2006NOV121637

Brockys Big Day Out

 

'... This little trinket is the radiator surround off my paddock bomb I built when I was 13-year-old. Little Austin 7 bit. Theoretically I could reconstruct the vehicle as an original, just using this item. I'm thinking about it. The paddock bomb served me well, I guess, but then I wanted to get on the track. I had a great hunger to get on the other side of that guardrail. ...' [0]

 

Noticed in the paper yesterday that the Peter Brock Big Day Out was being held in Hurstbridge, not far from where I grew up. So I just had to go. It featured the first outing for Brockys original Austin Seven Paddock bomb he had as a 13 year old. I grabed a picture of it, 2006SEP120955 from the TV interview with Peter Thompson replayed this year.

 

Here was my chance to get a photo of the thing before it gets restored and displayed at the Winton Speedway at sometime soon in the future.

 

While the paddock bomb looks in bad shape there is not much to be done to get the engine running and restoring the machine to *original condition*. In the first incarnation the jallopy had no brakes so Brocky learnt to slide it to stop.

 

Reference

[0] ABCTV, Talking Heads, 'Peter Thompson interviews Peter Brock':

www.abc.net.au/talkingheads/txt/s1735343.htm

[Accessed Sunday, November 12, 2006]

 

 

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