All the people knows that the late Jean Behra had a plastic ear. But what ear was???? right or left?????. I am collecting anecdotes about Alfonso de Portago and need this detail................
Jean Behra´s ear
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380W
, Aug 29 2006 21:16
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Pedro 917
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Posted 30 August 2006 - 15:08
It was his right ear :
From "Les années Clark 1956-1965" by Gérard Crombac - editions ETAI
From "Les années Clark 1956-1965" by Gérard Crombac - editions ETAI
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David M. Kane
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Posted 30 August 2006 - 15:50
May I ask what happen to his ear? How did he lose it?
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Posted 30 August 2006 - 15:53
Originally posted by David M. Kane
May I ask what happen to his ear? How did he lose it?
Severed in a crash in the 1955 TT.
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Posted 30 August 2006 - 16:01
Jean Behra crashed the 300S and as the banks are very high at Dundrod the car fell on its side and as a result most of his ear is spread over a space of about 20 yards of the Dundrod circuit, I'd say.
Cliff Allison told me a lovely story about going to Sebring or somesuch circuit and having to share a room with Jean and being intrigued when he unscrewed his ear and put it on the bedside table !
Cliff Allison told me a lovely story about going to Sebring or somesuch circuit and having to share a room with Jean and being intrigued when he unscrewed his ear and put it on the bedside table !
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Posted 30 August 2006 - 16:07
By coincidence I was watching a programme on French TV today in which Tony Rudd told the story about how when Jean B came to stay at the Rudd household he would remove his ear and wave it in front of the children with the words "made in England" .......
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Posted 30 August 2006 - 16:52
Originally posted by Kpy
By coincidence I was watching a programme on French TV today in which Tony Rudd told the story about how when Jean B came to stay at the Rudd household he would remove his ear and wave it in front of the children with the words "made in England" .......
Which programme, if you don't mind me asking?
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Posted 30 August 2006 - 18:16
Of course I don't mind you asking!Originally posted by MCS
Which programme, if you don't mind me asking?
It was a programme on AB Moteurs
http://www.abmoteurs...resentation.asp
this afternoon - L'âge d'Or de la Course Automobile - an episode about French drivers compiled from some Neville Hay film, I think.
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380W
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Posted 30 August 2006 - 20:13
Thank you..........
The story that told me someone who witnessed it. It happened in Caracas in 1955 or 1956. Behra conquistated a local beauty. Alfonso de Portago told the girl that Behra was almost a monster, covered by scars of his multiple accidents........to probe that, unscrewed the Behra´s ear.....................
The story that told me someone who witnessed it. It happened in Caracas in 1955 or 1956. Behra conquistated a local beauty. Alfonso de Portago told the girl that Behra was almost a monster, covered by scars of his multiple accidents........to probe that, unscrewed the Behra´s ear.....................
