COLLIE (WA)
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1962 MUNGALLUP HOT ROD TRACK
The Mungallup opened in 1962 and was built in a gravel pit on the Mungallup road on the outskirts of Collie,the track was renound for its uphill downhill layout with very long straight and a sharpe turn two, the pits were located on the infield and the spectator area and car park overlooked the race track.
The Collie RDA volenteer's built and ran the venue up until 1971 when they closed the track as they had been constructing the current venue on the Williams road.
The Collie RDA volenteer's built and ran the venue up until 1971 when they closed the track as they had been constructing the current venue on the Williams road.
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Garnett Lane recalls: During the sixtee's I had brought a Supermod from a Farmer in the Moora district who had to give up racing because of a bad back, The car ran a Ford sidevalve V8 engine, I paid 250 quid for the car (a lot of money in those days)
The first time I raced the car was at Collie, at the start of the day one official took a look at the car and thought it looked good enough to put me on a 100 yard handicap, I soon over came any thoughts of never raced the car and went on to win all 4 races, by the time the butchers picnic had come up my handicap was 250 yards, this race I finished one wheel behind bloody Ron Shultz, what a day.
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1967 MUNGALLUP HOT ROD TRACK SLIDESHOW
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Graeme Werner with unknown and unknown
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Laurie Maloney leads Wild Bill Sibbald
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1968 AUSTRALASIAN ROAD & TRACK REPORTED
16th August 1968
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1968 AUSTRALASIAN ROAD & TRACK REPORTED
1968 Colin Resta from the Bunbury club.
1968 Barry Williams from the Perth RDA.
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September 1968
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1970 MUNGALLUP HOT ROD TRACK PRODUCTION CAR SLIDESHOW
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1970 WENDY WERNER
Wendy; wife of Collie champion Graeme Werner and sister inlaw to Robert (Tiny) Werner was quite a racer in her own right, on the day this photo was taken at the big Collie Mungallup track, Geoff Fisher reported that she was too dam good for the blokes, she had a couple of roll-overs at the Easter meeting but just came back to drive better and faster.
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1970 THE MICK BAYLISS - ALLAN WORROL COMBINATION
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1970 MUNGALLUP HOT ROD TRACK SUPERMOD SLIDESHOW
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2009 MUNGALLUP HOT ROD TRACK WALKABOUT
The basic shape of the race track still exzists although small white gum trees cover the entire site, possibly an orginised program to regrow the area, the only reminder that the area was on of the states top motorsport venue's at the time is a few infield tyre markers and an asortment of car junk.
