Replicars a Dutch model retailer produced a black version of the Old Cars Fiat transporter some years ago . Presumably someone added the Ecosse logos .

Graham , thanks for a nice little extra in teresting infos !

Minijag : As to real live cars , dont doubt Graham !He used the word "NEVER" ! And as you do "know" of the Alan picture , you really can close the case. As to models I would suggest the Edward solution! It is a fake ! An illusion!

Transport of Bugatti's to races :

http://forum.bugattibuilder.com/viewtopic.php?t=36

Hi, nice tip ! Could you ask "Herman" for the first 4 "redcrossed" pictures , or ask him to mail me ? Thanks !

That work, now

The Bugattis remind me of a Bugatti owner in the '60s and 70s who had a Commer , Karrier IIRC, with a Bugatti radiator grill on the front, the truck painted the correct blue, to carry his T35. I seem to recall that he lived near Bath. The photo is in M Sport somewhere

RL
PS thanks for the revised Bugatti pics links

The Bugatti 251 was transported on an open truck of some kind !

Thank you Scuderia CC , and bring Herman my thanks too!

After its performance in its only race, I imagine they covered it up for the return journey
Roger Lund.

Has anyone other than Dick Salmon and me noted the orange Rubery Owen lorrys at times supporting the BRM transporters ? Hence the orange ring on the BRM nose from 63-69 !

Speaking of models, 1:43 model maker Premium Classixxs have just released this Porsche liveried Mercedes L3500. I'm wondering if this was used as a transporter for the Porsche Team, or just for carrying road cars, spare parts or other factory deliveries unrelated to racing ?

Images here of the GLTL transporter

http://www.racing-legends.com/news.htm

There's a pic from a german book here
http://www.forum-auto.com/automobile-prati...ujet764-140.htm

Jager and others , the MB311 would carry 2 Porsche 550RS , one above the other on some pipe build up un der the tarpaulin

From the remarkable Stanguellini website here. Choose "History" part.


Click for a large Lancia truck !

All right! I now know it is a fake and will no longer look for it to my collection.

Thanks everyone for this important info!!

Cheers

minijag

You are welcome , and feel free to ask anytime . There has been and still is quite a lot of models on the market wich in most cases are from the real world !

Well, no truck here ... except the blue Gordini truck maybe ?

Just to show how empty was the paddock at Le Mans in 1954, 30 minutes before the start !

From "L'histoire mondiale de l'automobile" Jacques Rousseau - Hachette

3 Ferrari 375 Plus - Scuderia Ferrari - Maglioli/Marzotto DNF
4 Ferrari 375 Plus - Scuderia Ferrari - Trintignant/Gonzales 1st OA
5 Ferrari 375 Plus - Scuderia Ferrari - Rosier/Manzon DNF
18 Ferrari 375 MM - Luigi Chinetti - Baggio/Rubirosa DNF
6 Ferrari 375 MM - Briggs Cunningham - Walters/Fitch DNF

Where did they go ? Apart from the light blue ones that could be Monopole or Gordini there are a couple on the right near the white/yellow stiped tent , standing nose to tail in their medium blue colours ? I cannot read the text on the sides?!

The blue trucks could be Talbot's too. I can't read what the two blue/grey trucks say. They could be germans : type and size ...

I wonder how many former Team Lotus transporters are still in existance restored in private hands would be really interesting to see the pictures grouped together in chronological order...........and indeed which ones are missing from the sequence ?

Hubert , I will try checking out.

Richard : 1 to my knowledge for a "group" picture !

The present day Classic Lotus Team transporter the last in line

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[img]http://www.gbgtr2.co.uk/8801.html?cc=0.23719156803678137&mode=image&img=28#gallery[/img]

Post 1068 : Talbot,Gordini and Monopole were light blues , DB (Deutsch and Bonnet were more "French Blue". Could they be Deutsch & Bonnet transporters ? Or Huiles Renault ?
Hubert : France certainly had their own range of bonneted trucks !

Hi all:
Don´t miss the following link.
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/p...461415-1-3.jpg#

A Vanwall transporter is for sale!!!!!!

The 2 page article on the Vanwall transporter is from Motor Racing February 1959. Does anyone have a copy which they could scan and send to Bjorn and me please?

Roger Lund.

There is a 3 1/2 page article about the travels of the team during the 1958 season. If nobody else does it, I'll scan it for you at the weekend.

Roger, very many thanks

RL

This turned up on an Aussie forum, I thought it was a motorhome, but someone reckoned it was a race car transporter... what's do you blokes reckon?

That is Dennis Poore's Dodge transporter. Had it not been restored at some point in time ?

Post 1031 and Ricks website for more !

This Dodge wartime model 39-47 was also used by Abecassis with a box, and Chiron(OSCA) in 52 and Alfa Romeo GB1950 (could be rented). The last 2 lowsided tilted.

It is being at the moment (I'm off to collect the re-stitched cylinder head for it this morning ), what forum did it show up on???

Rick

restoration has just started.

The Dodge is currently in many many pieces. The chassis has been cleaned up and de-greased, and work will hopefully begin soon on replacing sections of the framing that have disintegrated. The outer panelling was in a very bad way once it had been removed from the frame.

The engine has been dismantled, and as mentioned the cylinder head has been stitched due to a lengthy crack in the water jacket. It had been repaired 50+ years ago with a line of weld, but this was really only a temporary 'fix'. The metal stitching firm have cut out a long section of cast iron from the head, and let in a new piece. Investigation has also turned up some worrying cracks in the block, which are currently being looked at.





Rick

Very interesting to see those pictures Rick , must be a hell of a job ! All best to your work!

Not really transporters ... but shot in the Le Mans paddock during LM Story event two years ago.



For the fanatics : two Renault Goelette 1000 kg.
For the others : Wine barrel for Byrrh aperitive and gas cans for cooking (yes, Butagaz sounds correct in french )

Sorry, I'm not right in the subject, but I'm sorting out my photos ...

The Vanwall transporter sold well at Bonhams' Goodwood Festival of Speed auction on Friday. Bidding took it from £4,000 to a sale at over £62,000 - hammer price plus commissions, as paid by the enthusiastic purchaser.

DCN

On this thread in the Moparmarket forum...

Why, though, have you gone to the trouble of getting the head welded? At a stroke, I could supply you with ten of them, and several blocks as well!

Here's some here:



And it's not impossible to find body parts, either:

Not strictly speaking a transporter, but very interesting IMHO anyway:





Servizio Corse Pirelli @ the '51 Mille Miglia.


Carles.

Ray, are any of those blocks the 30" long engine, 331 cu in spec? I can find lots of smaller engines but not much for the bigger variants. All info on 3 ton US Dodges welcomed, thanks for the forum link

Rick

As promised, photos from the Vanwall transporter, auctioned at the Festival of Speed last weekend. It sold for GBP 55,000.

do we know which years this transporter was used for?

57 till the end. Also had a Bedford S type lookalike.

No, I've not ever seen one of those myself...

'Tony West Oz' is the man to know if they're available in Australia, and in the US I'm sure I was sent pics of those trucks still in use by somebody on the Forward Look forum.

There's also Vintage Power Wagons in the US to contact.

jorism;

many thanks for the Vanwall stuff.

Roger Lund.

Thanks all!

Carles : nice Pirelli shot , did you ever visit the "supply and sponsor vehicles" thread ?

I didn't remember this thread. Thankyou for remainding me, Bjørn.


Carles.

Hi everybody,

I am wondering if anybody ever heard of the second transporter ever used by Team Lotus, back in 1955, and could possibly show pictures of this truck.

Team Lotus used a modified single decker Bedford OWB bus in its early years, and this one is well known and documented (see picture below).


In the late 50’s and early 60’s, Team Lotus used a rebodied Bedford SB chassis as its main transporter plus several Ford Thames vans, one being the famous “PMT” fast transporter used with a trailer (both pictures below).




But I recently read in Dennis Ortenburger’s book about Frank Costin (“Flying on four wheels”, an excellent read), that Colin Chapman commissioned in late 1954 a race car transporter based on a Commer van chassis. As said in the book: “He (Chapman) designed and built a box type body to haul the new car (Lotus Mk 9). He wanted the capacity to take two of them to Europe.”

I have been around for some time gathering docs and pics on Lotus transporters, but never found anything about this one. The only thing which could look like this Commer Lotus transporter is the photo below, probably shot during the july 1960 British GP for Formula Juniors. The transporter used for the F1 was then the Bedford SB, but we can see on the picture and odd transporter with “a box type body”, which could well be the old Commer.


Anyone can help and provide other pictures ?

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