Geoghegan’s Ford Cortina edged Beechey’s EH Holden to the 1964 title, before Beechey hit back with a Ford Mustang to win the 1965 crown. The black with central red and yellow stripe will be joined by primary backing from Mongrel Boots aboard the car he will share with Brad’s son Macauley Jones. BRAD Jones Racing has opted to use the Sandown 500 Retro Round to pay tribute to Australian touring car legend, Norm Beechey. “I think the Supercars ‘Retro Round’ is a great throwback to the early days of touring car racing in Australia. Pic: Brad Jones Racing, The No. Brad Jones Racing's Norm Beechey tribute for 2017 Sandown 500 retro round. “Norm and his wife Marg were friends of our parents, as were many competitors from the 70s so it makes the tribute a very personal one for us.” Beechey won seven of the 31 ATCC rounds that he competed in between 1963 and 1972 and has largely kept a low profile since his retirement. Beechey’s Monaro is now owned by the Bowden family. Beechey competed in the Australian Touring Car Championship from 1963 to 1972 winning the title in 1965 driving a Ford Mustang and in 1970 at the wheel of a Holden Monaro. 8 Holden will adopt the Tridents Racing Team colours carried by Beechey’s Chevy Nova in 1967. 21 for the No. 8 Mongrel Boots Holden, a tribute to Beechey’s Chevy Nova. 4 that was Beechey’s signature number, and the same number his Mustang carried to its championship victory at Sandown in 1965. Pic: Brad Jones Racing. Tim Slade’s Freightliner Commodore pays tribute to his 1970 title, bearing the same yellow with red stripe that Beechey’s ‘Australian Made’ Monaro wore in its championship-winning year. This is also known as Online Behavioural Advertising. “And hopefully on the podium,” Beechey said. “There’s a photo of me as a youngster sitting on the guard of the Chevy Nova with Norm and Peter Manton. Jones brothers Brad and Kim regularly enjoyed Beechey’s exploits at the long-defunct Hume Weir circuit near Albury, and were family friends with Beechey and his wife through Jones’ dad’s presidency of the Albury-Wodonga Car Club which ran the circuit. Norman … Norm Beechey is a retired Australian race car driver, who was given the nickname "Stormin Norman" by his fans. Norman Beechey was born in 1889, at birth place, to George Albert Beechey and Eliza Beechey. Geoghegan prevailed in 1966 with a Mustang of his own, while Beechey led the 1967 title race at Lakeside before a blown tyre handed the title to Geoghegan. Norm Beechey and Jim McKeown at Symmons Plains in February 1968… Both the Chev Nova and injected Lotus Cortina Mk2 were top-liners in 1968 albeit the one race Australian Touring Car Championship was won again that year by Pete Geoghegan’s Ford Mustang from Darrell King, Morris Cooper S and Alan Hamilton’s just arrived in the country Porsche 911S/T. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. Pic: Brad Jones Racing, Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. 75 Freightliner Holden, a tribute to Beechey’s Monaro. Pic: Brad Jones Racing. Norm and his wife Marg were friends of our parents, as were many competitors from the '70s so it makes the tribute a very personal one for us.”. Nick Percat’s No. “I’m honoured that the Jones Brothers are representing some of my liveries and they have done a great job bringing them to life on the modern-day Supercar.”. Beechey’s crowning glory came in 1970, when he fought off Geoghegan’s Mustang, Allan Moffat’s Coca-Cola Trans-Am Mustang and Bob Jane’s Chevy Camaro to win the championship aboard a Holden Monaro, the first time an Australian car had won the Australian Touring Car Championship. “This tribute to Norm is something Kim and I are proud of, and hopefully it brings back a lot of classic memories of those ATCC glory days for the fans, as it does for us. Beechey and Geoghegan were the chief adversaries throughout the one-race era of the Australian Touring Car Championship in a variety of machinery. Norman had 7 siblings: Rose Warner , Thomas Charles Beechey and 5 other siblings . Beechey was a stalwart of touring car racing in its formative days in the 1960s, claiming a brace of titles and seven race wins and going toe-to-toe with drivers like Allan Moffat, Bob Jane and Pete Geoghegan. The No. Beechey’s Mustang in action at Mallala in 1965. A NOTE ABOUT RELEVANT ADVERTISING: We collect information about the content (including ads) you use across this site and use it to make both advertising and content more relevant to you on our network and other sites. The car will also change numbers for the weekend, dropping the Jones’ traditional No. 4 CoolDrive Holden, a tribute to Beechey’s Ford Mustang. 75 for the weekend in honour of Freightliner’s 75 years in the truck and transport industry. Pic: Brad Jones Racing, Manton and Beechey with a very young Brad Jones. Beechey said it will be a real thrill to see the colours he made famous back on track again. The No. I believe all motorsport fans have a fond memory like that, and that’s certainly one of mine,” Brad Jones said. The car, which Slade will share with Enduro Cup co-driver Ash Walsh, will also adopt the No. Tim Blanchard and Todd Hazelwood’s Cooldrive Holden will wear blue with white GT stripes in honour of the Neptune Racing Team colours worn by Beechey’s title-winning Ford Mustang. To some, he was the closest thing Holden had to a star racing driver, before Peter Brock.

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