[mp.ab]

Good evening fellow members,
I would like to share my thoughts after reading your anwsers.

Tour de France 19th to 27th of September 1970.
Five Alfa Romeo GTAms participated in this race.

1. entry #56 driven by Verrier/Vanson chassis AR 1531212 registration plate number L47391 MI
2. entry #57 driven by Barallier/Fayel chassis AR 1531230 registration plate number L47393 MI
3. entry #58 driven by Pianta/Alemani chassis AR 1530671 registration plate number K97829 MI
4. entry #59 driven by Darniche/Demange chassis AR 1531222 registration plate number L47392 MI
5. entry #60 driven by Dieudonee/Curien chassis unknown registration plate number L26447 MI

So all of the GTAms that participated had registration plate numbers, my guess is that it should be mandatory since the Tour de France took place on public roads also.

Some facts...

1. The unknown chassis cannot be AR 1531042, since it participated at the ETCC race at Jarama on 27th of September 1970.
2. We also know that it cannot be AR 1531034 since it crashed at Nurburgring on July 1970.
3. We are searching for a red GTAm with a yellow front right corner as the frame from the video is showing.

A logical thought...
Since the registration papers were for chassis AR 1531034, it would be convenient that the unknown chassis that participated is close to AR 1531034... meaning AR 1531039, AR 1531042, AR 1531068, they only differ in one or two digits. AR 1531042 is ruled out, so we are left with AR 1531039 (one digit difference and a registration plate L26448 MI which it received the same date as AR 1531034) and AR 1531068 (two digits difference).

Of course I stand corrected as this is digging into history, and everything must be proven.

A big thank you for your help.
Takis.

Takis, my thoughts regarding the #60. Look at the racing number of the car, it is round, however all other cars (at least pictures I've checked) of the event had square racing numbers. I tried to find the answer and seems like the car #60 was added to the racing grid in the last moment.
As you can see by the screenshot from Autosprint #36, 1970, only four official AR supposed to participate in the race. So the #60 was added in the last moment, it probably was a spare car of SOFAR. Also in the final results of the race #60 was called Alfa Romeo GT
Also Giorgio Pianta raced with Gian Battista Alemani and not with Miracolo as was announced.

 

[quadrifolio]

hello Takis, AR 1532307, never had license plates. How that was done in the day I don’t know.
The owner, Juncadella, told me that he had a friend that would drive it from Italy to Spain on a trailer for him to race, albeit it was only for a year, then it was exported to El Salvador.
Funny businesses in those days. Very creative. 😁

So at least this car, no license plate.
And, it still has no license plates, as being a race car, in El Salvador there’s no law that requires a race car to have license plates

Regards, Alberto

Back in those days in Spain it was a common practice to give to car a that was inported to race, a provisional license plate that expired after some days so the car didnt need to be road registered for that prupose if after the race they were leaving the country again so that could explain the no license plate to that particular car