Hmmm...
Yes, I had an idea someone else had it between Janey and Bob Stevens. It was owned by Ron Marsden (Marsden Real Estate) and driven by Barry Sharp IIRC.
Printable View
Hmmm...
Yes, I had an idea someone else had it between Janey and Bob Stevens. It was owned by Ron Marsden (Marsden Real Estate) and driven by Barry Sharp IIRC.
It was niggling at me so I checked...
Marsden bought it and had Bob Stevens drive it, their first meeting being November 11, 1972. Which is a long time after Bob Jane last ran the car.
I'm sure that Barry Sharp also raced it for Marsden at some time, then Bob bought it for himself before selling it to Joe McInnes.
Thanks so much for this Ray, fantastic info! The the Jane racing team use the car at all after the Camaro was built? Perhaps for John Harvey?
I don't think so but I could check...
I'm not able to do that at this time.
Thats OK Ray, I was just curious. Bob Jane seemed to run two sedans for a number of years there.
The Camaro's first outing was at Calder on January 17, 1971...
Harvey did drive the Mustang at that meeting, Jane retired by the end of the day with a broken gearbox. Harvey had also driven the Mustang at the Warwick Farm meeting a month earlier, but Jane wasn't present. Perhaps he was entered in the Camaro and it wasn't ready, so his entry was withdrawn and Harvey remained in the event?
Jane then appeared the next week at Phillip Island in the Mustang for a couple of unchallenged wins. Of interest, the previous year Jane had run the Mustang at this meeting, but as a Sports Car to help build the field in the ASCC Rd 1.
There was no Bob Jane Racing Touring Car entry was Warwick Farm on February, but at Sandown on February 21 the Camaro came out for two wins. No Mustang.
The main game for the Camaro was the Touring Car Championship, of course, and this began at Symmons Plains where, in a wet race, Jane did have Harvey there to back him up but the Mustang siezed its engine.
Round 2 at Calder saw no Mustang present, nor was it at Sandown though it was apparently entered and didn't turn out.
By this time the team had the V8 Repco Torana on stream, it appeared at Hume Weir at Easter but wasn't right, comments along the lines of 'a lot of work was needed to get it right' indicates that the Mustang, which probably still hadn't had its engine fixed, was pushed to the back of the workshop.
Right through to the end of the year it never appeared again, I'd say it didn't ever run again in Jane's colours.
Thanks Ray, terrific info. Also, I guess, at some point probably late in 1971 planning must have begun for the Improved Production HQ Monaro that would eventually succeed the Camaro.
Probably...
I don't know exactly when Bob became a Holden dealer (Southern Motors), but that would have had something to do with it. The car never emerged until mid-way through '72, did it?
I think it made its race debut in July 1972, but in a magazine interview on the car, Bob Jane said the decision was made to build the car when CAMS introduced a 6 litre engine cap for the 1972 ATCC. I'd assume they made this decision in late 1971. The fact he and his brother ran a Holden dealership was what sealed the deal to go this route, as they didn't sell Camaros.
Pete Geoghegan's Super Falcon, at what looks to be Symmons Plains, in 1972. This is likely the opening round of the '72 ATCC.
In behind is Robin Bessant's Mustang, the car formerly driven by Robin Pare and owned by Don Elliott. Interesting car this, in right hand drive. Where is it now?
Attachment 30692
A continuation in a way, of the photo postedearlier featuring Pete Geoghegan's Super Falcon, and Robin Bessant's Mustang.
Here is Bessant's Mustang once more, while tucked in behind isClive Green's Mustang. This is, of course, the GTA used to great effect byGeoghegan to win the ATCC in 1967, '68, and '69. Now with the Wall family.
Attachment 30693
Bob Jane and his second Mustang, purchasedin 1967 to replace the Mustang destroyed at Catalina Park.
I believe this is one of the 26 A/Sedan Mustangs built by Shelbyin 1967, with the plan to sell the majority to privateer teams to help Ford winthe SCCA Trans-Am series. There was only a manufacturers championship at thetime, with only the highest place car from each manufacturer awarded points.Should the Shelby factory cars fail, the idea was that there would be a gang of privateer Mustangs waiting in the wings to score pointsfor Ford. The plan worked, Ford won the championship.
Amazingly, of the 26 Mustangs built byShelby, 4 ended up down-under.
Attachment 30815
Was it a '67, Steve?
Wasn't his crash at Catalina in '65? I'd have thought he was back into a Mustang within six or eight months of that.
And that Lotus Cortina on the left, I wonder whose that might be?
1967 Mustangs are identified by 2 vents, one above the other on the rear quarter in front of the wheel arch, and also do not have the oblong, horizontal side indicators on lower rear quarters at the back-only 1968 has them
Hi Ray, I believe the Catalina crash was late 1965, circa November, that destroyed his first Mustang. He then had another shunt in early 1966 in his Elfin, in which he sustained some injuries and which put him out of racing for a time. I know he didn't contest the 1966 ATCC, which was held at Bathurst. There were really only two contenders at that event; Geoghegan and Beechey.
The Mustang pictured above is a '67, but this photo would be from 1968, after it'd undergone several modifications, including the front and rear spoilers, flared wheel arches, and quite severe lowering of the ride height. It sat significantly lower than most other sedans in 1968.
Thanks for the info Terry. You are right in that Bob's third Mustang was the Shelby built 1968 Trans-Am car. I thought someone had told me this second car as pictured above was also a Shelby built car, albeit, not a factory car, but one of the 26 turn-key cars they built for the 1967 season. Perhaps it was one of the Bowden's who told me, as they own what remains of it.
Terry, if it was built locally, do you know by who?
I'd say they built it themselves as they were very well equipped at that time. Also they had experience from building the first Mustang.
Did the wreck go to Bowdens? i thought it went to someone in Geelong. i recall Miles mentioning that on some thread.
Thanks Terry, the remains ended up on the speedway, and were later acquired by the Bowden's. They still have it.
The 4 door Monaro existed in HQ form, but only with the 253 and 308. Only the GTS Coupe had the 350.
Attachment 30852
I agree Bruce. I nearly bought a HQ 350GTS 4 Door in 1982....
4 door HQ GTS's were certainly available with the 350 but had no stickers as the Monaro badge was on the front guard and the V8 badge on the boot. Modern Motor tested one against an XA GT in the June '73 issue. 275bhp quoted for the 350 against 300 for the 351. Holden 16.4 for the 1/4mile and 8.1 secs 0-60mph. The GT did 15.1 and 7.7....
Yes, correct, the four door Monaro was released in March 1973, almost two years after the two door coupe version, and like the coupe, its top performing motor was the Chevy 350.
Harrop's EH and Jane's Torana V8...
And again, in the background a car I should be able to identify. The black Torana with red and yellow striping, anyone?
A neat old car this one, the Indy Speed Shop Camaro of John Kay and Peter Finch. Someone here with greater grasp of the facts than me may say otherwise, but I don't believe this to be one of the Improved Production cars of the pre-1972 era. The little knowledge I have of this car is that it first appeared on the scene around 1973/74, by which time its quite conventional layout was already outdated in terms of Sports Sedan technology. But even still, a neat looking car.
In the background is the ex-Bryan Thomson Torana of Gene Cook, along with Moffat etc.
Attachment 30894
There's an article in RCN about the Indy Speed Shop car, I'm sure...
I'll get to that when I get home, there'll be some answers there. But are you sure it's not the Terry Allan car? I remember that Wayne Mahnken was his mechanic at the time and i knew that it would have been quicker if Wayne drove it.
The McCormack Charger is in the background there too, and maybe that's the John Lewis Torana off to the right?
Was Gene Cook's Torana the Thommo car? I was sort of fixed in my mind that this was sold to Mike Gore, then on to Geoff Russell, though I'm less sure of the second part of that.
Hi Ray, I used to wonder the same thing, but there was a guy on here a couple of years ago who started a thread searching for the Terry Allan Camaro. He said Terry was his uncle. Anyway, as part of his search he eventually tracked down John Kay's business partner in the Indy Speed Shop, and he confirmed the ISS car had been imported into Australia by John as a road car, then rebuilt for racing.
More info on his findings here: http://www.theroaringseason.com/show...-sold-in-74-75
The impressive Halliday brothers Capri RS3100 replica. This car was built in New Zealand by Don and Rob Halliday, and fitted with the latest Cosworth GAA quad-cam V6 motor. It first appeared in 1974, and enjoyed a colourful career, that included later being fitted with a Jaguar V12 motor when owned by Danie Lupp (son of the famous Jaguar racer Sybil Lupp), and a small block Chevy V8 when owned by John Osborne. It would eventually burn to the ground when being raced by Osborne in the early 1980s. However, Rob Halliday is currently building a tribute car.
This is the car pictured at Calder Park, circa 1976, during a limited Australian Sports Sedan campaign.
Attachment 30973
Another photo of the great looking Tony Calvert 1967 Shelby Mustang. This is the former Greg Cusack, Fred Gibson, Neil Allen machine, now living Stateside.
Attachment 31238
Another shot of Dennis Marwood's '69 ex-Joe Chamberlain SCCA A/Sedan and Trans-Am Camaro at Calder Park, 1972.
Note in the background another of the Kiwi cars, Paul Fahey's PDL Mustang, among several great looking local cars.
Attachment 31278
The business-like rear end of Bob Jane's mighty ZL1 Camaro. This is from 1972, so the alloy 427 had been replaced by a small block Chevy 350. Jane's Repco-Brabham V8 powered Torana sits alongside.
Note the cool period Kleber and Yokohama stickers on the rear panel.
Attachment 31441
This car
Attachment 31568
at Pukekohe 1971.
Yes, those were the tyres Bob was importing...
Fulda was one of the first he started with, Peter Brock used to use them.
None of them were on the race cars, I think Bob mostly used Goodyears, but it was probably a case of horses for courses.
Would depend in what year, as 4 Monaro were HZ's, and came in two engine sizes, both V8, never as a 6 cylinder, (4 Door) you could get a poor man's version with a 6, as a coupe though.
Another shot of the PDL Mustang during its 1972 Australian foray.
Attachment 31620