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[CSGPR]

Hi there


The car never raced a Grand Prix, and therefor don't have the history many owners are looking for. But if I had the money I would buy it on the spot . It's very nicely restored. A great car endeed

Best Regards

[Peter Morley]

Carnets were reused from time-to-time if a team were behind on their paperwork.

There was a far more fundamental reason for not having too many carnets.
A customs carnet avoided paying import duty as a car entered another country.
In order to obtain a carnet an amount of money equivalent to the potential import duties had to be handed over (the carnet was in effect a bond).
The advantage of this was that you only had to pay once, rather than in every country you passed through (who would of course refund the money upon exit - but sometime much later).
Since no one would take more than 3 or 4 cars it made sense to only have 3 or 4 customs carnets (and hence identities).
Of course the teams with far too much money did not care (something that would spread further own the field as more sponsors arrived) and handed the money over for each chassis.

In lesser formulas many people used the same carnet for totally different types of cars - many Lotus 23s entered countries as Lotus 18s (or Cooper 500s) for example.
Of course most historians are much more law abiding and would never acknowledge this practice.

I was most surpised to see the values written on the customs carnet when I worked in F3000, everything was missing a zero. But this wasn't a problem since everyone did the same - until some rich kid, with his own team, turned up and declared full value..............

[Breadmaster]

Originally posted by WGD706
Nice to have in one's garage!
http://www.carclassi...m/html/CI99.htm
Immediately available in continental Europe for 146,500 Euros, including all European Community taxes, no additional fees to pay.

and it sure is pretty!

This is a tricky area but my respect goes to the guys who just want to drive these cars and have fun - go for it!

[Duc-Man]

Sorry for bringing this up again but I have to throw in a question:

Why has the Gladridge car the later bodywork/aerodynamics since it never ran like this in period?

Question 2: does somebody know the history of the car since the previous post?

[Duncan Fox]

F 1s are not usually my cup of tea, but I'm always one to notice a chassis tag. While visiting Don Nichols last year I noted one of the several semi complete F1 cars had the tag DN9-1B with a pencil notion "Germany b/up" and another tub had a Theodore Racing # TR2 These were essentially cars minus engines and transmissions.

Don has commissioned the rebuilds of a DN1,5,9,and 11 which are underway now. A Mk1 Can Am car is also well advanced. At 90 he is still quite active and these rebuilds will help tidy things up for him I imagine . Don made me feel very welcome and I was treated to a memorable 5 precious hours with him.