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PETER STRONACH

y first memory of my older brother Peter was from the rear seat of a homemade billycart tearing down a steep, winding and rough bush track that served as the local billycart racetrack in North Cooma, NSW in the late 1950s. Peter steered and I held on as best I could. Peter’s approach was to win at any cost and if that meant crashing then that was just all part of the learning experience. Little did I know then that big brother tearaway billycart racer

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