Merriexesmas madz!
Im glad to say i raced at Catalina in the mid 80's as rounds of the NSW CAMS Speed Event Championship were held atthete in 84, 85 & 86. I won my class in my old orange Datsun 1600 , got a couple of pics of me exiting rhe "tunnel of love" onto the straight in frint of the pits.
Even better, my Datsun Sports 2000, driven by its original owner, David Mingay, won outright, races thete in late 60's early 70's, in the little Dato.
One time on a driver familiarisation track walk, at Catalina, i asked the instructor, " what are all the deep gouges in the wooden sleepers at waist height from?"
He replied,
"back in the day, they'd come three wide through the tunnel of love, the outside cars door handles would be hard against the timber sleepers the whole way around, these were the big touring cars, Beechey, Jane, Et al"
The gouges ate still there!
And i hope santa brought ypu all, some lovely stuff, i got two bags of salted peanuts, and a rootard HR 30 turbo skyline to pull apart
