At the age of 12, Brock built an
Austin 7-based race car at the humble weatherboard home.
The childhood home of Australian racing icon Peter Brock has come up for sale, with floorboards reportedly still stained by oil from his famous Austin 7 project.
Located at 26 Anzac Avenue in Hurstbridge (outside Melbourne), the three-bedroom weatherboard residence was built in 1949 and bought by the Brock family several years later.
The future nine-time Bathurst winner and long-time Holden driver lived in the home with his parents and
four brothers until the early 1960s, when he left to join the army.
At the age of 12 Peter “Perfect” built a crude Austin 7-based single-seat race car on the property (shown above), which he would later claim taught him the basics of “driving and mechanical sympathy.”
According to agents selling the property, the floor in Brock’s former bedroom remains slightly stained with oil from the project.
“It’s under carpet now, Ciaran Brannigan from Morrison Kleeman real estate told Drive. “… But yeah, in the back the floorboard stains won’t come out.”
Peter Brock died following a crash during the Targa West rally at the age of 61, however his record of nine Bathurst wins remains unbroken.
The
Anzac Avenue house has sold several times since it was owned by the Brock family, most recently in 2010 when it fetched $337,500 at auction.The property is set to go under the hammer on 31 March 2022, with a price estimate of $750,000 to $820,000.
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