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VERY interesting car, but I don't know what it is...
Quote from: faksta on December 15, 2008, 10:48:57 AM
VERY interesting car, but I don't know what it is...
If you knew what's beneath that hood...
At least I can suppose it's....well..Italian, eh?
Sì...
And the track is possibly Monza?
Not Monza...
Does it have something to do with any big Italian manufacturer? Say, using their chassis?
No origin are reported for this chassis, even if the previous one and the following ones were taken from 2 different well-known big (not italian) manufacturers. This name is not so obscure because of this latest cars, but this one is particular for ....ok too many clues now!
Could it be Giaur? ???
Though..no, hardly...I can't recall any Giaur's on foreign chassis except for one Lotus-based car.
you're right...it's not Giaur.
Bandini? ;D
Not Bandini...
Any connection with Rovelli?
Not that I'm aware of....
Alfa Romeo?
Your question is vague...but no in any case..
By the way, the car was built in the end of fourties, wasn't it?
Yes it is!
How about O.R.C.A. Hunter then? Though I know nearly nothing about it...
not an ORCA and not sure I've ever heard about it!
Then another guess will contain the name Giusti and, say, Giusti Daniella in particular.
Not a Giusti...
Did this company produce any road legal cars?
Not a company, and about "road legal cars" definition, isn't a Ferrari 250 GTO a road legal car? In those days gentlemen drivers use to drive their cars to the track before the challenge and back home...
If you mean that there were also normal cars for the normal transport purpose, no, because this car is named after its builder-pilot (big clue!) and the other cars named after him were all street-derived, but built for races (even if you could see them along the road!).
The brand: O.S.C.A.?
Biondetti-Norton - 1947 Circuito di Torino practice.
Pheeeeew.....
That's the car!!!
And what's under the hood?
There's a 4-liter Norton engine. Made of several motorcycle ones? 8x500cc (Or 5,3333x750cc ;D )?
Absolutely correct, 8 motorcycle-Norton engines!
How did you find it!
The first car by Clemente Biondetti was a Bugatti with a Maserati engine, then He baceme popular with his Biondetti-Jaguars.
I've looked through non-championship race results at one great site with statistics and found some 'Biondetti Special'. Further was just googling...
You mean even this car can be found on the net?
Why not? I've seemingly found the page from the book you've scanned it from - it was on Italian.
I found it!
But no, it's not the same book, in mine the picture is complete, in that (the one from that VERY famouse site), is partial, and my book it's quite new and that one seems old.
Here's a picture of a Biondetti I saw in a Mille Miglia in Rome.
Quote from: Paul Jaray on December 18, 2008, 10:42:20 AM
The first car by Clemente Biondetti was a Bugatti with a Maserati engine
By the way, was it a Maserati-engined Bugatti or a Bugatti-engined Maserati?
...a Maserati's engine in a Bugatti's chassis.
...and Tipo 26 nose?
There are no pics and no more details on my book, just a maserati's engine in a Bugatti's chassis in the 30's.
Quote from: Paul Jaray on December 18, 2008, 10:52:31 AM
I found it!
But no, it's not the same book, in mine the picture is complete, in that (the one from that VERY famouse site), is partial, and my book it's quite new and that one seems old.
Here's a picture of a Biondetti I saw in a Mille Miglia in Rome.
I would guess that this is the second Biondetti-Jaguar. he wanted to buy a C-Type Jaguar but they wouldn't sell him one so he made his own based on an XK120.