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Whatever Happened To? Michael O'rourke
Classic Racer
|September/October 2019
Michael was born on April 11, 1931, in Plumstead London and the family later moved to Camberwell.
His father Bill was a butcher by trade, but he was also a grass track rider so as a boy, Mike inevitably spent most of his weekends at grass meetings.
He eventually made his racing debut at Leatherhead grass track in August 1947 on a KSS Velocette. By 1949 he had inherited his dad’s JAP special, which he modified and renamed the OM Special. With the OM fitted with racing tires, he started racing at the Haddenham circuit, where he recorded several second and third places. This led to the offer from Tom Arter of a 7R for the September 1949 meeting at Scarborough, where he finished a respectable eighth.
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