Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login The more I look at the pics, the more I'm convinced the Scaglietti spyder at the factory is really 0468MD and not 0470MD...
The lip on the grille is deeper and badge may also be placed slightly higher on 0468/MD. I maintain that the impression on inclination of the alloy strip depends on the angle of the photo as the sides are not straight. The angle looks different on various cars in various photos, but it really isn't. If you lower the camera angle and move rearwards, the lines will align. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login OK. Let's say 0468MD and 0470MD were perfect sister cars ! More pics of our cars at the factory in winter (?) 1954. We can see among others : - first pic : Bracco (I think) standing next to our car (no mirror), yes, you will say Bracco raced 0470MD at Carrera Panamericana... - second pic : Ascari looking inside the same car. - third pic : Farina and another familiar character next to our car. Look the others cars in the background of the third pic : it looks like they have followed the serial number sequence ! - 0446MD with french blue colour (air scopes visible on hood ?), - 0454MD white with the blue diamond, - two of four sister cars : 0462MD (originally red and soon repainted in irish colours ?), 0464MD, 0468MD and 0470MD ? Which ones are the two in the pictures ? Image Unavailable, Please Login Just for the pleasure, I add a pic of 0468MD in Ethiopia just to compare with the third picture at the factory !
Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login 18-22 August 1954, Liège-Rome-Liège, Belgium-Germany-Austria-Italy-France-Belgium. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login #12 250 MM Vignale Coupe 0334MM Karl Lanz/Sagesser 29th overall #103 166 MM/53 Oblin Spyder 0300M Jacques Herzet/Lucien Bianchi DNF Winner : Image Unavailable, Please Login #86 Porsche 356 Helmut Polendry/Herbert Linge
Sorry, but the name of the winner ist Helmut Polensky/Herbert Linge... Just my 5 cents. Greetings, m. h.
Let's keep up the events from 1954! On 21.08.1954 Preis von Bremgarten (support race for 14° Großer Preis der Schweiz (Swiss GP) which would run a day later) : #86 0068 M Werner Ruf 5th #88 0440 MD Emmanuel de Graffenried pole position but DNS (driver ill). For 22.08.1954 there were the "1° 100 Milhas do Maracanã" in Rio de Janeiro and "3° GP Trullo d'Oro" in Italy.
Here. And before anybody asks, engine 0428 MD was previously stamped 0446 MD. Pix in my archive. Marcel Massini Image Unavailable, Please Login
Suffix is MD, not M. Here's the original chassis number stamping as cut out from the frame. Marcel Massini Image Unavailable, Please Login
Image Unavailable, Please Login Thanks for you interest. In fact, Bern Grand Prix was over two days : 21 and 22 August 1954. This is why I wanted to make a post tomorrow only with the Trullo d'Oro. Here are the cars I have found in my DB labelled 1954 Bern but not 100% sure : Image Unavailable, Please Login #86 212 Export Touring Barchetta 0158ED Luigi Bordonaro Raced #88 735 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0440MD Emmanuel “Toulo” de Graffenried DNS #89 212 Export Touring Barchetta 0134E Hans-Karl von Tscharner Raced Winner : Image Unavailable, Please Login #94 Alfa Romeo 412S Willie Daetwyler See the excellent Marcel's article about Berne-Bremgarten races in Cavallino #110. Robert Manzon crashed his 553 Squalo this week-end with severe injuries. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Many thanks for the 0428MD and 0562MD serial numbers ! I thought "0562" was born as 750 Monza 0562M, fitted with a 500 Mondial engine after the crash of Ascari and restamped 0562MD...
Daetwyler's Alfa Romeo on display at the Schlumpf Museum. Look at that engine ! Image Unavailable, Please Login
Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Following the Marcel's post #1640 with 0428MD chassis number stamping, here are 0440MD, 0454MD (engine), 0462MD, 0468MD and 0470MD (chassis + engine) ones for early Scaglietti spyders. Still searching 0464MD...
Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Here are also the chassis plates for 0442M and 0470MD. I have also 0468MD but I don't think it's original...
This is what I have on the "1° 100 Milhas do Maracanã" on 22-08-1954: #15 0198ET, Arthur de Souza Costa, 1st #46 750 Monza, Celso Lara Barberis, 4th A.O., 2nd in class Please note that info on South American races in the fifties is even harder to verify
