en Français s-il vous plait! ! !
(i'm sorry, i not speack Inglish)

Bruno, thats a great photo of Dal-Bo & the Pygmee, Merci beaucoup!
Andrew

Bruno: you dont speak English , I dont speak french , Pygmee photos ,

Sandy : good picture , and the "ironhorses" lying ready to pull in the foreground ?

Is that a Maser wheel leaning up against one of the trailer tyres?

Mick it does not exactly look like a Borrani to me -or did they run the car on something else?

jpgp79 , very interesting , I never saw these Lotus transporters before.

If you go to the LeMans 1957-65 thread there is a couple of transporters there too !

Well its not triple laced...but I think it looks good for the period...I'm out of my depth :\

Sorry guys , so much good on this thread , but I ask again : Does anybody know ANYTHING on ATS 1963 transporters , they were after all at B, NL and I GPs , but its a long time ago? Any guesses ?

Hi Jean Pierre:
I think one of these Thames transporters ended its life in an Autostrada accident on his way to Monza´72 GP (see post 773) I am beginning to think that they are the same!!!!

An unknown LeMans contender(Aston Martin DB2, I think) plus its transporter

To my knowledge the above is Nigel H. Mann and M. Morris-Goodall Aston Martin DB2 at Le Mans 1953. Entrant N.H.Mann was a reserve entry.

Dear all,
I have a few presents for you today. I was sorting a pile of old mags I had in my home, and had the surprise to find inside one of them an article on "race transporters", with some nice photos i would like to share with you. They were published in the French magazine "Echappement" in the early 80's.

First of all, two views of the GELO Racing transporter, as used in the Interserie meeting at the Nürburgring the 1st april 1973. The car raced was a Porsche 917/10 driven by Georg Loos, the owner of the team.

Another Porsche transporter: we are on may, 29 1977, during the Nürburgring 1000 km, and this is the transporter from Kremer racing. They used a famous green livered and Vaillant sponsored Porsche 935 K2 driven by the late Bob Wollek.

Still during the 1977 Nürburgring 1000 km, this is the Autohaus Max Moritz Jägermeister transporter. The team raced a Porsche 935 for Manfred Schurti and Helmut Kelleners.





(click on thumbnails to enlarge image)

good presents jpgp 79

I've seen this truck at Nurmberg, in 1980.
Here're my pics

mercedes martini racing 1970

Here are the 2 MATRA Transporters at Le Mans 1974 .
Papiyv .

Not exactly a tractor trailer. Allan Ross's 57 Plymouth towing his beautiful Lola.
photo lent site John Miller Family Collection.

Does anybody have pics of the Walter Wolf team transporters?

Now I see where Matchbox got the design of their racing car transporter model:

http://hpbimg.wheelsanddeals.se/P3100060.JPG

..........which housed two Matchbox Lotus 25s.


Paul M

Can anybody please shed any light on this 'Ferrari' transporter ....
.... photographed at Gotenba 'Racing Palace' (now defunct) kart circuit, nr. Mount Fuji, Japan, last August (2006).

http://vtec-go-go.blog.hobidas.com/image/101_0035.JPG

Or is it a 'replica' ? - like the rather forlorn Noble P4 on it's upper deck.

Go to post 825 for comparing!

Well to my untrained eye .... (Ferrari transporters - not P4 replicas, that is ;) )....
it looks pretty damned close - save for the missing railings on the Brands 1970 photo.



Looks like she's had a fresh coat of paint, since August 2004, too.

P4replica , also compare post 194 , approx same time with the Rolfos post 170.

Phigr7 there is another Gelo pix on post 319.

Scuderia Ferrari 1976:

I´m looking for pictures of a BMW-Transporter in the 70ies (maybe with the 3.5 CSLs) and early 80ies (Junior-Team and F2?). Maybe this transporter looks like the Porsche-Mercedes (Martini etc.). Can anyone help?
Thanks a lot, Rhegra

The F2 team used a Mercedes Benz 322 COE boxed and later/or also a Magirus Deutz , propably a 310 or newer with sleeper cab and boxed ,both blue and white(above) with the name BMW rennabteilung. One is pictured in the book Renntransporter(most of it).

rhegra , did you notice the Luigi Hanomag in post 683 !

Sorry, I had to delete thís post because i could have violated a copyright.

.. the more I look at those pictures I think the race is not the 1000 km (where is the silver Martini-Porsche-transporter?) than a race of the DRM (Deutsche Rennsportmeisterschaft), I think the paddock should be more crowded at the 1000 km...

I think you're right because the Samson RSR was #54 at the 1000Ks

I am not quite convinced , but I believe its 1972 ,thinking the older MB on the left is the GS Tuning and the colours fits(allthough normal BMW) fits the Junior team.

That doesn't explain why a Porsche 911 RSR is on the track does it !

...and the Junior Team came 1977...

Tourist Trophy Garage transporter(s)

Several vehicles were used to move Mike Hawthorn's cars around in the early 50s - I'm trying to find more info on these without a lot of luck so far. I have a couple of partial shots but would love to see some complete ones! One at least has a lot of signwriting on and there is a chance it could be recreated given enough information to do this.

Here's what I have including a partial registration plate on the first but the last digit is missing - KRF 11? is a 1943 Staffordshire number:



The above vehicle looks to be different to the one below (an earlier photo) as this apparently lacks the side windows visible above:



The next one is a composite using a series of small vidcaps of the side of the van and one of the pics above in an attempt to get a better idea of what it possibly looked like. The signwriting has been changed at some point between the two though:



ANY help would be much appreciated!

registration is KRF 119
There's a picture in Cooper Cars page 65 by our member Doug Nye

KR119 was a Bedford OLB type and they used Colmans Mustard! Ha-ha! And it does look a lot like your pics, allthough the 23 below , seems shorter! The DCN Cooper book has about 10 pages of the 52 season where Mike did so well! Mail or PM me.

In post 845, I proposed a set of Ford Thames transporters used by Team Lotus from 1967 on. I ended up finding another (poor) pic, but very useful as it shows the transporter which was hidden in the other pics.
The picture below has been taken at Hockenheim, the sad day of april 1968 the great Jimmy Clark lost his life on a F2 Lotus 48. The Ford Thames transporter had Gold Leaf Team Lotus colours (white & red).

24 Hours - Le Mans 1975 : Ligier-Maserati corner

Thanks to all for the help both on and off-Forum! I now have a lot more info - missing one thing though, what colour was it after conversion?

Once the research is complete and I've finished contacting people, there will be a page devoted to it on the site.

I am still searching for info on transportation of the following F1 drivers/teams 1964:

Revson Racing (America) Could he have had a deal with Parnell ?
Maurice Trintignant
Derrington-Francis(ATS) Did they use Vics mod.horsetransporter (Bedford) ?
Ian Raby (Racing) Try the Raby thread ! Yes I know , thanks!
Gerard Racing
Mario Araujo Cabral
Brian Gubby

Bjørn, check your private messages.

Thanks to all those who helped with the Tourist Trophy Garage Transporter - we've amassed enough info to create a basic page about it on the site now:

http://www.mike-hawthorn.org.uk/transporter.php

Managed to interview one Frank Swan a few days back in Farnham - he worked at the garage from 1950 - 1954 as a fitter and told us he helped build the transporter! And he knew it was painted dark green amongst a lot of other memories and photos / scrap album that we'll be using on the site.

Also many thanks to Doug for letting us use some of his GP Library images

Hockenheim 1955;

Posted on behalf of Bjørn Kjer


1) 1938 Fiat 626. Anymore information?


2) The Alpines are orange. Norisring 1970 ?
Renault Deutschland ?
What transporter ?


3) Le Mans 1962
Green bus top left.. who ?
Note the heavy dent on the Ecosse transporter.
Other ID's ?
Whose is the grey OM truck in the middle ?


4) Ford Thames 400E. Like Team Lotus ?


5) Hockenheim 500kms 1965 ?
Morris Oxford (1961) & Humber Hawk (1957) ?
Who are these teams and racers ?


6) Nurburgring 1000kms 1957
What transporter is this ?


7) Cento Sud in front, but where ?
JBW transporter (ex Gilby) ?

Source (with permission)
"Renntransporter" 190+ pages, 200+ B&W, 150+ colour pictures
Authors : Alexander Franc Storz & Mathias Braun
ISBN-13 : 978-3-613-02539-4
Motorbuch Verlag www.pietsch-verlag.de

quote taken from an early posting on the first page on this thread by David Beard

Perhaps the 4th photo, of the Ford Thames above, is the Ford Thames vehicle which Maurice Levy modified to crew cab when he was at Lotus.

BTW I am still trying to trace a photo of Jackie Oliver's similar, but three-axle, no crewcab, device from '64.

Roger Lund.

Sorry about a couple of misspellings : Pic2 its DeutschlAnd, Pic7 its frOnt , bottom its Motorbuch VerLag.

Answer to pic 3 : The grey transporter is Scud.Serenissima!

How about the caravan and the Red Jauar Mk.2 ?

corrected

Sorry guys and Motorbuch Verlag, from pure excitement that I got some pics on the thread ,I misspelled again :

The link to the "Renntransporter" buch is : www.paul-pietsch-verlage.de