The Gen3 testing plans of Queensland Supercars teams Triple Eight, Matt Stone, PremiAir and Dick Johnson Racing have been delayed due to wet weather. Beechey and Jane remained in first and second until the end of the race with Jim McKeown completing the podium. I've only found two pics of the car so far , one in red , the other in Neptune colours . At the time it was just what you were doing and it didnt seem that big a deal, Ron says of his time running the Howler. All Rights Reserved. For those unfamiliar, Iso Rivolta - or just Iso for short - was an Italian company that built cars between 1938 and 1974. From the October 1966 edition of Modern Motor. The rear end was a 10-bolt Chev, like the old 55-64 diff, with a 6.17 ratio. That helped to launch the car because it had fairly large Goodyear slicks in the end without a lot of power. Improved Production Touring Cars were the fan favourites, preceding Ford and Holden homologation specials and establishing the foundation of modern-day Supercars. To talk to a Shannons Auction Team member directly, call the 1300 078 500. "Nothing had beaten a Jaguar (for years)," Beechey recalls. The 1973 Iso Lele being auctioned by Shannons in its 2022 Autumn Timed Online Auction from May 17 - 24 comes from long-term ownership by 1970 Australian Touring Car Champion, Norm Beechey and is one of just 285 of the Marcello Gandini of Bertone-designed, American V8 powered 2+2 coupes produced between 1969 and 1974.. Named after director Piero Rivolta's wife, the Lele filled the gap . Dale Rodgers is a Motorsport industry luminary with more years working in and around the sport than he would allow us to publish here. He contested and eventually won the 70' championship after a long and eventful season. SIGNED NORM BEECHEY, ALLAN MOFFAT, BOB JANE. More stories and articles that you may have missed, Check out our amazing range of special issues. Terms of Service. According to Shannons, Beechey has cherished and has driven it sparingly ever since, but now at 90 years old. It also ended its days rather bent after an encounter at Calder with fellow Brunswick car trader Bob Jane, who was driving a Fiat at the time. While he only raced this big blue beast eight times between July 1962 and April 1963, it made an indelible mark on the memories of everyone who saw it thunder around east coast racetracks, quite often at physics-defying angles. The Chevy Nova went straight by Geoghegan up the Mountain Straight in the race, and I was leading comfortably. Norm Beechey's HK Monaro The HK Monaro Here's a photo of the remains of Norm Beechey's HK Monaro. This is as much as I can remember. speed ENV gearbox, with tuning by Jack Wilson of Norm Beechey fame) power output was In the vincinity of 110 bhp. here's a link to the current owners of the car. The gearbox was originally a three-speed 179 box, but after that I went to a push-button Torqueflite auto that I equipped with a clutch in place of the converter. In back-to-back testing it gave 7hp more than the Lucas or Bosch coils that we had used previously. Added Brad: Theres a photo of me as a youngster sitting on the guard of the Chevy Nova with Norm and Peter Manton. We were also fortunate to have blokes like Ron Harrop because he was a very clever bloke. Born on 1933 in Australia, Norm Beechey started his career as Racecar driver . Brad Jones Racing will honour Australian Touring Car great Norm Beechey with retro liveries across its three cars for the Sandown 500. Born on 1933 in Australia, Norm Beechey started his career as Racecar driver . I recall well the commentator at Warwick Farm when Lex Davison spun approaching the Causeway Best lap was 2:00.1, his spinning lap was 2:10.5, which was the next lap. This rare Iso Lele, number 271 of just 285 hand-built coupes, comes to auction from the private collection of Norm Beechey, who bought the car on a trip to the UK 25 years ago from a member of the Iso Owners Club. Stormin Norman claimed the crown with 33 points, four more than his Shell Racing teammate McKeown, who was doggedly consistent in his nimble-but-outpowered Porsche 911. "But if you rushed up and braked at 200 yards every time, you'd only get about two stops out of the sintered metallic linings before the brakes would be on fire and you'd fall off. The compression ratio was 11:1 and each piston weighed two pounds (900g). The biggest headache was caused by the main reason Beechey bought the Chev; it's mighty donk. On its first run with the 208 cube six installed, the FJ ran half a second quicker than Ron's old EH. The greatest source of technical information for the Impala came, naturally, from the States but not from road racers. I suspect as a road car far nicer all round than the 427s. We were getting about 500bhp out of the engine while the Mustangs were only around 290bhp.. pick up Auto Action 1799 online or at your local newsagent. After the Mustang won the 1965 ATCC by over a lap, it was the car of choice. The fuel delivery was a pair of Stewart Warner electric pumps. Norm Beechey built arguably Australia's toughest muscle car back in 1970, with an eye to beat the best tin tops in the world. said he owned the Galaxie. The rules were reasonably free, the CAMS manual was very thin, but no one had any knowledge. Somebody claimed in print it cost us a six-figure sum to develop the car. IMAGES: As credited. Norm Beechey, pictured here, is about to unload his beautiful black '68 Camaro off the 'team' transporter. Warwick Farm. 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. RON HARROP has appeared in the Legends section of the mag before (SM, Mar 00). 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 returned in early 1966 with a two door, 5.3 litre Chevrolet Nova 11. "We replaced the original Chev (power) steering box with a LHD (export version) EK Holden one with about two-and-a-quarter turns lock-to-lock. Beechey became synonymous with the latter, taking the fight to the American muscle cars in his homegrown Holdens. This is an amazing documentary reviewing Norm Beecheys much celebrated 1970 Australian Touring Car Championship win in his famous HT Monaro. Larger than life personalities. We had a workshop in Brunswick across the road from Norm Beecheys Speed Shop, and so I found myself down there a bit. On that occasion we discussed his time as a driver for HDT, his role as chief engineer at HRT in the early 90s, and his massively successful Harrop Engineering firm. $ 135.00 Sold Out. View PDS. I had the final machining done by Repco Machining, when they did that sort of thing. All of these attributes explain why Norm Beechey was, without question, one of the greatest Touring Car competitors this county has ever seen. The brakes weren't too bad but they used to give up. What was the rules in the day? 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. 2k followers. How did how could a carburetted six-cylinder FJ run times as quick as 11.81 back in 1971? Fun Fact, youll find many of his images in the famous Australian Motor Racing yearbooks, published through the mid to late 1990s. It finished with a dish in the piston and still had 13.3:1 compression.. .2.the cambridge history of the native peoples of the americas volume 1 part 2 north ameri Bob Jane in his Jaguar won, after a somewhat dubious start from well behind the line, as the flag moved. 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. Norm Beechey Ford Galaxie - posted in The Nostalgia Forum: Im after info any images and history of the Galaxie from 1964 , Im building a slot car model of the car . Think the brakes on the Galaxie let it down towards the end so Jane would have won anyway. Recent. Other car insurance options are available. Languages. 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. Of those he won 7 races and the championship twice. 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. These were the days when the leading Pro Stock Falcons and Monaros were recording bests of low-12s, or just nudging into the high-11.9s. Norm Beechey's original HK Monaro isn't nearly as famous as his 1970 title winning car, nor is it a car that could be described as hugely successful, but it is definitely significant in the history . Current Owner. Beechey, I would say, is simply covering the corner as they brake here - a Brier Thomas photo. $6.60. I used to tow it with another Impala, a 'four-door '61. This car cost a lot of money in 1962, 2750. Interestingly, Gurney would not race his Impala again, due to bureaucratic problems, and the car was reportedly sold to Laurie O'Neil in Australia. Its a magnificent effort, my greatest motor racing achievement. Norm concluded. We had a four-point harness that held us in place a bit, but I used to grab a cushion off the lounge at home and tuck myself into that. Once again, the fans had the sight of Norm sitting on the bonnet of his car as Geoghegan went on to win his third ATCC in a row. 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. They certainly are, Stephen But not too many want to ring up and find out the facts. He raced a new Ford Customline that won the main Touring Car Race, beating Len Lukey in the procerss. It would be a 406 which Ford used for racing approx. Car Insurance, Take a simple thing like the seat. Haiti would be reunified as a republic under Jean-Pierre Boyer, a revolutionary leader who would remain president until 1843. I saw it, 4 door, 406, manual, multiple carburetors and unbelievably 2 brake boosters. Norm only seems to have raced it a couple of times , was it a success ? It is just on fifty years since Norm Beechey won the second round of the 1970 Australian Touring Car Championship at Bathurst in his game changing Holden Monaro GTS 350. 1964 krdes msterskapet ver ett race, och dr blev Beechey tva p Lakeside. At the age of 88 years, Norm Beechey weight not available right now. The second is the race Beechey had with Max Volkers in a Cortina at Lowood. LGH ED Reception - Phone: (03) 6777 6405 Fax: (03) 6777 5201 MCH ED* - Phone: (03) 6478 5120 Fax: (03) 6441 5923 NWRH ED* - Phone: (03) 6493 6351 Fax: (03) 6464 1926 RHH ED Reception - Phone: (03) 6166 6100 Fax: (03) 6173 0489 Inboard disc brakes were used on all four wheels. BEECHEY'S HK MONARO - AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO $ 75.00 Sold Out Stephen , the red 4 door Galaxie seems to have had a few pilots . Running a car like the Howler meant always trying new ideas. Norm or Lex Davidson were probably even worse off for tyres. Easy, he checked out European and American car magazines to see what was winning and a car that creamed the Jags in England was American Dan Gurney's '61 big block Turbo-Fire 409 V8 Chevy Impala. Anyway, a race was organised up in the back-blocks of Coburg and I won that. Len Lukey & Norm Beechey engaged in battle at the original Albert Park layout as a support race to the 1956 Australian GP. ", "Back then the fields weren't very big. Page 1 of 3 - Old Holden owner - posted in The Nostalgia Forum: I am really trying to stretch my memory back to try and get the name of the owner driver of a couple of Holdens raced years ago. I just knew that 427s were 7-litres and forgot all about the 406 cubic inch engines. The HT Monaro GTS 350 debuted at Beecheys home track at Calder. Well, it wasnt that high. Not only was the character himself one of the most popular drivers of the era, he went further by putting cars on the grid between 1965 and 1970 that were unique and won him even more fans. BRYAN THOMSON. Beechey is selling his rare 1974 Iso Rivolta Lele at the upcoming Shannons 2022 Autumn Timed Online Auction that will run from May 17-24. Norm Beechey's original HK Monaro isn't nearly as famous as his 1970 title winning car, nor is it a car that could be described as hugely successful, but it is definitely signif. For any diehard touring car fan, when you hear the name Stormin Norm Beechey your mind instantly pictures a yellow Holden HT Monaro GTS. Ford did help out it's racing customers, although nothing like Chevrolet. Once again Beechey would lead the Castrol Mustang and a much stronger field than was seen in 1966. I was going to do the model in Neptune colours , but , the red looks good too . 1997, A history of Dover & Port Esperance, Tasmania / by Norm Beechey & Dorothy Baker N. Beechey & D. Baker Dover, Tas. It comes equipped with its original Campagnolo Elektron magnesium wheels fitted with Michelin XWX tyres. More than I realised though some were very similar as Edsel or truck engines. Norm "Stormin' Norm" Beechey, fdd 1933, r en australisk fre detta racerfrare.. Racingkarrir. Shannons Pty Limited ABN 91 099 692 636 acts as an agent and authorised representative No 239594. So the evolution of the Howler began. 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