Captions and Photos by Alessandro Gerelli
A further look at this year’s Oldtimer Grand Prix, held on August 10-11 2013, including the best of the Coy’s Auction.
Branca F Jr, 1963.
The Cosworth engine of the Branca.
Stanguellini, 1959.
Volpini Fiat, 1958.
Just few of the many cars racing in this category on the grid.
Nose to Tail
The Alfa Romeo Niki Lauda: a special edition of Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce as a tribute to Lauda, attending the Alfa Romeo owners meeting.
Some of of the many GTs attending the Alfa meeting.
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And some of the many Spider at this year event.
The traditional picture of the noses of few of the many Ferraris attending the owners club meeting.
Oddities
Wilson tennis balls in the air intakes of the Alfa 33/2.
Yellow eyes for this Talbot of 1931.
Nice leather bag for this old Alfa, businessman's express?
Coys
Fiat Giannini 595 GP 1975
Fiat 501 Sport Silvani 1926
Lancia Aprilia Riva Spider 1946
Moretti 750 spider Bialbero Michelotti 1954
Alfa Romeo 6C1750 Turismo body by Barbini 1930.
Ferrari NART not for sale
Alfa Romeo 6C 2500S Pinin Farina Cabriolet 1946
Maserati MC12 Corsa 2005
Abarth SP 1600 Spider 1967
Alfasud Jolly Club Group 2 1979 (entrant to Monte Carlo Rally 1980)
Ferrari 360N-GT 1999
Lancia Appia Zagato passo corto 1963
Repetto Formula Monza 1969
Just a small annotation as the official auction-catalogue wasn’t very diligent on regard :
attentive followers might have already noticed, the Maserati MC 12 Corsa was publicly announced only in 2006 and the one presented here, sporting production number 004, was delivered only in spring 2007 to his lucky owner
Great photos and nice to see our old Volpini! I’ve never been able to find good info on that Moretti 750, does anyone know details or the owner?
I was there and it was a wonderfull event!
The Nurburgring is a fantastic place even if the new facilities including a never used roller coaster show how difficult it is to exploit even this world famous racetrack.
The track itself was awesome with many stands with great views. The (german speaking) speaker was humoristically enthusiastic he explaned among other things to the fans the working of the alternator (lichtmaschine). In depth!
Great cars besides the well known pre ’65 GT cars like the late ’70s and early ’80’s touring cars classes with cars the like of Porsche’s 935, Capri Turbo, BMW E21 Turbo’s and numerous BMW M1’s.
When compaired to the classic SPA event (6 heures) there is more to entertain you during the three days of racing. Top!
I was pleased to see the Alfasud Jolly Club rally car at the Coys auction. Perhaps this will move the ‘Sud, a fine piece of Italian engineering into the collector world.