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Bruce McLaren was born to Les (Pop) & Ruth on 30th August 1937 at Auckland, New Zealand, He was the second child with an older sister in the family. His father had invested in a service station in Remuera late 1936, after driving petrol tankers for the Texaco/Caltex Oil Co. Mclarens younger years were spent learning to broadside around shop corners on two wheels of his tricycle becoming a pest, “borrowing mechanics spanners, etc. just when they needed them to repair my ‘racing machine’”. The family moved to 8 Upland Road after the war and it was there that we found that, owing to a fall, that he had developed Perthes Disease (a hip joint problem). He Meadowbank School and spent the next two years in the Wilson Home in Takapuna on a Bradford Frame – a special traction bed.
