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A pair of giant PBR brake shoes erected beside the start line at the historic Rob Roy Hillclimb.
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The Big Brake Shoes
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Site-level location · 37.6421° S, 145.2821° E
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The story
The giant PBR brake shoes at Rob Roy are refugees. They were rescued from the Templestowe Hillclimb, a Melbourne motorsport venue that no longer runs, and re-erected beside the start line at Rob Roy in November 2009.
That rescue is the story. Motorsport venues accumulate enormous trackside advertising – tyre companies, oil brands, brake manufacturers – and when a circuit closes it is normally scrapped without a second thought, because it is signage for businesses that have moved on. Somebody at Rob Roy looked at a pair of oversized brake shoes at a dying venue and understood they had become historical objects rather than advertisements.
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The Big Brake Shoes are a pair of giant PBR brake shoes standing beside the start line at Rob Roy Hillclimb, an active motorsport venue in Smiths Gully.
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The Big Brake Shoes are at Rob Roy Hillclimb, 375 Clintons Road, Smiths Gully, a gated motorsport venue. Rob Roy's spectator information describes event-day entry: spectator gates open from 8:30am, the entry fee is paid at the gatehouse, and parking is free in the venue car parks. No public access or public-road viewing point outside events is documented, so everyday direct navigation is withheld; visit only during a published event or with venue permission.
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