Hi, Bainford,
Sorry, no pics of the tow vehicle, but if that large lump of wood used as wheel chocks is any indication, I imagine it wasn't terribly sophisticated.
It's worth noting that in those times, the Antipodes was well off the beaten track and the F1 crowd was still pretty much self funded. Oz ran a kinda parallel Tasman race series in an effort to attract the GP teams. Not like today where sponsors fall over each other to pay a millions for two square inches of exposure on a drivers helmet.
Also common for owner/designers like Colin, McLaren etc. to attend and be entirely hands on at every race meeting. It's likely that our local enthusiasts volunteered to do much of the donkey work like loading cars on trailers which probably explains the guy wearing flip-flops. Those were the days, eh.
One curiosity, though is that Hills car seems to have some sort of ridge or 'air dam' (?) on the nose above the air entry. The same thing doesn't appear on Jochen Rindts car.
Caption:
"Graham Hill suffers what would not be the last Lotus 49 wing failure during the 1969 Australian Grand Prix at Lakeside. He pitted, a mechanic hack-sawed the wing mounts and removed the offending items allowing GH to rejoin and finish 4th behind Amon and Bell both aboard Dino 246T’s and Leo Geoghegan’s Lotus 39 Repco (G Ruckert)"Last pic is of the Cosworth DFV running in procedure in 1977 - makes ya think.
EDIT:
More here for those interested.
https://primotipo.com/tag/graham-hill/
