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[sandy]

Is it best to leave those dreadful old photos in their shoe box at the back of the cupboard or does there come a time when they can see the light of day again...

Edited by sandy, 24 February 2013 - 15:24.

[David McKinney]

Stan Jones and I presume Bib Stillwell

But when and where?

[Catalina Park]

I'm guessing Fishermans Bend but I am probably wrong!

[sandy]

I have a number of old photos which I planned to post but PhotoBucket just keeps freezing and its late so I will post them all tomorrow.

[275 GTB-4]

I'm guessing Fishermans Bend but I am probably wrong!

maybe Ardmore....

[David McKinney]

Not impossible. Jones was No.6 at Ardmore in 1957, but I can't tell where on the circuit the photo would be, and the fencing certainly doesn't look right

[Rob G]

Stan Jones and I presume Bib Stillwell

But when and where?

Hopefully they're two different whens or wheres, or else it would have been very confusing!

[sandy]

Some of these have been put up before but most haven't, anyway there is a sequence that will be put up warts and all. It is Fisherman's Bend and the first photo shows the start of the main race. 1957 I think.



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That's Neville Shute the author in the Jaguar.

Edited by sandy, 24 February 2013 - 15:59.

[sandy]

Some of these have been put up before but most haven't, anyway there is a sequence that will be put up warts and all. It is Fisherman's Bend and the first photo shows the start of the main race. 1957 I think.



http://s295.beta.pho...scan38.jpg.html










That's Neville Shute the author in the Jaguar.

Edited by sandy, 25 February 2013 - 08:02.

[sandy]

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[ken devine]

Old photos are always interesting to see especially when they are like these. I met some people on the weekend and they promised to send me some early WA shots,when i get them i will post them.We discussed a very interesting car that was featured here a couple of
years ago,hopefully some more information may come to light.

[sandy]

Too hard to fit the captions in with the photos.

In the fracas of rounding the hairpin can be seen Lou Molina's Monza Holden, c/w Repco Head and conspicuous tail fins. The whole rear bodywork rose up as a giant brake but it didn't work too well so was not used.

There is a Super Squalo.

The Lago Talbot was owned by Owen Bailey. In the Lago photo the burly driver with his back to the camera is Stan Jones.

The MG Q was raced by Les Murphy.

The wide open spaces photo has Bill Patterson's Bobtail Cooper rounding the hairpin at the end of the long straight. It can be seen what a grey, windswept and miserable place it was. Alongside the track was a place where the homeless lived, in shanties. cardboard boxes and such. It was known, sardonically, as Dudley Flats.

The color photo shows Maybachs One and Two. The bxw photo shows Maybach 3 (or 111) - driver Ernie Seeliger

.The bulbous stern monoposto is the Tornado Special.

Some lesser lights.

Most of these photos are in this site -http://aussieroadracing.homestead.com/ see Geoff Green Collection - some had previously been on this forum. I had forgotten how aussieroadracing had fixed up so many poor quality photos - the two out of focus Lago Talbot photos for example. So my reason for showing them is not really valid but anyway I tried to put together the original sequence of the start and run down to the hairpain and back up the other side of the straight with Stan Jones appearing to be having difficulty keeping it lined up and reckon that this and the photo of the mayhem at the hairpin made it all worth the effort.

Edited by sandy, 25 February 2013 - 10:04.

[Repco22]

Interesting pics thanks Sandy. I like the scramble around the hairpin! And the leaning 250F driver. I suppose it's Stillwell.

[E1pix]

Hi, Sandy, Thanks as always for sharing your photographs.

[Bloggsworth]

Wonderfully moody photograph - Is that really a man on a horse on the right!

[GMACKIE]

Wonderfully moody photograph - Is that really a man on a horse on the right!

I wondered about that......looks like Ned Kelley to me.

[sandy]

Wonderfully moody photograph - Is that really a man on a horse on the right!

Iit was a mounted copper, probably rostered on duty to keep the denizens of Dudley Flats under control. He is a credit to the force as I would not imagine that a couple of 250Fs passing by in full song would be encountered every day, not to mention the Q type and yet he is just sitting there quietly, his horse also not over bothered.

Sorry Bloggsworth, that was a bit of a smart arsed response. It was just coincidental that as your comment appeared I was looking at the marshalls or whatever they were in those days standing at the hairpin and a memory of that photo of Herrman's BRM demolishing itself at AVUS came to mind and I was just wondering how prepared they were at Fisherman's Bend in the late 50s for a 250F for example to similarly crash.

Edited by sandy, 25 February 2013 - 11:23.

[sandy]

And here is a really terrible photograph of a run of the mill special. The driver is no doubt really enjoying himself and probably the wife is taking a few snaps but anyway here he is finally being seen by thousands of international motor racing enthusiasts.


THE MONZA SPECIAL. Lou Molinas wonderful sports racing special.

Edited by sandy, 25 February 2013 - 11:09.

[john medley]

The "special" referred to may be Sil Massola's HRG