![]() After failing at Monash he followed his family back to Canada where he made a living selling Canadian cookware door-to door. He raced a hot VW while studying at Monash University and working with Volkswagen. Shortly thereafter the budding racer bought a Triumph TR3A on hire purchase and commenced his competition career at Calder and the country circuits of the day as time and money allowed. Clem Smith won in his Valiant RV1 (unattributed) Moffat and Jim McKeown go at it during the 1966 South Australian Touring Car Championship at Mallala- Jim was disqualified for receiving outside assistance after a spin whilst Moffat blew a tyre on the last lap. Sandown’s first international meeting was held on 12 March1962, he blagged a his way into a gopher role with the Rob Walker camp helping look after Stirling Moss’s pit- the great Brit was third in a Lotus 21 Climax 2.7 FPF in the race won by Jack Brabham’s Cooper T55 Climax. Allan’s father moved the family to Melbourne, Australia in 1961 where he became a cadet with Volkswagen and attended night-school at Taylor’s Business College with the aim of being admitted into university. Keen on cars from the start, he bought a 1935 Ford V8 aged sixteen then stripped and rebuilt it over two years before he was able to drive on the roads, the first circuit he visited was Grand Central track- what became Kyalami, a ‘citadel’ of racing. Moffat’s high school education spanned 1953 to 1958- he attended General Smuts High School in Vereeniging, near Johannesburg. His father’s career progression took the family to South Africa in the early 1950s. Grab three ‘Frothies’, here goes…Īllan George Moffat was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada on November 10, 1939. Whilst Allan Moffat is a household name in Australia, he may not be quite so well known to some international readers so a potted history follows, noting the focus of this article is two years or so of his long, successful career- 1967 through to the middle of 1969.ĭespite the articles narrowness in time it’s 13,594 words in length which is insane really, my longest ever, and about Touring Cars FFS! but I got more and more interested and chased increasingly many tangents as I explored. Thaddl be during the long night- car DNF after 176 laps (D Friedman) Hans-Dieter Dechent : Martini & Rossi Racing…. ![]()
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