Topic: Solved -PJ-16- Biondetti-Norton 4000 Special 1947

[Paul Jaray]

Not a company, and about "road legal cars" definition, isn't a Ferrari 250 GTO a road legal car? In those days gentlemen drivers use to drive their cars to the track before the challenge and back home...
If you mean that there were also normal cars for the normal transport purpose, no, because this car is named after its builder-pilot (big clue!) and the other cars named after him were all street-derived, but built for races (even if you could see them along the road!).

[Allemano]

The brand: O.S.C.A.?

[faksta]

Biondetti-Norton - 1947 Circuito di Torino practice.

Pheeeeew.....

[Paul Jaray]

That's the car!!!
And what's under the hood?

[faksta]

There's a 4-liter Norton engine. Made of several motorcycle ones? 8x500cc (Or 5,3333x750cc  )?

[Paul Jaray]

Absolutely correct, 8 motorcycle-Norton engines!
How did you find it!
The first car by Clemente Biondetti was a Bugatti with a Maserati engine, then He baceme popular with his Biondetti-Jaguars.

[faksta]

I've looked through non-championship race results at one great site with statistics and found some 'Biondetti Special'. Further was just googling...

[Paul Jaray]

You mean even this car can be found on the net?

[faksta]

Why not? I've seemingly found the page from the book you've scanned it from - it was on Italian.

[Paul Jaray]

I found it!
But no, it's not the same book, in mine the picture is complete, in that (the one from that VERY famouse site), is partial, and my book it's quite new and that one seems old.
Here's a picture of a Biondetti I saw in a Mille Miglia in Rome.

[faksta]

The first car by Clemente Biondetti was a Bugatti with a Maserati engine

By the way, was it a Maserati-engined Bugatti or a Bugatti-engined Maserati?

[Paul Jaray]

...a Maserati's engine in a Bugatti's chassis.

[faksta]

...and Tipo 26 nose?

[Paul Jaray]

There are no pics and no more details on my book, just a maserati's engine in a Bugatti's chassis in the 30's.

[D-type]

I found it!
But no, it's not the same book, in mine the picture is complete, in that (the one from that VERY famouse site), is partial, and my book it's quite new and that one seems old.
Here's a picture of a Biondetti I saw in a Mille Miglia in Rome.

I would guess that this is the second Biondetti-Jaguar.  he wanted to buy a C-Type Jaguar but they wouldn't sell him one so he made his own based on an XK120.