Brickies Hack
Janet Denzel
Strangely enough, the only thing I ever saw of it was the rubber marks on the road when I worked at Ralph Symonds, the plywood factory right at the end of the road...
Beefies, of course, was the only hamburger joint... or anything with food in the vicinity after 10pm... in a time before McDonalds.
How about that? I'm afraid that I have to admit having had the occassional complicity in this anti-social behaviour... And so who do I see here but my good friend Robert T (now prominent respected Sydney legal eagle) in action in what was affectionately known as "Mummy's racing car" - a Morris 1100 bog-standard apart from 6" rims and Pirelli Cinturato tyres. The car was also entered (without Mummy's permission nor knowledge) and driven by Brian Fleming in 5 races at Orange's Towac circuit where was placed in all races against some dedicated racers such as Max Stewart's Triumph 2000. Crikey - that was 1965!!
I just noticed the passenger who I'm sure is dear friend the late Norm Ellis (who went on to become a very fine policeman....)
I never had the stones to go there - too many stories of Police heavy-handedness and so on. A mate of a mate of my brother's (why do I doubt the veracity?) mouthed off to the cops and got his lights broken. Then he got a defect notice for broken lights! Allegedly.
Bruce Moxon
Crikey.....Sir Jack will be 'fessing up next minute! I know Pete Geoghegan knew exactly where brickies was. Many a sporty car was "tuned" to his specs there.
Here are a couple of snaps of the early "brickies" site. The one with the 49 Rover shows a very under-developed area, this would be 1962. ( I'd love to have the Rover back for the 100 pounds I sold it for, and check out the exhaust just in front of the R/R wheel hooked up to a TR3 muffler) and the blurry early model is the one I mentioned in post 5, with a little oversteer at 100mph coming from the reverse direction to the 1/4 mile straight. Behind IS the proverbial brickworks . I think the road is now divided by a raised centre island.
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