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Mystery Triumph 'Conrero' Le Mans car of 1960

Started by AAGR , Jul 23 2017 17:51

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#1 AAGR

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Posted 23 July 2017 - 17:51

In 1960 Standard-Triumph commissioned Conrero of Italy to produce a new race car to compete at Le Mans, which was meant to use Triumph's new twin-cam engine, transmission, suspension, and so on.

One car (styled by Michelotti), was delivered to Coventry in 1961, but was never raced. The origins of this car were never explained in public from then, to this day.

Only now is the car being restored, and the strip down has revealed a complex small-tube chassis frame with absolutely no Triumph heritage in it.

Now ....the story is that Conrero had already designed and built the rolling chassis of this car to a vague request from Alfa Romeo in 1959/1960, but this had been rejected by the Italian company.

Does anyone know any more than this ?

Edited by AAGR, 23 July 2017 - 17:52.

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#2 Tim Murray

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Posted 25 July 2017 - 07:39

A Conrero-Alfa Romeo 1150 was raced at Le Mans in 1960 by Bernard Consten and Francesco de Leonibus. There's a thread on the Alfa BB forum featuring this car and including photos showing the chassis. Is there any similarity between this and the Triumph chassis?

http://www.alfabb.co...#/topics/447201

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#3 AAGR

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Posted 25 July 2017 - 09:05

Fascinating Tim, and it moves us forward quite a lot. I have pictures of the Triumph-Conrero chassis, which does indeed look very similar to that of the Alfa you mention. However, I am technologically not capable of getting those pictures onto this thread ....