2006NOV121648
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.
Note there is no seat here. A lot of professional video production going around to the left of the shot, no doubt recording the event. There's not a lot of stock footage of Brocky as it's tied up with commercial interests but this machine, captured on super-8" way back in the 50's shows the great spirit of hacking something togther out of nothing. Read the references to understand what I mean.
Brocky built his understanding of cars from an old Austin Seven, literally hacked the body off with his mums wood chopping ax and created something to play with. You can learn a lot from this. For me it was a great opportunity to see the car before it gets restored.
More to come.
Reference
[0] ABCTV, Talking Heads, 'Peter Thompson interviews Peter Brock':
www.abc.net.au/talkingheads/txt/s1735343.htm
[Accessed Sunday, November 12, 2006]
2006NOV121648, Brockys Day Out. [?]
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2006NOV121648
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.
Note there is no seat here. A lot of professional video production going around to the left of the shot, no doubt recording the event. There's not a lot of stock footage of Brocky as it's tied up with commercial interests but this machine, captured on super-8" way back in the 50's shows the great spirit of hacking something togther out of nothing. Read the references to understand what I mean.
Brocky built his understanding of cars from an old Austin Seven, literally hacked the body off with his mums wood chopping ax and created something to play with. You can learn a lot from this. For me it was a great opportunity to see the car before it gets restored.
More to come.
Reference
[0] ABCTV, Talking Heads, 'Peter Thompson interviews Peter Brock':
www.abc.net.au/talkingheads/txt/s1735343.htm
[Accessed Sunday, November 12, 2006]
2006NOV121648, Brockys Day Out. [?]
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