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[Ray Bell]

Of course...

 

I was thinking a rear-engined Cooper, there were (of course) a few Cooper-Bristols which had been built or converted by then.

[cooper997]

A young Peter Brock, Holden-powered Austin A30 at the Templestowe esses.

 

With thanks to Tony Pashley for tidying up the image.

 

 

Stephen

[Ian G]

Interesting, big meeting by the look of the cars and crowd.

[Ray Bell]

I wonder when this was taken...

 

Having scoured through the hillclimb reports in Racing Car News I have found no mention of Brock at Templestowe in 1968, but he was there (and flying, beating Doug Whiteford's Datsun 2000 by two seconds in March, 1969). But Templestowe only seems to get one report each year in the magazine and I feel sure there were other meetings.

 

It's highly unlikely this was in 1967 as the car's first race meeting was on November 26 that year, its second at the Boxing Day Hume Weir. It failed at Winton and I was at the Hume Weir and saw Geoff Brock drilling out the union from where the fuel line came out of the tank. "Damned Poms!" he exclaimed, "they expect a car to run with the fuel coming through a little hole like that." And so Peter managed to finish his first race at that meeting.

 

Obviously a hillclimb would be demanding on fuel flow, so it wasn't at a hill before that.

 

 

 

 

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Edited by Ray Bell, 30 June 2022 - 05:12.

[cooper997]

Ray, he's not listed in the Nov 67 Templestowe programme. I don't have access to the March 68, he's listed in May 68 meeting and I have the results that state D N S for P Brock. He's in the July programme and results with Class FTD. Same applies to the Sept 68 meeting. Then its into 1969 territory.

 

Alas though its all complicated by the same car number and determining the weather for the event based on crowd clothing. There was clearly some chill, but not really cold requiring more layers.

 

 

Stephen

[Ray Bell]

The only one of those three climbs reported is the May 12 event...

 

And in that he doesn't get a mention. But I was aware there were more events and I thought he'd competed there a few times.

[cooper997]

This shows the crowd gathered at a  very early VSCC Templestowe Hillclimb - meeting #3 held 28/9/52. 

 

Taken from the beginning of The Wall with part of Banana Straight at the bottom RH corner of this John Fleming archive photo.

 

 

Stephen