Oldcol wrote:The '40 was at Rays to have the side repaired,looked like it had spun out or maybe someone clobbered it....who knows...but it was a magic thing to just sit in and look back at all the engine and intakes.....way cool for a young bloke
i got it wrong then Col im sure Bob was telling me it needed a screen and they had to wait for months for one from the land of poms
and come to think of it he may not have been in an E type at riverside it could have been a d type
Colin had an XKSS / D type, chassis XKD540. Originally delivered as a D type in 1955 it was converted by the factory to XKSS specification in1957
hence carries a D type chassis number. Colin imported the car in 1966 although it left our shores many years ago.
Brents also had a showroom on the corner of Warragul Rd and Princess highway (now occupied by a huge apartment block), A shoe shop owner name of Don Figgins purchased a customised '63 Corvette from them and turned it into one of the most successful drag race cars of it's time. I'm also pretty sure that's where John Zeigler purchased his T Bucket (originally built by Dave Kisby), they usually had plenty of cool and exotic stuff on the floor.
Young Carps
My people skills are just fine.
It's my tolerance to idiots that needs work.
Don Figgins (the shoe) was a friend of mine the silver vette was a stocker when he bought it His dad started the shoe shops org in beaumaris about the same time Terry Walker (of the strangers) bought a red corvette convert with white roof which he took to the drags a bit also another band member John Farrar took his GTO to calder
Terrys car was a factory fuel injected i have pics of us on p/bucket
sadly we lost Don and another friend Kym Aunger both flying their helicopters Kyms Ph2 GTHO is currently for sale he raced it at bathurst and in Adelaide it is being sold by second owner
Kym had Aunger auto accessories i used to purchase speed equip off him for my speed shop
im sure Bob was telling me it needed a screen and they had to wait for months for one from the land of poms 
