A road sign paying tribute to the six-times Bathurst 1000 winner and former Formula 1 driver Larry Perkins has been stolen from his hometown of Cowangie in northwest Victoria.

Mr Perkins, known as 'The Kid from Cowangie', noticed the Mallee Highway sign – which featured the Bathurst winner and four of the Holden Commodores he raced – was taken sometime last week.

Perkins won the first of his six Bathurst 100 victories in 1982 with the Holden Dealer Team driving with Peter Brock, winning three in a row before three more victories with his own team in 1993, 1995, and 1997.

The sign paying tribute to Mr Perkins, famous not only for his driving success but also as skills as a gifted engineer, was first erected in 1993 and has been updated several times since.

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