Excellence magazine on their website had a nice four page story of this Abarth Carrera GTL.
Find it here: http://www.excellenc...=4#.UpOaU8SsjTo
But it left me wanting some more info. For instance, why do some people still call the Abarth GTL's Zagato-bodied when two other obscure coachbuilders are credited with the work? Was Scaglione a Zagato employee at the time? Are there drawings of the design with his name on it?
Also why did Porsche sour ont he car so fast? Is it because the 356 chassis was old, old, old and did not reprresent modern engineering so it had to be cancelled after 20-21 cars?
Finally still looking for one that can be called a barn find and 1008 looks like a good possibility. In the EXCELLENCE story it says:and I quote:
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" After lying dormant for a year, GTL 1008 was sold to Swedish auto collector and occasional racer Richard Cederlund. An amateur, he competed in local club events half-a-dozen times in 1964 with some success. Former Stockholm Sportvagnsklubb official Björn Bellander writes in his history of the group that Cederlund “…kept his cars for his children, but they were not interested.” After a divorce, his collection was sold."
"1008 entered the consciousness of California restorer and vintage racer Steve Tillack in 1992, not long after he learned that the vast car collection of fugitive Swedish real estate financier Hans Thulin was being liquidated. While negotiating with Thulin’s creditor banks, Tillack was tipped off about another private collection. He had been looking for a GTL and had compiled a list of the known surviving chassis and where they were located."
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I;d like to know, in US dollar eqivilants, what h Hammerlund sold it for to Cederlund
And when Cederlund sold his whoe collection, was that price broken out separately?
Also the way the EXCELLENCE story is written I can't tell if Tillack bought 1008 from the Thulin collection or ran across the Cederlund car, 1008, while he was dickering with the Thulin bankruptcy assets sellers and that Thulin owned a separate Abarth Carrera GTL.
Thanks for any info. Maybe I am detail obsessed but I hate it when a reporter tells 95% of the story and leaves out what I consider important.