WRECKED 356

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[JG]

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[Type550]

Accident at the Internationales Flugplatzrennen Klagenfurt in 1960. A 356 plus 718-041 which was rebuilt and raced again in the June 1962 Le Faucille Hill Climb

[JTR70]

Thanks Andrew! There are two vantage points in your post of this wreck I had not seen before. Now that I see them I find all the more incredible that this Spyder was actually repaired. A fresh chassis and body was rolled under the original VIN# I'm sure...
Also a lucky thing for the driver that this car wasn't RHD..
Thanks again! Justin

[Type550]

You would think a reframe at least - not mentioned in Steve's Journal

[JOP]

Do you know more about the litle dent?
It seeams massive on the 718 and just a smaller one the 356....
More like it was run over by a truck
Did the driver step out or was maybe carried/cut out?

[Craig Richter]

041 couldn't possibly have been "fixed", even with Justin on the job, could it?

[Type550]

Sepp Greger was the pilot. After the accident he didn't race for 7 months due to his injuries. He started racing again in a 356 until his 718 was repaired in June 1962

[JTR70]

041 couldn't possibly have been "fixed", even with Justin on the job, could it?

A hack like me couldn't have saved that!

BUT.......

Here is that very car reincarnated and in the possession of Alan Hall in the early '70's.

[Type550]

Must be the same car - still got the dent in the door

[Simon Harding]

Pre-A Cabriolet at AFN in 1962.

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[JG]

Ouch

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