuo2JtTdY
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Old 22 Aug 2018, 06:04 (Ref:3845320)   #43
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Luckily no time certain finishes back then.
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Old 22 Aug 2018, 07:07 (Ref:3845330)   #44
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Old 22 Aug 2018, 13:37 (Ref:3845382)   #45
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Oran Park 77 or 78
Sports sedans not ATCC
Jimbo in the Sidchrome stang VS Frankie in JPS Corvair
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Old 22 Aug 2018, 17:40 (Ref:3845432)   #46
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Old 22 Aug 2018, 20:59 (Ref:3845458)   #47
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I went to heaps of events on the Island back in the mid to late 60's and early 70's, none of any mention - I do remember Brock in the Austin, I remember Bevan Gibson, I spoke to him a lot.

The first ATCC event I clearly remember was at Sandown, probably either late '75 or mid '76. I really can't remember
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Old 23 Aug 2018, 07:22 (Ref:3845494)   #48
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It exists, sung by Kevin (Bloody) Wilson.... Living next door to Alan. (Actually about Alan Bond.)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1Zuo2JtTdY
Thanks for that link EB-never heard that before
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It exists, sung by Kevin (Bloody) Wilson.... Living next door to Alan. (Actually about Alan Bond.)[/QUOTE]

When in England he lived in the same village as me and on one occasion he was "starring" in the local theatre, his evening was entitled an evening of Australian culture. The theatre was filled with lots of Womens Institute roups, most walked out during the first song!!!
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