Grownkoski Blog: love heart drawings in pencil

Saturday, October 15, 2011

love heart drawings in pencil

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On the morning of 22 October 2001, he died after suffering his 3rd heart attack on Monday 15th of October, in his 80th year.

His life had been shaped especially by motorcycles but also by automobiles. Born in Austria in 1922, he started to make motorcycle drawings while he was a schoolboy, long before he was able to ride his first motorcycle a 250 cc NSU (at the age of 16). This machine was soon replaced by a 500 cc Norton "International".

Then in spring 1947 the first dirt track race in Salzburg, organized by the just founded SAMTC (Salzburg automobile motorcycle and touring club), lured 20.000 spectators on the trotting race course in Salzburg-Aigen. Encouraged by this success the first motorcycle race finally took place on the motorway near Salzburg on 6 July 1947. 1958 this race became the "Grand Prix of Austria" for motorcycles, which moved later on the motorway Anif-Grödig, also near Salzburg and in the end on the Salzburgring, where the race had been upgraded in 1970 to a worldchampion race.

The year's result of 1947: three first places, two class records, two second places, two fourth places - the most successful racer of Austria in the class A to 250 cm³.