Alfa's In Trans Am

[kengta]

Enjoy this 1970 Bryar TA Race Report from World Car Guide

ciao

Ken

[CanAmBob]

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Originally Posted by kengta Can_Am Bob, do you have this issue of SCG? Your car shows up in no less than 4 pictures with the one on page 46 in colour.Also see some photo leads on page 48. Ciao Ken

[kengta]

Attached are 2 pics sent to me some time ago by A. Smith from the 1971 Trans Am at Mid Ohio.

Gus Andrey on LHD GTA #26. Andrey finished 3rd in this event.

Regards

Ken

Oops: I see I have already posted these 2 earlier in this thread.

[GTA # 14]

I would like to thank Ken,Bob and all the other contributers for keeping this fine thread alive. I've be home with walking pneumonia for ten days and feeling down, losing so much time from my work.
Thank god for AlfaBB. over the last few days I've been able to peel back more data on the RHD GTA I have in storage.I learned from the 1966 VIR program that although the car was once owned by Joe Locario in Texas, his drivers at the 66 VIR trans-am were Russ Simon and Billl Steel ( car #17 finished 9th).
I want to get up north this winter to visit one of the cars past owners (Jon Norman) to see if i can purchase any images or history from his past stewardship.
I had some great shots of the car I took at Riverside 1979 when Dave Vegher ran it in the IMSA Times Grandprix, but these were lost in a house fire in 1990.
I'm hopeful some one else took some images 0f # 14 that day.
All the best guys, have a great Xmas!
Cheers, Don.

[Andrew]

I have pics of some of Vegher's cars from some AROSC Riverside events in the late 70s; maybe I have some of it? I can look through my slides. Got identifying info for the 77-80 period? I guess RHD might be a pretty significant giveaway.

Andrew

[GTA # 14]

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Originally Posted by Andrew I have pics of some of Vegher's cars from some AROSC Riverside events in the late 70s; maybe I have some of it? I can look through my slides. Got identifying info for the 77-80 period? I guess RHD might be a pretty significant giveaway. Andrew

[Andrew]

I'll look. Dave seemed to bring a lot of different cars in those days, most of which were stock-looking. But I do recall one developed car with that air dam. I'll check.

Andrew

[Andrew]

I looked at my pictures, which are likely from spring 1978, at an AROSC time trial at Riverside.

I have pics of a BSR (just BS on one panel)-classed car in a GTV body, with insanely wide front and rear flares, not done real professionally. It has GTV door handles, which is what makes me think it's a GTV. It had a giant airdam fastened with a bunch of Dzus fasteners, but in the pictures I have, it was both in the pits and on the track without the air dam. So I don't know what it said on it. It had race number 49, and says "Prepared by Barlow Racing" on it, and "paint and body by AJK." This doesn't sound like the car. But maybe someone can ID it?

The two cars I have pics of from this event with the Veloce Motors West airdam at the same event are (1) a street-bodied RHD GTA in red with No roll cage, probably Cal license 393 PXB. A similar street LHD GTA with the same type airdam had Cal license 019 SQJ.

The pics I have are BW prints taken on (gasp!) film. If these cars sound like something anyone wants pics of, I can make prints and mail them. I don't have a scanner though, to make images to post.

Andrew

[Andrew]

Correction; because my first Giulia Super appears in these pics, which I bought in May 1978, it must be asummer 1978 or spring 1979 AROSC event.
Andrew

[italcarguy]

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Originally Posted by Andrew I looked at my pictures, which are likely from spring 1978, at an AROSC time trial at Riverside. I have pics of a BSR (just BS on one panel)-classed car in a GTV body, with insanely wide front and rear flares, not done real professionally. It has GTV door handles, which is what makes me think it's a GTV. It had a giant airdam fastened with a bunch of Dzus fasteners, but in the pictures I have, it was both in the pits and on the track without the air dam. So I don't know what it said on it. It had race number 49, and says "Prepared by Barlow Racing" on it, and "paint and body by AJK." This doesn't sound like the car. But maybe someone can ID it? The two cars I have pics of from this event with the Veloce Motors West airdam at the same event are (1) a street-bodied RHD GTA in red with No roll cage, probably Cal license 393 PXB. A similar street LHD GTA with the same type airdam had Cal license 019 SQJ. The pics I have are BW prints taken on (gasp!) film. If these cars sound like something anyone wants pics of, I can make prints and mail them. I don't have a scanner though, to make images to post. Andrew

[GTA # 14]

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Originally Posted by Andrew I looked at my pictures, which are likely from spring 1978, at an AROSC time trial at Riverside. I have pics of a BSR (just BS on one panel)-classed car in a GTV body, with insanely wide front and rear flares, not done real professionally. It has GTV door handles, which is what makes me think it's a GTV. It had a giant airdam fastened with a bunch of Dzus fasteners, but in the pictures I have, it was both in the pits and on the track without the air dam. So I don't know what it said on it. It had race number 49, and says "Prepared by Barlow Racing" on it, and "paint and body by AJK." This doesn't sound like the car. But maybe someone can ID it? The two cars I have pics of from this event with the Veloce Motors West airdam at the same event are (1) a street-bodied RHD GTA in red with No roll cage, probably Cal license 393 PXB. A similar street LHD GTA with the same type airdam had Cal license 019 SQJ. The pics I have are BW prints taken on (gasp!) film. If these cars sound like something anyone wants pics of, I can make prints and mail them. I don't have a scanner though, to make images to post. Andrew

[kengta]

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Originally Posted by martinue Thank you Bob for clearing the Kwech pics from MidAmerica and VIR! The pic in post #10 came from Simon Mestas, who found it somewhere on the web Thank you Alleggerita for giving the Midgley GTA VIN! Since the Alfas were required to bolt on ballast for TransAm races because of their TwinCam engine, it is possible that Midgley decided to use the cheaper steel fenders instead of the original alloy ones. Do you know who sold and bought it in 1986? Following GTAs are listed for the 1966 VIR race, all of them can be seen on the starting grid pics No. 6 GTA #752648 RHD Horst Kwech/Gaston Andrey, Lake Forest, Illinois/Framingham, Massachussettes (USA), Knauz Continental Autos Inc., Lake Forest, Illinois, 3oa, 1cl (T2.0, photo) No. 42 GTA #752507 RHD Paul Richards/George Alderman, Wappinger Falls, N.J./Newark, N.J. (USA), Baker & Heijn Inc., White River Junction, Vermont, 4oa, 2cl (T2.0, photo: different stickers) No. 1 GTA RHD Jim Baker/Robert McQueen, Atlanta, GA (USA), Baker Motor Company, Atlanta, Georgia, 5oa, 2cl (T2.0, photo) No. 17 GTA LHD Russ Simon/Bill Steele, Houston, Texas (USA), Joe D. Locario, Houston, Texas, 9oa, 6cl (T2.0, photo, this could be the Jon Norman TransAm GTA) No. 31 GTA LHD Del Taylor/Robert Pratt, Denver, Colorado (USA), Del Taylor, Denver, Colorado, 11oa, 8cl (T2.0, photo) No. 63 GTA RHD Richard Peritz/Gerry Dolman, Little Neck, New York/Cambria Heights, New York (USA), Richard Peritz, Little Neck, New York, 12oa, 9cl (T2.0, photo) No. 61 GTA RHD Noel Armstrong/Ron Hunter, El Paso, Texas/Boulder, Colorado (USA), British & European Automotive, El Paso, Texas, 21oa, 17cl (T2.0, photo) No. 37 GTA LHD Harry Theodoracopulos/Sam Posey, New York City/Sharon, Connecticut (USA), Harry Theodoracopulos, New York, 23oa, 18cl (T2.0, DNF, photo) No. 27 GTA LHD Monty Winkler/Pete Van Der Vate, Washington D.C./Vienna, VA (USA), Winkler-Van Der Vate Racing Enterprises, Washington DC, 25oa, 20oa (T2.0, DNF, photo: rain in practice) No. 95 GTA #752503 RHD John D. Iglehart/Roger Barr, Greenwich, Connecticut/Glastonbury, Connecticut (USA), John D. Iglehart, Greenwich, Connecticut/International Motor Sales Ltd., White Plains, 28oa, 22cl (T2.0, DNF, photo: rain in practice) No. 47 GTA RHD Howard Hanna/Erika Rhone, Newton Square, N.J./Teaneck N.J. (USA), Howard Hanna, Newton Square, N.J./Paoli, Pennsylvania, 29oa, 24cl (T2.0, DNF, photo: rain in practice) No. 39 GTA Jim O’Brien/Tom O’Brien, N. Haledon, N.J./Oakland, N.J. (USA), George Owen North Brook, Illinois/Tom O’Brien Imported Cars, Ridgewood, New Jersey, DNA (T2.0) No. 48 GTA Reed Rollo/Pinkie Rollo, Washington D.C. (USA), Reed Rollo, Washington D.C., DNA (T2.0, raced a BMW1800TISA) GTA #752533 Alson Brizzard (USA), Bob Cole Imports Ltd., San Bruno, California, DNA (T2.0; his GTA has already won several SCCA National races on the West Coast) The Theodoracopulous LHD GTA could be #613151. This car is said to be delivered to Filippo Theodoli of New York. Theodoli was in the entry list of the 1966 Sebring TransAm together with Harry Theodoracopulous, but they did not arrive GTA #752573 is said to be delivered to Mecca Development (USA), according to the Alleggerita book, has it anything to do with Horst Kwech, Ausca Engineering, or Bill Knauz? Martin Uebelher Waldbach, Austria

[martinue]

Thank you Ken, I have now corrected my typing errors in the post.
Yes DNA means "did not arrive". The GTA drivers were listed in the Virginia Press Release of ARI, but the result list do not show Brizzard according to Anthony's pdf-files.

Btw the Giulia from your photo in post #334 is very sure:
19671008 TransAm Kent 300 T – Pacific Raceways, Kent, Washington (USA), No. 12 TIS? Don Muellhaupt, Salem, Oregon (USA), 19oa, 8cl (T2.0, DNF)

All the best
Martin

[kengta]

Here are two photos, That I don't think I have posted before, from Competion Press/AutoWeek showing
-Vic Provenzano on RHD GTA #97 at Riverside TA 1968 on his way to a class win and

-on LHD GTA #97 at Riverside TA 1969 on his way to 5th in class.

Ciao

Ken