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1965 - July - Wheels Magazine (Aus) - 1965 Bellett project 
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The Bellett received plenty of press during the 1960s and it was always better when the Bellett featured on the full-colour front cover!

Here is a scan of the "We start Project Bellett" article from Wheels Magazine from July 1965.

The car must have been fairly new as it was a 1965-spec car (no spear through the '1500' badge and the badge is not all-black). No holds barred, the people at Wheels Magazine fitted a set of extractors, a hot cam, twin carbies and a choice set of chrome stockies!

The article has been scanned fairly large so you can read it clearly. Unfortunately the first and second pages of the article have a picture of the Bellett that stretches between the two pages and as a result that picture is quite distorted. I'm not about to un-stitch my magazine, so it will have to do.

I wonder if DAS-111 still exists? Probably not given the final line of the article; 'Oversteer is the final characteristic, but everything can be corrected with small steering deflections and MORE POWER'!

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Mon Nov 03, 2008 12:15 pm
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Any chance you have the second stage of the project?


Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:23 pm
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What's strange is that I think they didn't actually do a 'Stage 2' on this car; eg continue the next month with more mods.

I think they did another article which they called 'Stage 2' a couple of years later on a 1966.5-spec car (alloy grille, hex tail lights) but I don't have a copy of that one.

If anyone has it, please scan it (high quality - good enough to fit just under the width of the page; it doesn't need to be bedsheet-sized!) and post it!

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BUMP!

Just found this buried deep in Bellett.net... I posted this around the time we started and before we kinda had the section for vintage magazine articles.

Scan is nice and big and it's no longer buried 28 pages deep! Enjoy!

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dave was that article on the lowered drane racing team car ?? I think our man from Toowoomba once owned it (the falcon man now ) cheers davo


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HI DAVE HERES THE DRANE BELLETT ARTICLE AND SOME OTHERS ..DO YOU WANT ME TO SCAN AND SEND TO YOUR HOME EMAIL ? I CAN DO THIS AR OFFICEWORKS TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT CHEERS DAVO


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NOW NORM BEECHEY CHECK THE ADD HIS EH WAS FOR SALE 1700 POUNDS ..WHATS THAT WORTH NOW ....WHO KNOWS


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OFF TO CANADA WITH A BLACK BADGED TEARDROP .....YEA JUST LIKE YOURS GARY ...


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FINISHED...ENJOY I CAN POST THE MAGS IF YOU WANT CHEERS DAVO


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SORRY GUYS BLACK BADGED ON NORM BEECHEYS MAGAZINE


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