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Sweet!
Is she really that quiet?

 

Very interesting stuff here. My research into the T V. acusition of the slipper type bearing comes from the post WW2 efforts by the U S to rebuild Europe. The Marshall Plan is the most well known of these efforts. I have never heard the story of T.V. going to America and sitting on a couch at Clevite.From what I know of T.V. he was capable of alsmost anything so this story may well have legs. My recolection of the story is that these bearings were designed and built for use in American aircraft engines of many types used in all types of WW2 military aircraft. T.V.had knowedge of these possibly thru Ramponi who spent the war years in England and after the war applied for a licence to manufacture them. As part of the U S rebuilding effort he was granted this license. He realised quickly that these bearing were a great improvement on the traditional white metal bearings.Rampponi, with his extensive pre war connections, was hired by several British companies, including Vandervel ,to represent their products on the Continent and so the meeting with Ferrari, probably in late 1946 or 1947..In closing one of the interesting "Reparations" stories is that The Bristol CO. in England was granted rights to the BMW 328 engine and so the Bristol engine that was so successful in the AC Bristol cars. just one man's opinion tongascrew

 

The story of his couch sit in (6 days apparently) is the introduction of the feature on Vanwall in the May 2003 issue of Motorsport, Vol LXXIX No 5.

 

Very serious looking craftsmen......looking great!!!

 

Impressive photo series. Interesting to see 2 Millanta books laying for reference, or is it just one?

 

Awesome pics Jim!

 

The book on the right is Ferrari 1947-2007 L'opera e il sogno part 1, page 44/45.

 

Extraordinaires photos. magnifique, merveilleux.
De véritables Artistes ces hommes qui reconstruisent de tels Bijoux.

J'aime les étincelles de la meuleuse, et l'arc du tig/mig.

 

The book on the left is Ferrari Automobili 1947-1953 by Millanta.Orsini.Zagari pag .68 - 69

 

A nice set of photos. It would be neat to ID these 2:
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...Italian Historic Car Cup...????
MPC

 

Just bumping up this great thread if I may

Jim, I was digging through my old collection and found this

March 1997
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Posted a while ago, but my dad used to drive this car in college. My grandpa bought the car from Stan (or vice versa) and it was delivered in a dump truck. My dad says they paid $150 for it. I've got photos of it around here somewhere. When I find them, I'll post.

 

Great!!!
I was waiting for news about this car...
She's growing very well!
MPC

 

beautiful. you had to be damn inflated to drive such car.
and the girl over there at the bottom. . . she thinks what


magnifique. il fallait être sacrément gonflé pour piloter de telles voiture.
et la fille là bas au fond. . . elle en pense quoi

 

Just got a copy of this mag. If anyone wants a copy of the article send me your PO address. just one man's opinion tongascrew

 

Hmmm, elbow room cutout looks different to the magazine article. I assume you are correcting this detail based on period photos. That must be challenging with so many so called experts

Wonderful metal work again.
Pete