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I have that photo as Birmingham in June 1963.

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0893 GT:
The driver was Bob Birmingham, not the track.
The track was Elkhart Lake, WI/USA, Road America June Sprints on 22 June 1963.
Birmingham placed 14th OA and 2nd in class.

Marcel Massini

 

I had contact with the owner of the 1958 TDF winner(originally 1033GT) couple weeks ago seems his car has far he remember from the documents he have was renumbered somewhere in 1960 or 61 to 1523GT.

 

Hi Marcel - that detail is in the photo description

 

Post 726 says this:

"I have that photo as Birmingham in June 1963."

From that sentence I thought you mean Birmingham, Alabama, racetrack.
That's why I supplied more details.

Marcel Massini

 

but tour de Belgique (with van Dosselacre ?)
do you have a date for this event?
thank you

 

9 November 1959.
The correct name of the co-driver was Guy van Dooselaere (a.k.a. "Buffin", alias name).

Marcel Massini

 

Merci Monsieur.

 

I have only this information: 18 may 1958 GP Spa.

 

GP de Spa. 0509GT is n°36

 

I wasn t born at this time...
It was the information I had for this picture.

 

See post 732.

Marcel Massini

 

my certainly incomplete and outdated information (from Jess Pourret's 250GT competition book) does not mention any racing activity for 0509GT after 1958, nor Spa GP in 1958 (there is a Namur GP listed).
The 250 GT mentioned for the 1958 Spa GT are 0749GT, 0879GT, 0731GT, 0805GT and 0707GT; there is a car for Léon Dernier for which the chassis number is not given. The race numbers are 33, 28, 31, 32 and 35 for Dernier's car. I suppose Dernier's car could have been 0509GT (although it's not mentioned in the 1958 Spa report nor in 509GT's racing history) since that car has been apparently shared between Blaton and Dernier.
Or as mentioned in post #735, 0509GT could have been racing number 36 (which would make sense given the other racing numbers mentioned for the 250GT, from 28 to 35) and could have been overlooked for not achieving any result in the race (although retired cars are mentioned for other races).
Of course my documentation (and my resulting education) is very limited, but maybe these details could be of some interest for some readers - for those not needing them, please forgive the waste of reading time

 

0509 GT raced until at least May 1960.

Marcel Massini

 

0509gt from Spencer Modes.

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Post Spa 1958 I have this for 0509 GT . Corrections welcomed.

1/6/1958 - 1000 kms Nurburgring #41 24th OA and 1st GT3.0 Beurlys(Jean Blaton) - Elde(Leon Dernier)
6/7/1958 - Cote d'Andenne #??? 3rd in class Blary (Armand Blaton)
17/8/1958 - Course de Cote de Charleroi, Bomeree. #105 Blary(Armand Blaton) 2nd?
17/8/1958 - Course de Cote de Charleroi, Bomeree. #106 Beurlys(Jean Blaton) winner?
5/10/1958 - Côte de Namur. #??? Blary(Armand Blaton) Winner
9/11/1958 - Tour de Belgique. #2 Beurlys(Jean Blaton)- Van Dosselaere DNF
31/5/1959 - Course de Cote de Charleroi, Bomeree. #150 Beurlys(Jean Blaton) 6th
15/5/1960 - Course de Cote de Charleroi, Bomeree. #124 Roggemans 4th IC ????
15/5/1960 - Course de Cote de Charleroi, Bomeree. #129 Vertomen 2nd IC ????

 

Didn't Giovanardi use 0509GT in 1958? ??

 

No, he did not.
Giovanardi sold 0509 GT 8 May 1957 in Italy.

Marcel Massini

 

sorry. 1956/ 1957. of course

 

So #2 it was in nov 1958. Great info. Thank you.

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04/05/58 course de côte de Dinant # 103 J. Blaton and # 106 A. Blaton
11/05/58 Course de côte d'Herbeumont # ? J. Blaton
05/10/58 Rallye d'automne # 2 J. Blaton and A. Blaton
20/07/59 km lancé d'Anvers # ? A. Blaton
The car was crashed at Spa in 1958 (?) ,car was at Garage Francorchamps in May 58 front crash and already repaired at the 1000km of the Nurburgring 58 . Rallye plate seem to be Omnium de Belgique .
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where, when how
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Tour de France Auto, April 1993, Georges Frey/JR Aebi, 250 GT LWB TdF Single Louvre 1143 GT.

 

1143 GT at the Tour Auto 1992.

Marcel Massini

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