Finding Barclay’s treasure

AFTER AUSSIE RACING LEGEND Larry Perkins became interested in the outback story of Captain Henry Vere Barclay and his missing cache of equipment, it was only a matter of time before the mystery was solved.

Larry, who raced in Formula 1 in the mid-1970s and won the Bathurst 1000 six times in the 1980s and ’90s, has a reputation for logical thinking, a mechanically brilliant mind and a fair degree of bush-bred cunning. After he finished his racing career in 2003 he became intrigued by the Henry Barclay legend.

Retiring brought Larry back to the bush, back to his beginnings. Born in the desert country of north-western Victoria and raised on a farm at Cowangie, going outback once he stopped racing was as logical and natural to him as breathing. He started following the trails of our early explorers, and in 2016, when he heard the story of Barclay’s missing cache, it became an irresistible challenge for