GTA in restoration #613600

daniele · #1 (**permalink**) 09-08-2007, 12:01 AM

Here are some pictures of GTA (613600) that I have now owned for a few years. It has extensive racing history and documentation from Europe. Pictures are: as delivered from Autodelta, when raced and undergoing restoration. Interesting to note that the sliding block rear suspension was removed to race in its class; the differential housing with special mounting studs remains, but the set up was converted to solid aluminum Tbar.

daniele · #2 (**permalink**) 09-08-2007, 12:03 AM

when new picture

daniele · #3 (**permalink**) 09-08-2007, 12:03 AM

when raced

daniele · #4 (**permalink**) 09-08-2007, 12:06 AM

again when raced

daniele · #5 (**permalink**) 09-08-2007, 12:07 AM

restoration

daniele · #6 (**permalink**) 09-08-2007, 12:08 AM

again restoration

daniele · #7 (**permalink**) 09-08-2007, 12:11 AM

restoration 3

**1750GT** · #8 (**permalink**) 09-08-2007, 05:00 AM

Looks like it needed just a washing and waxing!...do you have any pics before the restoration?

Alleggerita · #9 (**permalink**) 09-08-2007, 07:43 AM

Is this an ex-Helmut Haehn car? Pictures from Hockenheim etc.? Possibly even the car that was road tested by a German magazine in the late 60's.

Also if it was raced in Historic in Europe, the sliding block would have been removed, as the latter was not homologated for '65.

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Originally Posted by daniele

Here are some pictures of GTA (613600) that I have now owned for a few years. It has extensive racing history and documentation from Europe. Pictures are: as delivered from Autodelta, when raced and undergoing restoration. Interesting to note that the sliding block rear suspension was removed to race in it class; the differential housing with special mounting studs remains, but the set up was converted to solid aluminum Tbar.

daniele · #10 (**permalink**) 09-09-2007, 10:15 PM

I will scan and post more restoration pictures in a few days. Yes this GTA was raced by Ha:hn in the 60's and 70's. It is also the car featured in AutoMotor und Sport in '68.

Alleggerita · #11 (**permalink**) 09-10-2007, 10:35 PM

I remember seeing this car at Haehn's shop many times together with a whole bunch of other GTA's. I used to drop by there frequently, as I used to live close by. Helmut Haehn is still around but there's only one GTA left at the shop now - just saw it again this summer.

BTW, somewhere I have an English translation of the German road test that I did for a local club newsletter some 20 years ago, if you need it - it is actually one of the better road tests written about a GTA. I believe there was a second road test of a Haehn GTA in Auto Motor Sport as well, but I am not sure if it was the same car.

Peter L · #12 (**permalink**) 09-11-2007, 03:43 AM

just an info:

Heft 15 Auto Motor und Sport, Jahrgang 1965 ( GTA-Test )