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GP Talbot Darracq: The Cars

January 6, 2010 By stu

vt-1.jpg Anderson out with the restored Talbot Darracq. Photo by Vince Johnson.

Story by Pete Vack

Stuart Anderson remembers the day in 1988 he finally laid eyes on the old blue single seater. “The car was in scruffy condition and was rescued from a shed locked up like Fort Knox. It was buried under junk and festooned with creepers, but amazingly, nothing was broken.” Anderson had persuaded Jack Day’s de-facto widow to part with the car, which had been interred for over twenty years. Day had bought it in 1949 and installed a Wilson pre selector gearbox and 16 inch wheels. It was then garaged and almost forgotten, one of the lost treasures of Australia. [Read more…] about GP Talbot Darracq: The Cars

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