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| Fiat 306/2 Bartoletti transporter at the Le Mans Classic 2016 |
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Fiat, Turin, Italy. This is a very famous and much travelled racing car transporter. Maserati actually owned it first and had Bartoletti convert the 1956 Fiat bus chassis into a racing car transporter. After Maserati withdrew from F1 racing in 1957 they sold the transporter to Lance Reventlow who needed one for his Scarab cars. Scarab raced in F1 in 1960 and in Formula intercontinental in 1961. In 1962 Scarab folded and the transporter was bought by Caroll Shelby. Shelby added the third axle which was needed for the weight of his Cobras. After Shelby stopped using it, it went to Team Lotus and then Alan Mann Racing. The next owner was David Piper, who rented it to Steve McQueen for the film Le Mans. In the film it appears in a number of different colour schemes! The Fiat originally had a Fiat 12 cylinder engine but at some stage that was replaced by a 11.5 litre Leyland 6 cylinder.
