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JimInOz
路路Melbourne AustraliaJeez, imagine stepping from a Cusso into an FJ.
Must have felt like a Ferrari.
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Must have felt like a Ferrari.
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Not all things in Australia want to kill you..........
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lindo
路While staying with a friend in the Longford area, I attended a major race meeting there when I was 18 (a long time ago). I was keen to get some good racing photos. When a professional photographer jumped the main spectator fence about thirty yards out from the track and took a nice position at the fence next to the track, I was greatly tempted to do the same.
While I was still making up my mind the lead cars came through. One lost control and crashed straight through the photographer, who was killed in front of me. Your post brought it all back very vividly.
While I was still making up my mind the lead cars came through. One lost control and crashed straight through the photographer, who was killed in front of me. Your post brought it all back very vividly.
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MRC
路Another of our more hazardous tracks was Longford down it rural Tasmania,
it had numerous interesting features including a straight with a hump that got the cars airborne
Getting some air!
A couple of unforgiving timber trestle bridges
More old Humpy Holdens, some Ford Lotus Cortina Mk1s, a pair of Ford Customlines , one getting a bit sideways, and a VW Beetle in the background.
A Ford Galaxy leading a Chrysler Valiant
And a railway dissecting the track, a one point over the track with a viaduct
it would be lovely hitting that in one of those!
and at another with a rail level crossing, they cars would have to stop if a train came along.....yes that actually happened!
And a pub on the corner!
Some blokes with balls the size of boulders even raced motorcycles there!
... that's the circuit where Timmy Mayer died.
Timmy was brother of Teddy Mayer long time involved with McClaren cars.