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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2021 => Topic started by: SACO on October 06, 2021, 03:15:37 AM

Title: SAC#1597 : Taraschi 1100
Post by: SACO on October 06, 2021, 03:15:37 AM
Please , what is this car , for 1 point ?  :)
Title: Re: SAC#1597
Post by: SACO on October 16, 2021, 02:27:30 AM
Experts !
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Post by: ducamax66 on October 20, 2021, 03:41:05 PM
Taraschi formula junior
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Post by: SACO on October 21, 2021, 03:47:46 AM
Yes ! Taraschi 1100
1 point for ducamax66 !  :)
Title: Re: SAC#1597 : Taraschi 1100
Post by: nicanary on October 21, 2021, 04:57:33 AM
This is interesting. Berardo Taraschi did race a converted sports car in an early Formula Junior event, but this is not that car. Nor does it look like any other Taraschi sports car that I've seen, apart from a record-breaking attempt, and it's not that either.

Anyone know more?
Title: Re: SAC#1597 : Taraschi 1100
Post by: fromwien on October 21, 2021, 05:10:58 AM
Picture attached, what happened to the car in Monza 1958. I am only missing its prominent headrest on the puzzle picture..
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Post by: nicanary on October 21, 2021, 05:42:29 AM
Thanks. Seems to be the same car. This is the car that Taraschi drove in the first FJ race which has slight differences.
Title: Re: SAC#1597 : Taraschi 1100
Post by: fromwien on October 21, 2021, 06:54:34 AM
I know about confusion, which made me headache too for a very long time:
This may be the right solution:
Very first Formula Junior race in Italy, Monza 1958: 25/4/1958: 'II Trofeo Felice Bonetto' within the 'IV Trofeo Vigorelli'
Winner: Roberto Lippi, Stanguellini, ahead of Berardo Taraschi (race number 6, Taraschi FJ with bodywork as on the picture, you attached to your message)
Picture of the starting grid attached

Fourth round of the Italian Formula Junior Chamionship in 1958: 28-29/06/1958: 'I Junior Cup' (opener of the Monza 500-Mile race (Monza-Indianapolis)
The June race was held on the Monza-high-speed-track with banked turns, including a chicane on the main straight (like in April)
Winner: Nobile (Stanguellini) ahead of Lippi (Bardhal Stanguellini)
Berardo Taraschi's race car (the puzzle car) again wears race number #6 as in April.
Taraschi was forced out in the first lap, due to a multiple collision at the chicane. Gastone Zanarotti (Stanguelllini) and Adrien Bec (Bec) involved
Crash picture attached

Title: Re: SAC#1597 : Taraschi 1100
Post by: nicanary on October 21, 2021, 07:02:39 AM
Thank you. It's my fault- I didn't check the dates. Obviously there were 2 different races and the bodywork was slightly altered in the intervening period. My mistake.

It's strange that the FIA didn't specify open wheels. The same thing happened with the new F2 in the 1950s when owners entered Osca and Porsche sports cars which complied with the regulations.
Title: Re: SAC#1597 : Taraschi 1100
Post by: fromwien on October 22, 2021, 08:18:42 AM
Dear 'nicanary', please find attached the notes on the backside of the original photo of the puzzle car
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