Alessandro Gerelli sends his favorites from this year’s Oldtimer event at the Nurburgring on August 12-14. Captions by staff.
ABARTH
The Abarth service van based on the Fiat Multipla helped stranded Abarth owners in the 1960s.
The Abarth OT was designed by Mario Colucci and introduced in 1965 as a 1300 cc prototype. The fiberglass body was by Sibona and Basano.
Abarth Simca 1300. In 1962, Abarth began using the stronger and larger Simca chassis with his own engines, which came in 1300, 1600 and 2000 cc.
Abarth Osellas were 2 liter sports racers built by Vincenzo Osella for the 1973 season equipped with a 16 valve Abarth four. It won at the Ring in 1973.
FERRARI
The 1958 250 Testa Rossa won for the Scuderia Ferrari at Buenos Aires, Sebring, Le Mans and the Targa Florio. But many more successes were achieved as private entries in the U.S.
The last front engined Ferrari Grand Prix car, the 256 F1 dating from 1959-1960, was not a success but won at France and Germany in 1959 and finally, at Monza in 1960 with Phil Hill driving.
Carlo Chiti's rear engined Ferrari, unveiled in 1961, was the 246 SP. The look alike 196 SP was for the two liter class, the 286 a three liter version.
Ferrari's 2 liter Dino 196 SP in 1959 still sported a front engine. It was outclassed by the Maserati 200 SI and the Porsche RSKs.
MASERATI
Maserati 250F Streamliner. We hope to have more on this unusual car in the near future. See Mr. Hofer's remarks below.
Maserati's last stand, the Tipo 63 or Supercage. It was as successful as it's appearance might indicate.
The classic 250F. No matter what the angle, there is simply nothing that says Italian Racing than the 250F.
The 250F minus its transaxle. The de Dion tube can be clearly seen here. We can bet the mechanics did not get much sleep during the night.
ALSO SEEN
The Alfa P3 won the 1935 German Grand Prix driven by Tazio Nuvolari. The great driver died in 1953, but the car and track live on.
Alfa made a wide variety of truck and vans. This one is from the 1970s and set up as a Red Cross vehicle.
A Fiat 2300 station wagon, or famigliare from the late 60s set up as a coffee shop. Nice, but those wheels...
The last of a long line of Talbots appeared in 1956; this a T14 LS special for sale at the Arts and Revs.
The website for the Oldtimer’s event is http://www.avd.de/ogpracing
all nice photos but for a interesting one of the FIAT Multipla (1000 Miglia 2011) visit my FaceBook page (pasportphoto: my left eye).
Very nice photo and good report, but the Fiat Multipla Abarth that appear its a fake
Abarth make some service Multipla with this color but with many different details:
example the Abarth decals on the front door its not of the period , also the front mask (radiator) grille its not original etc. etc .I will send you original and detailed photo of the period. Best regards
Patrizio Cantù
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Thank you for the nice picture of my Maserati 250F at the Nürburgring 2011. As usual, facts even if they are wrong are rewritten without checking. I bought the remains of this car 1967 at the Maserati Factory and it had chassis # 2510 which it retains of course. Chassis # 2518 is an Interim car (A6GCM) in the Ownership of Mr. Baulino. Neither my car nor Mr. Baulinos car has ever been destroyed in a Factory fire. On my car the intact bodywork was cut off due to problems of sidewinds at Reims 1956. I would be happy to prove all those facts by pictures and documents.
Kindest regards
KR.Com.E. Hofer
Re Mr Hofer’s comments on the Maserati 250F Streamliner in your September 2011 newsletter. I am the editor for newsletter of the Classic Motor racing Club of New Zealand, and doing some research for an article on the 250F’s that came to NZ. I would like very much to correspond with Mr Hofer on his car. Like him I see problems with the conventional wisdom on the origin of his car. We also have a car in a NZ museum that also does not appear to match the conventional wisdom of its origin. The two may well be related.
Please pass on my contact details to Mr Hofer and my request for him to contact me on this matter.