33TT12 for sale in Redondo Beach

[bollingerRD]

I assume some here may be aware of this car, but Tillack has it for sale. It's advertised in Octane magazine (and probably elsewhere). I stopped in to look at it a couple of weeks ago. It looked "race fresh" meaning not pristine, but in typical condition for an old race car. I don't know the mechanical condition or anything. I guess they could tell I wasn't a serious buyer at the asking price of $1.5 million, so I didn't get a lot of their time or attention.

I didn't get pictures, but will try and go back to do that. I'll also check the ad in Octane for chassis number and year.

[bollingerRD]

Chassis no. 010. Listed as "Pescarolo & Bell 1975 World Sportscar Champion".

[Zagato_Olaf]

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Originally Posted by bollingerRD Chassis no. 010. Listed as "Pescarolo & Bell 1975 World Sportscar Champion".

[Zagato_Olaf]

And this is the 33SC12 turbo car in the Alfa Romeo Museum with chassisnumber 115.12.016. Photograph courtesy of ultimatecarpage.

Ciao, Olaf

[rshalfa]

Alfa Romeo T33/TT/12

Same car that showed up at a So Cal event last year?
Alfa Day at Cars and Coffee A...

[Zagato_Olaf]

Hello Aficionado's,

According to the letter supplied with the pictures at Tillackco.com 310 937 6700, this is 115.12.010.
Thanks for the link with the pictures rshalfa (this photograph taken at the 'cars & coffee 2007').

It is interesting that the letter signed by Carlo Chiti in 1992 states that 115.12.010 was driven by Arturo Merzario & Jackie Ickx during the 1000 km's of Mugello on the 23rd of March 1975 and finished in second place.

The book 'Alfa Romeo Tipo 33' by Peter Collins & Ed McDonough states that 115.12.010 was driven by Derek Bell and Henri Pescarolo to fourth place in the same race.

Ciao, Olaf

[Zagato_Olaf]

Here is a poster celebrating winning the championship in the 1975 season with (if I am correct) Arturo Merzario behind the wheel of an 33TT12. Merzario was quite small and had a white coloured helmet just like the driver in the photograph. WKRT stands for Willi Kauhsen Racing Team, because and I quote from the book Alfa Romeo Tipo 33; quote 'at that time Alfa Romeo was owned by the Italian state and the politics of the time meant that it was not popular for Alfa Romeo to be seen spending so much on sports car racing' unquote. Although the name Willi Kauhsen suggests that it was a German racing team and although Willi arranged some German sponsorhip from a sausage manufacturer, the cars were run and serviced by Autodelta. From the Spa 750 kilometers (run on the 4th of may 1975), Campari stepped in as a sponsor. Therefore a lot of the photographs with 33TT12's from the 1975 season can be seen with the Campari sponsorship on the cars. I got this poster from the internet but do not know the source anymore.

Ciao, Olaf