| Kevin {Kiwi} Kearns
I must thank Kevin very much for his input, not only for
his great photos, but also for his interesting stories,
apart from the Speedbowl there are also some photos taken
at Bendigo, all well worth including, I'm sure others will
enjoy them too.
Kevin raced in the Victorian team during the 1974 & 75
season made up of himself, Les Feltham & Bill Spies that
raced against team U.S.A's Gene Welsh,Ed Wilbur,Rodney
Combs and Wayne Sue.
"The first year their cars were corvettes,they stored
their cars in sydney, And the following year shipped out
new fibro bodies of later model corvettes, And called them
mako sharks,each year when in Melbourne, they used our
workshop and stayed at the Deer park motor inn, Wayne Sue
raced my xu1 at one of the meetings, but would not
let me drive his car, they fitted weight jacks to my car and
taught us about tyre stagger,so they were very helpful."
"My motor was not going to be ready for the Bendigo gold cup,
Queens birthday weekend 1974, Phil Brock used to help us and
come and watch when he could, he said lets pull the motor
out of Brocks rally car called "the beast", So we borrowed it
for that meeting then returned it, got a 3rd there"
Some of Kevin's memorable moments were:
Placing second in a big Coca Cola sponsored race
at Premier Speedway Warrnambool with first prize
winning a trip to Indy, he was the only driver
in that race with a 6 cylinder engine.
Rolling over end for end from the bottom of the
front straight to cross the start finish line to
still get 3rd place.
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Kevin Kearns & Mick Reeves
at Bendigo Kevin went on to win.
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Close racing at Bendigo
with Peter Timberlake
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