REMEMBER WHEN

GOLD COAST BULLETIN Monday, September 18, 2006

A CAR fanatic with the world’s biggest collection of Peter Brock cars and memorabilia announced plans for a Gold Coast museum devoted to late motor racing legend.

Peter Champion, who owned 30 authentic and replica Brock cars worth millions of dollars, said the Dreamworld for petrolheads would feature many of the nine-times Bathurst winner’s trophies, driving suits, helmets, gloves and photographs.

He had been collecting Brock cars for more than 15 years and brought eight of the motor racing legend’s winners to the Festival of Speed on Tweed, at Murwillumbah that year.

Brock was to have been the headline act at the festival but instead it became a tribute to ‘Peter Perfect’, who was killed in an accident in Western Australia a week earlier.

A state funeral was held for Brock at St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral, Melbourne, at 11am the following day.

A private service for the family and a cremation followed.

At the festival Brock cars were driven in laps of honour through the streets of the Tweed Valley town, while Brock was posthumously inducted into the Tweed Heads-based Australian Walk of Fame.

However, one of Mr Champion’s cars which failed to make the parade was Brock’s old Austin A30, which burst into flames when it was started for the event.

Festival organiser Roger Ealand said the blaze, which was extinguished on site without any major problems, was likely to have been started by a backfire.