Could some one tell me the story of chass.nr (3589GT). Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Full history was published in "Cavallino" magazine, issue #60 of December 1990. Still with Swiss owner since July 1988. Restored in Switzerland. Marcel Massini
Châssis n° 3589 GT 1962 palmares -2eme,1ere Cat, GT Goodwood Easter Monday Meet (Parkes) -1ere International Trophy de Silverstone (Parkes) -1ere Grovewood Trophy à Mallory Park (Parkes) -2eme,1ere Cat, GT Scott Brown Memorial Trophy (Parkes) -1ere Peco Trophy de Brands Hatch (Parkes) -3eme Tourist Trophy de Goodwood (Parkes) -1ere 3 Heures de Snetterton (Parkes) -2eme Tourist Trophy de Nassau (Ireland) -3eme Tourist Trophy de Nassau (Ireland) -3eme Cat, GT Tourist Trophy de Nassau (Ireland) 1963 -6eme,3eme Cat, GT 12 Heures de Sebring (Ireland / Ginther) -10eme Course de Laguna Seca (Peterson) -250 Milles Challenge de Daytona (Ireland) forfait -3 Heures de Daytona Continental (Ireland) accident now in Mr Stieger colection. between 7.500.000 et 9.000.000 $ for GTO standards type 62
Frank Gallogly was able to negotiate the car away from the owner who had the car in the field, probably around 1987. We were restoring the car when it was sold to Mr Stieger in Switzerland. I met the late Innes Ireland at Watkins Glen in 1989 and he insisted the car was suppose to be sold to him instead of Frank. I believe it was run here by "Scuderia Rosebud"
I first heard of this car as a boy in 1975 when my father purchased a 300SL Gullwing from a man in Cleveland who told us there was a GTO sitting in a nearby field. So happy to see it reunited with its original bodywork.
I received the drivetrain for this car from Frank Gallogly shortly after he acquired it. Just as I had everything torn down and parts began arriving the car was sold to Steiger "as is" and it was all packed up and shipped to Switzerland. Nearly 40 years ago.
Translation of the Sefac Letter to Maranello Concessionaires re the seats. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Exactly. Just watched the video and the only missing link in the ownership narrative was that Frank Gallogly in New Jersey was the gentleman who was able to persuade Joe Kortan to sell.
Bill Victor was the person who informed me near the end of JK's ownership that, "There's a GTO outside of Cleveland- you can see it from seventy one(!)" [Interstate 71/ 'I-71'].
See link here for the Innes Ireland (1930 - 1993) Road & Track article re 3589 GT Tom Hartley Jr refers to in the video. The pics no longer work in the link but all the text is there. Innes swapped over with Colonel Ronnie Hoare to check the car when he was driving 250 GTO 3505 GT back from the factory. He was to race 3589 GT for Tom O'Connor's Rosebud Racing Team in the US later on in 1962 and 1963, then painted a lighter blue. Sadly Innes died not so long after writing the article aged 63. Mike Parkes, who'd raced 3589 GT before Innes, was killed in a road accident in Turin aged only 45.
I meant to tag Bruce @375+ at the beginning of my post as it was mainly as a direct reply to him. Not meaning to take attention away from the original subject.
It's stated in the video below by a gentleman called David Nelson, who was later involved somehow in 3589's 1986(?) sale, befriended Joe Kortan and found out the reason the GTO was left outside in Kortan's field was that his young son went into the barn where all his cars were stored during a snowstorm, fell into a window well full of snow, broke his neck, suffocated and died. Mr Kortan blamed himself and after that he left the car out in the open field on a trailer.
Nice restauration. The car when in the collection of Stieger. 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 Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
