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  • Abarth Carrera GTL

    Reboot thread for the Carrera Abarth GTL
    Justin Rio

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    Where eveything started
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      3 356 Abarth Carrera GTL in front of the Abarth plant at Torino
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        The hart of the car
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            Ben Pon Nederlands during the 1963 Tulipen Rallye in his own country
            DNF
            Bernadinus Pon born in 1937 and stil alive is the son of Ben Pon senior the Dutch importator for VW and Porsche
            A drove in competition until 1965
            In 1972 he competed in the Olympics in the pigeon shooting (finished 31 st)
            He is now the largets wine seller in the Nederlands
            He continue to drive for the Porsche museum in historic races
            This year he drove a 550 spyder in the Mille Miglia 2013 revival
            His race cars were always orange the Dutch National color
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            • #7
              The French Porsche pilot Robert Buchet with teammate Ernst Walter on a Porsche factory 356 Abarth during the 1960 Tour de France A
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              Despite this puncture on the Pau race track during the last leg of this competition they finished 4th overall behind 3 off Ferrari 250GT SWB hence their nickname 250GT "Tdf" (for Tour de France)

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              • #8
                Robert Buchet again with team mate Paul Ernest Strahle at the start of the 1961 Tour de Corse on another factory car plate WN-V-1 in September
                In September 1961 the weather conditions in the Corsican mountains that the rallye had to be stopped after 400 Km (of the 1200 planned)
                Only 2 Citroen DS 19 finished the race but out of time
                The classification was estabish at the end of the 2nd leg of the rallye
                Even with that only 12 cars out of the 80 + starters were classified
                The 356 Carrera was not amongst these 12 cars
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                • #9
                  WN-V-1 belong to the Stuttgart Porsche museum who
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                  et them go out for special events
                  Here a picture during the 2011 Rennsport

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                  • #10
                    For fun, Porsche plates WN-V-1, WN-V-2 and WN-V-3 belonged to the factory
                    They were placed on several different cars depending upon the circomstances
                    The below pictures were taken by the Porsche press service during a publicity shooting
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                    • #11
                      Interesting pic taken in 1960 inside the Abarth plant
                      The chassis behing the 356 Carrera GT are not Porsche chassis but Fiat chassis to built the Fiat Abarth
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                      • #12
                        After reflexion the below pic was not taken at the Abarth plant but at the Zagato one
                        Zagato built most of the 20 off 356 Abarth Carrera and the totality of the Fiat Abarth Zagato as below
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                            • #15
                              Wow!

                              1961 Targa. Car 1013 7th in class. Linge. Strahle DNS.

                              Steve Heinrichs

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