Jaycar Electronics Catalogue - 23/06-30/09/2022 (Page 2)

formert tribute to our founder - gary johnston in the western suburbs of sydney where he frequented the concord built amplifiers whose quality belied the origins of their construction his passion for hobbyist electronics begun at an early age working for philips and cema brought him to the attention of with dick and eventually rose to the role of marketing manager and began to transform a single showroom into jaycar electronics at the time of gary's death in march 2021 the jaycar group included over 150 stores across australia and new zealand the success of jaycar allowed gary to indulge in a wide array of projects from racing his 1965 valiant around the australian ex- czechoslovakian airforce mig-21 fighter and more recently supporting team warby with david warby's push to break the world water speed record currently held by his father ken mopar musc fayca his most recent passion and perhaps his most significant was australian government to scrap its planned $90billion+ project to acquire french nuclear submarines and retro fit them with coincidence gary's lobbying efforts were realised when on 16th government would purchase 8 nuclear submarines using top belief to have seen his efforts culminate in this announcement be more proud of the man who started life in a 2-bedroom cottage in mortlake to rise to one of the most successful businessmen in australia the johnston family car jaycar national sixty six thousand dollars steve wangh foundation indi $66.0 nah