The X---- Porsche cars

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Having sold his Volvo Porsche, Lambert Dock started to build a second race car
This time he started from a shortened VW chassis with VW drive train at the front and a Porsche gear box and drive train at the back
The engine a Ford 1.6 L from a Cortina was at the back
The body was moulded by Edmond Perry the Apal boss who was just starting to produce buggies and cars
Lambert drive it during the 1963 race season and give it to race to Pierre Bonvoisin

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This car was regularly entered in Sport car races (as the 1966 Spa 6 hours) until the end of 1966 but never achieved a good result




This nsecond car has also desapeared

[356]

To answer Justin quote

Justin that just finish the Porsche Abarth story
Unless you are bored by my writing I have still many many stories to tell
Next to come will be :
The Lambert Dock Volvo Porsche special a certainly unknown story for most of you that I recently discover reading an article dedicated to a famous Frenchman collecting Volvo cars in a weekly magazine dedicated to historical cars named "La Vie de l'Auto" whose dream was to find back this car desapeared since 1990

Always enjoy reading your posts and looking forward to this next chapter.

[Porschinelle]

To day another story of a little known X....Porsche : the Albert Porsche RS
Frantz Albert was born in Jnauary 1931 in Worgl a small Austrian village
He inherited from his father a mechanical plant and as many young Austrian became found of motorbyke racing in the 50's

Seen below with his first 125cc FB Mondial an Italian racer (FB meanning Fratelli Borelli)

another pic of 1955 with a newer FB Mondial alongside an Austrian KTM motorbyke

If FB Mondial no longer exist today, KTM are now leader in the trial and cross motorbykes

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Frantz Albert had a first experience of car racing in 1954 with a Lancia but with very little success
His racing car career started in 1958 when he bought a second hand 550 that he enter in several local Austrian races up to the end of 1960 where he replace it by an also second hand RS 60
Frantz Albert car race number 87 is seen below at a training session in Ocotber 1958 on the Innsbruck airport track together with Ernst Vogele car race number 80 and Ludwig Fisher car race number 85

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Some more pics of Frantz Albert 550
seen below at the 1959 Gaisbergrennen hill climb

and the year after (1960) at this same Gaisberg rennen

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Frantz Albert chasing Carel Godin de Beaufort RS 60 in 1959 on the Zeltweg race track

Frantz Albert in 1958 at the Wurtzenpass bergrennen

Frantz Albert (car race number 123) with Josef Schorg (car race number 122) and Sepp Greger (Lola car race number 126)

[Don C]

Hi Porschinelle,
Very interesting regarding KTM in 1955, a very small company back then.
I rode a Penton, built by KTM, in the 1976 ISDT in Zeltweg, Austria, great machines that helped start KTM on their road to success.

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Above pic taken in 1960 on the Klagenfurt airport trackn the same day than the 2 below
Note the spectators without any protection completely inimmaginable today !

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Frantz Albert with his new RS 60 in 1961 on the Innsbruck airport race track

Always in 1961 on the Wien Aspern racetrack

In 1962 on the Innsbruck airport

and again on the Wien Aspern racetrack this time in 1962

[Porschinelle]

As you may see Frantz Albert never raced outside Austria except in 1962 when he took part to the Le Mans 24 hours race with a Simca Abarth 1300 becoming the second Austrian pilot to race the Le Mans 24 hours
Unfortunately the Simca Abarth was out quickly with gearbox problems

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A Simca Abarth



Carlo Abarth before to built for Porsche the famous Abarth Carrera did manufacture many many Fiat Abarth and some Simca Abarth
Simca a French car constructor who finish its life with Chrysler before to be bought by Peugeot-Citroen, was at the beginning a Fiat france subsidiary

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Frantz Albert had move his father mechanical business into a special camshaft manufacture
Quickly he became famous and did supply special camshafts to Lamborghini
In the same time he was also preparing serie cars for racing
In 1964 and 1965 he drove a 356 Carrera in some Austrian events
During that period he had the idea to prepare for himself a Lotus 23 powered by a Fuhrmann 1.6 engine
This car is known as the Albert RS



On the above pic the Fuhrmann engine is easily seen

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Frantz Albert race this car in 1966 and 1967 with the following results

As you may see this car use a 1.6 and

[Porschinelle]

a 2.0 L engine
As prooved by the above pics the 1.6 engine is a Fuhrmann but I have not found any mention of what was the 2.0 L
Fuhrmann or 911 6 cylinders
On the below pic of the Albert RS 2000 the Fuhrmann is no longer visible