Nope Alan Mann beat him to it in the 1st week of Jan 1965Originally Posted by mid-year
Nope Alan Mann beat him to it in the 1st week of Jan 1965
Interesting as believe Norm to be first, ok
He certainly told me at Ruapuna circa 2002 that he was the first person to win a championship in one..
Yes, that is interesting. There has always been talk that the Beechey Mustang was the first Mustang in the world to be circuit raced. But the Beechey car made its race debut in late January 1965, so was after the Alan Mann car.
Understood it to be the 1st Mustang in world to win a road race
Last edited by Ellis; 08-08-2013 at 10:20 AM. Reason: added road
TDF Mustangs of Mann,were the 1st Mustangs to circuit race ....september 1964.
And with out any doubt won in Jan 65 (but not TDF as the winner was a Sofia Liege car which preceded the TDF)
Correct,have you had a chance to read the Alan Mann book "A life of chance" ?
The mustang content is well worth reading as is the chapter on the F3L sports car.
Do we have any current photos of Norms Mustang?
These are from ebay when it was sold in 2008
Last edited by Ellis; 08-08-2013 at 10:09 AM.
I'm thinking that the current owners are restoring it in the style of 1965 ATCC figure.
I was keen to buy it at the time but the GFC and cancer kicked that on the head.
Interesting, I've never noticed before that the Mustang was converted to right hand drive at some stage. When did this happen?These are from ebay when it was sold in 2008
Robert, were you looking at buying it in 2008 when it went up for auction, or at an earlier time in its life?
Hi Steve....great forum,been reading it for about a year,it was on Ebay and a fellow Autosport forum member (275) put me onto it.
I had known about it for years via a guy that worked in CAMS in the historic area,who did the ex Niel Allen Shelby 'stang.
But thats another story.perhaps not for print.Same fellow built up in the '90s a copy of the blue ATCC car and palmed it off as Norms car,it still is in VIC from memory.
Oh wow, I hadn't realised a replica had been made and was being palmed off as the real thing. A bit like the Sidchrome Mustang look-a-like that was built in the US and sold as the real thing. For some reason they used a '70 Mustang to build it from!
This is the replica (pic source not known)
thats the car,it was well built under contract by a mate that did a '67 Stang I ran in historics.
I think at some stage ,Norm sent a letter out ..asking for his name to be removed or similar.
Found this photo, same car number plate. kind of recent looking cars in background
note it is left hook
In Alan Manns biography, He claims to have won a race at Brands hatch in the first week of January 1965. That race was actually a delayed Boxing day meeting... He was driving an ex TDF mustang and it was typical of Alan to race at that Boxing day meeting once a year...to keep his eye in...so to speak! I do have a copy of autosport somewhere in my archives that verifies this victory. Speaking of Norm Beechey though, does anyone have a pic of this car when it was still painted Gold??
When those 3 cars ran in the '64 TDF,did they not also have races during the tour?
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