Sunday, 25 November 2012

Research from the 60s..Brisbane based!

For a long time, I've been thinking of trying to put together something, somehow, on the birth of hot rodding in South East Queensland, and decided it was best to categorise it into the 1960s, as we all believe the formation was loosely based around Roadstars,(1962)....Rods Inc.(1964), and Cheetahs, (1965)..........now without getting into the politics, lets say this is sort of correct, as some Cheetahs members were in Roadstars at first anyway, and R'stars & Ch'rs had cars....Rodsinc only had push bikes....haha....but we didn't lack for enthusiasm, and are always grateful to the older rodders in helping us young kids get established.....A couple of years back, I wrote a very detailed list on this, but with my age...I've lost the F*#k'n thing..(cancel that, just found it and added more names)...but wouldn't it be good to try to collect names...photos..stories anyway..
 Even later 60s clubs figure in this history...Eliminators, Bay Area, Lively Set, Gladiators, Northern Suburbs, Hornets, Colonials, Hustlers, Wheels Inc., Rebels..Southside, Then the drag offshoots, Performance Associates, Queensport ,Drag City, United Drag Team....how many more do you know of???

This is what I can remember of Roadstars...George Watson..Clint Rose..Keith Cunnington..John Cowling..Neil Duncan..John Anderson..Vic Blommer..Ron Drysdale..Barry Covington..Ron Barker..Gary Wright..John & Mick Murray..Norm & Phil Dean..Bill Tozer..Bruce Welsh..Phillips Family..Mike Clarke..Bob Hilton..Bob Maxted..Ralph Donahue..John Loxton..Don Seaward..Dave Gardner..Gordon McManus..Rod Foote..Keith Draper..Doug Pepper..Jeff Amos..Jim Dragona..Barry Mclennan..Ken Stewart..Bruce Panton..Barry Taylor..Bill Smith..Grant Cox

From Cheetahs..Evan, Ken & John Isaacs..John Davies..Mick Dillon..Ron Solomon..Trevor Sweetman..Craig Pearce..John Naggs..John Philpot..Wally Deskins..Jim Rose..Ken Sherwood..Kevin Devenney?

Of course, I have a detailed list of Rods Inc...from 64 to now, but the earlies were Tom Fulton..Peter Crain..Greg Thomsen..Graham Burling..Gary Aumann..John Guerin..Ken Brown..Graham North..Geoff Hayes..Hans Zandbergen..Danny Morrissey..Bob Shewan..Rod & Gary Ward..Gavin & Callum Edwards..Klem Keller..Elwyn Bess..Trevor Minehan..Kevin Kennedy..Frank Nolan..Tony Castles..Graham Hubsher..Des Skenner..Sid Dixon..Gary Muller..Tom Mellors..Herb Jensen..Ken Stewart..Ian Wallace..Russell Nagle..Gary Dryden..Kev Myers..Eric Elhers..Phil Ketter..Bill Sowerby..Peter Milton..Maurice Cane..G Cotterell?..and many many more..This should jog quite a few memories......so who above did I miss, or get wrong, let me know at greg@comstar.com.au

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