Roy Repp - Was there any real Australian Connection?

**aussiblue** · 21-05-2019, 02:22 PM

A lot of pictures on the Internet (e.g. https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2015/0...del-t-that-is/ and https://monovisions.com/roy-repp-and-his-stunt-car/ ) claim Roy was an Australian but the evidence suggests otherwise especially http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/fo...1_YwvjlbZ7eraA His name also does not come up if you do a search of old Australia newspaper in Trove (not even births). Does anyone have any hard evidence he was an Australian or even spent any time here?

Bushbasher · 21-05-2019, 07:50 PM

I'm sure I speak for most of us when I say ..... who?

**aussiblue** · 21-05-2019, 08:09 PM

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I'm sure I speak for most of us when I say ..... who?

He seems to have been very famous in his day and I have stumbled across mention of him in various motoring books, magazines and web pages. I think I first found mention of him on Shorpy here: https://www.shorpy.com/node/1265 But, in any event, he would have been well before all forum member's time so, even if was a famous Australian, most of us may still not have heard of him. It just puzzles me where the reference to "an Australian stunt driver" came about.