Ferrari Sport Cars Thread

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1 October 1955, Castle Combe International, United Kingdom

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#19 735 Monza Pinin Farina Spyder 0444MD Herbert Mackay-Fraser 4th
#21 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0520M Louis Rosier 2nd

Winner :
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#7 HWM Jaguar George Abecassis

 

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2 October 1955, Treponti-Castelnuovo, Italy


Classe da 750 fino a 2000 cmc

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#132 500 Mondial Scaglietti Spyder 0446MD(0556MD) Gino Munaron 6th overall, 5th in class

#142 500 Mondial Pinin Farina Spyder 0410MD Gino Casarotto 16th overall, 8th in class

Winner :
Maserati A6GCS Francesco Giardini Officine Alfieri Maserati

 

Dear Admiral,
This makes sense. Thanks. Or why not 0556(restamped0446)/MD ? Anyway, I will remember this in the future races. Thanks again.
Best regards
Cyril

 

I do not use restamped as the chassis was never stamped anything other than 0446/MD, apparently the deal by Picard was made well in advance.
Best regards,
Robert

 

I didn't know that. Many thanks to share such an important info !
Best regards
Cyril

 

Post 2401. None of the photographs were taken at Castle Combe. Plus the lower is in fact John Bolster testing the HWM at Brands Hatch

 

First photo matches Redex Trophy grid:

Abecassis HWM-Jaguar #7 (m/1955)
Cunningham-Reid HWM-Jaguar #35 (m/1954)
MacKay-Frazer Ferrari #19
Salvadori DBS3 #25
Rosier Ferrari #21
Hamilton Jaguar D #1
Loens Maserati #51
Head Jaguar D #3

0520M only raced in there with #21, so that photo must be from Castle Combe too.

Last photo shows HWM-Jaguar m/1954, not the m/1955 raced by Abecassis in Castle Combe.

 

1952 Monaco Grand Prix:

 

16 October 1955, Grand Premio Sport de Cuba
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#3 225 S Vignale Coupe 0168ED Santiago Gonzalez/Gilberto Hernandez 1st overall

Pic from the 1955 Yearbook.

 

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16 October 1955, Targa Florio, Italy

Sixth round of the 1955 World Sportscar Championship

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#74 500 Mondial Scaglietti Spyder 0534MD (?) Antonio Pucci/Franco Cortese DNF Scuderia Ferrari
#100 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0514M Luigi Piotti/Franco Cornacchia DNF
#110 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0484LM Carroll Shelby/Gino Munaron DNF
#116 857 S Scaglietti Spyder 0570M Eugenio Castellotti/Robert Manzon 3th Scuderia Ferrari
#120 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0578M Umberto Maglioli/Sergio Sighinolfi DNF Scuderia Ferrari

750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0568M DNS Scuderia Ferrari

108 750 Monza Scaglietti Spyder 0530M Luigi Bordonaro/Enrico Anselmi DNS
114 250 MM Berlinetta Pinin Farina 0316MM (?) Melchiore Scaminaci/Antonio di Salvo DNS

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#104 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Stirling Moss/Peter Collins Daimler Benz AG

 

Hello
0568M wasn't in service in 1955; I think it's from 1956.

 

0568M didn’t race at 1956 Targa Florio.
It seems it was used as spare car by the factory in 1955…

 

I have this race as 2° Carrera Sagua - Habana (GP Sport of Cuba) on 10 October 1955 and the result as 2nd AO / 1st in class Sports

 

10 October 1955 was a monday, 16 october a sunday...
But it's also true 10 October is an independance day so who knows ?

 

Confirmation of the 10th october date for the Sagua-Habana races in the article from « Excelencias del MOTOR » here :

https://www.hobbiesenred.com/automovilismo.html

Regarding #110 at the Targa Florio, is it sure it was not Parravano’s Monza 0538 M ?

 

Yes of course ! Why did I write this ? Thanks for the correction !

 

It was 0538M, wind screen is very different.

 

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0484LM...

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0538M...

 

I know this is off topic but the discussion regarding 0538/M brings to mind an interesting event in the late fall of 1990. A man by the name of Bill Shaker had a sports car which he had driven to and from work in California for several years. He contacted Allie Ash then of Ferrari of Washington as to what the car was. Allie suggested that Shaker contacted me which he did. I then visited a shop in Leesburg where the car was being serviced. Clearly a custom body on a recognizable Ferrari chassis but Chevy powered. With permission I started my search for numbers. A water pump pulley obscured the normal chassis number stamping position on the front cross member so off came the belt and pulley, and with little sandpaper work the stamped number 0538/M appeared. See pencil rubbing below. I then removed the seats and the transaxle cover to check the transaxle serial number which turned out to be 48/S with was a 5 speed non-synchro transaxle used in the 1955 500 Mondials S2 and 750 Monzas. He had promised his son that he could take his date to the High School prom but that did not happen. While getting the car out of his garage to go to the 1991 Ferrari Club of America National Meet it rolled backward into the fender his Volvo so the body at the meet reflected the damage. He then sold the car to David Smith. David spend a full afternoon with tape measures and a camera under my car in Arlington because the Chevy installation had moved all semblance of the original motor mounts, and he knew my chassis was also a tipo 509. The rest of the Parravano car story is well known.



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Now back to the 1955 storyline.

Best regards,

Robert

 

Dear Admiral,
Many thanks to share with us this very interesting story. I see 0538/MD ! WOAW !!! My head hurts !!
Best regards
Cyril

 

Not too well, Pat Bryan raced it til 1962, 10 years later it appeared with 1971 Michigan plates and then we find it with Bill Shaker in CA/USA. Who owned it in early 1970s?
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Dear Kare,
Can't help as I did not ask Bill Shaker how long he had the car.
Best regards,
Robert

 

23 october 1955 Verbois, Switzerland

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#29 166 MM Touring Berlinetta Le Mans 0048M Marcel Willemin 1st in class fino a 2000 cmc

Classe oltre 2000 cmc

# 212 Export Touring Barchetta 0134E Hans-Karl von Tscharner 1st in class oltre 2000 cmc