Norm Beechey won the 1965 Australian Touring Car Championship in his Mustang. The ATCC was contested as a single race, rather than a multi-race series. Bob Jane, in another Mustang, took pole position, while Beechey had a troubled qualifying and started down the grid. But he quickly moved forward to take a lead he would not relinquish.
Both the Beechey and Jane Mustangs were built using parts ordered from Shelby American. Group 2 Mustangs could essentially run the same mechanical components as the Shelby GT350 R-model race cars, and everything was available for these cars through the Shelby American parts catalogue. In addition, both Beechey and Jane ran a Shelby Cobra intake set-up with a quartet of 2-barrel Weber carburetors as opposed to the single 4-barrel fitted to the GT350 R-model.
This neat publicity photo was taken by John Stanley, showing the Neptune Racing Team, also comprising the Mini Cooper S of Peter Manton, and the Lotus Cortina of Jim McKeown. Note Beechey's Mustang is wearing steel wheels here. He would ultimately switch to magnesium American Racing Wheels.
