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Tracks in Time: Mount Druitt, NSW

October 1, 2021

Story: Jim Scaysbrook • Photographs Frank Shepherd, Bill Tricker, Charles Rice • Archival assistance: John Wicks Even though it closed almost fifty years ago, Mount Druitt is inevitably mentioned whenever a bunch of old timers get […]

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Ray Curtis: A born showman

December 18, 2020

Spectacular and successful throughout his long and varied career, Ray Curtis never had top machinery, but that didn’t stop him always putting on a show for the paying public. Story: Jim Scaysbrook •  Photos: Dick […]

Riders

Doug James: The Original Wollongong Wizz

September 18, 2020

At just seventeen years of age, Doug James was the youngest rider in the Australian Tourist Trophy in 1939. He was also a long way from home. Pre-war, the journey from Wollongong to Phillip Island, […]

OBA Issue 8
Riders

Tim Gibbes: Off-road trailblazer

February 28, 2020

The trail to England had been blazed comprehensively by aspiring Australian and New Zealand road racers and speedway riders since the mid 1920s, but the same was not the case for the relatively new (mainly […]

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