Onkaparinga Ramblers Car Club History
Information provided by Dave Stimson
The Onkaparinga Ramblers Car Club was started during the late 1950's and early 1960's by a group
mostly made up of sons of property owners and farmers plus a group of locals in the Onkaparinga
Valley; Charleston, Lobethal, Woodside region.
The club was formed mostly because people wanted to learn to drive and have fun off of the local roads.
The cars used back then were mainly old cars that their families had cast out. The most common were
V8's and big 6's in Holdens or almost anything that had a chassis and was cheap at the time.
The space frame type cars that we have come to know today gradually came in around the late 1960's.
The club once had the Lobethal Brick Clay Pit and Mount Pleasant as short courses and they also
attended races held by other clubs at places such as Gawler and Mannum. The others clubs at the time
were Mannum, Gawler Road Knights, Summit Racing Team and many of the current clubs that race today.
The club's size has been passed 50 at one time because if you wanted to race at another club's track
then you had to become a member of their club.
Information provided by Dave Stimson
The Onkaparinga Ramblers Car Club was started during the late 1950's and early 1960's by a group
mostly made up of sons of property owners and farmers plus a group of locals in the Onkaparinga
Valley; Charleston, Lobethal, Woodside region.
The club was formed mostly because people wanted to learn to drive and have fun off of the local roads.
The cars used back then were mainly old cars that their families had cast out. The most common were
V8's and big 6's in Holdens or almost anything that had a chassis and was cheap at the time.
The space frame type cars that we have come to know today gradually came in around the late 1960's.
The club once had the Lobethal Brick Clay Pit and Mount Pleasant as short courses and they also
attended races held by other clubs at places such as Gawler and Mannum. The others clubs at the time
were Mannum, Gawler Road Knights, Summit Racing Team and many of the current clubs that race today.
The club's size has been passed 50 at one time because if you wanted to race at another club's track
then you had to become a member of their club.