Definitely not a known touring car.
4 raced at Bathurst. 3 teardrop taillight, 1 square taillight.
1 teardrop in 65 was white with sections of red tape covering the signage that wasn't allowed to be visible. 2 teardrops in 66 but one was blue and one was pale green. None were red with white pillars. The whereabouts of none of them is known but the 65 car is thought to have been scrapped to build the blue 66 car as the 65 car was also a rally car that was bashed to death...
The 1 square taillight was white with a red stripe and pillars. The whereabouts of this car is known.
None of the Bathurst cars ever had a roll cage in them either.
There were 3 factory built sedans imported to race as well. They were real hot rods with many mods. All were teardrop taillight but all were white. Each just had a different colour stripe (1 green, 1 gold or 2 thin red). Again none ever had a roll cage. 2 of the 3 are known to be lost but 1 is missing. It is very easily identified tho as it had a special body unlike a normal sedan.
Bob Drane had 2. A red teardrop taillight and then a pale blue square taillight. The red one was written off very early on and all the good bits put into the later blue one. That one was then written a while later when it was a road car.
I'd suggest this was either a club race or rally car. Seeing as it and a cage it some stage it may of also had a CAMS logbook as books were not required before 1967 for touring cars and cages were not required before 1969. If it did have a book issued then CAMS will have a record of it so get onto them (ask for Keith Simpson at the head office in Melbourne) and give him the chassis number. He can look into it from there.
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