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If Gertie can be found<br />
and we can get her<br />
to the hillclimb for the<br />
birthday celebrations<br />
next year, she will join<br />
at least three other cars<br />
which competed in that<br />
significant event.<br />
Gertie achieved fame<br />
and her driver, Leonard<br />
Teale - well known actor<br />
in the 60s - achieved a<br />
degree of infamy with his<br />
skill at damaging cars<br />
which he was given to<br />
drive at Mt Cotton. He is<br />
seen here inspecting the<br />
damage he inflicted on<br />
Gertie on one of his visits<br />
to Mt Cotton.<br />
Pictured is the car which won that first event at Mt Cotton - Ray Jorgensen’s RJ1 - which has<br />
been faithfully restored and ran at Leyburn in August. It is pictured here in Feb 1968 and as<br />
it is now.<br />
Meantime, Peter<br />
Rayment (pictured), -<br />
the current owner of<br />
the the Cooper Ford<br />
which was run in the<br />
inaugural hillclimb at Mt<br />
Cotton in Feb 68 by Tim<br />
Harlock - is busy getting<br />
it ready for its return to<br />
Mt Cotton at the 50th<br />
anniversary day at the<br />
hillclimb next Feb.<br />
8<br />
The <strong>Octagon</strong> -<strong>Sept</strong>ember <strong>2017</strong>
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