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#51 Jerry Entin

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Posted 25 October 2006 - 16:06

I like it better in Red. Thanks for putting it up David.

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#52 cstlhn

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Posted 25 October 2006 - 17:27

If you look at the car in post #42 it appears that the car has a filler cap on the left rear fender. I am questioning wether the photo shows a decal or filler cap?

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#53 Bjorn Kjer

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Posted 25 October 2006 - 17:31

:cat: wowwow! Great pics!

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Posted 25 October 2006 - 18:24

Originally posted by cstlhn
If you look at the car in post #42 it appears that the car has a filler cap on the left rear fender. I am questioning wether the photo shows a decal or filler cap?

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#55 cstlhn

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Posted 25 October 2006 - 18:42

Originally posted by starlet
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Thanks for clearing that up for me. Great pic!

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Posted 25 October 2006 - 18:47

Yep, but that doesn't answer your question, David...
The filler cap isn't at the same place !

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Posted 25 October 2006 - 19:48

I don't think it even shows the same car/race! The car as shown in post #42 does not have the vents on the rear lower quarters, but the overhead shot (and the recent "red" picture) does .... :confused:
The number's the same though! :lol:

#58 cstlhn

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Posted 25 October 2006 - 19:55

It has brought to my attention that my photos in post #42 may in fact be a different car. I did not believe that there would have been yellow #18 cars at LeMans in 1959 and 1960? My post #42 could be LeMans 1959? The key might be the little French car just in front.

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Posted 25 October 2006 - 20:07

Two different cars? This must be the Connell car?

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#60 Jerry Entin

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Posted 25 October 2006 - 20:13

Dave as unbelievable as it seems I feel that is the case. On the car Connell drove in 1960 #1931GT
there was a plate number EE-02015 on the car. And the fuel filler appeared to be mounted on the trunk with a NART decal right underneath it. Both the Yellow #1461GT that ran in 1959 with George Arents and Andre Pillette and the #1931GT that Alan Connell ran in 1960 were NART entries. The #1461 finished a fine 4th in the 1959 race. They also seemed to have shared the #18 race number. Very strange occurance. Thanks for putting up this 1960 version of the NART entry . The 1959 car is great looking also. As you have said these are fabulous cars!
all research Willem Oosthoek.

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Posted 25 October 2006 - 20:20

Well, after such a mistake of my part, I promises to read again completely my Jess G. Pourret's book ! :lol:

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Posted 25 October 2006 - 20:29

Starlet: As I have said who would have believed that two yellow Ferrari coupes that both had the #18 on them and both raced at LeMans could be from two different years and be two different cars. Very strange. And both be NART entries.

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Posted 25 October 2006 - 21:41

Originally posted by starlet
Well, after such a mistake of my part, I promises to read again completely my Jess G. Pourret's book ! :lol:


Ditto for me! For some reason I have it in my head that 1959 was the Interim Berlinetta year. I need a refresher course.

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Posted 26 October 2006 - 07:42

Working in the "strange" , I allways thought the yellow colours to be from belgium ,and certainly not NART. However in 59/60/61 the Francorchamps cars were seldom(if ever) yellow on the GTs ,silver or red was their colours. Post 42 is 1960 as the blue Panhard 48 is the sportscar finishing 15th. However in 1959 the Panhards was also there with a 48 car , this though being a GT which retired. Back to the yellows I thought it could have been some co-work between NART and Franchorchamps but no, they were NARTs. However again , in 1961 LM the Belgians had three places but only 2 cars, NART the opposite so a NART owned car took the place , entered by Franchorchamps! So in the end there was some co-operation!.Strange too !

#65 Jerry Entin

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Posted 28 October 2006 - 22:32

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To the victors belong the spoils, in this case the silver trophies.
1959 Daytona National winner Alan Connell gets help from the trophy girl, while Walt Hansgen on left and Jack Knab go without assistance. Knab won the B-production race in his Corvette. After the race he loaded up the Corvette and drove it from Florida back to his home base of Dayton, Ohio. Those were the days!
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#66 Jerry Entin

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Posted 03 March 2007 - 13:19

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Alan Connell at Watkins Glen in 1959
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#67 David M. Kane

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Posted 03 March 2007 - 13:36

Jerry:

In those days drivers were pretty stocky. Walt Hansgen and Allan Connell look like footballers. Those front engine cars must have taken some muscle to pitch them around. I know I'm getting old; but I miss pit babes like that in a bathing suit no less. Can you imagine that in today's politically correct world? Today you'd be lucky to get Hillary Clinton in a pants suit.;)

Having said that, these photos are simply wonderful, please guys keep it up!

#68 Jerry Entin

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Posted 11 November 2009 - 15:59

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Alan Connell and his Ferrari 335S after winning the feature in the 2nd Midland Air Park Races on October 11, 1959.


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Posted 10 March 2015 - 23:36

I would like to start a post on Alan Connell. He was a racer from Fort Worth Texas who had some of the greatest cars and had a great time racing them. Anyone with pictures of Alan please post them. Alan passed away in 1999 due to I believe heart trouble. This was associated with an infection from the replacement of his pacemaker. I have always admired his cars and my friend Willem Oosthoek is preparing to do a great article on Alan using pictures loaned to him by Alan's widow. It will be in an upcoming edition of Vintage Motorsports. Alan was a Fort Worth Rancher and oil man. He was a Polo playing buddy of Hap Sharp's. He saw his first race in 1958 and was bitten by the racing bug. He raced a Cooper T53 that he had bought off Hap Sharp in the 1962 Mexico City Formula One race. This was a non championship event. The car was obsolete by this time and Alan did poorly with it. This was his last race.

Alan Connell's Typo 61 Maserati with Ferrari 250TR engine:

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Posted 11 March 2015 - 12:47

I'll never forget Alan's Maserati-Ferrari. I saw it run a couple times. At the 1962 Road America 500 it was painted fluorescent chartreuse, a real eye burner, and on the doors had the wording, "Old Blue".  Yep.

 

The color was such that my Kodachrome could not properly capture it. The photos came out with the car a bright yellow, not its true chartreuse. I guess the film, even Kodachrome, did not have the properties to correctly reproduce it.

 

 

Tom


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