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Awesome video! Thank you for posting.👍😎

I’m ordering a copy…. Just viewed you video on the Richmond Road airstrip and Mt Druitt circuit. Thoroughly fascinating.👍

My father taught me how to change gears on that emergency strip on Richmond Road. I had no idea it was used for racing or that it was where Ron Tauranacs’ interest in motor racing started. Thanks for posting such an interesting video. 👍

i finished making a door! what I did not think through was the added thickness when combining the two panels. makes it so I cannot use door seals or it will push the door further out. and thats with only 2 layers 3/4oz (similar to 225gsm) mat on rear skin and front skin (with added one layer carbon)

Dear sir really I love your channel.

My father would sometimes take my brother & I to Catalina in the early 60s, A friend of dads had a property that over looked the track and had about 6 chairs screwed to the roof of their chicken shed to watch the races. More great memories, thanks Bill 👍👍

You explained everything that I did wrong and lost my expensive master/plug or whatever you wanna call it. I almost gave up on fiberglass journey. Your video gave me a reason to get back and try agin. Thank you Bill.

Legend 💪🏼

Hi Bill, I do have question. Do you have any knowledge of the night time event held at Silverdale ??. It was held in either 1982 or 1983 and may well have been the only time a night event was held at the track. Thanks for posting this video, it bought back some fond memories of my days at Silverdale in the early to mid 1980s driving a few different Torana Sports Sedans up the hill. Thanks for posting the video 👍👍

Thanks so much bill,but it makes me realize that motor racing died after 1986.Radial slicks meant no more slides,been to every Bathurst since 1972,it,s just not the same.😢

Great video Bill. Started watching your channel with your house build. Didn't know you raced then. I lived in Mount Morgan in the late 50s and remember when the roads were gravel. Went back for a visit a couple of years ago and couldn't drive up there under the speed limit even in my Prado, must be great to do it as fast as you can.

That’s cool as, thx heaps 👌

thats wicked. what motor and front end is that from?

Such an awesome video mate! I seen you RUclips logo on the back of your race car as I followed you down the mountain a few times and thought got to check that bloke's channel out. Nice wrap of the Gold Rush mate as a local bloke I couldn't be prouder.

Awesome stuff Bill. This is one event I REALLY want to do. Hopefully in a couple years I might be able to afford it and hopefully have my new engine build by then to make the most it.

Ill get my fiat 124 sport up there as soon as i get it running

Great video Bill. I'll put that event on my bucket list too!Come and see me at the next event and I'll give you some audio tips that'll improve your videos tremendously!

What an awesome venue. I watch a lot of Hillclimbs from Europe, and a lot of that is on public road. Imagine some of our roads here that would be great to use. We're there any open wheelers competing?

Looks like an incredible event! Thanks for sharing, Bill! (And also thank you for your Australian Hillclimb Championship entry!)

love your channel brother! cheers from Texas!

Yet again Bill you have given us a great video, there were a lot of lovely older classic cars taking part and it's great to see them being used on this epic hill climb. Hello from N. Ireland. 10:33 Holden Barina with us they are called Vauxhall Corsa

That was a great lap at the end Bill, And thank you for such a great video of our event. We are super stoked that you enjoyed it and that all the work we put in to make it a great entrant event payed off. Thank you to all entrant's 🍻

Well done lad, I hope you made crow pie with him.

love it Bill! making me want to go mate.

Went to Catalina Park a few times. One of the issues with it being a gully was that rainwater would seep across he track in several places for days after rains. It was a natural amphitheatre with little in the way of grandstands so fans had to sit amongst the trees. It operated while Warwick Farm and Oran Park were there so hat made two tracks closer to the big smoke. Loved Warwick Farm where we saw the likes of Jackie BRM-BRM, Jim Clark, Jochen Rindt, and other world class drivers. Surprised that Storming Norman had such an edge on the S's which were more suited to tracks like Catalina. I note lanky Phil Barnes running close to Foley and Manton here. For his limited operation Phil was one of the greats in his little Brick.

Excellent video. Thanks for posting. I find your videos very informative and helpful for those of us who tackle fiberglass, FRP and CF. Thanks again Professor Gelcoat. Cheers from Texas.

You legend. Thanks.

Great compilation Bill. I remember going there in the late 60s when a P Brock raced with his Holden powered A30, and Paul England raced his 2 engine VW. I seem to remember Pat Crea racing there also. Distant memories.

Fantastic footage of Hepburn. Really well done production

My favorite RUclipsr! Filled with knowledge

EXCELLENT VIDEO!!! Thanks for posting I am dying to try this work for my race Spitfire. Cheers from Texas.

Beauty. I've wanted to make a lighter hood for my Porsche 944 for a while now (41 pounds! ), and this is a perfect lesson. Thanks!

Great video Bill :) Looking forward to the next ones.

Thanks for explaining how those mounts work. Great stuff. :)

In usa, even at my composites store, they carry only 3/4oz matt and 1.5oz matt. Anyway you could give a rough estimate on how to make similar strength parts? you say 225gsm is light but seems when I do the research 225gsm is way heavier than our heavy 1.5oz

I have to ask... with there be composite body panels on this thing, or will it be running bare chassis? Great work as usual Bill 👍

Pith helmets.

This has given me the inspiration to mould the front end of my 1953 prefect myself. Would love to share it with you. 👍🏻 Thankyou.

How much for a copy of your book Bill?

Just a bit off friendly advise Bill please get yourself a Gas Welder , its painful watching you weld with gasless welder. The quality of gas welders is far more superior.

AWSOME

Bent round bar sections look far better than square tube, look super professional Bill👍🏼

Easily, my favourite RUclips channel. Thanks for creating consistently fantastic content, Bill!

Great video Thanks

can i use vanilla cake frosting instead of fairing compound?

I grew up just around the corner from the Airfield, or as we called it the Airodrome, in the sixties, so I missed all this action………The Cemetery was just down the road, so you didn’t have far to go if you came to grief. !!

very nice explaination you make it look easy and mr universe at the end shows how light it is thanks

Catalina Park was just the race track not the area, which was Frank Walford Memorial Park. I'm not clear on details but i read on a sign that Frank Walford donated the land. In the 70's & 80's it was commonly known as the gully by residents of the surrounding streets but around town was Catalina or Cato. The video tells why the road circuit fell into disuse, the rallycross was killed off by propert developers arguing noise pollution.

Motor racing started down in southern Victoria about 1903 on an old horse racing track which later included speedway racing !

Bill. I think I was there. I remember as a 16 year old catching the train from Sydney and staying by myself at a hotel near the track. The Neptune Racing Team was there…Norm in the Mustang, Peter Manson in the Mini, and Jim McCewen (?) in a Lotus Cortina. We see only a snippet of Jim in this footage. The most impressive memory of my early motor sport spectator feature, was the Neptune Racing Team, a suitable painted rigid truck with the Mustang on board, and the Mini and Cortina on a trailer…all really well presented….parked up ate a nearby Neptune Service Station. This would have been a product of Norm Beechey’s truck business no doubt. The beginning of top level presentation of the complete racing team. The Neptune Team was rebranded to the yellow Shell Racing Team a season or two later. This transport presentation package stepped another progress up when the Allan Grice Torana Craven Mild Team had built the first fully enclosed purpose built race car transporter, a semi trailer with inbuilt ramps, change room , racking for spares and tyres. The precursor to today’s magnificent race car transporters. As an aside, I managed to get in to the pits post race, and happened to be near a reporter interviewing big Norm. Bob Jane that day had driven an Elfin Mono, a beautiful Garry Cooper built open wheeler, every bit as good as the Lotus of that era. Norm was asked how he thought Bob had gone. Not missing an opportunity to stir the pot…II think they were business rivals as well driving rivals….Norm says “ I think he was shitting himself” I think this would not have found its way in to print, but I was in awe of the man ….PK 751. EH Holden Mustangs, Chevy Nova and finally the Yellow Holden Monaro. From memory, he also drove a Falcon GTHO in the later Improved Production days…..but then he disappeared. I think he poured too much into the sport, and his truck sales business folded. This happened a lot in those heady non commercial motor sport days. Invest too much in motor sport…reduced attention to business…enjoying the celebrity…..and business goes bankrupt. Imagine a motor sport personality of Norms profile today. No one comes close.