We often romance about heroes in motor sport. The Chevy Nova went straight by Geoghegan up the Mountain Straight in the race, and I was leading comfortably. Copyright 2023 Wheels Media, a division of Are Media Pty Limited. Wasnt a shiny red but it did have 406 in chrome on either front mudguard. Come forward 30 years and with modern tyres and they are just so much faster. The Monaro took its first ATCC win at Round 2 at Bathurst and then went on to win in front of huge crowd at Melbournes Sandown Park Raceway. 1968. Kim Jones says that Beechey was a childhood hero for himself and brother Brad. The 1970 ATCC was all about Beechey and the fabulous HT Monaro GTS 350. Its a 100% racing car and we have achieved it all here in Australia in one season, with a budget only a fraction the size the Yanks had to play with. He then saw Geoghegan pass him and take the win by over thirty seconds. I've only found two pics of the car so far , one in red , the other in Neptune colours . Big lazy grunter with bull nose Top Loader and Kelsey Hayes 4 spot brakes. It was based on a Chev Duntov grind that had a bit ground off the nose. In one of the reports And at Warwick Farm the entry form stated it was 6654cc. https://www.chevytalk.org/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/294397/tp/2/, https://www.tradeuniquecars.com.au/feature-cars/1302/chevrolet-impala-409-norm-beechey, https://autopics.com.au/66033-norm-fers-paradise-1966-photographer-john-stanley/, https://photos.app.goo.gl/LAjx9nV3CPonoUBi6, (You must log in or sign up to reply here. Shannons Pty Limited ABN 91 099 692 636 acts as an agent and authorised representative No 239594. 1965 vann han otmsvarande race p Sandown, innan han ret drp tog silver p . I saw Stormin Norm race the Len Lukey owned red Galaxie at Sandown, many years ago. I have printed the body shell and chassis , need some more pics for the . Shot of Lex at Longford in 1963. The hood bulge was a factory item , created for drag racing Fords. "When I switched to the S4 Holden, Bobby had got his Jaguar going faster and it still dominated; the Jag's reign only finished when I brought the Mustang out in early-1965. An expert photographer, journalist and marketing / PR guru, Rodgers spent 10 years running Revolution Racegear before assuming the head PR role at DJR Team Penske in 2012. Improved in 24 Hours. At the end we had 343hp at 7800rpm. They certainly are, Stephen The Camaro was a very short-lived affair and just a few months later prior to the end of 1968, Norm would debut a new HK Holden Monaro. The big cars weigh over 2 tonnes. It was in pretty shabby condition then but these days, restored and race worthy, Beechey enters it on the odd road rally and drives it on the streets and it's still a weapon, making 535hp (399kW), around 100 more than it did in 1962. It went all right for its day, I suppose. Sun 31 Jan 2021 10.47 EST. Not a Holman and Moody car by the sound of things , they didn't blow motors usually . It was the first ATCC victory for a V8-engined car and the first of five ATCC titles won by drivers of Ford Mustangs. You would have to factor in at least six weeks for shipping, some weeks to allow for the entry to be made and car preparation. At the age of 88 years, Norm Beechey weight not available right now. A Customline being worked for all it's worth at Catalina Park, Katoomba, New South Wales http://motoring.com.au/reviews/2005/classic-and-rare/ford-customline-3292 Current Owner. After the Mustang won the 1965 ATCC by over a lap, it was the car of choice. Improved Production Touring Cars were the fan favourites, preceding Ford and Holden homologation specials and establishing the foundation of modern-day Supercars. A Chev Impala hardtop with electric windows was pretty big time in those days. BEECHEY'S HK MONARO - AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO $ 75.00 Sold Out Beechey had already tasted American iron having raced a Ford Customline in the late-'50s, but during this era 3.4-litre Jaguars ruled the racing jungle and his biggest nemesis was a nuggetty bloke named Bob Jane, who would have a quicker 3.8-litre MkII Jag for 1962. Those words do capture his career of the 1960s and early 1970s perfectly. sku: 62002-1. For those unfamiliar, Iso Rivolta - or just Iso for short - was an Italian company that built cars between 1938 and 1974. Brad Jones Racing will pay tribute to Supercars Hall of Famer Norm Beechey for the Sandown 500 Retro Round. This car - officially the EH 225 M-S.4 - had a pushrod 179 cubic-inch (2.9-litre) straight-six churning out perhaps 120hp SAE (90kW), three-on-the-tree, drum brakes, and steel wheels spanning all of 4.5-inches. This was the last car he raced before retirement. two years before switching to the 427. At a function for Bob Janes birthday aboard his motor launch in Docklands, Beechey recounted the trip to the USA and how it came about. We just welded them on and cut them off until we were happy. Also learn about how he is rich at the age of 49 years old? But it did take up a hell of a lot of time and money.. N. Beechey / B. Jane Holden FX - Calder 1962 - Printed with a black border and a caption describing the photo. Warwick Farm. The mourning at the funeral is very elaborate and the tomb of the Gadana's wife is fenced in with bamboo, both indicators of her cherished status among the Sidama. Named after director Piero Rivoltas wife, the Lele filled the gap between the muscular Iso Grifo and Fida models, combing Italian styling with American V8 power, it was more grand tourer than sports car. Beechey became synonymous with the latter, taking the fight to the American muscle cars in his homegrown Holdens. The second is the race Beechey had with Max Volkers in a Cortina at Lowood. Instead it was just one more demonstration that that FJ, the famous (some still say infamous) Howler of Victorian Ron Harrop, had the goods on all the top V8s of the day. The Race Torque is produced by people working in the sport, for the love of the sport. They duelled in bellowing beasts V8 Mustangs, Camaros and Monaros. It was still breaking parts, rear wheel bearings. Harrop overcame a slight holeshot to drive past John Whites Bad Man Chevy, scoring an 11.96sec win over the Queenslanders spluttering 12.26. Despite the Impala's imposing size, brawny Beechey says it wasn't physically hard to drive, (even though he didn't use the road car's power steering) due to skinny, hard tyres and short races. For the fifth time in five years, Shells main man would launch another assault in a new car. ", "Back then the fields weren't very big. 1965-66 Chevrolet Corvair Corsa: Classic Metal. Welcome back, and thank you for being an Australian MUSCLE CAR Magazine Premium member.Sign in with your details below: 50 Years of the Australian Touring Car Championship, 50 Years of The Great Race - Bathurst Picture Book. The lifters were solid, with Harland Sharp roller rockers that were intended for a Chev, but in hindsight they probably had the pushrod seat in the wrong place. Norman Beechey A factory Imp was imported by Norm Beechey, a top Australian Touring car driver in the sixties. Or perhaps the car belonged to Rootes Australia and they hired Beechey to drive it for them. Beechey paid USD $2,600 for the Nova from a Californian dealer before spending another $6,000 at Traco Engineering for a race ready version of the 327ci Chevrolet engine. It helps to already be famous to become a social media influencer, but he demonstrates that you need to have a raw or personal touch and engage with your followers if you want to do well on Instagram Facebook, Twiter, Youtube, etc. Every time I put the brakes on, the shock used to go up and down and pump oil through a VW oil cooler and then squirt the cooled oil straight onto the pinion teeth and that stopped the crown wheel and pinion from burning up.". 4 seconds ago viscount freddie soames wright brothers names. OZZIE MOTOR RACING ICONS NORM BEECHEY by Bill Pearson Before Brock there was Beechey. Just better. he is one of famous Racecar driver with the age 88 years old group. It also left its mark on Beechey's psyche too. Norm and his wife Marg were friends of our parents, as were many competitors from the 70s so it makes the tribute a very personal one for us.. In the end it had a Toploader close-ratio box. 1997, A history of Dover & Port Esperance, Tasmania / by Norm Beechey & Dorothy Baker N. Beechey & D. Baker Dover, Tas. fredeuce, Sep 24, 2020. Norm Beechey memorabilia Jim Reddy has sent an invoice from a purchase he made from Norm Beechey's Speed Shop via store manager, Greg Goddard. ", Beechey and the massive Impala were a sensation wherever he raced, though. *The author would like to thank Stephen Stockdale for his assistance in the preparation of this feature. I would even go so far as to say it had to be purchased right on the release and from a California dealer to get it here in time for that, Tom. I was launching it at around 7000rpm and revving it to about 8400rpm at the finish when it was running the 11.8s. The HT Monaro GTS 350 debuted at Beecheys home track at Calder. It didnt take very long because the HK 327 was phased out at the end of 1969 and we started the 70 season with the new car, so we built it over the Christmas New Year period.. Gurney's car though, is not Beechey's. View PDS. That helped to launch the car because it had fairly large Goodyear slicks in the end without a lot of power. Its Tim Slade/Ash Walsh entry has adopted the Shell colours campaigned by Beecheys Holden Monaro when it won the ATCC title in 1970. Who owned 2 old Holdens {FX models I think], both same colour [light blue?] The cars were hard to get during their launch year on the USA market but, in inimitable Beechey style, he was soon in the USA jumping the queue thanks to a chance restaurant meeting in Melbourne with Bill Bourke, head of Ford Australia, who wrote Norm a letter of introduction to Ford USA. Ken Box was also involved and he was a brilliant engineer.. Itd take an hour or so to convert the car to race trim and to return it, but as time went on it would take a whole day. It was so smooth that you could sit a glass of wine on the rocker cover when it was on the dyno and it would just sit there.. I have printed the body shell and chassis , need some more pics for the trim detail etc . "It's Norman Beechey," he says. The compression ratio was 11:1 and each piston weighed two pounds (900g). Holden Monaro. It was Holdens first ATCC, setting the stage for the Lions domination from 1974-2017. However, the numbers vary depending on the source. In fact, it took Beechey six months to get the car running reliably. Quick view Details. Not great resolution to the photo though. "There was a genuine technique to driving this car fast and I think my style suited this car because I grew up driving big fast American cars," he says. The Nova had raced extensively during 1966 and 67 and was becoming a well sorted race car, but Big Pete always seemed to have something in his repertoire to take it up to Beechey. I broke one or two, but essentially they were good. TRT: The stories behind the sport. "It had the first Borg-Warner four-speed, aluminium-cased gearbox with very thin gears and it wasn't strong enough. What we do. The rear end was a 10-bolt Chev, like the old 55-64 diff, with a 6.17 ratio. A local bloke with a 63 Galaxie coupe has fitted his 390 4bbl engine with the tripower 427 set up. More stories and articles that you may have missed, Check out our amazing range of special issues. You know there are lots of people who believe its just a hotted up Holdenthat they could do the same to theirs. There was nothing (else) to choose from back then; you had to buy a Jaguar (to win). My EH was doing about 14-dead or thereabouts, and they were doing 13.7s and that dropped my jaw. 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