Greg Ellis - MGA 1600.
' B ' Grade racing car scratch race.
Winner: # 74 Max Stephens (Cooper Bristol)
Max Boulter at Vacu-Lug corner in his Buchanan - Repco Holden
Brian Bowe in the ex Bruderlin & Thomas Supercharged MCTC Special. # 132.
Symmons Plains - 1961
November 1961.
The business end of the Arnold Glass BRM running a disc brake set up off the transmission.
Above and right : The grid for the 6 lap Sports Car race.
Brian Bowe in the # 132 blown MGTC Special.
Victorian Bib Stillwell runs the Cooper Monaco around at a wet meeting at the Plains.
1961 and the latest in ammenities.
I wonder if it had a roof ?
Bevan Wylie runs the Ford Prefect Sports Special off the track in the wet.
Bob Ford ( Le Mans Jaguar ) leads Roger Black ( Ford Zephyr Special ) Wayne Tyson in the MG with lights on and David Hallam in a TR3A.
Symmons Plains - April 1962.
John Youl has his first outing in the Scuderia Veloce
' pencil line ' Cooper Climax - ex Brabham.
Wayne Tyson looks for the reason for the sudden loss in power of the TC.
Geoff Dodge in his Triumph TR3A leads Don Rust in the bug eye sprite through Vacu - Lug corner.
Gino la Rovere MM Special and T. Roberts K4 Special.
# 17 Bryan Thomson in what was reputed to be the only supercharged Cooper T51 in the world ( at that time ) is chased by Bib Stillwell in # 6 .
Arnold Glass in the BRM Scarab # 7.
Alex Daniels, Renault Gordini # 22J leads Jim Barrettt in a Mini in an Appendix J race.
Lex Davison in his Cooper # 4.
Ray Long in his Holbay Ford Elfin # 8 leads Lyn Archer in his Cooper Hillman # 44..
A lovely looking rear end !
Bib Stillwell's Lowline Cooper # 6.
Lex Davison's mechanic warms up the # 4 Cooper.
Paolo Borghese under brakes in the Triumph TR4 # 26.
A rare spin for Stillwell costing him a chance to win and he threw a con rod in a later race, It wasn't his day.
Two of the big movers in Aussie road racing in the 1960s. Lex Davison and Arnold Glass have a talk. Davison was to lose his life in later years after a heart attack whilst racing at Sandown in Victoria.
Derek Holden, MGTD Buchanan Special and John Pooley in the VW Karmann Ghia in Pit Corner.
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