PERTH (WA)

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CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY 1967

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1967 - CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY.   Solo's, Stock Bike's, Sidecar's, TQ's, Speedcars, Hot Rod & Supermodified events.   3rd March 1967.

1967 - Jim Phillips and Colin Nickisson both on the 500 JAP powered machines. Photo: Tony Forsyth.

1976 - Jim Phillips on his 500 JAP. Photo: Tony Forsyth.

1967 - Bill Watson leads Ross McNicol. Photo: Peter Roebuck.

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1967 - SPEEDWAY WESTSIDE MAGAZINE REPORTED

12th January 1968

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1967 - DON COLLINS   Stock Bike's

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1967 - KEN RIGBY   Stock Bike's

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1967 - UNKNOWN   Stock Bike's

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1967 - BOB LEISK & KEN CREEDY   Solo's

1967 - Bob Leisk and Ken Creedy locked in battle. Photo: unknown.

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1967 - LES SHARPE   Solo's

1967 - Les Sharpe in the all white leathers leads Dave Warrington from New Zealand. Photo: Peter Roebuck.

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1967 - HERB WATSON.

Herb Watson was well known through out the motor cycle community in Perth, He was the owner of a motorcycle repair shop in Victoria Park.
Herb was concidered by many to be the best Jawa, JAP and Goldstar BSA mechanic in West Australia. 
He was a very much loved man who was known to be very generous, When the visiting solo test teams visited Perth, Herb would allways give them the run of his workshop.
Chum Taylor was very fortunate to have Herb maintain his bikes during the time he raced, International rider Les Sharpe who grew up in Perth, was another rider that was assisted by Herb, Les has very fond memories of working with Herb in his racing days at Claremont.
Herb also sponsored riders in other codes, one of them being Johnny Rover who road raced a fuel injected Triumph to success.

1967 - Les Sharpe and Herb Watson in the pits at Claremont Speedway prior to the nights racing. Photo: Les Sharpe collection.

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1967 - ALLAN ROBSON & GEOFF RICHARDS   Sidecar's

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1967 - STAN DYSON & DANNY SMITH   Sidecar's

1967 - Stan Dyson had no peers at Claremont Speedway, here passing Graeme Harris. Photo: Peter Roebuck.

1967 - Stan Dyson around the outside. Photo: Peter Roebuck.

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1967 - KEITH BRAMELD & JIM BEADLE   Sidecar's

1967 - Keith Brameld and Jim Beadle on Stan Dysons second Vincent. Photo: Peter Roebuck.

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1967 - SPEEDWAY WESTSIDE MAGAZINE REPORTED

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1967 - BILL JOST   Speedcar's

1967 - Bill Jost at Claremont Speedway. Photo: unknown.

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1967 - SPEEDWAY WESTSIDE MAGAZINE REPORTED

September 1967

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1967 - DAVE SIMPSON   Speedcar's

Dave Simpson. Photo: unknown.

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1967 - GEOFF STANTON   Speedcar's

1967 - Geoff and his team in the Claremont pits. Photo: unknown.

1967 - A very young Warren Stanton, son of Geoff who went on to race Sidecar's. Photo: unknown.

1967 - Geoff Stanton under Dave Simpson. Photo: Peter Roebuck.

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1967 - BILL JOST   Speedcar's

1967 - Bill Jost leads Ray Oram. Photo: unknown.

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1967 - RAY ORAM   Speedcar's

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1967 - DON MEECHAM   Speedcar's

1967 - HOWARD REVELL   Speedcars

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1967 - GEOFF STANTON   Speedcar's

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1967 - LAURIE MATHEWS   Speedcar's

1967 - Laurie Mathews. Photo: unknown.

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1967 - CHARLIE WEST   TQ's

1967 - Motor cycle champion turned TQ racer Charlie West. Photo: unknown,

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1967 - BRIAN SADLIER   Supermodified's

Peter Roebuck photo feature

1967 - Brian Sadlier charges under Tony Fazio in the Supermodified feature at Claremont Speedway.

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1967 - AUSTRALIAN HOT RODDING REVEIW MAGAZINE REPORTED

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1967 - JIMMY MATTA   Supermodified's

1967 - Bob Currie (outside) and Jimmy Matta locked in battle. Photo: Peter Roebuck.

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1967 - JOHN FENTON   Supermodified's

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1967 - CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY.   6th October 1967.

Speedcar  feature  Handed to  Jost

Bill Jost the Home town champion has been awarded the Speedcar feature win tonight after the more favored eastern stater Ray Oram was disqualified from the event.
Oram ended up in the wall after he had got together with Geoff Stanton, damaging both cars. 
Other feature winners on the were, Wally Newlands in the Supermodified's, Rob Grant Tq's, Hec Haslinger Solo's, Geoff Richards with Allan Robson Sidecars and Bill Watson in the Stock Bikes. 

1967 - SPEEDWAY WESTSIDE MAGAZINE REPORTED

6th October 1976 - Pictured above: Stars of last weeks Speedcar feature race, Bill Jost (top right) and Ray Oram (lower right) seen running nose to tail as they battle out most of the incident-filled race.

Photographer: Peter Roebuck

6th October 1967 - Jimmy Matta in the [99] Corvette Supermodified. Photographer: Peter Roebuck.

Vintage Speedway Programmes Australia facebook Pictorial feature

(use controls to pause - forward or reverse 24 images)

(Programme Research: Brad Mitchell)

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1967 - CLAREMONT SPEEDWAY.   10th November 1967.

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