Tuboscocca Chassis

Can anybody post a good photo of a bare Tuboscocca chassis? I would appreciate the help. Trying to sort out the 225 Sport series of cars.

 

Mario:

I think that is a Tuboscocca chassis. What is the chassis number of the car in the photos?

 

Marcel: Thank you for the suggestions. I had no luck with my Touring book, and I do not have any books about Gilco, but the 1952 yearbook does have a photo of a 340 Mexico chassis that should be a Tuboscocca design.

 

Below are three photos I have now found of Tuboscocca chassis. It is actually the front half of the chassis that is unique, as it is three dimensional. Another easily identifiable feature is the large RECTANGULAR tubes at either end of the firewall. This and the diagonal supports along side the engine compartment should make these chassis easy to identify.

As to Mario's photos of 0180 ET (thank you Steve for the I.D.) it appears to be a Tuboscocca chassis with all the upper framing cut off. You can still see the bottoms of the rectangular tubes at each end of the firewall.

The Gilco advertisement is from the 1952 Ferrari Yearbook (thank you Marcel) and the other two photos are from the internet with an unidentified source. Though I suspect they may be from a book about Gilco Autotelai.
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Steve: It is not that simple, the ET suffix does NOT define the Tuboscocca chassis. Only actual photos of the individual chassis' themselves or the Build Sheets will tell the truth.

 

I agree, ET probably stands for Export Tubolare. However, there are cars with an ED suffix that have Tuboscocca chassis (more than one). I think Ferrari, at that time, was so busy in so many areas and the cars were developing so fast that they could not keep up with assigning numbers to chassis, only to find the chassis that actually was delivered did not match the number suffix. To them, it really did not matter at the time.

 

Steve: Don't know for sure, still working on them. Don't have all the Build Sheets nor good chassis photos for some of them.

 

Timo: Marcel showed me the book about Gilco (Gilberto Colombo) which appears to have a number of photos and blueprints of Ferrari chassis up to the late 1950s. After that time, Vaccari became the chassis supplier. I am not aware of a book related to Vaccari. So far, I have not found a copy of the Gilco book for purchase.