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| Our church, St Davids Uniting Church in Haberfield
decided to organise a billy cart derby! All the boys and girls were
encouraged to go into the shed with their dads and emerge with a billycart!
What fun it was! We spent quite a few weekends in the garage
with dad during April and May building the billycart. Our
first design had solid wheels, but it was too bumpy a ride. So we visited
Haberfield hardware and purchased 2 pneumatic wheelbarrow tyres, which were
much more successful. We kept the front wheels small, to give it a
dragster look. At one stage we had to heighten security to prevent competitors from spying on the design... And then the brakes... That was the piece-de-resistance (and you thought we couldn't speak French...). Dad declared the brakes were a success when we could lay skid marks on the footpath amongst a puff of smoke... After the first billycart was made, we produced a second one, so we could both race... We all converged on Bicentennial Park at Homebush, next to the Olympic Stadium. The race was actually in the form of time trials, rather than a free-for-all. Which was probably just as well, given some of the driving skills on display... |
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| Here's us in final practice in Tressider Avenue... |
The bunch line up... |
You could sense the tension in the air... |
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| Mattie in full flight... |
Michael gives Tom a helping hand |
Adam gets in on the act with Alicia... |
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