Alfa's In Trans Am - Page 5

borrani · #61 (**permalink**) 11-22-2005, 07:06 PM

C'mon you guys! Let's have 3 of you pony up $25k each and you can buy my GTA! Own a piece of history!

http://www.wesingram.com/GTAFS/1965GTA.htm

Steve S.
Seattle, WA

super-racer · #62 (**permalink**) 11-23-2005, 02:56 AM

Don't do it Steve...don't do it!!!

**italcarguy** · #63 (**permalink**) 11-23-2005, 09:05 PM

I got these from my sales manager at work. We were talking Alfa's and he mentioned some pictures he took at the 1970 and 1972 Trans Am races at Riverside.

Charlie Thieriot having an off road excursion. 1970 Riverside

Charlie Thieriot at speed. 1970 Riverside

Bert Everett (752 507) chasing Horst Kwech (775 460). Note date stamp on picture. 1970 Riverside

Bert Everett (750 507) being chased by Don Pike (BMW) and Horst Kwech (775 460). Note the later nose grafted onto Kwech's GTA. 1970 Riverside

Bert Everett smiling while he looks at Horst Kwech in his mirror. Everett went on to win this race. 1970 Riverside

**italcarguy** · #64 (**permalink**) 11-23-2005, 09:12 PM

Charlie Thieriot leading an unidentified Datsun. Note the feder repair to the left front on the GTA. 1972 Riverside

Charlie Thieriot leading what looks to be one of the Wetson GTV's. If you look close, you can see the detail of lights and flares that would be on a Wetson car. 1972 Riverside

Horst Kwech leading an unidentified GTA (Lee Midgley or Vic Provenzano?). 1972 Riverside

Harry Theodorocopulos in his Wetson GTV. 1972 Riverside

Unidentified GTA leading John Morton in his Datsun 510 and one of the Hyde Park BMW's (Jeff Kline?)

**italcarguy** · #65 (**permalink**) 11-23-2005, 09:28 PM

Simon posted this picture earlier in the thread. Look at the circled #85 GTA hood in the picture (far right). Thats GTA s/n 752 533 driven by Al Brizzard. It's one of the few rhd GTA's that Autodelta prepared spefically for ARI to sell to customers for the Trans Am series.

**italcarguy** · #66 (**permalink**) 11-23-2005, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by kengta

Anthony, do you know the whereabouts of these 2 pics and can you speculate on the S/N of the Baker #37 and other car Red #9. There is a drivers name on the side. If Harrisaon Ford can get a serial number off an artificial snake scale in a reflected image in the movie Blade Runner surely some one can ID the Red Car's driver. I see the Red one is carrying a BS so maybe this was a club racer??

Cioa

Ken

**jrclem** · #67 (**permalink**) 11-23-2005, 10:22 PM

"Charlie Thieriot having an off road excursion. 1970 Riverside"

That particular excursion was the result of a sheared lower right rear brake caliper bolt. The caliper rotated on the upper bolt and then acted as a lathe tool to split the Campy wheel from the inside out. This was in the pre-race warmup practice. We went on to fix the brake and replace the broken wheel. We thought we were in good shape for the race.
As was our custom, we had the car up on 4 jack stands, and ran the car in third gear at an idle (1500 RPM) for several minutes before heading for the pre-grid to warm everything up. At this particular race we where paddocked next to Otto Zipper's motor-home. Zipper waited until 9 minutes before the grid was to open and told me that we had a bent axle, (he had seen the wobbly run-out from his motor home, which I could not see from the driver's seat) thinking that this would preclude Charlie from making the race.
We had a completely set up spare axle w/ brakes and everything ready to go in the truck... so in a very good example of what makes a good team great, we pulled the whole assembly out and shoved a new one in, bled the brakes AND made the grid on time... earning the true respect of Otto Zipper and several of our competitors.
So the picture doesn't tell the whole story, here's an instance where driver error wasn't a factor!

RedVerde · #68 (**permalink**) 11-23-2005, 11:32 PM

Picture 1 is Horst Kwech's GTA 1970

Picture # 2 is St Joviete
Bert Everett on the right with Horst Kwech on the left
Jon Norman in row 2 in #58 1970

**smestas** · #69 (**permalink**) 11-24-2005, 12:55 AM

Found this one tonight after talking about Trans-Am stuff with Anthony on the phone.

Photo: Vic Provinzano on his way to victory at Riverside Raceway

**GTV4EVR** · #70 (**permalink**) 11-24-2005, 07:02 AM

Since we're talking about Trans Am, I've attached a shot of Kwech's 1969 ride and a driver's meeting shot. Both from the 1969 Race in St. Jovite

**kengta** · #71 (**permalink**) 11-24-2005, 12:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RedVerde

Picture 1 is Horst Kwech's GTA 1970

Picture # 2 is St Joviete
Bert Everett on the right with Horst Kwech on the left
Jon Norman in row 2 in #58 1970

**italcarguy** · #72 (**permalink**) 11-24-2005, 12:42 PM

The fathest back GTA on the left looks like it could be Harry T.?

Ken, I got some nice hi res images of your GTA that I will send you sometime this weekend. I got my scanner working last night so be ready for pictures of the Hadfield (ex-Murphy) GTA as well.

**kengta** · #73 (**permalink**) 11-24-2005, 02:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by italcarguy

The fathest back GTA on the left looks like it could be Harry T.?

Ken, I got some nice hi res images of your GTA that I will send you sometime this weekend. I got my scanner working last night so be ready for pictures of the Hadfield (ex-Murphy) GTA as well.

chelo · #74 (**permalink**) 11-24-2005, 02:47 PM

who owns the 93 car? where is it located.

vsharp · #75 (**permalink**) 11-25-2005, 03:56 AM

Seeing these Trans Am pictures is a real blast. What a series it must have been in it's glory days.
We used to get ex Trans Am Mustangs and Camaros out here, but sadly no Alfas.
I can see more GTAs on one grid than the total number of road and race ones added together, that ever came to Australia.
Keep posting photos guys, this is great!
VS