Corrina Fendt's cycle fendered Bandini.
Next week both SportsCar Digest and VeloceToday will present all the cars with voting numbers so that you, our readers, can select your favorite Etceterini. We’re glad it’s you and not us, because everyone one is a joy to behold. We’d vote for them all. But do limit your voting to only one, sorry.
Fendt Bandini
By Cliff Reuter
The early history of this fantastic Bandini is shrouded in mystery but we do know that George Tipsward began racing it in 1957 at venues like Elkhart Lake, VIR, and Lawrenceville and that he finished 7th in the SCCA national points standings that year.
Apparently the car was sent to the US with cycle fenders and tack/bolt on fenders. It was raced in the US with a Crosley 750cc engine which it still retains today.
It has just come off a full restoration by D&D Classics.
Cockpit, Fendt Bandini
Siata 1400 Coupe
A photo of the Voorhees Siata prior to restoration.
By Peter Voorhees, owner
Ovidio Capelli, a Fiat agent in Milano with close connections to the factory is registered as the first owner of this rare 1400 Siata. By May of 1954 Roberto Montali of Ancona owned the car. Montali had some previous Mille Miglia experience and he entered this car in the 1954 Mille Miglia and again in the 1955 Mille Miglia, neither time finishing. He sold the car and after passing through at least one other owner it wound up at that dealer in Milano where Al Maggiacomo bought it. After passing through a few other hands, the Siata wound up in a New Paltz, N.Y. junkyard, and eventually arrived in Vermont in the possession of Dave DuBrul, and then it was my turn. A number of people have said that the body must be Michelotti/Vignale but others have pointed to construction details that are not typical of Vignale. It has Fiat 1400 mechanicals but it has a tubular frame utilizing round, square and oval tubing. Restoration process has been slow, however. I’ve been telling my friends “This is the Year!” and now we hope to complete the job before Amelia. Wish us luck!!
The Siata only a few months ago.