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Auction action in Bathurst

Bathurst is famous for Mt Panorama with the first car and motorcycle races held there in 1938. However also of significance that year for Bathurst was when a local Arthur George “Bluey” Wilkinson won the world championship at Wembley before a crowd of 95,000.

So moving along we have a local lad, 18 year old Ashley Suttor playing around with motorcycles, best described as “chook chasers”. He later took to dirt track racing riding

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