KRIS EDWARDS
Jul 17, 2019
4 minutes
STORY SIMON MAJOR
FAST cars are in Kris Edwards’s blood. Hailing from the NSW Central Coast town of Wyong, he is the third generation in a line-up of street and track racers. Kris’s grandfather Arthur was a street racer of the bike kind through the late 1940s, before turning his hand to speedway during the golden era of the 1950s and 60s, while his late father Colin was a regular racer at the infamous Brickies street drags at Homebush in the mid-to-late 70s. Chris arrived on the scene in 1980 and grew up on an automotive diet that included his mum Jenny’s LJ XU-1, a 308-powered HJ wagon in brown with gold stripes, Monaros,
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