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1958 6 Hour Production Car Race (Caversham)

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Terry Walker, Six-Hour "Le Mans", Around the Houses, A History of Motor Racing in Western Australia, 1980, pages 56 to 59
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The Sunday Times 6 Hour Production Car Meeting, Australian Motor Sports, July 1958, pages 313 & 314
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Western Australian Motor Racing Results 1958, www.terrywalkersplace.com, as archived at web.archive.org
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6 Hour Race (production cars), Australian Motor Sports Review, 1958-59, pages 52, 53 & 56
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CAVERSHAM RACEWAY 1958, www.speedwayandroadracehistory.com, as archived at web.archive.org
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Life's a Hoot: The Autobiography of James Harwood, (pages 39 to 41), books.google.com.au
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Australian Motor Sports Review states that Melrose "drove the whole six hours himself"
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Jim Shepherd, A History of Australian Motor Sport, 1980, pages 150-151
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was an endurance motor race staged on 2 June 1958 at the
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Caversham Circuit
Western Australia
Six Hour Le Mans
Triumph TR2
Triumph TR2
Morgan
Austin-Healey 100-4
MGA
Austin Lancer
Simca Elysee
Austin-Healey
Ford Zephyr Mark II
Thames
Renault Dauphine
Standard Vanguard
Morris Minor 1000
Austin A95
MGTC
Volkswagen
Austin A55
Vauxhall Victor
Wolseley 1500
Holden
Morgan
MGTC
Holden



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