racing and safety Sharing Some Vintage Race Shots

[jrkoupe]

fantastic....those flares always make me smile..

and those headers are sexxxxy.

[markmac]

One of the favorites of my car.  Wrenching (adjusting something on the rack and pinion steering).  Nurburgring 1974.

 

 

 

 

[jrkoupe]

One of the favorites of my car.  Wrenching (adjusting something on the rack and pinion steering).  Nurburgring 1974.

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on a wall in my garage all blown up.......love it.

[Andersson]

My pet....beware of the BMW eagle.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[jrkoupe]

Andersson

another wonderful set......

I gotta ask, I spend hr, hrs on the net, and never find pics like these...can you offer some insight on what you are doing to find these?..

[Andersson]

Well, you can get very forensic about it. I search for drivers in a specific race, year, track. Other drivers in the same race in a Ford, Alfa Porsche...

 

And this forum.

 

http://www.forum-auto.com/sport-auto/histoire-du-sport-auto/debut.htm

 

 

 

It´s a lot of:

 

 

But we want

 

 

 

Edited May 12, 2014 by Andersson

[Andersson]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[markmac]

Andersson, great pics as usual.   I am very (REALLY) interested in the image of the #308 car.  Do you have any information on what year and place that image was taken?  Not really clear when expanding the image due to the quality, I have a good idea that is my AlpinA car sometime after it was sold.....size of the wheels (which are AlpinA's - at lest on the front, windshield retainer clips, glass doors, rear flares, and what appears to be the same roll cage.....).  The larger I make the image, the less clear it is, need to do some comparisons to some of the early pics I have of the car when I purchased it.  Need to study some more pics I have of the car today.  Tx

 

www.alpinabmw2002.com

[Andersson]

markmac. I think the owners name is Ricciardo Ricci. Nothing about the year/ race

 

http://www.motorforum.it/cronoforum/viewtopic.php?p=200006&sid=3cfbb36ccadf1b89bb52ae857dd65247

 

Maybe this is the same car

 

 

http://www.motorforum.it/cronoforum/viewtopic.php?p=113510

Edited May 18, 2014 by Andersson

[markmac]

BINGO, it is for sure.  Have to run out to a friends b-day party, but will follow up tomorrow.  Amazing really.  No question about it, and I will tell you why tomorrow.  THANK  YOU.  Interesting car with an interesting history.

 

www.alpinabmw2002.com

[Andersson]

More of Ricciardo Ricci. I hope these pictures are correct

 

1800 ti/sa ?

 

 

 

 

With John Surtess and Mauro Forghieri Scuderia Ferrari, good company. Surtess drove for Ferrari in the mid 60´s.

 

 

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Edited May 18, 2014 by Andersson

[planb]

Andersson - thanks for all these great pictures!

[Andersson]

Thanks planb, appreciate it!

[markmac]

I don't want to highjcack this thread, I will say that it is incredibly interesting to see these pics.  I searched for years and found very little of the car after it was sold.  I was told by one of AlpinA's export managers back in 2007 that the car was sold by AlpinA to an Italian named "Hennricci", it appears that it was Riciardo Ricci.....The #328 car appears to be a pic shortly after he must have purchased as it appears to have the same AlpinA flares on the front, with the wide Schnitzer type in the rear with the openings  for the oil coolers.  One of the trick things AlpinA did was to plumb the fire system through the roll cage.  the tubes were welded together such that none of them were closed off.  Nozzles were threaded into the tubes at appropriate locations.  On the #322 car you will see what looks like a tube coming from the rear parcel shelf up to the angled bar (roll cage).  That tube went from the fire bottle in the trunk to a threaded connector in the tube.  Also, where these roll tubes connected is the connection point for the rear shocks.  If you look closely at the #322 car you can barely make out these same connection points.  The multi colored RS Tuning car as well as the black #320 and #326 cars are the same.  I know the car was run in 1979 in the Trento Bondone Hillclimb race as I have the tag that was affixed to the roll cage, on the back is the number "256". Some pics of the car in various states before I pulled the old flares off.

Threaded fastener for tube/fire supression in roll cage + upper suspension pick up point

Oil cooler in outer wing (rear)

Outer wing, top down (rear)

Ditto, different angle.

 

Funny I was told by a guy that had owned the car that at one point when it was being raced in italy that it had a serpent or dragon painted on the hood.  The last couple of the black car appears to be some sort of dragon.  Absolutely amazing.

 

www.alpinabmw2002.com

[markmac]

Found it, the #256 car, 6-24-1979, if someone can download the image to this page would be great.  Amazing after all these years.

 

http://www.www.euromontagna.com/photographer.php?id_photographer=67&lng=1