Hello ! ...Welcome to my Aussie Road Racing site... a site created for you to enjoy those early days of Australian Road racing of which I was a part in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a motor racing mechanic and an avid fan of this great sport.. This site will contain photos from my collection of photos and those of my friends and associates. I hope you enjoy reliving a lot of the memories of your youth as I have......Thank you to John Medley for helping with some IDs....Brian.
Visitors since 10.8.04
What a great photo to open this collection with..
Stan Jones of Victoria,
( father of 1980 F1 World Champ. Alan Jones ) left, with mechanic Charlie Dean and the famous Maybach 2
Stan Jones won the 1959 Australian Grand Prix at Longford , Tasmania in a 250F Maserati.
The Ray Wamsley GP Alfa Romeo P3...before it was restored to the original configuration this car had several engines including GMC, Alvis and Corvette. Behind the wheel in this 1950s pic is midget Speedcar driver Tony Burke.
The great Reg Hunt of Victoria and one of his many factory race cars, an A6GCM Maserati
The Len Lukey Cooper Bristol backed into the Pit counter at Bathurst.
Tom Clark of New Zealand in his Super Squalo Ferrari.
The HWM Jaguar had many owners. Victorian , Lex Davison won the 1954 Australian Grand Prix at Southport . Qld in this car.
The battered nose of the Jack Robinson XK120 Jaguar Special # 20.
A warm up lap minus helmets !
Maybe Doug Whiteford in the Lago Talbot, Jones in the 250 F ? Doug Whiteford won the 1952 AGP at Bathurst and the 1953 AGP at Albert Park in the Lago Talbot.
Clive Adams in a Prad, Jack Neal in a Maserati 4C and Jim Johnston in the MG Special ?
The famous ex Louis Chiron, French GP Lago Talbot of Doug Whiteford, Ralph Snodgrass, Arnold Glass and Barry Collerson. A car they could not sell at 1200 Australian pounds in the 1960s eventually sold in Europe in the 1980s for 380,000 British pounds, ( $ 931,000 Aud ).
What would it be worth today ?
Harry Monday in his Ford SV V8 Special
Jack Neal and the 4C Maserati
On the dummy grid, Pit straight , Bathurst in the 1950s, the famous mountain in the background.
Doug Chivas in a Lotus Sports.
Paul Samuels in the little Berkeley sports.
Paul England in the Australian built, Repco Holden powered AUSCA sports.
Veteran Aussie racer, Tom Sulman in the fabulous maroon coloured DB3S Aston Martin sports. What an exhaust note this car had !. Tom sadly lost his life in 1970 on Con Rod straight at the Mt Panorama circuit, Bathurst . He was driving a Lotus Eleven Sports.
The exotic Ferrari coupe of Nino Saccilotto
Sam Miller in his green and cream Austin Healey 100s complete with aerodynamic head rest.
Thanks to Rob Smart for sharing his memories with us via these great
( mostly Box Brownie ) pics.
It's these little collections in people's cupboards and shoe boxes that will take the history of Australian motor racing on into the future via the net. If you have a collection of good quality early photos that you would like to share on this site please email on button below. I don't need originals just good quality jpeg scans about 500 pixels wide at 75dpi will do.
Brian Darby
Above: Stan in action in Maybach 2. At right in the last Maybach, Maybach 3. There were 3 Maybachs. The original engine for 1 & 2 was a 6 cylinder out of a WWII German Scout car and I think # 3 had a Chev Corvette.
After you have had a look at the pages of
' Aussie Road Racing ' you might like to sign the Guest Book and give me your comments etc.
Go on to page two of Aussie Road Racing..
A great collection from top photographer
John Stanley..click on Page 2.
THE ROB SMART COLLECTION.
This page was last updated: February 4, 2010
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The restored ex Stan Jones Maybach 3 sits on the starting straight at Waneroo Raceway W.A. waiting for Allan Jones , son of Stan, to put the car through it's paces after repairs from a racing accident at Phillip Island. The car is usually on display at Peter Briggs' Fremantle Motor Museun, W.A. ....Photo courtesy of Mick Thompson.
A page for those odd one or two photos that crop up from time to time. Click on the heading.
In what may be a first for an Aussie Road Racing website - in conjunction with my good friend, Glenn Munro, I'd like to present this historic and fascinating Video Clip from the old Mt Druitt circuit west of Sydney. A very young Jack Brabham is seen racing his first road racing car, footage shot in 1953.
Just click on the Mt Druitt heading above - this will take you to the video clip page - turn your sound on - wait for the download ( 2.6 MB) and sit back and enjoy this 1 min 5 second clip of road racing in 1953.
I've put a few of my favourite sounds on the site.
Do you like sounds ? See what you think.
For some great motor racing books click on the
Book Review Heading.
NOW FOR SALE.
Copies of my first Aussie Road Racing photo DVD.
The DVD contains a large selection of the fabulous b/w and colour John Stanley photos which can be seen on the pages of this website.
Photos from Warwick Farm, Surfers Paradise and Lakeside in the 60s with the cover pic being from Sandown 1968.
With touring cars, sports cars and open wheelers,
it has music, titles, captions and transitions.
An added bonus is a few minutes of rare video footage of Jack Brabham in his silver blue Cooper HRD # 8 at Mt Druitt in 1953 and an audio snippet of the exhaust note of a V12 Ferrari at speed .
ONLY $ 35 ea. Aud.
( p & p $3 extra within Australia)
To purchase this unique DVD order from Brian
on 02 9772 1058
or email
PAL format but playable on most computers
( with disc drive ) world wide.
AUSSIE ROAD RACING # 2
The second in the series, again presenting the fabulous photos of John Stanley.
Open wheelers, sports cars and touring cars of the 1960s.
75 b/w and colour photos with music, titles captions and transitions,
The DVD opens with a short sound track of a 250 F Maserati under acceleration and then a pass at speed by the microphone.
Compliments the ARR# 1 DVD nicely for your collection.
ONLY $ 35 Aud. ( p & p $3 extra within Australia.) Order as above,
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Click here to view a collection of photos from the above meeting - from the camera of John Stanley - All photos are copyright of John Stanley.
DVDs can be converted to PAL VHS Video tape if you prefer.
One DVD or several on the tape as preferred.
DVDs of some early Aussie road racing video action are available - email me for details.
