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[Collo]

Those two wheel shots are great, especially the humpy

[RallyRed]

TBM......sounds like you raced them?

[RallyRed]

wow...remember a black one used to come up to King Edward park hillclimb in Newcastle...Stan Adler?....I think hes racing

Porches now?

[dascind]

Members

 

Today's Sydney Morning Herald (May 18, 2013) in the DRIVE Section (car liftout supplement) has an article re the Old Catalina Race Track at Katooba.

 

Cheers Dave

[Collo]

Here's the pic I shared on fb, TBM. Don't know if it's in here already.

 

[Neils LX]

The traditional owners were forcibly removed from the Gully to make way for a racetrack organised by a group of 83 local businessmen (the Blue Mountains Sporting Drivers Club Limited) who were supported by the then Blue Mountains City Council. The trauma caused to the land and to the community of people who were living in and around the Gully was profound – and still reverberates.

The Gully was declared an Aboriginal Place on 18 May 2002. From the time it was nominated until its declaration as an Aboriginal Place, took only nine months. The Gully in Katoomba became the largest Aboriginal Place in NSW. The Aboriginal Place declaration was warmly welcomed by the Gundungurra and Darug Traditional Owners and was marked by Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike with an official celebration in November 2002. (from wilkpedia)

 

Was there 2 weeks ago, very wet very foggy and cold, track could be fixed up but thats not going to happen now. My photos of track very much same as the ones already on here, overgrown and sad.

 

Somebody probably found a few chop bones from a post race BBQ

[tsn007]

I walked along the track today,awesome feeling knowing the history from this thread