The Roaring Season

Peter Finch thinks Bob still owns the car. Next time I see him I will try to follow it up some more.

[quote="bill hollingsworth"]Peter Finch built this car from one of the road cars that the Indy speed shop imported. Graham Jarrett was the next owner followed by Bob Middleton.[/quote]

I believe this car still exists?

These later posts sneak up on you like that...

Yes, sorry it was meant to be under the blue Camaro.

That would be the Camaro, Bill, on the previous pages?

Peter Finch built this car from one of the road cars that the Indy speed shop imported. Graham Jarrett was the next owner followed by Bob Middleton.

Well this is it folks, the very last photo from this collection. I hope you enjoyed it. My thanks once again to Perry Drury and Ellis French for supplying us with these beautiful images.

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I'm not sure what happened here. Looks to be two photos overlaid on each other. Not to worry. This is a rare shot of Bob Jane's Mustang when it was still blue. It had been one of the Shelby factory team cars that contested the 1968 Trans-Am series, before Jane bought it. Note the bumpers and headlights which it didn't wear in the Trans-Am. The blue didn't stay for long before it was repainted.

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Don Elliott's Mustang from Tasmania, which I think was driven by Robin Pare. If you look really closely at the red and green stripes, they appear to be made from strips of tape. Pretty cool!

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Bob Jane's Camaro in 1971 when it still had the alloy 427 big block.

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John McCormack Ansett Charger.

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[quote="John McKechnie"]Steve...it ran once at Baypark, definitely was not a front runner but looked great in a straight line and sounded better.
Glad to have been there to see these Aussies run[/quote]

Yes you are absolutely right John. It was late 1970, and Terry Allan was also entered from Australia in his big block 1967 Camaro, as was Joe Chamberlain over from the US in yet another Camaro.

I think Thomson qualified quite well but struggled on the tight Bay Park layout with too much power and not enough grip. Still, that thundering big block must have left quite an impression!

Steve...it ran once at Baypark, definitely was not a front runner but looked great in a straight line and sounded better.
Glad to have been there to see these Aussies run

Time to revive this excellent thread. This is one of my all-time favorite Australian touring cars; Bryan Thomson's 427 cu.in big block 1968 Camaro. This car was built from a drag race car, which I assume at some stage had been a road car in Australia, because it was right hand drive.

Thomson's local race track was Calder Park, and he figured that as Calder was essentially a series of drag strips joined by a couple of corners, if he built a car that went like a bullet in a straight line, it'd be pretty competitive during the highly competitive Improved Production era.

Its a cool car that still exists today, although it did get pretty cut up as it evolved into a Sports Sedan in the 1970s.

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Well spotted John!

Good to see the Sidchrome Mustang still wearing Kiwi rego plates in the Land of Oz

The rather bulbous rear-end of Pete Geoghegan's Monaro, in its 1976 iteration.

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