SPEEDWAY HUMOUR

"AND OTHER INTERESTING STUFF"

DID YOU KNOW? That in the 1960's some of the greatest music and songs ever, were played at Sydney raceways.

Songs played around the speedways were

"Shapes" By The Yardbirds.
"For what its worth" Buffalo Springfield.
"Lighting Keeps Striking Again" Lou Christie.
"Green Tambourine: The Lemon Pipers
"The Cheetah" Bob Kuban"
"SOORY" The easybeats
"Shout" JOHNNY OKEEFE

All Great Songs

Following on from the 1960's The 1970 Hits!

"Hozat" Sherbert.
"Come back again" Daddy Cool.
"Allmost Summer" Billy Thorp.
"Green Tambourine" The Lemon Pipers
"The Cheetah" Bob Kuban

Moving onto the 1980's

"Down Under" Men at Work.
"Boys light up" Australian Crawl.
"Take Me Back " Noise Works.
"Computer Games" Mi-Sex

"DID YOU KNOW!"

Who was the Parramatta City Raceway, Co - announcer who missed the ladder stairs back in 1977 when climbing down from the annoucers tower ??
Rob Murray of course - Only Rob Murry could miss ALL THE STAIRS!

Who was the "so called" USA sprintcar champion who tried to drive at the Sydney Showground in the early 80s and tried to get into a sprintcar from the right hand side ??
Only a "yank" and his name is Al Orsillo

Who were the men who tried to open up Liverpool Showground as a speedway in the late 1970s?
The three Amigo's - Garry Schroder, Brian Callaghan, Jack Gillham,

Who was the driver who owned the former Bruce Maxwell # 68 1973 LJ Torana for less than 24 hours ?
Me, Lance Wilson, yep I owned the car for less than 24 hours.

Who was the former driver who attempted to climb into his old late model sedan after 20 years of being out of it?
Stand out driver LES KENNEWELL "stay off the Kentucky Les"

Who created an 8 lap track record the first time out in a brand new midget at Liverpool in the mid 80s?
Then sold the car the next day as it had NO ROOF !!!!
Brian Callaghan

Who was the USA sedan driver in the late 70s which named himself "Hash Brown" Yep! It was...
Mike Klien

Who was "THE PREACHER"? Sadly - The late
Garry Paterson

What driver changed his name for a while to "Jessie James? Sprintcar & Modified ace...
Ken Jenkins

Who campained the "$12.000.00" Lemon in the 70s?
GENE WELCH

What was the Windfield Wedge?
George Tatnells radical speedcar.

Who was the top Australian Speedcar driver who was towing his midget to Melbourne in the Mid 60s and the car trailer became unhitched?
Johnny Stewart.

Which USA Modified driver won the NSW title after he lost a right rear wheel and went over the line backwards?
Johnny Anderson.

Which Liverpool sedan driver was known as teh "Chicken Man"?
Paul Ash........... Tha tha..tha... thats all, fokes!... Until next time...