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Several details of your pic show an early 1960 SWB. I think 1773GT.

 

Definitely, and the TR could be Connell's 0724TR. (edit: Boudewijn's right: it is 0730TR).

 

You're right about the SWB (no86), it's 1773GT driven by Bob Hathaway to 7th OA. No41 is 0730TR driven by Litchie again.

 

As far as I'm aware, Millanta's daughter still has his entire files.

 

I LOVE this car! It's one of the kind of cars that is so ugly that it is stunningly beautiful. Thanks for posting photos of it!!

Stu


http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/1232/ms640fos20054ny.jpg

 

Yes, the family has the pix but they ask US$ 600 per photo which you can NOT keep and which you MUST return............and if you publish any pix you have to pay an additional fee...........
Marcel Massini

 

Price of the brand new 512 S #1002 along with a wide set of racing accesories, was 40.000 $USA on April 3rd 1970.

 

the jochen rindt show 1970 was 14.-22. November !

so what car s/n is it ?

 

another pic from the back - maybe it helps !
(the boy touching the car with big eyes is me !)
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1026 had #21 in sebring 1970 but was destroyed during filming of "le mans". i think this happened before nov. 1970.

 

Hi David,

I think you mean Cuba, not Puerto Rico. #36 should be Bob Hurt in 250TR59 s/n 0766TR during the Cuban Grand Prix.

-Jarrett

 

It has to be Puerto Rico...see this link for results.

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:TRUgoHqTzFUJ:wsrp.wz.cz/laraces1962.html+11.11.1962+GP+Puerto+Rico&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

#39 is Heimrath
#36 is Hurt

Besides I don't think the atmosphere in Fidel's Cuba in the fall of 1962 (or anytime post-Batista) was condusive to rich gringos in race cars...

 

Maybe it was Puerto Rico and not Cuba, was the Cuban GP at Havana not run after 1960? I don't put my complete faith in internet race results and unfortunately I don't have my books here to check. Can anyone confirm this?

-Jarrett

 

From checking in the Tom Burnside book "American Racing", it appears that the Castro revolution had a lot of impact on the Cuba GP. Here is a brief synopsis.

In 1957-58 the race was run in the streets of Havana including a stretch along the famous Malecon waterfront. In '57 Fangio beat de Portago who dominated until fuel line problems forced him from the lead. Shelby was second ahead of a recovering de Portago.

In '58, Fangio was kidnapped by Castro's revolutionaires, and the race was marred by a crash when a car driven by Cifuentes went into the crowd.

In 1959 the race was cancelled due to the political unstability.

In 1960, the Castro government did support a week-long revival of the race at an airport racetrack that also utilized the surrounding support roads. It also offered better/safer crowd control over the Havana street track. Moss won in a Camoradi Maserati birdcage.

Here is a link to some of Burnside's great photos from Cuba...also check out his other galleries.

http://www.tomburnside.com/cat.asp

check these threads for more info on the Cuban races:

http://forums.autosport.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=71966&highlight=1958+cuba

http://forums.autosport.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16610&highlight=1958+cuba

After 1960 I cannot find anything.

 

Does anybody know where the race was held in Puerto Rico? I lived on the navel base in San Juan in 1962, but I was only 10.

Dale

 

beautifull, seems the Pan Am or Targa Florio, same spirit.
may be one day those pics will become unrealist.

 

It' a D.B. Panhard HBR5; entrants : Charles Deutsch et René Bonnet; drivers : Robert Bouharde - François Jaeger; 19e OA

 

Is that a Corvair that I see in the middle of the pack? Some guy really wanted to go racing.