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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 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 & Peter Schell 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 T26C Talbot Lago, Jones in the 250 F ? Doug Whiteford won the 1952 AGP at Bathurst and the 1953 AGP at Albert Park in the Talbot Lago ( generally called Lago Talbot or affectionately named 'Large Tablet ').

Clive Adams in a Prad. (ex Bill Clark HRG) , Jack Neal in a Maserati 4C and Jim Johnston in the MG Special ?

The famous ex Louis Chiron, French GP T26C Talbot Lago 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 ?

( Car by Talbot - engine by Anthony F. Lago)

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 the rebodied Lotus 6.

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 emial address below. I don't need originals just good quality jpeg scans about 500 pixels wide at 75dpi will do.

I am always open to informed corrections of captions of car / driver identification.

I am not a Historian, just a lover of the era.

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: April 4, 2012

This website was created and is maintained by Brian Darby

Mob. 0419976557 or bdarby@bigpond.com

The restored ex Stan Jones Maybach IV 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 Museum, 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 & DVDs click on the

Book & DVD Reviews Heading. Includes the great Rob Roy Hill Climb DVD by Blue Range Studio.

PHOTO COLLECTIONS.

BRIAN DARBY'S

From Bill Hinte: Just to let you know that Maybach IV had a Maybach engine as it's original power plant. Charlie Dean, together with others at Repco built a unique fuel injection system for this engine, I also believe that it had a larger capacity than the base engine? In this installation the engine was tilted over to give a lower engine cover & of Course lower the centre of Gravity. the Chevy was installed after I believe a major blow-up, when it was decided that the Mayback had reached the limit of development. Cheers Bill.