Identify this car, its builder and from when it dates, for 1 point:
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French from the mid/late fifties ?
Quote from: mekubb on July 23, 2012, 03:47:32 AM
French from the mid/late fifties ?
Welcome to AutoPuzzles mekubb.
It's not French; fifties, yes, but a little earlier..
British?
Italian?
American with italian coach from around 1953 ?
Quote from: mekubb on July 23, 2012, 04:02:37 PM
American with italian coach from around 1953 ?
Not an American car nor an Italian body; year is correct though!
Italian car with british body ?
It looks like a Conrero but I am a bit puzzled about the non-italian body
Quote from: mekubb on July 24, 2012, 09:28:40 AM
It looks like a Conrero but I am a bit puzzled about the non-italian body
That's why it's called "AutoPuzzles"!
So Conrero is correct ?
Quote from: mekubb on July 25, 2012, 02:48:40 AM
So Conrero is correct ?
No, it's nothing to do with Conrero.
Experts?
So it's a italian base car. Body from Europe ?
Quote from: mekubb on August 02, 2012, 09:13:19 AM
So it's a italian base car. Body from Europe ?
Yes, the body too.
One-off Maserati A6?
In which case it must be a '50s Ferrari.
Quote from: Trommel on August 02, 2012, 02:25:38 PM
In which case it must be a '50s Ferrari.
Indeed it is..
It's a 1953 Ferrari 166MM, chassis 0300M - delivered with a Vignale Berlinetta body, re-bodied in 1954 as a Barchetta by Brussels coachbuilder Martial Oblin (one of only three cars they bodied apparently).
Quote from: Trommel on August 02, 2012, 03:41:55 PM
It's a 1953 Ferrari 166MM, chassis 0300M - delivered with a Vignale Berlinetta body, re-bodied in 1954 as a Barchetta by Brussels coachbuilder Martial Oblin (one of only three cars they bodied apparently).
Yes it is!
Well done.
Here are some pictures of the car as it looks today:
And just to add a little more information..
It was, as Trommel said, originally a Vignale coupe-bodied car when first built in early 1953 and was acquired by a Jacques Herzet, who raced it in 9 events before having it rebodied by Oblin in 1954. In that form he raced it in another 15 events up to 1957.
Today the car is owned by Boz Selz, who had it completely restored by Bob Smith Coachworks in Gainesville, Texas recently.
What an attractive car!
I think this is the same car in a 1955 race: