And it might be ligged.....
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Ken this the Australian BMC Works Team arriving at Bathurst for the annual 500 mile race.
http://autopics.com.au/66786-the-thr...bathurst-1967/
Fantastic 1:43rd model of the 1956 Ford F600 "Neil Scott's Transport" Car Carrier. This model is available from www.spr-models.co.nz
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Not sure if this one has been posted. The mad Chaparral 2H 1969 Can-Am car, designed by the incredible Jim Hall. This was its high downforce Laguna Seca guise, with the giant wing on top. That trailer looks completely inadequate.
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It raced most events without the big wing. I think it may have only appeared this way for Laguna Seca? Either way, this seems to be its most famous guise.
This information from the Chaparral Files may explain 2H # 79.
http://www.thechaparralfiles.com/cha...evelations.php
(Ken H )
Last month I posted this Ferrari transporter that was first used in 1959. This is an update on that vehicle.
Used by the Scuderia the 682 RN-2, Ferrari’s new toy featured slightly different looks than its predecessor. For 11 years the 682 safely carried some of the best, most astonishing race cars ever made from one track to the next. By 1970 it was sold to a circus promoter that toured it all over Italy ! After the circus episode it remained stored for about 20 years, before being bought in 1995 by SoCal specialists that arranged for a full restoration.
This Ferrari transporter 682/RN-2 sold at Pebble Beach in 2011 for just under one million US dollars.
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(Ken Hyndman )
Ferrari transporter clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oi9IQOsdQI
Wow! Getting those cars down from that height must have required some good ramps!
And what about the many races when they ran more than three cars in that era?
Ray,
Perhaps they did not use ramps and loaded the cars like Maserati did with their Tipo 61"Birdcage" sports cars in 1960.
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(Ken Hyndman )
Hello ,
When the truck was sold at Monterey , It arrivied in Seattle. I was the "car Guy" at the Pat Hart collection.
RN 2 682 was the bigger version of the two fiat transporters. One was built off a truck chassis and the other was a bus chassis.
Powered by a 6 cylinder low compression diesel. 4 speed with a two speed (high/low) rear end. 55kph.....down hill/tail wind was all she had !
The ramps ; Ughh :-0
Heavy Heavy Steel ramps are needed to get a car from the ground up to the lower level of the truck. A PTO driven winch was used to pull the car up and then the same winch used to raise/lower the ramp vis pulleys/cables in order to get cars up top.
Pebble Beach : wow !! I think it was in 2000 ? RN 2 682 was transported on a flat bed truck to Monterey. Its about a 16-18 hr drive.
We unloaded her at Fort Ord (disused Miltary base) and she was driven up to the Polo field (staging area) . There on a side street in Secret , with security , we placed a pontoon TR57, pontoon TR58 and the ex Pete Lovely TR59. At that time , we were the first ever to be allowed onto the 18th Green on the Saturday night.
After the show, the truck was driven uptp to Laguna to unload a one/two ? of the cars.
We used the truck a couple of times a year to support the local races at Pacific Raceways. RN 2 682 was sold on in about 02/03?
cheers
Tony
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Tony,
That is a wonderful input regarding the Ferrari transporter.
What type of transporter do you use ?
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Cheers,
Ken H
Really enjoying this thread. Saw this on TM, very nicely detailed. Wonder why they were RHD?
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http://www.trademe.co.nz/toys-models...1213749465.htm
My wife and I spent about 3 weeks driving around Italy ( the big OE) in 1970, and noted that all the bigger trucks were right-hand drive, and always had a 2-man crew. I think this might originally have been due to the narrow roads in some parts, but the Autostradas dated back to Mussolini's time pre-WW2. A lot of the sports cars were RHD too - if you look at photos of 1950s sports racing Ferraris and Maseratis many of those were RHD. I asked why on another forum a few years ago (Autosport Nostalgia Forum - UK) and somebody came up with a reason, but I can't remember what it was , now, - approaching senility I guess.
Will try to check it out. Stu
Stu,
I remember Ala Romeo had a LHD and RHD for Kevin Bartlett back in the day. If the circuit was anti clockwise and mostly left turns then the LHD was driven as it was easier to see the corner apex and the RHD car was driven on clockwise circuits.
I see LHD in the BTCC which I think is for the right handed drivers like to change gears with the right hand.
I may be off on this but that is my input for the racing, not sure on the transporter though.
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(BTCC racing in England as LHD cars)
(Ken Hyndman )
Whoops !
"Vern, I told you to stop eating that pie and concentrate on the road ahead ! "
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I'm pretty sure the LHD and RHD GTAs were at Mildren's at different times...Quote:
Originally posted by khyndart in CA
Stu,
I remember Ala Romeo had a LHD and RHD for Kevin Bartlett back in the day. If the circuit was anti clockwise and mostly left turns then the LHD was driven as it was easier to see the corner apex and the RHD car was driven on clockwise circuits.....
Certainly there was no swapping due to circuit direction. KB just drove what he had at his disposal. The GTZs likewise.
Ken, re Bartlett's RHD and LHD Alfa GTVs, have a look at this:
http://www.theroaringseason.com/show...light=bartlett
July 1960. Silverstone. British Grand Prix.
Jim Clark's Lotus 18 # 8 being unloaded from the Team Lotus transporter.
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(KJH )
"Vern,
When you have finished eating your pie, can you come out from under that vehicle and park this BRM transporter properly instead of blocking the access road !"
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(Ken H )
Here is a transporter Mr. Steve Holmes would appreciate.
"In the glory days of muscle cars, this transporter pulled out of Yenko's dealership with awesome cars. Yenko made them awesome."
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http://www.yenko.net/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Yenko
(Ken Hyndman )
In 1968 John Wyer had this beautifully restored transporter to carry his fleet of the mighty JW Gulf Porsche 9i7s around Europe.
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This weekend Hyndman once again had to " mix with the big boys such as a Gulf Ford GT replica.
Just to remind them of who ruled the roads of Los Olivos !
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Thats a Ford GT in last pic, otherwise known as a ~110% scale replica of a GT40...
Jac Mac
You are absolutely correct. The changes have been made. I just got a bit carried away.
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2006 Ford GT trailing the 1962 Austin Mini Cooper in the streets of Los Olivos, CA.
( Ken Hyndman photo )
This is slightly O/T, but may be of interest.
In Australia the V*SC teams use B Double Trailers.
Even the single car teams, for some reason.
I think Australia may be the only country where these are allowed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z39xXBIIFf0
Suggest you press "Skip AD' button in bottom LH corner
think you will find the "B" train is a canadian transport development
Joe stopped to use the bathroom in 1956 and he never came back !
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(Ken Hyndman )
I first came to California in 1972 about the time this movie was made which was one of the first by Steven Spielberg.
I wish some of the freeway scenes were still wide open like this today.
It pays not to upset a tanker or transporter driver !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt4MWSrrtiU
Enjoy.
(Ken Hyndman.)
A page or so back, someone wondered how extra cars were carried, and how unloading was achieved. This effort from Ferrari from 1959 or 1960 may be part of the answer :
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Mechanics are apparently easing the Ferrari from a temporary frame on a flatbed truck on to the raise/lower portion of the Fiat transporter. I presume the process has to be repeated for a second car on the truck.
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Ferrari seem to have used this truck regularly for transporting extra cars from the factory to Monza. Crotti Bilance was a weighing machine manufacturer at Campogalliano, just outside Modena.
I think there was a length limit on trucks, buses etc manufactured in the UK, in the 1950-1960 era at least, so they couldn't have double cabs or extra storage like the Fiats. The Connaught team used 3 converted AEC buses as team transport, each one holding one car only, as did Bruce Halford who raced a 250F Maserati ( the ex-Prince Bira car which later became the Ross Jensen "El Salvador" Maserati of 1959) .
Stu
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This is how the Ducati race team used to roll into the pits in the early 1970s.
Quite an entrance !
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Meanwhile, in California....:cool:
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"Honey, I may be a little late getting home as my tow vehicle is not handling as good as it should."
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Woo-hoo ! Imagine winding that into a downhill hairpin !
Gilmore Oil Company had some interesting vehicles in the 1930s. It was the largest*independent oil company on the West Coast at the time and used motor sports to help promote the company.
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The roadster in this photo has not been identified. (It is written as a possible Murphy Special with some influence by Harry Miller )
Can anyone identify it ?
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That dog at the r/f wheel does not appreciate a fine looking transporter !
(Ken H)