Guess what? Ken Miles raced against Bill Gates at Lakeside in Queensland!!! Not THE Bill Gates, but a local racer driving a Lotus Elan Lightweight.
My father was there, along with the "thousands" of others who have since claimed to have been at that event. Funny isn't it, how 10 times more people now claim to have been at meetings that subsequently went down in history as significant motoring events.
Anyway, Dad was thoughtful enough to take his trusty 8mm video camera with him that day, and we still have what might be the only video footage ever taken of Ken Miles in his thundering big block Cobra at Lakeside International Raceway. Motion pictures, but no sound.
The photo that I've attached was taken in 1966. It shows the track snaking down towards the Shell Bridge (later the Dunlop Bridge). Ken had the Cobra in a beautiful 4 wheel drift as the suspension went light upon hitting the dip leading up to the apex of the corner. As he drifted it through the corner and under the bridge, there's a third gear left handed uphill sweeping corner called "Hungry Corner" - famous for it's appetite for eating up cars....
lLuckily, the Cobra emerged unscathed! Dad remembers the Cobra as being the first car that really pounded on your chest as he drove past - such was the sound from that glorious big block
Ahhh, I wish i was there!!!