1972 Tour de corsa RSR photos and info

[HughH]

Thank you HughH for the very thorough info. (as normal). And the photo on the Sarthe thread also.


Don't I see an oil tank door on S-AJ 5964 in your Monte 72 (practice) photo with the escort ?

Yes there is an oil door...... And a 2.4 badge on the photo you posted. Hence why I always wondered about it.

It is almost certainly not an actual monte car if it is also the car in the wind tunnel as the rally cars kept thr distinctive livery for much of the year and the wind tunnel car does not have it.

Also it would be a significant break with normal practice to use a car about to go on the event as a recce car. So apart from the license numbers that probably rules out the actual monte cars

However it looks like an ST so either it was a factory one that I don't have a record of, as it was used by the factory for testing later, or is an old rally car that was used as a preproduction or something test car for the 72 oil system and continued to be used as an R&D car

[HughH]

That is great info raj
I will see if I can match it at all
I was also thinking about what happened to 9110300001 the monte Carlo car from 1970
The other two cars of that series were in subsequent events but that one seemed to disappear. I am wondering if it became the factory test car you posted a video of a while ago seemingly testing wider rear track and without any rear fenders at all. It would not be a huge leap of imagination for such a test hack to be transformed with 72 oil tank etc

However your suggestion may be more likely

[HughH]

Raj
i have just got home and looked at my files
9112300013, while built in july 1971 and used by the factory until it was sold in june 73 to Gaban seems to have been a narrow body car at the time Gaban had it (at least that is the photo i have). It was also Gulf orange not tangerine and while the photos i have of the recce car at the monte are all black and white they dont really look as if they are gulf orange. Also i have seen a previous custodian of the car state explicitly that it was not raced but kept by the R&D department for the 2 years. I suppose being a recce car is not being raced but...........

so on reflection i dont think it was that car

by the way 9110300001 survives to this day in Germany i believe, and seemed to be used by Siffert as a recce car for the 1970 targa but disappears after that (at least to my records)

this is a photo from the video i mentioned above

[HughH]

Raj
I understood that the Gaban ST was not converted to wide body until being rebuilt after being found without engine etc in 1990. At least that is what elevenparts posted on their site a number of years ago.

here is a photo of some of the Lothar Boschen article
i cant find the rest at present. Given the SAB signage and the oil door i cant see how it can be any other than the 72 monte

[rs27rules]

somebody have pictures of he dashboard of this car?

[ST Man]

Here are a few pics of S-AK 1337 as it looks today.
The dash is as it was back in the day except for the way in which Halda twin master and Heuers was mounted. All the rest of the dash it the original items, not similar ones , the ones.
The cars looks like it did in Monte Carlo Rally 72.


Leon

[letsrollbabe]

Leon:

The car looks fantastic. It is really great to be able to see it 'as it was', and now preserved forever. It deserves to be driven though, and I hope it gets to spend a little time carving up some tarmac somewhere.

[rs27rules]

the car looks great¡¡¡

[peekaboo]

I think rs27rules wanted to see a photo of one of the Tour de Corse 72 cars , but since your now on to the Monte 72 cars. Here's a period photo of what I have labeled (hopefully correctly) as S-AK 1336 , the Larousse - Perramond No. 4 entry dash.

Concerning dashboards , in looking over this thread just now (which now incompasses some other cars)...i'm wondering ...does anyone know the MY and chassis numbers of the 1978 Safari entries of Waldegard & Preston ?? In looking through photos i've saved of them . I'm seeing a dashpad in the Waldegard car No. 5 , that is 1976 or prior.....And I believe I see a rear body panel on the Preston car No. 14 , that was generally not used in production much past mid-1973 MY (sometime into early spring).

[rs27rules]

I think rs27rules wanted to see a photo of one of the Tour de Corse 72 cars , but since your now on to the Monte 72 cars. Here's a period photo of what I have labeled (hopefully correctly) as S-AK 1336 , the Larousse - Perramond No. 4 entry dash.

Concerning dashboards , in looking over this thread just now (which now incompasses some other cars)...i'm wondering ...does anyone know the MY and chassis numbers of the 1978 Safari entries of Waldegard & Preston ?? In looking through photos i've saved of them . I'm seeing a dashpad in the Waldegard car No. 5 , that is 1976 or prior.....And I believe I see a rear body panel on the Preston car No. 14 , that was generally not used in production much past mid-1973 MY (sometime into early spring).

thanks for the dashboard picture
is nice to see a period photo
about the 1978 car, ill see if i can find the number