Al G said..

obct said..
I grew up near westmead speedway, my favs were the little midgets, don't know what sort of motors they had in them, probably out of a bike, but the racing was always so close, no one ever got too far in front.

the highlight was at the end of the day when all the kids were allowed to run onto the track to pick up the throw away goggles, in those days they didn't use taped on tear always, these were like real goggles with cheap elastic straps on them. they were pretty useless as eye protection, but we would still wear them when we were in our billy carts and pretend we were racing speedway down the Lockwood rd hill.

We would go pretty well, until the reality of having no brakes at the bottom would set in, hell I lost some bark on the corner at the bottom of that hill, and then fat old Mr Johnson who dob us in to mum.

Geez OB,Westmead Speedway, I first went there when I was about 5,I vaguely remember 32,34 Ford sedans and coupes(stock cars) with the steel tubing around them racing there.

What suburb did you grow up in OB ,I grew up in Fairfield West!...
I'm pretty sure the Midgets had motor bike engines originally but you could put a 4 or 6 cylinder in them but no bigger than a 6 cylinder,I'll have to research that!..
The legendary Scott Dillon was a Speedway driver,starting off in midgets then progressing to a Rambler,I met him a few times at Coffs and got a pic with him!..

They used to call those cars Sprint cars up here back in the day.

Midgets: www.google.com.au/search?q=vintage+midget+speedway+racing&biw=1366&bih=620&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-iKzuhfLLAhXFJZQKHXUEBlQQ_AUIBigB

Sprint Cars: www.google.com.au/search?q=sprint+cars&biw=1366&bih=620&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjVkMqZh_LLAhXGmZQKHYwXBNEQ_AUIBigB

No worries Mac thought I'de put it up anyway just to show peeps the difference.Scotty Dillon is only about 5 foot 5,haha,but that car makes him look big?..

Cool pics OB Yeah they were called Micro midgets

Guy's been great reading your posts. I remember the Old man taking me & the bro to the Showground Speedway & Westmead Speedways in the early to late 60's I suppose, but man I can still remember it was a buzz. If I get this right attached are is some pics of guys racing at these venues. Yep that's Sir Jack Brabham & the one I remember Bill Warner in his corvette at Westmead.
Apparently dads older bro "Lennie" used to race his bike at the Maroubra Brick Pit raceway, from the way dad described it was a Harley "flame thrower" beacuse the heads on them went red with heat, dunno if its true. 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So me, a SUP Kook in a longboard forum, has a favourite thread about cars.
Thank you Al G, best thread ever.

In honour of the car that the Pup learnt to drive in. when he was just a Puppy.

Yep, the first one was an escarpment run down Ulludulla way, the other 2 were from Stockton in about 2005.

that was the car that finally cured me of all interest in working on cars. I only liked driving it off road in the hardest terrain possible and for every hour I spent in it, I probably spent 4 hours under it.

Nozza said..
So me, a SUP Kook in a longboard forum, has a favourite thread about cars.
Thank you Al G, best thread ever.

No worries Nozza,i like lookin at you're car pics and everyone else's to mate
Cool Pics and stories fellas^

obct said..









In honour of the car that the Pup learnt to drive in. when he was just a Puppy.

Yeah wow .... almost identical brother Obs .... the softop was removed on ours didn't last that long & dear old Dad put a big old modified Holden chrome bumper on it as well .... plus the headlights were customized from the donor beetle chassis .... a big Kombi style emblem went in between those .... had fats on the back with Beetle hub covers & skinnies up front

Geez that thing took a hammering every weekend for years

Cool Chrispy ,1956/7 Custom Ford Fairlane Victoria.They usually look like this.
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That's a seriously wicked girl that one Al