Looking at You Tube and there is a clip on what was?? the Bob Jane 67 Mustang 390. From callanrs2000.
From my memory the car was totalled by Chris Bauer a couple of years after its debut.
Now it has turned up at PI this year 'restored'
It was used on speedway for several years up to 76 by Dale Button from Mt Gambier where like most it was bashed to death. I remember the car racing.
I researched 'Bob Jane 67 Mustang' on google and there is web page about it and the pics of how it was found after sitting in a paddock for a couple of decades. Beat to death and rusted to death. This would not be the only speedway sedan built from a wrecked road race car.
In the 70s most were built from wrecks. I crewed on a EH, then a HD and eventually a HQ Monaro 4 dr. The EH was bought as an existing car. The l/r chassis rail was replaced with 2" square tube and the boot floor was the remants of a Prince Skyline door. When we updated to a HD so as to run twin carbs with the then visually standard rules on engines. The shell had had a very hard hit in the front and was in a creek at a hills motor wreckers. A pair of Y frames were obtained. Pick up points beaten back in shape and then we used the EH rollcage [the floors are entirely different and the EH front suspension etc. Steering box was FE which bolted in to both of those models. So lik most speedway cars was built from wrecking yards.
A few were diffeent. The Skyline was built from a tatty road car. When the rules extended to V8s which had been banned hee in SA one bloke bought a brand new povery LH Torana and built and SLR5000. The mechanicals ofcourse were bought where ever. Late 70 early 80s a main road wrecker had about 10 brand new 'body in white' HQ Coupe shells which ended up on speedway.
The 4 door Monaro we built started life as a HQ taxi which in 75 already had a rusty floor. And had been hit in the front. That was a half decent shell, a write off but the shell was straight and that is all we got, a shell with a front chassis. All the front stuff was scrounged, all lightly damaged. Ended up using brand new GMH door skins.
I guess my question is WHAT was left to build this car from? The shell was stuffed, the 67 mechanicals long gone as were the wheels etc.
This is way different to the Bob Jane Camaro which was rebuilt from what it became as a drag car. But the original cage and shell were still there and rebuilt by Miles Johnson [Thunder 427] Or the Jane HQ couple rebuilt from a Sports Sedan back to a touring car or when it even comes out the Beechey Mustang also being saved from a drag career. All 3 of those cars while much modified were identifiable and the basic car rebuilt.
This 67 must have been rebuilt around a couple of bolts.
Does anyone else know anything about this car 54 years after it was written off.
If they save this the HDT Beast should be able to be recreated after several years in speedway with Chris Taylor from Geelong
