Went there a few years back, can still see some of the old advertising that was painted on the walls in some spots

Thankyou so much, I use to live out the back of there and the noise level every weekend was astounding coming from the cars. Awesome video thanks 😊

I raced my model T there in 1992 Such a shame it was forced closed by the locals and now not supported by council

@thethirdman225

Жыл бұрын

I don’t blame them.

BACKWARDS! You did the track in the reverse direction to when it was raced on.... 😢 BUT, THANK YOU! Ive been wanting to see the old Park for some time but haven't been in the area for even longer... Used to visit there quite often in the 90's... While its quite a bit narrower now- can no longer see sandstone wall sections of track, I also seem to remember more of a tunnel effect... Although that could also be due to the 'clandestine' nature of the visits combined with the speeds they were made ;) Old race tracks & old roads are just about my favouritest thing, we've got SO many of them- 3 in/around Bathurst, not including little Hartley Vale track near Lithgow & then theres another 3 around Goulburn, on of which I'll post a couple of clips of soon & shoot a link if interested... 84km/52mile Bungonia GP track- sorry, I drove it rather than walked! :v Lastly, here's a couple of the last recorded official laps of Catalina Park when it was still in use as a race track- Circa 1991-92; kzread.info/dash/bejne/i4yH0MFqn6uzj7w.html Circa 1988; kzread.info/dash/bejne/e3qLw5iAYNzdYZc.html Oh, & here's my mediafire upload of a Tracks In Time article by Jim Skaysbrook on Catalina Park; www.mediafire.com/file/89sa4en3ii15zm3/Catalina_Park%252C_Katoomba.rar/file

@bleeksbentbits3150

2 жыл бұрын

42 too! :v :v :v

watched some great rally cross racing on telly from there when I was a kid

Nice. It certainly degraded since the last time I walked around it back in the nineties. Back then, it was still in use for casual club days. Apparently, the cops would leave the gate open on a Saturday night and wait for a hoon, then shut it trapping them in.......

@DirtySlapper99

Жыл бұрын

Yep we got done

You went around in the reverse direction. I participated in a lap dash there in ‘78. There were a couple of streams crossing the track then also. It was a scary place with little margin for error. Unsurprisingly it closed completely soon after (or so I thought).

What a shame that BMCC has let it get so overgrown. I went to an A Class reunion in about 1996 (British cars) and they let me take my wife's VN S Pack for a couple of laps, heaps of fun. Back in the day there was a Catalina plane in the pond next to the track where they would play movies inside and you felt like you were flying. I moved from Hurstville to Faulconbridge then Springwood so I know the mountains well. Yokahama Tyres actually did a test day at the track with the Lansvale Smash and the GIO Commodores there one day.

2018 " cobra club meeting there " walk around only " rained early mourning " so I was only one there so took my ac cobra replica and drove on the racetrack ( very tight circuit corners then long straight ) drove carefully then " full speed on straight !

Magnificent

great video mate some one should buy this and reopen it bring racing back to the mountains

@oges74

2 жыл бұрын

Was given back to the traditional owners in 2002 I believe

@garethwest9069

2 жыл бұрын

@@oges74 The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein. - Psalm 24:1 The virtue signalling activists stop at returning their own title deeds ...

Great, but music doesn't fit the mood at all!

Sick video i hope to visit here one day

Awesome video!! How long did it take you to walk the track? Liked and shared to my twitter feed!!

still lake in mild of race track there in Katoomba? thank you for sharing the video

The Scouts used to race Billy carts on some of the track around the late 90,s

hahaha i picture you making reving noises and shit while doing this walk around lol. Man i didnt even know this place exsisted.

Went there yesterday 13/3/23 no information posted by council about the track or the racing only a large sign about the traditional owners of the land the gundungarra people

Absolutely disgrace how they treated the aboriginal families that lived at that spot...i grew up there and with some of those families... absolute crime what they did to those families just do some rich scum could race cars around.

what the hell was that song? my ears feel like joe biden disney,micheal jackson,the catholic church and the clintons have had their way with them

@trainspottingdownunder

2 жыл бұрын

Deal with it.