The interviews are conducted and recorded by John Napier-Winch of Archival Films, and he has available two "sample" discs, with excerpts from no less than 52 interviews. The drivers interviewed here are not big-name national or international blokes, but local names and their reminiscences of their racing days in the 50s and 60s. Some of them are quite moving. Bob Annear, a great enthusiast, was very keen to tell his story even though he was on oxygen, and died some months later. One or two were recorded quite a while ago and the interviewees - Wally Higgs and Arthur Collett - have since died.
Given that Wanneroo/Barbagallo has now being going for over 40 years, it's surely time to start catching the later lads before they, too, fade into the sunset.
Now, I wonder - are there any other TNFers elsewhere in the world doing something similar?
If we have any interest I'll append a list the drivers interviewed to date, with a note against each about where they fitted into our local story. I haven't yet seen any full-length interviews, which belong to the VSCC, but the bits I've seen a great - variable, naturally, according to the tempraments and articulacy of the interviewees.
Edited by Terry Walker, 04 March 2011 - 08:26.