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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2010 => Topic started by: Allemano on January 15, 2010, 12:15:06 PM
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looks familiar?
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moved..
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Rosier 4CV Barquette?
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Not that!
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Beetle-based?
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Not Beetle based
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Then Porsche-based?
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Then Porsche-based?
Indeed!
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Thank you!
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What about Professionals?
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Does 'F' on the plate suggest it's French? I'm not good in numberplates...
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Even more specific: the 75 means that it was registered in Paris
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The owner was French, but the car was bodied somewhere else!
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Netherlands?
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Not from there!
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Maybe Germany?
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The base is German.
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Ah, well, the car was Porsche based, Joao Gois has already come up with it... I'll stop guessing the country now and will rather try to find the car.
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I think it will be quite surprising who did the coachwork for this car. Unfortunately it was very short lived. :-\
I've searched the internet if there are infos available. Just found the car, but the story I have read went a little different...
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Is it, by any chance, 356 Zagato which Claude Storez and Robert Buchet raced in 1958 Tour de France? Looks quite similar.
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Niceley done Sir! It's indeed the Zagato bodied 356 Storez based on a Carrera GT!
My source reports that this car was ordered by French GT-champion Claude Storez and that it was light-bodied by Zagato. In Stuttgart's Porsche factory the engine was optimized and after that a French mechanic ought to drive the car to Monsieur Storez to Paris. Unfortunately the car crashed near Stuttgart and got totally damaged.
Other sources tell a different story that Storez was killed in that particular car. I really have no idea which story is wrong and which right.
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There is one source (maybe the same as yours, but at the very bottom) telling that after the traffic accident the car was taken back to Zagato and rebuilt. At least the picture of 1959 Storez accident shows a very similar car.
As for the source, picture is taken form a big French forum... Was signed to be from Jacques Mertens' collection.
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Quote from a well known source:
"(...) the car was badly damaged by Michael Maniani, a cousin of Storez. Maniani took delivery of the car in Stuttgart and only made it 10 KM's out of town. The damaged car was taken to Zagato and rebuilt in time for the Tour de France were Storez raced it with race number 139. Later that year he was killed driving the Zagato at Rheims. The car was destroyed."
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Now that's a surprise!
I happen to know that Zagato is building a 'Sanction 2'-version (they wouldn't call it a replica!) of this car right now.
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Really? Would it be a copy or rather a car inspired by the original?
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An exact copy of the car on these pics.
So far, they only showed some renderings, but it can't take too long now before it's finished.
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These are definitely good news! Maybe a 2010 Mille Miglia will see the finished car?
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That'd be nice!
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The rendering:
Has anybody more pictures of the original car?
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That's the only ones I have:
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Great stuff.
Where from?
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From a brand-related book which was mentioned on Autopuzzles.com before...
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This car is beautiful. Looks like it was the design which Porsche applied to RS later, at least from the front.
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What's this, who built it, for whom and when?
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Experts?
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1957's Porsche 356 barchetta Zagato, a car which is by now being recreated at Zagato.
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1957's Porsche 356 barchetta Zagato, a car which is by now being recreated at Zagato.
Close, but it's earlier than 1957 and it has a name.
Locked for you to come up with it.
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Possibly 1500Z, from 1953??
I wrote 1957 before because Zagato's book shows that figure.
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It's what I had it as and what I was looking for, but I guess the Zagato book is more likely to be correct (although not necessarily so - I find plenty of errors in books!)
I also saw it quoted as 1956 on another website!
Here's a front view:
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Possibly 1500Z, from 1953??
I wrote 1957 before because Zagato's book shows that figure.
You didn't have to flip him the bird, did you? :D
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The end of the car ?
Rallye des routes du Nord 1959 N°11 Claude Storez :
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The car was built on a Porsche 356 A Carrera GT. After final adjustments at the Porsche works, the mechanic of Claude Storez crashed the car a few kilometres away from Stuttgart.
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The end of the car ?
Rallye des routes du Nord 1959 N°11 Claude Storez :
Yes, I meant to mention that the car was specially built for French raciang drive Claude Storez.
The first car built was crashed by a Zagato employee before it was delivered and they had to build another to replace it.
Sadly the crash you depict killed Storez.
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To make it whole :)
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=10763.0 (http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=10763.0)
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To make it whole :)
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=10763.0 (http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=10763.0)
Well fancy that..
Looks like I need to merge it?
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Looks like I need to merge it?
Done!
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The official recreation: