…….Set No. 3
Image #5 is the 'other' Schumacher's (brother Ralf) race winning Williams F1 car.
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…….Set No. 3
Image #5 is the 'other' Schumacher's (brother Ralf) race winning Williams F1 car.
……Set No. 4, and on to the featured brand this year, MASERATI, both factory supplied historic examples from their museum and privately entered cars.
That's a '35 Grand Prix car, followed by a pair of '56 250F Formula 1 examples - as a hilarious side note, it is widely accepted that 26 250Fs were produced by Maserati and driven in anger by some notable and most surprising drivers in international Grands Prix races, ( Phil Hill long before his Ferrari days, Carrol Shelby, Troy Rutman) but yet there are well over 30 250s registered with various vintage racing organizations.
For set #5 some Maserati Tipo 61 "Birdcage" 2 liter cars. They were produced in 2 & 3 liter 4-cyl. versions. Many have said that they consider this the most beautiful sports racer of the 'golden era'…….to study the construction of the 200+ frame tubes of either 10 or 15 millimeter diameter, which were hand-brazed in jigs to produce the frame that gave these cars their nickname is like reading a structural engineering handbook - amazing. What a pity that the factory simply never took the time and effort to make the cars reliable, but they always operated on the verge of bankruptcy, and the deeply imbedded notion that they never copied others but rather blazed their own trail robbed them of success.
Set No. 6, and moving on to some of the wonderfully diverse and impressive Porsches present.
…….set No.7. More Porsches. Shot #3 of a Rod Emory built '56 Speedster, powered by a 2.4 liter, 200 hp 4-cyl. 911-4 Polo-motor……..simply beautiful !
and five more
Shot #2 is of the one-off '54 Pupulidy Special, recently restored by Canepa, and is owned by a local winemaker who creates heaven in a bottle.
Shot #4, a pair of French Grand Prix machines ( 1946 Delage D6, left, '37 Delahaye V12 right ) usually displayed in the the Peter Mullin Museum and enthusiastically driven by the man himself, and the differential and mounting details of a freshly restored Lister.
…….set No. 9
…….set No 10.
I've always liked Jaguars, and even owned one of the very first XK-E Coupes imported into the country, and yes, as vexing as the Lucas elelctrics, the Girling brakes and Smith instruments were, there was something very endearing about driving the XKE. Fuel-injected 315 hp drum-brake equipped Corvettes with 4-speeds would beat my Jag regularly in a straight-out drag race, but they could never out handle or outbrake it, even in the table-top flat Chicgo area where I was going to school at the time……it was a very enjoyable drive. Jaguar has recently announced they are building a few 'Lightweight' Resurrections, as they call them (shots #2 through 5) and brought one of them to Laguna Seca for show & tell…..far better craftsmanship than on any of the original cars, whether production Es or race cars, but unfortunately the price just is not realistic, i.e. well over a million $$$, with virtually unattainable credentials required to be even considered for being able to purchase one.
The final set of my '14 Laguna Seca Motorsports Reunion presentation,
Thanks for looking, only one more bloc of images to go, those of the Pebble Beach Concours last Sunday.
JZG
John, the Pupulidy was "restored" by Brian Haupt of Carriage and Motor Works in Kansas City; it was recently "fettled" at Canepa's.
Porsche racing fanatics may happen to recognize the gray-haired fellow standing behind the "Defense Mondial" 3.0 RSR: a certain Alex Job, who is running the racing department of the floor-mat-magnate owner.
The green Maserati with the prominent proboscis is of course a Maserati 5000 GT, known as "The Car of Kings." This car powered by the engine of the mighty 450S sports-racer was the first one, bodied by Touring to the specifications of the Shah of Iran. Other prominent personages among the thirty-four 5000 GT owners were Presidente Lopez Mateos of Mexico, the Aga Kahn, Giovanni Agnelli, King Saud, and Briggs Swift Cunningham. The tastes of certain of the super-rich are as questionable today as they were in 1958 (in my most humble opinion).
Thanks for taking the time to curate and post the images.
-- David