MOTOR Magazine Australia

FAREWELL PAUL COCKBURN

HERO TO THOUSANDS of MOTOR readers, inventor, industrial designer, poet, musician, entertainer, adventurer, raconteur, gentleman, father, husband, grandfather and my mate, Paul Cockburn, has died after a long battle with cancer which, though it eventually overcame him, could not diminish the bloke in any other meaningful way.

It is often said of people past that ‘they really knew how to live’. This is usually code for ‘they took the grandkids to Disneyland in 1988 and managed to stay out of prison for the rest of the time’. But Cockburn (forgive me, we never

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