Wally’s Words

As Peter Brock’s public relations manager during Brock’s spell with the Holden Racing Team in the 1990s, Paul ‘Wally’ Weissel got to know the Great Man better than most. In this series, Wally recalls some of the fun from his time living with and managing the legend – the hilarious hijinks that were an inevitable part of life on the road with Brocky…

My copy of AMC #114 dropped in my letter box in February – the same day as General Motors dropped the ‘Death of Holden’ bomb! Surprised? Probably not! Disappointed? Yes. Sad? Absolutely! And probably a little angry, in that GM-H and GM have been ‘painting over the cracks, ‘rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic’ (use whichever cliché you like) for a decade or more.

I had planned for this issue to talk about what happened the time I shared the road trip from Melbourne to Bathurst with a certain young driver about to make his Bathurst debut with the Holden Racing Team – but in light of the Holden