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gta 613110 ital motors edmonton
Hello as i mentioned in my first post ( new member and gta owner ) here are a few old photos of the ex angelini gta 613 110 ( raced with a 1300 gta engine ) by Fred del pero of ital motors in edmonton . sorry for the poor quality of the photos but its all i could do the pictures got stuck to the glass with time. the one with the three alfas is older , edmonton int. speedway 1981 , you can see freds gta still in italian livery with the #208 numbers it arrived with from italy (later #80). in the back ground is may dad Giorgio Pirotta scotti ,with his street stock class gt junior #44 (1750 angelini eng. ) today still run and owned by Gary cooper in edmonton and still part of the ital motors team and further back is ken staples 3rd driver of the team and quite known in the prarie region as a good racer his ride was old #79 a 2000 gtv gt2 class very successful car also still exiting part of the team , actually old 79 started it's racing life very early in the early 70s in edmonton it was their first car it was origianlly a 1750 gtv verde pino (green ) with orange front it was raced by gino (italian pilot can't recall his last name) and destroyed at some point in an accident the mechanics went on to give life to the #79 car raced by ken at the back of the picture .
the other pictures are about ten years later at race city calgary alberta,"maestro" Mario del pero freds dad and head of ital motors and the team at the rear wheel torquing the lugs . freds gta looks very tired from a long but very winnig carrer , mechanically still performing though as strong as ever. fred won something like 6 canadian gt3 championships with the car starting at sixteen years of age , and also always first in class at kelowna hill climb . any how , i thought you might like to see some old pictures of a gta that has a lot of history in both in europe and the american continent . today it is still raced sporadically..... and is basically in the same shape as the 90s picture . We have often talked with fred about a restoration of old gta # 80 , alas i now live in italy and mexico no longer in canada and see him seldomly and briefly and we have never been able to start such project ...........i think the best thing would be to ship it back to italy , maybe to to rome where i have an very good artesan friend (his dad was one of the main tin men at boano ) who under special petition has already REBUILT (not cloned ) 3 gtas to incredible attention to detail ......i hope 613 110 one day recovers it's rightful glory..........FRED are you listening..............!!!!!!
thanks .
giamba
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