BUNGENDORE (NSW)
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1955 - BUNGENDORE HILLCLIMB
In 1955 the Canberra Sporting Car Club applied to have the road over Bungendore Hill in nearby New South Wales closed on varies days for the purpose of conducting hill climb events. The local council refused. Critics complained that there were plenty of hills in Canberra that would be better.
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1962 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMBIt wasn't until 1962 that the club secured a disused section of the Kings Highway to use as their regular hill climb, It was ten miles from Queanbeyan on the Bungendore Road.
It was 880 yards long and rose 282 feet, It was described by some leading drivers as to one of the best hill climb sites in Australia.
The hill climb boasted about its great spectator views of the whole course.
What is unique about this hill climb is the start line is in New South Wales and the finish line is on the Australian Capitol Territory border.
They view of Lake George which is about six miles away gave it its name.
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1962 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMB 29th July 1962
An unadvertised trial was held by the club on the 29th of July 1962, Four classes of cars only were run, Sedans, Sport Cars, Racing Cars and Ladies.
Ron Marshall from Yass in his Cooper Climax set the record time of 31.24 seconds for the day.
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1962 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMB 18th November 1962The first official meeting for the Lakeview Hill Climb was held by the club on the 18th of November 1962.
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1962 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMB 16th December 1962
The next meeting the club had planned was for the 16th of December 1962 but was postponed for reasons beyond the clubs control.
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1963 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMB 17th February 1963
Several meeting were held in 1963 with the first being held on the 17th of February 1963.
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1963 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMB 14th July 1963
As part of the clubs calander another meeting was held on the 14th of July 1963.
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1963 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMB 17th November 1963
The final round of the New South Wales hill climb championship was held on the 17th of November 1963, 65 year old Tom Sulman won the sports cars up to 1500cc at 32.4 secs but the best time was recorded by Ralph Sach in his Nota Din achieving a time of 30.74 secs.
17th November 1963
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1964 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMB 9th February 1964
The club planned for three meetings in 1964, The first was on the 9th of February 1964, as it was this meeting had to be cancelled due to lack of nominations.
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1964 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMB 18th October 1964
This meeting organized by the club on the 18th of October 1964 did go ahead and was successful.
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1964 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMB NEW SOUTH WALES CHAMPIONSHIP 14th November 1964
The club hosted this meeting on the 14th of November 1964 as the final round of the New South Wales hill climb championships.
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1965 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMB 23rd January 1965
The club held at least three meetings during 1965, it is beleived the first of them was on the 23rd of January 1965.
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1965 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMB 30th May 1965
The club did conduct another meeting, on the 30th of May 1965.
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1965 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMB NEW SOUTH WALES CHAMPIONSHIP November 1965
As per the previous year the club hosted the final round of the New South Wales Hill Climb Championship at there Lakeview course, with the fastest time being Paul England in his Ansea-Vincent racing car with a time of 28.98secs.
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1965 - STAN RUMBLES
In 1965 unusual Specials were being built such as Stan Rumbles twin Renault engined Jindivic, it dad a 1000cc engine in the front and a 850cc in the rear.
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1966 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMB 23rd January 1966
The Sporting Car Club opened 1966 with a meeting at there Lakeview course on the 23rd of January.
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1966 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMB 27th February 1966
The clubs second event for the year was scheduled for the 27th of February 1966.
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1966 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMB 16th April 1966
The club went on to schedule another meeting on 16th of April 1966, It was not long after this, in May in fact that CAMS refused to renew the clubs licience to run at Lakeview until improvements were made to the rough surface on the bends.
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1966 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMB 11th September 1966
By September 11 the club had made the improvments to satisfy CAMS and a local meeting did go ahead.
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1966 - THE FLYING BEDSTEAD
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1967 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMB
During 1967 several invitation hill climbs were held but a three event series was held on the 3rd and the 17th of September and the 15th of October called the Craven Filter Series.
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1969 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMB
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1979 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMB
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1983 - LAKEVIEW HILL CLIMBThe club continued to hold hill climb events at there Lakeview course right up to at least 1983.
Later hill climbs are reported as being held at Fairburn Motorsport Park.
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