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By Pete Vack
From the VeloceToday Archives, August, 2016
The last automotive star of the movie The Racers has been found and is now under restoration and being readied for Pebble Beach 2017. The Vignale-bodied 1400 Fiat had a very brief role in the movie. It was difficult for even the hard core among us to determine exactly what make and model it was.
Montage image from photographer Piergiorgio Bardi aka Häaden 2 Como, Italy
Story and Montage by Peter Darnall
Additional photos from the collection of Dale LaFollette
Alfa Romeo Tipo C #50013 . . . The Hans Ruesch Era
The 1936 racing season brought victories for the Tipo C Alfa Romeos against the German Silver Arrows at Penya Rhin, Milan, and Budapest. The new monoposto showed it could compete with the Teutonic rivals—at least on tight winding courses when pushed to the absolute limit by Tazio Nuvolari. Italian hopes were high as the cars lined up for the start of the Coppa Ciano on August 2, 1936. No one could have known at that time, but Nuvolari was about to put on a virtuoso performance which would rank as one of the greatest drives of all time. [Read more…] about Hans Ruesch and the Alfa Tipo 8C35
As Found Classic Number Twenty Four
By Pete Vack
The last automotive star of the movie The Racers has been found and is now under restoration and being readied for Pebble Beach 2017. The Vignale-bodied 1400 Fiat had a very brief role in the movie. It was difficult for even the hard core among us to determine exactly what make and model it was. [Read more…] about As Found Classic Number 24: The Racers Fiat Vignale
What is it and where is it? All part of the legend of “The Racers”.
Zealous car hunters and restorers have long ago discovered the chassis numbers, whereabouts, and current fate of the Maseratis, Ferraris and HWM that were the stars of the legendary 1954 classic movie “The Racers”.
But there was one car that had a small role in the movie and was perhaps as beautiful as the female lead in the movie, Bella Darvi. And now, that too, has been discovered.
Or so we think. Find out next week and perhaps our readers can help us determine if it’s the real thing. In the meantime, with image artist, writer and photographer Peter Darnall’s help we offer up this story about the book and the movie to provide some background to the recent find. [Read more…] about Cars and Stars of The Racers