Yeah, that's what I think will happen with my girls also which is totally understandable. Enjoy it through the younger/teen years, then I would rather they study hard and drop some sport and musical instruments while they finish high school and transition into Uni. If they are happy to take up more sports and music again later on, then that would be great. That's the plan anyway, plans can always change of course.
Sport is the other thing; swimming 9 x 2 hour sessions and Nationals last year, to not having been near a pool for 4 months!! Has been heavy into the F45 gym though, so still keeping fit.
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Thanks for the tip, I’ve been wanting to watch this for a while... of course then I had to go off and find out the story behind the cars / race shots etc as I was totally confused watching the race scenes (I was sure it was PI sometimes but what’s with the mountains) and found this: http://delarue.net/beach.htm#trivia which has some interesting little side stories.
The race scene wasn't in Aussie as you've probably worked out as most of the cars are LHD particularly some of the Pommy and the Porkers,Hamiltons was going by then. I doubr Aussie would have had too many 300 Gullwings racing either.
Read the link I posted - some of it was filmed at PI and the soundtrack was Lou Molina’s Monza which was recorded and overlaid. Stan Jones was the driver for the white Monza.
Aah,I didn't scroll to the top.......and...well I thought I'd hijack it 'cos I think there could be a few other folk who might be interested. " Although the scene is set at Phillip Island, and Kramer spent two days filming there, very little of the final film shows the Phillip Island footage. The Island shots are quite obvious - the scenery is fairly flat. The other shots, which feature the various car crashes, clearly have some high hills in the background. All these stunt scenes were filmed in September 1958 at Riverside Raceway in California, and edited into the film later. The filming was described in some contemporary magazines. See copies of these on the Web, including photos taken during the filming, at Frank Sheffield's The Pits. Philip Davey has obtained a complete list of the Californian drivers, along with their addresses and phone numbers, the cars and the value of each car! He even has details of an insurance claim for an injury during the stunts. There are 14 cars on the list. The drivers were paid $150 a day. There does not appear to be an XK140 Jaguar anywhere in the race scene, but a Jaguar does appear at least twice in the California filming. It appears to be white, or at least a light colour, but looks like an XK120. Oddly, the only Jaguar that appears on Philip's list is a 1957 D-type, so there's another mystery! There were no crashes at Phillip Island. Kramer hired the Phillip Island circuit for three days, at a fee of £A150 per day. It rained on the first day, but all the filming was completed in two days, although he paid for the third. Philip also reports that there were a couple of people used as stand-ins for Fred Astaire at Phillip Island - Astaire wasn't allowed to drive around the track. One was English race driver Alec Menhinick (a personal friend of Norway) who did the actual speed driving for Astaire. Twelve or sixteen of Victoria's best racing drivers took part in the Phillip Island filming, including: Aussie Miller .... Yellow Miller Special Bill Leach .... Red Holden Special Lou Molina .... Red Monza Stan Jones .... Aston Martin Len Lukey .... (Car unknown) Peter D'Abbs states that the other drivers most likely included Doug Whiteford and Alan Jack. Ian McDonald was to appear, but was unable to make it on the day. Philip reports that these drivers apparently "did a wonderful job - they finished up doing what nobody had been able to do since shooting had started - they satisfied Kramer with one take." It was noted at the time that a Monza in the correct colour of red was available locally - not only did Kramer not need to bring one out from the USA, but it was the wrong colour anyway. Lou Molina told me about taking part in the filming with Stan Jones (the late father of Alan Jones, world Formula One champion a few years ago). Molina also provided the racing sound effects. He took the sound recording technician around the circuit at full race speeds for some of the sounds. The technician was apparently terrified, and shook Molina's hand in thanks for a number of minutes afterwards. At another stage, they recorded the sounds of tyres screeching under braking. The filming of the race scenes was also somewhat hair-raising for the drivers. Molina and Jones were coming down the main straight at 135 mph (about 215 km/hr) when the ambulance pulled out on to the track in front of them - a terrifying experience. Molina let Jones past him as they avoided an incident that would have required a real ambulance. The boom crane camera also caused a number of close encounters as it whipped up out of the way of the drivers at the last second. Molina recalls being close enough to "see the brand of cigarette the operator was smoking." Molina and Jones' wives both appeared as extras in the stands, which required them to cross the track a number of times for different scenes. This accords with Peter D'Abbs recollections that the wives of some of the drivers appeared as extras in the movie. He particularly remembers the wives of Doug Whiteford and Alan Jack, and believes that they were used as models for some of the characters in the story of On the Beach. He remembers particularly their "beehive" hairstyles. Judy Miller, Aussie's wife, was also used as a stand-in for Donna Anderson at one point. This was done without any real pre-arrangement - she was just asked to walk away from the camera during filming. A party was held at the Isle of Wight hotel in Cowes after the first day of filming, which continued all night. Molina remembers Fred Astaire as "fantastic" - the life and soul of the party, complete with tap-dancing. They drank the hotel out of champagne, then had to drive again for filming the next day, with Jones in particular somewhat ill! Molina claims that Jones spent some time in the ambulance that was on the set between takes, breathing oxygen.
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See what happens when you let Steve race against old pommy sh*tboxes Again, he's wearing a wig ..... Adrian is driving the pommy sh*tbox