Beautiful painting by Meier, of the superb Panhard-Levassor CD #53 car which raced in the 1962 Le Mans. It also came in 1st place for the “Performance Index” (calculated by Performance: Energy ratio).
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Tag Archives: 1962
video of the day. 1962 Spa Francorchamps. Lucien Bianci
on board in a Ferrari! (not sure which one yet…)
Alpine A108 for sale.
In Portugal? with a Lancia engine?? ha.
This of course, showed up in the early 60s right before the A110 appeared…..it’s sort of like a milder, smaller A110….pretty cool bit of history either way…even though the engine isn’t original. This one is on sale….for 30K GBP. Pretty absurd price for a non-original 1963 A108…if i may be honest.
original ad: http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C165277/
racing car of the day. 804.
did you know that PORSCHE made an F1 car in the 60s? 1962 Porsche 804
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“As Porsche finally entered a car at Monaco, the first Grand Prix of the season, Dan Gurney qualified third. He was passed by Richie Ginther in the first corner but won the race after the leaders had to retire. It was the first and only official race win for Porsche as a car manufacturer. A week later, Gurney beat Jim Clark’s Lotus to win again at the non-championship Solitude GP. Porsche claimed a solid 1-2 podium finish at the 300,000 visitor event.
The next event was the German Grand Prix which was run in torrential rain. After qualifying on the pole the race was a magnificent duel between Hill, Surtees and Gurney. The race proved to be one of Hill’s greatest victories and Gurney finished a more than respectable third. For the rest of the year the cars continued to be competitive but scored no more victories.
Towards the end of 1962, Porsche ceased its Formula 1 programme. Such technology, with only minimal carryover to production cars, required heavy financial outlays. Since motor racing was always the basis for new developments and improvements to production sports cars at Porsche, the company concentrated instead on GT cars and long-distance events once again.”
MORE INFO: http://www.f1technical.net/f1db/cars/164
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