Alan Connell
#51
Posted 25 October 2006 - 16:06
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#52
Posted 25 October 2006 - 17:27
David
#53
Posted 25 October 2006 - 17:31
#54
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?
David
#55
Posted 25 October 2006 - 18:42
Originally posted by starlet
Thanks for clearing that up for me. Great pic!
david
#56
Posted 25 October 2006 - 18:47
The filler cap isn't at the same place !
#57
Posted 25 October 2006 - 19:48
The number's the same though!
#58
Posted 25 October 2006 - 19:55
David
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#60
Posted 25 October 2006 - 20:13
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.
#61
Posted 25 October 2006 - 20:20
#62
Posted 25 October 2006 - 20:29
#63
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 !
Ditto for me! For some reason I have it in my head that 1959 was the Interim Berlinetta year. I need a refresher course.
David
#64
Posted 26 October 2006 - 07:42
#65
Posted 28 October 2006 - 22:32
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!
photo lent site by Willem Oosthoek
#66
Posted 03 March 2007 - 13:19
Alan Connell at Watkins Glen in 1959
photo lent site Dave Nicholas- www.barcboys.com copyright 2007 BARC Boys
#67
Posted 03 March 2007 - 13:36
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
Posted 11 November 2009 - 15:59
Alan Connell and his Ferrari 335S after winning the feature in the 2nd Midland Air Park Races on October 11, 1959.
photo : Willem Oosthoek collection
#69
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:
#70
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
Edited by RA Historian, 11 March 2015 - 12:49.