GTV6 for historic rallying

[gtv27]

please post on progress - pictures good too!

[Tour de Corse]

I will post pictures when possible

By the way, do any of you know the name of the wheel on the black & white picture of GTV6 above ?

[Gabor K.]

Could be Tramont

http://www.tramont.fr/prod_en.htm

[Tour de Corse]

Negative

Message from Tramont:

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Bonjour,

Désolé, cette jante n'est pas de notre fabrication.

Cordialement,

TRAMONT

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Any more ideas ?

[Gabor K.]

Well that could be a special metric wheel since its a TRX on it. I have enlarged it here but its impossible to read what is written on it...

[Tour de Corse]

TRX... you have to refresh my memory, as I have forgotten that abreviation!

Normally the GTV6 group A rallycar used on tarmac these sizes of tyres:

Front: 210/595 x 15
Rear: 235/595 x 15

[Gabor K.]

The tyre is Michelin TRX as you can see on the photo. Michelin in the eighties had an experiment with wheel diameters in millimeters in stead of standard 15", 16" , 17". The Michelin metric wheels were not such a success and soon dissapeared. Specially the BMW´s that time came with Michelin metric wheels. So the wheel on this car could be metric and therefore very scarce, but I have not seen them before and cannot tell for sure.

If you look at this page you will see that the TRX tires were in mm instead of inches, like HR 340, HR 365, Hr 390 etc. So I am pretty sure that the wheel on the GTV is a special metric TRX-wheel.
http://www.longstonetires.com/trx.php

[Tour de Corse]

Now I remember. One of my good friends drove a Samba group B car and that one had the same odd sized wheels/tyres.

[sfalfa]

In the link provided earlier: http://www.scuderiadelbiscione.com/
There is this picture showing a car that appears to have similar wheels only in chrome!
Perhaps they can shed some light on the wheels?

[Tour de Corse]

You're right, they look like the ones, however they appear quite different in chrome... whatever, I will investigate the case.

Thanks

[Tour de Corse]

Concerning the wheels...

Yes they are TRX, and according to one of our fellow alfa friends from Belgium - the wheels seems to be from the french company PLS, which GEMA often used as well as many other rally and racing teams in the eighties and beginning of nineties (well, perhaps only in France).

Another friend of mine, was today in contact with mr. GEMA (Gérard Mandréa) and strange enough, he couldn't put much light on the entire topic ...strange enough!!!

Moving forward, but slowly

[AlvaroSeco]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gabor K. I recently(fall last year) saw this same car for sale on a German site, for not such an unreasonable price. You could have bought it instead of building a copy. I cannot find the advertisement now though. There is also another guy in this page interested in making a copy, maybe its even you? http://www.forum-auto.com/sport-auto...ujet377143.htm

[Tour de Corse]

Hi Alvaro,

Splenddi - let's keep in touch !

Please send me a private email, and I will return it with MANY pictures

All the best
Morten

[AlvaroSeco]

Hi!

My 'to do list' is now a bit long, but in a couple (or four) of months, I hope to start the work.

I need to finish the garage, uprate the GTV6 to 3 litre with refreshed and spiced America engine, check a water leak in the Alfetta (I suspect a failed head gasket.... oh horror!), help my codriver to restore a 75 Turbo Evoluzione (Group A racer, a championship winner!!) and some minor works....and then: THE LOUBET!!

Best regards.

[ppth99]

you can find a lot of pics of the Rothmans car (cars ?) and other rally cars on the site french gtv passion - it seems there were many different wheels apart from the ones discussed above ... see

http://www.gtvpassion.com/pages%20in...allyeFHtdc.htm