And so he became known as SaintO....and some person who is close to presenting himsalf as "god" might not be such, yet capable of accomplishing pretty nice miracles. That qualifies for becoming saint...
I don't have a date on the 1965 Trento hillclimb. Would you have that? That might put it into perspective with what # 750108 did at that time. The 1964 Trento was on July 12 I believe.If they played games with reg for customs and scrutineering at LM, and self evidently they did, why should they bother to swap again false reg plates around for bringing a car to a hillclimb in Italy?
I mean that it's a sensible guess to think that the car that had **38 at LM should be the same wearing again **38 at Trento.
I'll be going to Le Mans again this year (bar any intervention) and will drop by at Washington Photo to see if they have other color images of the cars.You are right here. probably a pretty light shade of red, whose rendering on film is plain orange!
TZaleban?I'm not a taleban
Don't have that at hand here... Anybody who would have a color scan?There's a colour pic of it, rather champagne if I recall well, in Alfissimo by D.Owen
Richard Pilkington on TZ-2 # 750106?Not sure, but possible. I rmember a comment from the former owner of one TZ2 (I have not the reference at hand) saying that his former car had an aluminium hood.
On these pictures of, what I believe to be, # 750106, taken during the Targa Florio 1966, it appears as if the part of the bonnet with the round Alfa logo is bent inwards which could be a hint at the bonnet indeed being aluminum and not Fiberglass.
Photo credit: Vittorio Giordano, Enzo Manzo Archive
EDIT 1:
I just checked with Rudy Pas who (co)brokered # 750106 in 1989 between John Mecom and Hideki Yokata but unfortunately he doesn't recall if the bonnet was indeed (still) aluminum.
I updated the file of TZ-2 # 750112 to reflect its participation @ Le Mans 1965.
EDIT 2:
It is indeed humongous!Yes, and probably Ben Hendrickx had not understood that confusion when he later commented that 109 had strangely disappeared... But did you notice the strange, oversize bulge in the centre of the bonnet on the pics in Minerbi's book? Made me thinking...The double stamping lead Marcello Minerbi to wrongfully allocating this picture to # 750109 in his 1984 book
But, please, do tell! What did it make you think? Engine experiments?
Would you happen to know when Raffaele Rosati came into the possession of Fiberglass TZ-1 # 750107 and what the new registration number was? If that date is ahead of the 1965 Le mans race and Rosati indeed applied for a new registration, that would be a perfectly logical explanation for how UD100953 ended up on # 43 at Le Mans...
Oh... voor ik het vergeet...
Als iemand op de site foto's ziet die ook voorkomen in het boek van SintO... zou er dan een seintje gegeven kunnen worden? Ik ben altijd weigerachtig geweest het boek te kopen en in de meeste gevallen is de exacte bron van de plaatjes niet bekend maar wil geen proces aan de broek vanwege copyright.
BVD!
