fantastic             race car transporter I

Here I want to show you different race car transporter . They are comming from different teams , privat or sponsert by Companies like Ferrari or Ford &&&  .Lot of these or not original thought to by a race car transporter but here you could see how creativ a few of the teams were to get the problem of transporting the race car under control . But here you can also see wich teams had no money problems to build a transporter that gave all help they needed at the race track . Some of them had only one truck and all tools within this one !

Enjoy looking to these nice ,offten forgotten car !

Team

Place

Year

Picture

Abarth

Le Mans - France

1960 + 1962

Alfa Romeo

 

1930

Bütsch , Egon

 

1951

Camoradi race team U.S.A.

Nürburgring - Germany

1960

Cooper

 

1951

Ecurie Ecosse

 

1959/1960

Fangio & Gonzales

 

1951

Ford “Wallon”

Le Mans - France

1965

Hotlkamp , Norman

company photo ?

1962

Maserati

? + Modell 1:43

1930 ? - 1955

Porsche - Werkteam & Team Martini

race days U.S.A. & modell 1:43

 

Polensky , Helmut

 

1951

Wartburg

by Herbert Ettler East-Germany

1972 - 1987

race team

Abarth - ( privat team or company ? )

truck-company

?

truck build in + used

?

truck typ

?

photo tooken when/where

1960 + 1962 / Le Mans

how many build

?

1960 -  Le Mans

1962 - Le Mans

more pictures :

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race team

Alfa Romeo

truck-company

? + Fiat

truck build in + used

1920 ? + 1930 ?

truck typ

?

photo tooken when/where

?

how many build

?

Here you can see maybe one of the first race car transporter of the world ! Also when this truck was not specialy build for this reason . On the left side you can see Mister “Enzo Ferrari” in the time he was working for Alfa .

My informations about this transporter is , that it was used in 1930. I don’t know if it’s right. Please send me informations if you know more !

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race team

Buetsch,Egon (privat driver-Germany)

truck-company

Mercedes bus

truck build + used

?

truck typ

1950 - 1952 ?

photo tooken when/where

1951

how many build

specialy build for Mr. Buetsch

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race team

Carmoradi race team U.S.A.

truck - company

Vesconta ?

truck build + used

?

truck typ

?

photo tooken when/where

Nürburgring / 1960

how many build

?

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race team

Cooper

truck company

?

truck build + used

?

truck typ

?

photo tooken when/where

Nuerburgring-Germany /1951

how many build

?

The cooper team was mostproberly one of the first teams ,if not te first team ,that sponsert their team by advertising on their bus . Like time shows with success !

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race team

Ecurie Ecosse

truck company

Commer

truck build + used

1959

truck typ

based on a Commer Chassis

photo tooken where/when

?/?

how many build

 1

more informations

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race team

Fangio & Gonzales  sponsert by: “Automobilia - Club Argentina”

truck company

?

truck build + used

?

truck typ

?

photo tooken where/when

somewere in europe

how many build

?

This truck shows you very good that it wasn’t very important to show up with an professional race car transporter at the race track . It is still more important how to show up ON the track ! Fangio showed that very good !

Fangio & Gonzales started in the race session in 1951 with this truck sponsert by the “Automobilia Club Argentina” . They had to check there finance and started slow by spending the money not to quick .

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race team

Ford “ Team Walon” -France ?-

truck company

?

truck build + used

?

truck typ

?

photo tooken where/when

Le Mans / 1965

how many build

?

This transporter belonged most proberly to the Ford Team France . The team WALON was maybe a privat team that was sponsert thrue the company Ford France ?

The transporter brought  following race cars to the track :

  • Ford - Daytona coupes
  • Ford MK. II

This informations where brought to me by Mr. Wallace White -USA .

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race team

Holtkamp, Norman -   privat company in the USA

truck company

Holtkamp

truck build + used

1961 - ?

truck typ

Mercedes 300S + Corvette

photo tooken where/when

on company property / 1961

how many build

?

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race team

Maserati “company”

truck company

Fiat

truck build + used

1930 ?

truck typ

127

photo tooken where/when

?/?

how many build

?

Here’s a Maserati Transporter . This typ was also used by Ferrari and Scarab. There are only a few parts different to the transporter of Ferrari and Scarab.

race team

Maserati “company”

truck company

Fiat

truck build + used

1952 / as Maserati 1957

truck typ

642 RN

photo tooken where/when

model 1:43 - “oldcars” italy

how many build

1

This open deck transporter is also one of my favorites ! The Fiat transporter was used by two companies - Maserati & Ferrari . Of course they had different disign .

These transporter were used about 10 years -from 1952 > 1963 - before they changed to a closed transporter so nobody could see anymore wich race cars are in the transporter in the moment .

Like this it was much easier to keep secrets SECRET !

Ferrari had used this Transporter untiol 1957 . Then it changed to Maserati and was used by Lance Revebtlow to haul his Scarabs to races from 1957 or so until the team disbanded.

The new owner of this open deck transporter is the team “Fossil Motorsport” . The also changed the design back to the Ferrari style that it had first.

 

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race team

Porsche  -”company”

truck company

Mercedes Benz

truck build + used

?

truck typ

?

photo tooken where/when

USA / ?

how many build

?

This one is not the nicest but he looks very classic . I think because the Porsche team had used this one he chould not be missed in a collection like this one !

race team

Team Martini

truck company

Mercedes Benz

truck build + used

?

truck typ

?

photo tooken where/when

modell 1:43                    “company : m-b-s-k Germany”

how many build

?

Specialy this truck was also used by the team Martini . They also had Porsche race cars but the race they had own things going .

These very nice models you can get in the scale

  • 1:43
  • 1:86

Go to  :   www.m-b-s-k.de to get more informations !

You can also just klick the picture for more informations !

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race team

Polensky , Helmut    German privat driver

truck company

?

truck build + used

?

truck typ

?

photo tooken where/when

? / 1951

how many build

?

Here you can also see what job he had & where the race driver lived. His name ( Helmut Polensky) and the town ,Durlach (belongs today to Karlsruhe in the S/W of Germany) , with postal code from that time. The race car he was driving in races was a “Poletta” !

In the early period of racing it was still posible for privat “hobby” driver to be  part of some races ,also it was maybe difficult to win . But here I don’t know any result of Helmut Polensky races .

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race team

Wartburg race team

truck company

Wartburg

truck build + used

1972 / 1972 - 1987

truck typ

based on Wartburg 353

photo tooken where/when

at home of Herbert Ettler / 2001

how many build

2 original / 1 replica

More Informations

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