I am doing a search for the guy who is restoring the Norm Beechey Mustang, preferably in colour if possible. He's particularly after an engine bay shot, but anything (reasonable quality) of the car in Beechey's,Thommo's, Aunger's and Wigram's ownership will be welcome. Anything of the car racing in Britain with Thommo at the helm or in the paddock would also be good. You can e-mail me at the website on info@oldracephotos.com - my mobile is on the blog too. If your memory needs a jog re some of these liveries we have shots on the site of everyone except Thommo - type in the various drivers on the Advanced Search will bring them up.
Cheers, ellrosso

Do you have anything of when it was based at Amaroo Park and run as a Sports Sedan?

It was black then...

Bathurst '66?

Lionel Lawson was the one who owned it at Amaroo, wasn't he?

No nothing on its time as a Sports Sedan Ray, really anything will be welcome. Have never seen that green livery before Wirra - any details of that shot?

Yes - It isn't very good!

I've always thought it to be Thommo?
Just past the rigth-hander out of The Cutting - Bathurst. Dick Johnson know the spot well.
Comparing with other photos I have, I would suggest it was the meeting Niel Allen first ran the M4a (Ray?) - but I did frequent that spot over several years.

I think that would make it 1968.

Going by the programme, Bryan Thomson was Mustang #4 in the event 4 Touring Car Scratch Race at the Easter Monday 1968 Bathurst meeting. No colour of it mentioned though.

Stephen

I'm sure I have seen Thommo with that livery in England.

PS. On this page you will find a Lakeside photo
http://aussieroadracing.homestead.com/Stanley2.html

I seem to remember there was a few pics of that car in various guise in the thread last year when that car was for sale in drag racing form.

I was a bit enthusiastic with my '1966' there...

It was still in Neptune colours at that stage, just over a year after Norm first ran it. Thommo bought it and went to England with it green and those stripes. He returned a very 'adventurous' driver to scare the pants off assorted flaggies.

Just discovered the previous Beechey Mustang thread - page 121 from 13/11/2008. Interesting list of owners : Beechey, Thomson, Aunger, Wigram, Kelvin Squires, Tom Jesperson, Jeff Morrow then the Drag car owner from the South Coast. Ray - you mention Rocky Pye on this thread with black paint and yellow stripe rather than Lawson.
The John Stanley colour shot of Thommo sideways at Lakeside is a cracker too.

Yes, that's right, Rocky Pye...

Lionel and Rocky were close mates and I think Lionel might have driven it once, but Rocky was the owner.

Yes you are right - I well recall that Mustang in those colours. Bryan Thompson raced the car during 1967 in England appearing in club races and I believe some Gp5 BTCC races.

Yes I remember it at Bathurst. I think Thommo had just returned from overseas at that time. He had a rather big spin on the way down the mountain just before The Dipper. Luckily he didn't hit anything. Probably during practise. I also think there was an engine failure on race day.
Dale.

Did Thommo race the car anywhere else in NSW in 1968, Warwick Farm maybe? Also does anyone know the whereabouts of Warren Wigram?

Yes, I clearly remember Thommo racing it at Warwick Farm...

No idea about Warren Wigram.

Has that other thread on this car been found. I tried the search one day and could not find it at all.

Beechey Mustang

Symmons Plains 1965.....




Hume Weir 12/66....
Thomson and Dave Price in ex Muir S4

Lee, it took me a while but its page 121 of the 553 Forum pages.

Thanks Lindsay, and Tim Murray who has provided the link in his post. We seem to have two threads with the same name and subject.
Though the pics I thought were there are not. I think I must have seen them on your site!! Particularly the Aunger ones.

Yes maybe Lee, we've got a couple of crackers on there of Geoff Harrisson's. The dicing between Robin Pare and Aunger that day was just tremendous - they were so evenly matched. There is also a good shot of the two of them shaking hands in the pits afterwards - both obviously having enjoyed a good clean battle.

Baskerville

Ellis, are those shots of yours in reasonable focus as far as the original slides go? Especially the one of Pare and Aunger at Firestone cnr. Obviously the one of Beechey is a speed-blur job but we have a couple of Graeme King's slides of Beechey at that meeting which are quite reasonable.

The slides are not very good. I had a Voigtlander ? 35mm camera in those days but it wasnt a TLR so what the lens got wasnt always what the viewfinder said plus operator wasnt too good. There is another of Aunger / Pare in same corner



Short story on Beechey at that Symmons meeting...

We ran number 40 on the Humpy from 63-68. At scruitineering for the meeting we had to change numbers to No.52 as 40 was too much like the 4 on Beechey's Mustang ...go figure.

RCN May '81