Figtree Freighters

Love the speedway Fiat topolino hot rod on the trailer, with the grey or red Holden motor with the triple SUs. I used to race a similar set up with a Hudson motor at the now long gone half mile Westmead NSW speedway

Looks like an early sprint car with the wing on the roof next to the Berlin Bedford

asw120 wrote: Old (now) speedway (?) car in the background...

Jarrod.

In the colored photos the race car has a roof mounted air foil. I think that in the day these cars were called super modifieds.
Ken Harris regularly competed at the long gone Kembla Grange Speedway, south of Wollongong.
Ken also made a very nice looking hot rod about the same time.

The unexpected stuff some of these threads unearth....


Thanks all.

Jarrod.

Photo by Peter Ramsey

Photos by Darren Jones.

Figtree Freighters R600 Mack that was wrecked on Clyde Mountain.


This Flintstone R600 Maxidyne was originally a Bell Bros truck from WA. Figtree Freighters was the next owner and then sold to Butch Jones which is when this photo was taken. Next owners were Grahame Davidson of Corrimal, WGE Unanderra and then sold and fitted with a concrete agitator bowl and worked from Dapto.

Photo credit Christopher Squeeker Overend.
The R600 that was wrecked on Clyde Mountain.