Exposition de Voitures Anciennes par l'Automobile Club de Montguyon

 

A lovely old Simca 8 in the place de la Mairie, Montguyon.

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It is rather a long time since my last blog post due to the Covid pandemic that has stopped most events being held in the last eight months.   Thus, it was a great pleasure that a friend of ours told us of a local classic car event on Saturday morning 5th June.  It was held in the lovely Charente Maritime town of Montguyon, a short drive from where we now live in France.

Organised by the local car club - l'Automobile Club de Montguyon, they were able to put on a great little exhibition of cars In the town square, As you can see from the pictures below.

A lovely selection of Renaults, VWs and Simcas as we walked into the exhibition of cars in Montguyon.

The obligatory Citroën 2CV outside of the baker's shop.  Note the two wonderful old bakery delivery bicycles behind the car.

Perhaps, the star of the show was  this Rosalie, a well maintained 1934 Citroën 8CV.

Not all of the cars were French.  This is a Triumph Spitfire with a market stall in the background.

Renault 4CV in French Racing Blue colours and "go-faster stripes".

The distinctive line of a Simca Ami 6 from the swinging sixties.

A fifties Panhard Dyna.

Another British car - Morgan.

Simca 1000.

The bakers van - I assume this is an old Simca.

Volkswagen Karmann Ghia.

The more common Volkswagen Beetle.  In France it is called the Coccinelle or Cox for short.

Simca Aronde.

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Beautiful 1934 Citroën 8CV Rosalie hub cap.

Ruins of the old medieval Chateau Fort (castle) at Montguyon.

December Quiz answers

James Calado's Ferrari at Sebring in 2017.

These are the answers to the questions on our sister blog Rouenlesafx.blogspot.com.  If you didn't see the questions click here.

When scoring be generous - for instance score a point for Dijon even if you didn't write the full answer of Dijon-Prenois.

1.   French Grand Prix Circuits since 1950.

Reims-Gueux 1pt

Rouen-les-Essarts 1pt

Charade, Clermont Ferrand 1pt

Bugatti, Le Mans 1pt

Paul Ricard 1pt

Dijon-Prenois 1pt

Magny Cours 1pt

Alain Prost won at three of these circuits 3 points (the last three on this list).  1981 at Dijon, 1983 and other years at Paul Ricard, 1993 at Magny Cours.

2.  Name the car driven by 4 World Champions.

Lotus 56  5pts   It was of course initially a 1968 Indy Car and then in 1971 as the 56b entered F1.  Graham Hill's only race in it was the 1968 Indy 500.  Jim Clark was killed before the Indy 500 but tested at Indy earlier in the year.  Mario Andretti raced in the car at the final USAC round at Riverside in 1968.  He actually drove three different cars in this event but one was a 56.  Emerson Fittipaldi came 8th at Monza in the Lotus 56b in the1971 Italian GP.

The other drivers who raced a 56 or 56b were:

Joe Leonard 1pt (1968 Indy 500 and USAC races)

Art Pollard 1pt (1968 Indy 500 and USAC races)

Reine Wisell 1pt (1971 British GP and Oulton Park Spring Cup)

Dave Walker 1pt (1971 Dutch GP)

Mike Spence who was killed testing a Lotus 56 at Indy also drove the car but like a number of others (eg Greg Weld, Lee Roy Yarborough, Lloyd Ruby, John Miles) never raced it.

3. Who was second in the 1952 Monte Carlo Rally and the 1956 Tour de France Automobile?

Stirling Moss   5pts.

Sunbeam   1pt (Monte Carlo Rally - Sunbeam Talbot 90)

Mercedes-Benz (Tour de France Automobile - Mercedes-Benz 300SL)

I don't know of any Rally that Moss won but feel free to correct me.

4.  Who has won the 12 Hours of Sebring and the F1 Championship in the same year?

Phil Hill 2pts  (he won both in 1961)

Juan-Manuel Fangio 2pts (he won both in 1956 and 1957)

Juan-Manuel Fangio 1pt (he was the driver to do this twice)

Ferrari 1pt (Phil Hill's car in the 1961 12  hours of Sebring)

Ferrari 1pt (Fangio's car in the 1956 12 hours)

Maserati 1pt (Fangio's car in the 1957 12 hours) 

John Surtees came third at Sebring in his Championship year (1964) having won at Sebring the previous year, so bad luck if you guessed Big John!

5.  Who has won a World Championship Grand Prix and the 24 hours of Daytona?

Fernando Alonso 1pt (Daytona in 2019)

Juan Pablo Montoya 1pt (Daytona in 2007, 2008 and 2013)

Thierry Boutsen 1pt  (Daytona in 1985)

Pedro Rodriguez 1pt  (Daytona in 1970 and 1971)

Jo Siffert 1pt  (Daytona in 1968)

Lorenzo Bandini 1pt  (Daytona in 1967)

Ickx, Andretti, Gurney and Phil Hill won at Daytona when it wasn't a 24 hour race so don't count - sorry!

6.  Name the car from its winning drivers.

Ford C100 5pts

DRM 1pt (Ludwig in 1982 at Hockenheim and Nurburgring))

Thundersports 1pt (Kennedy and Crawford together at Donington in 1983)

The Ford C100 wasn't the most successful of cars but Zakspeed developed it into the Zakspeed C1/8 and it won the 1984 Interserie Championship in the hands of Klaus Niedzwiedz, but by then it wasn't entered as a Ford C100 so no points for knowing that!

7.  Who has won a World F1 Championship, the 24 hours of Le Mans and a Coupe des Alpes?

Mike Hawthorn 5pts (1952 Coupe des Alpes - he finished 9th  but with no penalties)

Sunbeam Talbot 1pt (a Sunbeam Talbot 90)

Stirling Moss, Vic Elford, Lucien Bianchi and many others also won a Coupe des Alpes but didn't meet the other criteria.  I believe the 1952 Alpine was Hawthorn's only rally but feel free to correct me.

8.  Seven drivers to score points in a Cooper Maserati in 1966 or 1967.

Jochen Rindt 1pt (second in the 1966 Belgian GP)

Jacky Ickx

Richie Ginther 1pt (5th in the 1966 Belgian GP)

John Surtees 1pt  (winner of the 1966 Mexican GP)

Jo Siffert 1pt (4th in the 1966 US GP for Rob Walker)

Jo Bonnier 1pt (6th in the 1966 Mexican GP in his own car)

Pedro Rodriguez 1pt (winner of the 1967 South African GP)

Jacky Ickx 1pt   (sixth on his F1 debut at the 1967 Italian GP)

I have noted each driver's best position, not all their scores.

9. 1990 World Championship F1 Grand Winners.

Ayrton Senna 1pt (six wins and the Championship)

Alain Prost 1pt (five wins and second place in the championship)

Nelson Piquet 1pt (the final two GP of the year)

Nigel Mansell 1pt (the Portuguese GP)

Thierry Boutsen 1pt  (the Hungarian GP)

Riccardo Patrese 1pt (the San Marino GP)

McLaren-Honda 1pt (Senna)

Ferrari 1pt (Prost)

Benetton-Ford 1pt (Piquet)

Ferrari 1pt  (Mansell)

Williams-Renault 1pt  (Boutsen)

Williams-Renault 1pt  (Patrese)

10.  The last ten F1 GP winners for Ferrari.  (based on their last win)

Sebastien Vettel 1pt   (2019 Singapore GP)

Felipe Massa

Charles Leclerc 1pt   (2019 Italian GP)

Kimi Raikkonen 1pt  (2018 US GP)

Fernando Alonso 1pt  (2013 Chinese GP)

Felipe Massa 1pt  (2008 Brazilian GP)

Michael Schumacher 1pt  (2006 Chinese GP)

Rubens Barrichello 1pt  (2004 Chinese GP)

Eddie Irvine 1pt  (1999 Portuguese GP)

Jean Alesi 1pt  (1995 Canadian GP)

Gerhard Berger 1pt   (1994 German GP)   

If your list was the last ten drivers to join the list of Ferrari GP winners, delete Berger (1987 Japanese GP) and add Alain Prost  1 pt (1990 Spanish GP).   You can't have both Prost and Berger on your list.

11.   2010 World Championship F1 GP winners.

Sebastien Vettel 1pt   (5 GP wins and the World Championship)

Mark Webber

Mark Webber 1pt  (4 GP wins and third in the Championship)

Lewis Hamilton 1pt  (3 GP wins)

Jenson Button 1pt  (2 GP wins)

Fernando Alonso 1pt   (5 GP wins and runner-up in the Championship)

Red Bull-Renault 1pt (Vettel)

Red Bull-Renault 1pt (Webber)

McLaren-Mercedes 1pt (Hamilton)

McLaren-Mercedes 1pt (Button)

Ferrari 1pt (Alonso)

12.  Four British WEC Champions.

Allan McNish 1pt  (2013 World Endurance Drivers Champion)

Mike Conway

Anthony Davidson 1pt  (2014 World Endurance Drivers Champion)

Mike Conway 1pt (2019-2020 World Endurance Drivers Champion)

James Calado 1pt  (2017 World Endurance GT Drivers Champion)

Audi 1pt   (McNish)

Toyota 1pt  (Davidson)

Toyota 1pt  (Conway)

Ferrari 1pt  (Calado)

In terms of British manufacturers, only Aston Martin have won, doing so in 2019-20 in the GT category but no points for this as their winning drivers were Danish.

Maximum total possible score is 100.   If you scored 65 or over - very well done!   Hope you did at least reasonably well and scored over 50.  Let me know if you think I made any mistakes in the comments.

Wolf GB08

 

Wolf GB08 at the Course de Côte de Tonnerre 2020

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Wolf Racing Cars, Gardone Val Trompia, Brescia, Italy.  Wolf Racing Cars are an Italian racing car constructor who as Avelon Racing bought the rights to us the Walter Wolf name in 2009.  The original Walter Wolf Racing was a F1 constructor that famously won its first race when Jody Scheckter won the 1977 Argentine GP.  The F1 adventure ended in 1979 when Walter Wolf sold his team to Fittipaldi.  

The first car from the new Walter Wolf Racing was the GB08 a CN group prototype car.  The original GB08 had a Honda engine in common with many CN cars.  The cars are used in trackdays,  hillclimbs, prototype racing series and Endurance races all over the world.  The livery of many of the cars recall the F1 days.  

Volkswagen SP2

Volkswagen SP2 as seen in Paris.

Volkswagen do Brasil, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil.  The SP2 was a sports car developed and produced locally by Volkswagen in Brazil between 1972 and 1976 for the local market as a replacement for the Karmann Ghia.   A rather attractive coupé it suffered from being underpowered for a sports car, although about 10,000 were sold.  It did however have a modern and attractive interior.  The car was built on a Volkswagen Variant Chassis but with an air-cooled flat 4 cylinder engine enlarged to 1.7 litres but still with only 75 hp.  Thus a top speed of 100mph and 0-60 time of around 16 seconds didn't really live up to its head turning looks.  Not many were exported and they are are now quite sought-after. The SP stood for São Paulo and there was SP1 that was even more underpowered!   It is said that the SP2 inspired the Porsche 924. 

1955 Pichon-Parat Dolomites

 

A 1955 Pichon Parat Dolomites on the 2020 Tour Auto.  

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Pichon et Parat Carrossier, Sens, L'Yonne, France.  Pichon-Parat were coachbuilders who started in 1952.  The company was named after the founders, Bernard Pichon and André Parat. The Dolomites was first presented at the Paris Motor Show in October 1953.  It was built on the base of a Panhard Dyna X, a small capacity, lightweight, front engine, front wheel drive saloon car.  By adding a lightweight streamlined metal body Pichon-Parat turned it into a desirable sports car for rallying.  With a weight of about 500kg and a 750cc 2 cylinder motor it could reach about 150 kph.  Versions were also offered up to 850cc.

One of the first cars was bought by Laurent Sagnier who entered it into the 1954 Tour de France Automobile and hence its eligibility for the modern Tour Auto.  About three different styles of the Dolomites were built, all for competition.  Nowadays, these cars are rather rare as only about twenty or so were ever made.  Pichon-Parat also made cars based on the Renault 4CV, Citroens, Lancias, Talbots, BMW and even American chassis; all in relatively small volumes.  Pichon-Parat continued into the early seventies as a coachbuilder although André Parat died in the mid-Sixties.

1952 Cunningham C4R

A Cunningham C4R at the Le Mans Classic in 2018.

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B.S.Cunningham Company, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.   Briggs Cunningham first entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans Race in 1950 and was determined to win it.   He never actually did but came relatively close on at least one occasion, especially with the C4R which was powered by a 5.4 litre (later 5.5 litre) Chrysler V8 engine.  The first Cunningham C4Rs were built in 1952 with George Briggs Weaver in charge of the body and chassis design.  The car was a typical front engined rear wheel drive roadster with a big engined American V8 under the bonnet.  The roadholding was reputed to be very good but brakes and steering were a weak pont compared to the Jaguars of the era.   Top speed was around 155mph.

In 1952 two of these cars came to Le Mans and came away with fourth place in the hands of Briggs Cunningham himself and Bill Spear.  Later in the year John Fitch took the car to its first win in a 200 mile race at Elkhart Lake,  1953 saw the first ever World Sportscar Championship and a Cunningham C4R won the first ever round of the Championship in March at the 12 Hours of Sebring with John Fitch and Phil Walters at the wheel.   However, at Le Mans the sole C4R could only finish seventh.  Some consolation was gained a few weeks later with a 3rd place in the Reims 12 Hours.  It also appeared in a support race at the British GP.  In 1954 two C4Rs appeared at Le Mans and one of them came third driven by Bill Spear and Sherwood Johnston.   It was a brave effort but it was becoming very difficult to take on Jaguar, Ferrari and Mercedes at Le Mans.  The car did take a few more small victories in US races.   Only two cars (plus a C4RK coupé) were built in period, but 4 authorised continuation cars were built in the 1990s and another replica was built on a C3 chassis.  

Borgward B1500 Truck

A fifties Borgward B1500 truck in Portugal

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Borgward, Sebaldsbrück, Bremen Germany.  Carl Borgward was involved in producing trucks from around 1924 starting with the Goliath and Hansa-Lloyd brands.   In 1952 he introduced the Borgward B1500 truck that was designed to compete with other 1.5 ton trucks and had a load capacity of 1,600kg.  There were two versions powered either by 1,758cc diesel or petrol engine.  Models prior to 1954 had the headlamps mounted on the wings and had a vertical radiator grill, but later ones like this one had them integrated each side of the radiator grill.  The later version was affectionally called "alligator nose".   The model was the most successful of Borgward trucks with over 30,000 produced.  Unfortunately Borgward went bankrupt in 1961.   As this truck was produced in large numbers you can still seem them around from time to time.  This one was seen in Favaios in Portugal in 2019.  Lovely looking fifties truck.