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1969 - the year of The Sled

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Man walked on the moon, close to half a million hippies grooved to the music of Woodstock and the ferris wheel at Adelaide Showgrounds spun on its axis for the first time.

Meanwhile, back in the Barossa, a seventeen year old Leon Parbs placed an order in for the car of his dreams.

“I’d seen the brochure of the car and I went straight down to C.T. Eckermann in Tanunda and I fell in love wi...


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