Category Archives: History Channel

The Future Of Telecommunications (1961 Style)

Just stumbled onto this fascinating vision for the future of telecommunications – as that future was seen by AT&T in 1961. Keep an eye out for your rocket delivery from France!

What The Simplest Things Can Take Away

In recent weeks, we have seen a number of fatal accidents in various forms of motor sport. Given the high safety standards employed in the sport these days, fortunately, such situations are few and far between. Indeed, where fatalities were common in the early years of the sport, they are most uncommon in the modern [...]

Qantas: One Year in Singapore

Today marks the one year anniversary of the almost disaster that was the second leg of QF32 from Singapore to Sydney, on November 4th 2010. In the midst of the current debacle of last weekend’s 48 hour grounding of the airline as part of ongoing industrial action, it is worth remembering that one part of [...]

1990 ATCC: How Times Change

With the 2010 championship for V8 Supercars Australia nearing the endurance races, and the business end of the season, I thought it might be worth having a look at this summary of the 1990 championship – 20 years ago. Interesting to see old names like Colin Bond, the late Peter Brock, Dick Johnson, and Win [...]

A Very Speeeeeshul McAvaney Moment

Just stumbled on this classic McAvaney moment in an old Channel Seven Sportsworld promo from 1991 in my old video collection: The only thing that can be said is “speeeeeeeeeeeeeeshul!”

1991: Brock Returns to Holden

Delving back again into my archive of video, I’ve stumbled across a great piece about the return of Peter Brock to Holden in 1991, after a year with BMW and two with Ford between 1988 and 1990. After losing engineering support with Andy Rouse moving to Toyota in the British series in 1991, Brock needed [...]

Why Is Paul Morris Called “Dude”?

In my continuing efforts to restore and digitise as much Bathurst 500/1000 footage that I can get my hands onto, I have been working lately on footage from the 1991 Tooheys 1000, won by Jim Richards and Mark Skaife in a Nissan GT-R. Going through my old tapes, when I reached the presentation ceremony at [...]

Bathurst 1987: The Big Facelift

Time for another trip down memory lane! There have been many changes at Mount Panorama in recent years. A new pit complex. A massive hotel/convention centre at the bottom of Conrod Straight. A new bridge over Pit Straight. Regular track resurfacing. However, the year the biggest changes occurred was 1987, when the Bathurst 1000 became [...]