FLASHBACK Warrnambool 1972 1st National Sprintcar Title
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Now that's a piece of motoring history, well worth saving.
What a fantastic race indeed and seing that "tyre on fire" was a "sight to behold". I have never ever seen that before and l've been an avid fan of Speedway, since 1969!!
Thanks so much Russ, for sharing such a magnificent piece of Speedway History!!
your welcome mate
Russ, you've done it again, mate!! What a fantastic piece of Australian Sprintcar, and Speedway History this is!!
Dick Britton (or was it Brittan?) Jim Winterbottom, Bobby Tunks, all of whom I had the pleasure of seeing race, I sure I saw Billy Wigzell drive at the Showground, but I may be mistaken.
I have to hand it to those blokes, a lot of those cars were built, owned and maintained by the very Men you see climbing in the "strap-up and get going" each and every week at "your local track," some more often than others, depending on location, time of year, weather conditions (the Northern 3rd of the Continent is monsoonal) so some of these blokes might have all the skill in World, but nowhere to show it off, get practice in, and learn to run their machinery as well as they might otherwise, but these aren't the "professionals" we see running on our tracks, these day's (some of them are the Grandsons and Granddaughters of the Men you've seen in this very race!)
And another thing I miss, is the variety of "looks" that can be seen in the field of cars, as they're paraded round, as is commented on, in the opening few minutes of this presentation, stop the film at nearly any point in that sequence, take a close look at some of those cars, and it's very easy to see. But as I think he may have mentioned, some of these machines, or their chassis at least, were indeed imports, almost certainly from the U.S.A I suppose.
I remember reading years ago in an Australian Speedway publication called the "Speedway Star," that Garry Rush was responsible for bringing the "first real Sprintcar to Australia, in 1972" (of all years!)
And, low and behold, about 12 months ago, I was having a little look around on TH-cam, and what do you think I find? A twenty minute video, on Bobby Blacklaw (himself, no slouch behind the wheel) had gone out and tracked down a very sad, old Sprintcar chassis with some spare parts, out the back-of-buggery, somewhere, that he suspected immediately of being that very same car. Apparently the joker who had hold of it, let it go for the price of a dozen or so slabs of piss, because he "wanted to get rid of it."
(Or his Mrs, for about a week)
So anyway, the baulk of the story is about Bobby Blacklaw, and his re-do of the car, it's a "made for T.V," I think, because it's a very, very professional job, with flashbacks "to days of Glory" for both Garry and the car, (which gets repeatedly referred to as the "Anderson Car," I think it may well be whoever built, or designed the car in the first place, in the States) references to Bobby's history, but mostly about coming to the end of a complex rebuilding of an old piece of machinery, one that's built in feet and inches, being rebuilt in millimetre and meter World, the desire for the skilled artisan to work with by eye, with REAL tools, and by HAND!!
Anyway, enough from me, and thanks so much again, Russ, your a real champion, mate!!
That was AWESOME!!!!!!! I cant thank you enough for posting this. I was at that race, but too young to remember it. I managed to see a short clip of my dad (Graham Morley in Vic 15 - around 2:23) rolling around during engine heat. I vaguely remember my dads car sitting in the shed at home, but I'd never seen it in motion until now. This was my first time EVER seeing dad driving his modified. That alone was very special. My siblings and I were cleaning out my mum's house a few months back (March 2024) and found a suburbanite that was likely on that car in that clip. Seeing Graeme Mac and Charlie Burley, and hearing names like Doug Byron and Ron Clark (guys I knew growing up) brought back so many wonderful memories. Here we are over 50 years later, and I am racing sprint cars all over the Midwest USA. "Who wudda thought"
G'day Brett, I am glad this video has good memories for you. That's why I search the internet and buy old vhs tapes. I am just trying to keep the memories alive, for this great sport we all love. cheers mate.
Great memories!!
I'm 61 mr Gary Rush got me hooked on speedway about 72, hell of driver. I got to drive div 2 hot rod from 78 to 82. He planted the seed, still go to the sprint cars around vic. Great vid
Ah, the "True Blue Fan!!" Geez, if you're 61yrs old, and I'm, um, a little older then how old would that make Young Mr Rush, do you think?
Maybe 85 90
@@ShaneSteel-om2cr Jesus bloody Christ, you think so? Yeah, now that I do a little bit of thinking about it, you're probably right!!
It's so bloody hard to believe. What's even harder to believe is, where all of those years went to!!
I think he was mid Twenties in 72 so I re-did the numbers it about 80 or so
He was born 5 July 1944
Zeke was in the lead then disapeared, A variety of chassis, no two the same and even more powerplants. And tyres, McCubbin with 351 Ford on suburbanites, Phil Herreen with a 318 Val on recaps and Wayne Fisher with a 289 on racerubber. Note no Chevs in the top runners.
Bill literally burning the tyres off of Suddenly.
Quite a few of those cars are still around and running Classics or in storage. There is a replica of the Hereen car, the 72 Peter Denton/ Sunstrom car is still around. The Wayne Fisher car and several more. Suddenly is in storage but is/ was a runner. The Vears car is around and runs etc.
Hi, I enjoy going to the vintage shows. As you say there are still a lot around in sheds and storage , I would love to track them down.
@@videorussBobby Blacklaw's shed might be a good place to start, but when or more's the point, where, do these shows happen? And how does one go about finding out when and where they're held?