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[CLR]

Hans Berends wrote an article in "Historic Motor Racing" detailing how a pair of 1 litre F2 Alfa engines en route to the UK from GSD in Italy were first abandoned, due I assume to non tax payment, and then found ten years later in Swiss customs.

 

Does any one know what happened to the engines, ?

The article tells how they went to Roger Rey who hill climbed his BT21 so powered until 1977.

What happened next ?

CLR

[The Mountaineer]

In March 2007 Roger Rey told me that the engines had been sold to someone in the United States.

[Allen Brown]

All I can add is that Rey used the ex-Jean-Bernard Mermod Brabham BT21B, although it's quite possibly that car was actually an updated BT21.  He raced it in the 1-litre class in Swiss and French hillclimbs in 1971 and 1972 and reappeared a few years later in a car only identified as a "Brabham". 

 

At what point did he fit the Alfa engine?

[Allen Brown]

In March 2007 Roger Rey told me that the engines had been sold to someone in the United States.

 

Did he tell you what happened to the Brabham?

[The Mountaineer]

Hi Allen

 

The man who can answer your questions is our friend Marcel Spiess. It was him who restored it a few years later. I think you have his contact data. I remember that there is a story about a crash by Mermod and a replacement chassis. From memory, Mermod's second Brabham was a BT 35..