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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2014 => Topic started by: nicanary on April 28, 2014, 06:28:11 AM

Title: Solved NIC#181 - 1958 TecMec GP car
Post by: nicanary on April 28, 2014, 06:28:11 AM

I'm surprised this hasn't been a previous puzzle. What do we see here?

Title: Re: NIC #181
Post by: nicanary on May 14, 2014, 05:34:58 AM

Experts?

Title: Re: NIC #181
Post by: serra on May 14, 2014, 05:46:24 AM

Is it aformula Junior?

Title: Re: NIC #181
Post by: shamrock on May 14, 2014, 05:52:14 AM

TEC MEC MASERATTI

Title: Re: NIC #181
Post by: nicanary on May 14, 2014, 06:36:23 AM

Quote from: shamrock on May 14, 2014, 05:52:14 AM

TEC MEC MASERATTI

Sorry serra, not one of my usual FJ selections, because it IS the TecMec. Named after the engineering company Studio Tecnica Meccanica, it was originally an attempt by Maserati to build a lighter and thus more competitive 250F, but when the racing team disbanded the project was taken over by Valerio Colotti in 1958. It still had no chance against the more powerful Ferraris and Vanwalls, and the nimbler Coopers. It raced only once, in the 1959 US GP, but retired.