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Last one the short circuit at Amaroo when they used to use the complex for closed rallies?

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Nice shots Gaf....any names with the photos...???

Love the second one....great place to store that pesky crash helmet....who needs em anyways!!

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third shot looks like john lefflers old car, i know he drove one similar.

Um...


T Brewster & R Bessant - Calleder 1970

Paddy Hopkrik-SouthernCrossRally

Holden & Holland

Even Green BP Rally

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nice pics... the dark one in pic 3 looks like its been upside down and fixed . has a stretched roof look about it... an old flatmate roled a car of mine and italways looked a bit dome topped after it

Well spotted. Definately been over, and probably more than once. My olf Rally car (not a mini) had a similar dome top appearance after it first arseabout. they're never quite right are they?

BTW: g'day danidad. I hope you don't think I'm all bad.

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I am sure it is the short circuit at AP but I do recall them using the complex for a spectator stage in some big rallies like the Sourthern Cross as well as self contained rallies within the complex.

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butie,LOVE the old school photos,good work

I'll see if I can find some more

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These are nice pics. They are all off the autopics.com.au website. First one is Ted Brewster at Calder. We've got an interview with Ted coming up in issue 3 of The Mini Experience (out in early June).
All of the other three photos are featured in our second issue (coming out in the next week or two). In fact every issue of The Mini Experience features some fantastic period photographs from the Autopics archive.

Quick details on the other three pics above -
First one is Paddy Hopkirk in ex-UK Works rally Mini LRX 828E, in 1967 Southern Cross Rally. Third pic is Evan Green in same car, then repainted in Aussie colours of Castrol Green and white.
Second pic is Don Holland (left) in his privately-built lightweight Mini, and Bob Holden in factory-built lightweight, at Warwick Farm, 1967.
We have a full feature on the Works Minis, and factory supported teams, in Australia, in Issue 2 of the mag, plus an extensive feature on the ex-Works car LRX 828E.
Watto.

Sorry if I confused you all with pic numbering. First pic is of course the Ted Brewster pic, then just add one to all the others. ie: second pic is Hopkirk, third is Holland/Holden, fourth is Green. All other details as I said earlier.
I was just detailing the last three pics and muddled myself up.
Watto.

I'm deffinitely getting forgetful in my old age. Pic of Evan Green, yes I think it is at Amaroo. However, the caption on the autopics website is incorrect, as this pic is from the 1968 Southern Cross Rally, not the BP Rally.
I agree that Bob Holden's roof does look dome-shaped. I don't know any details, as I haven't asked Bob about that, but it might also have something to do with the fact the car was lightened so much that it had little strength left in the roof (?). I'll try and ask him about that when I next see him.
Good chance he might be at Phillip Island this weekend (racing his Escort)
Cheers, Watto.

Cheers Watto and I hope I have not stoll your thunder with these photo's. Yes they are off the Autospeed site

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No worries Gafmo. Gives me a chance to plug the magazine again (that's The Mini Experience....in case anyone missed it!) BTW it's Autopics, not Autospeed
Watto