Showing posts with label Fangio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fangio. Show all posts
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Monday, November 16, 2020
Fangio drove a Rickenbaker? (thank you Pensando L B !)
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/auto-racing-1894-1942.380814/page-372#post-13028586
not a Rickenbacker car, but a Rickenbacker-engined special Volpi. A Fuerza Libre race, won by a 1938 Grand Prix Alfa Romeo
Saturday, June 13, 2020
Fangio's most famous sports racer. The Maserati 300S, chassis number 3069, one of 26 examples built and one of only two long-nose Fantuzzi Spyder Factory Team cars
Both Fangio and Sir Stirling Moss noted their agreement that Maserati's 300S was the all-time greatest Sports Racer ever built.
-1957 Grand Prix of Portugal 1st OA
-1957 Grand Prix Sao Paolo (Race 1) 1st OA
-1957 Grand Prix Sao Paolo (Race 2) 1st OA
-1957 Grand Prix Rio de Janeiro 1st OA
the 2nd owner was a flipper, the 3rd owner would continue racing it competitively until 1971, making it the most prolifically raced Maserati in the history of the company.
the last owner went on a worldwide quest to acquire a million dollar collection of spare 300S specific parts ever gathered in one place.
These spare parts include both an original complete engine and ultra-rare five-speed transaxle form a sister car. Both have no running time since being overhauled. An extra set of brakes and numerous other spares. They accompany this car to it's future owners
and it is for sale. (Not by me, I only get a newsletter now and then from Bill Noon, and when there is a cool car that he lists, that impresses me, I post about it)
So, if you're a zillionaire, and want to buy it, get ahold of Bill Noon
Symbolic International
At Veloce Motors Vault
9340 Dowdy Drive Suite 102
San Diego, California 92126 USA
Phone +1 619 840 7811
Email bill@symbolicinternational.com
Website www.symbolicinternational.com
Saturday, August 03, 2019
This '57 Maserati 300S was raced 4 times in 1957 by Fangio, who scored 4 first place finishes with it before his team manager sold it for a fantastic profit to a wealthy Brazilian playboy who had no interest in racing the car. He only wanted to flip it after Fangio officially retired from racing, for a ridiculous profit
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
If you have to ask "what the hell is that" then I'm happy to say, it's a Argentinian Torino, and ain't it cool that we still have cars to appreciate that we've never seen or heard of before? Not just another Chevy!
The Torino is an Argentinian car that was born in 1966, as a licensed redesign of the AMC Rambler by Pininfarina, produced originally by IKA ( Argentinian Kaiser industries), a partner with the Renault company that would eventually buy them out.
Mario Suárez and his son Francisco are responsible for restoring the original #1 and #2 Torinos from the three built to challenge the Europeans on their home turf in one of the most grueling races in the world. 84 hours of the 1969 Nurburgring endurance racing Marathon de la Route.
the #3 Torino resides in the Fangio museum
Fangio oversaw the IKA-Renault Torino effort at the Nürburgring and his son was among the team of of Argentinian drivers assigned to the three cars.
Fangio traveled with the team to the ‘Ring to guide the cars around both the Nord and Südschleife, and though the team would complete the most laps with their #3 car (the other two, #1 and #2, retired early), an assortment of time penalties would see the Torino finish in fourth place officially.
At the end of 84 hours, only one of the three Torinos finished, and though it completed the most distance, it was penalized because of the high decibels of the exhaust, and so a Lancia Fulvia HF finished as the winner officially.
That race represented a remarkable milestone in the Argentinian motoring history, and it proved the country could build cars that could compete with the likes of Porsche, Lancia, Ford, etc.
the #2 car, with the yellow nose, has an astonishing rebuild story:
Mario or his son decided to search in old magazines in order to find information about what really happened. In one from 1971 a driver called Juan Carlos Palma was said to have bought a Torino to compete in the TC series, and that the vehicle was the #2 car ran at the Nürburgring.
When searching for Palma they figured they could find his phone number by his mechanic that was also mentioned in the article. So, the number was got from him and then they called Palma.
With the license plate number that Palma had they went to the Registry to look for the report and read that the car chassis number was 00007, which was heartening to hear given the #3 car was was 00008, and the #1 car 00009. Then they had all the owners names, that the car had had, and the last one was an elderly man from Santa Fe province.
He said that the car was given to his son in 1990 and that his son and his granddaughter had a significant accident in it, his granddaughter surviving only because of the roll cage the car had in it. The damaged car went to his mechanic’s workshop where he decided to sell some parts of the car; small ones at first, and then the body, engine, and rear axle. Also, he gave the 140-liter fuel tank to his brother-in-law who lived in the province of Chaco.
What was left of the car, except for the gearbox and front brake calipers, was removed from the workshop by a man who had the intention of building a race car out of it once again. After a lot of searching, they found and bought the gearbox and the front brakes that were put in two different trucks of all things.
Then, they bought the fuel tank in Chaco, which had become a wasp’s nest after many years of remaining useless in a barn. Finally the body was found in a country field next to a plowing machine in the province of Santa Fe.
https://petrolicious.com/articles/these-are-the-ika-renault-torinos-that-dominated-the-nordschleife-in-1969
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Monday, July 06, 2015
Fangio, a quick history lesson
Juan Manuel Fangio, won 5 Formula One driver’s world championships
Fangio left school at the age of 11 and worked as an automobile mechanic in his hometown of San Jose de Balcarce, Argentina before beginning his driving career.
(try telling your 11 year old schools out for ever, time to get a job as a mechanic)
He won his first major victory in the Gran Premio Internacional del Norte of 1940, racing a Chevrolet along the often-unpaved roads from Buenos Aires to Lima, Peru.
In 1948, Fangio was invited to race a Simca-Gordini in the French Grand Prix, also at Reims, which marked his European racing debut.
In Formula One, the top level of racing drivers compete in single-seat, open-wheel vehicles typically built by large automakers and capable of achieving speeds of more than 230 mph.
Individual Formula One events are known as Grands Prix.
Fangio signed on in 1948 with Alfa Romeo, and won his first Formula One championship title with that team in 1951.
Over the course of his racing career, he would drive some of the best cars Alfa-Romeo, Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari and Maserati ever produced. Capturing four more Formula One titles by 1957, Fangio won an impressive 24 of 51 total Grand Prix races, a winning percentage of 46.15%, the best in the sport's history. Alberto Ascari, who is in second, holds a percentage of 40.63%.
In the race on July 6, 1958, Fangio, driving a Maserati, finished fourth, in what would be the last race before announcing his retirement at the age of 47.
https://www.facebook.com/HistoricVehicleAssociation?fref=nf
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Stirling Moss and Fangio in the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Chevy info / trivia / interesting stuff found in Automobile Magazines 100 years of Chevrolet
Founded by Billy Durant, it was one of three car companies he founded that year (he had founded GM years before, but got fired) He founded 2 more companies the next year
Durant did so well with Chevy, that by 1915, he took over control of GM... yeah, Chevy bought out GM.
The depression in 1920 jsut decimated his businesses., and he left in Dec, 1920
When Chevrolet started in business, there were 270 car companies in America
How American is Chevrolet? Well, Louis Chevrolet was Swiss, Zora Arkus Duntov was Belgian... you get the point right? Immigrants are Americas greatest asset, and they made Chevy and GM one of the few comapnies to survive 100 years, and one of only a handful of car manufacturers to stay in the car making business for 100 years or more.
Durant wanted to capitalize on Louis Chevrolet's racing notoriety, and had Lou design a car. It was completed in 1912. Lou quit because Durant nagged about his smoking, and went on to design Indy winning race cars, and found the Frontenac car company
1915 was the year Chevy tried to compete with the less expensive Ford, and made the 490 which was the same price as the Ford (Fiat 500 was the cost in thousands of Lira for a cinquecento) Ford retaliated by dropping his price by 50 bucks. Lots of money in 1915
1923 Chevy had 500 copper air fin equipped cars available, as this early in the car making development process, getting water cooling to work wasn't perfected for another 30 years, and the Franklin was successful as an aircooled engine... they work fine in hot climates, like the American mid and southwest.
The Copper Cooled Chevys were a flop, they detonated terrribly, and of the 100 bought by customers, all but 2 were reaquired by Chevy, AND DUMPED THEM IN LAKE EIRE!
Fangio's first big victory was in a Chevy Master 85. It was an endurance race round trip Buenos Aires to Lima and back
The longest running nameplate in auto history is the Chevy Suburban, launched in 1935
The 55 Chevy Bel Air grill design was ripped off from Ferrari. It only was used in 55.
Chevy's first international competition win was a 1953 210 sedan in the La Carrera Panamericana
1960 Daytona 500, the Junior Johnson Chevy was 20 mph slower than the leading Pontiacs,... and Junior discovered drafting, and won the race. He'd been in prison for running moonshine in 57 and couldn't race in first NASCAR Grand National Championship
Jim Halls Chaparral 2J "sucker car" used a 2 stroke snowmobile engine to produce suction in the ground effects race car to capitalize on the design
The Nassau Speed Week of Dec 1963 proved that the Corvette Grand Sport could beat the Shelby Cobras and Ferrari 250 GTOs ... but that was the last call for Chevy in racing before the AMA ban. Zora was about to take them to Sebring and LeMans
The Chevy LUV (light utility vehicle) was the first Chevy sold in the US built by a foreign manufacturer. Isuzu
The Vega had 2 notorious recalls, the rear tires falling off, and the carb filling with gas til it spilled out onto the engine onto overheating aluminum engines
GM went into partnership with Toyota to get better manufacturing processes and production systems, and reopened a GM facility in Fremont Ca, and Toyota would gain experience in building cars in the US. UAW workers were flown to Japan, learned the Toyota way, production began in 1984, was an immediate success, and they built 8 million cars before shutting down in 2009. The things learned from Toyota were implemented in GM in 1992
Dick Guldstrand was commisioned to make a high speed Corvette to test Bridgestones, he hit 176 at Talledega . It's in the auction cycle right now, and it didn't sell at 40 thou.
Durant did so well with Chevy, that by 1915, he took over control of GM... yeah, Chevy bought out GM.
The depression in 1920 jsut decimated his businesses., and he left in Dec, 1920
When Chevrolet started in business, there were 270 car companies in America
How American is Chevrolet? Well, Louis Chevrolet was Swiss, Zora Arkus Duntov was Belgian... you get the point right? Immigrants are Americas greatest asset, and they made Chevy and GM one of the few comapnies to survive 100 years, and one of only a handful of car manufacturers to stay in the car making business for 100 years or more.
Durant wanted to capitalize on Louis Chevrolet's racing notoriety, and had Lou design a car. It was completed in 1912. Lou quit because Durant nagged about his smoking, and went on to design Indy winning race cars, and found the Frontenac car company
1915 was the year Chevy tried to compete with the less expensive Ford, and made the 490 which was the same price as the Ford (Fiat 500 was the cost in thousands of Lira for a cinquecento) Ford retaliated by dropping his price by 50 bucks. Lots of money in 1915
1923 Chevy had 500 copper air fin equipped cars available, as this early in the car making development process, getting water cooling to work wasn't perfected for another 30 years, and the Franklin was successful as an aircooled engine... they work fine in hot climates, like the American mid and southwest.
The Copper Cooled Chevys were a flop, they detonated terrribly, and of the 100 bought by customers, all but 2 were reaquired by Chevy, AND DUMPED THEM IN LAKE EIRE!
Fangio's first big victory was in a Chevy Master 85. It was an endurance race round trip Buenos Aires to Lima and back
The longest running nameplate in auto history is the Chevy Suburban, launched in 1935
The 55 Chevy Bel Air grill design was ripped off from Ferrari. It only was used in 55.
Chevy's first international competition win was a 1953 210 sedan in the La Carrera Panamericana
1960 Daytona 500, the Junior Johnson Chevy was 20 mph slower than the leading Pontiacs,... and Junior discovered drafting, and won the race. He'd been in prison for running moonshine in 57 and couldn't race in first NASCAR Grand National Championship
Jim Halls Chaparral 2J "sucker car" used a 2 stroke snowmobile engine to produce suction in the ground effects race car to capitalize on the design
The Nassau Speed Week of Dec 1963 proved that the Corvette Grand Sport could beat the Shelby Cobras and Ferrari 250 GTOs ... but that was the last call for Chevy in racing before the AMA ban. Zora was about to take them to Sebring and LeMans
The Chevy LUV (light utility vehicle) was the first Chevy sold in the US built by a foreign manufacturer. Isuzu
The Vega had 2 notorious recalls, the rear tires falling off, and the carb filling with gas til it spilled out onto the engine onto overheating aluminum engines
GM went into partnership with Toyota to get better manufacturing processes and production systems, and reopened a GM facility in Fremont Ca, and Toyota would gain experience in building cars in the US. UAW workers were flown to Japan, learned the Toyota way, production began in 1984, was an immediate success, and they built 8 million cars before shutting down in 2009. The things learned from Toyota were implemented in GM in 1992
Dick Guldstrand was commisioned to make a high speed Corvette to test Bridgestones, he hit 176 at Talledega . It's in the auction cycle right now, and it didn't sell at 40 thou.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
cool images from "A Saucerful of Wheels"
I posted a thorough article about this, the Renntransporter, in 2007 http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/06/one-unique-vehicle-transporter-of.html
Monday, April 12, 2010
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Classifieds in old magazines turn up incredible cars, Phil Hill's Ferrari, Tucker #8, and Old Yaller III, 1 of 16 XK-SS, Shelby GT 350, Fangio C type
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