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Miles 134,251THIS MONTH
WORDS& PHOTOSGLWHO KNEW THAT GLENNT
GET OUT AND ABOUT WINO-ONE TOOK much notice
of the two blokes punching-
on under the tawdry blue
and pink neon lights outside
Porky’s strip club in Sydney’s
infamous red-light district of
Kings Cross. It seemed to be
just another typical after-
midnight footpath fight, like
thousands of other biffos over
the decades.
Sitting in my 1980 Volvo
262C coupe, I’d been watching
the scuff le but I wasn’t
showing any concern either...
“Cut!” said a distant voice and
the two actors immediately
separated. “That was great!”continued the voice.
Next to where the ‘fight’
had been was an XF Falcon
with a TA XI sign on top, a
ripper Mitsubishi Sigma (a
Turbo!), a perfect Datsun
Bluebird, an example of
Toyota’s last rear-drive Celica,
a gorgeous VB Commodore
SL sedan and an XB Ford
Fairmont. My Volvo and these
other 1980s cars were ideal
era-correct props for an ABC
TV mini-series set in 1985.
It’s about a big red-headed
Queenslander, Les Norton,
the main character in a series
of books penned by Aussieauthor, the late, great Robert
G Barrett. The popular books
about bouncer Les and his
nefarious mates are filled
with plain and simple larrikin
Aussie humour, spiced with a
hint of Sydney’s underworld
of the 1970s and 80s.
One week later, my brown
’79 VB Commodore wagon- now with temporary TA XI
signs – was parked with
several other cool cars at the
Sydney Cricket Ground. With
a few other props scattered
around, the Les Norton
producers had done quite a
convincing job of creating an
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