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Originally Posted by Keith Webb
I used to visit to collect parts when I worked for Hughes Auto Spares and was allowed to go through the yards when it suited them.
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Prior to that we used to ride our pushbikes all the way from Box Hill - always dreading that long final grind up Mt. Alexander Road hill! Coming back I recall racing trams downhill and whizzing past Moloney's garage on the left at a ridiculous rate of knots! On one occasion we left our pushbikes at Vic Drew's and were driven (by his son?) to a yard in Kensington - just an ordinary suburban block amid houses, shielded from the street by a high paling fence, with no entrance or access. I recall having to climb the fence, whereupon we were confronted not by a house, but a sea of old trucks jammed in like sardines! We were left there to amuse ourselves for a while and and picked up later on. Ahh, fond memories indeed!