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Name this couple and their link to the car world.
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Re: MJW #713
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2011, 01:36:16 PM »
Moving up

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Re: MJW #713
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2011, 10:14:26 PM »
Promoting this one to PAFW

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Re: MJW #713
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2011, 11:07:35 AM »
Still no response so I'm putting this one back into the Pro section.......

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Re: MJW #713
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2011, 11:21:29 AM »
Surely that's not Stirling Moss is it?
And his sister Pat?
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Re: MJW #713
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2011, 11:39:50 AM »
Surely that's not Stirling Moss is it?
And his sister Pat?
No - they aren't British........

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Re: MJW #713
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2011, 12:14:27 PM »
Just to add a small clue - they were well-known figures in their day - not British but European.

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Re: MJW #713
« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2011, 07:38:38 AM »
Was he a regular driver or just raced for his own pleasure from time to time?

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Re: MJW #713
« Reply #8 on: December 20, 2011, 10:24:04 AM »
Was he a regular driver or just raced for his own pleasure from time to time?
He only raced in this particular event only once but whether he also raced elsewhere - I doubt it.

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Re: MJW #713
« Reply #9 on: December 21, 2011, 01:42:39 AM »
Is this Mille Miglia?

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Re: MJW #713
« Reply #10 on: December 21, 2011, 01:45:34 AM »
Is this Mille Miglia?
That's the event!

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Re: MJW #713
« Reply #11 on: December 21, 2011, 08:14:50 AM »
Italian man?

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Re: MJW #713
« Reply #12 on: December 21, 2011, 08:22:34 AM »
Italian man?
I can see where you're heading I think.
Yes, he's Italian.

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Re: MJW #713
« Reply #13 on: December 21, 2011, 02:18:02 PM »
Hardly, I have no certain idea yet, that was just coincidence that my guesses hit the target :D

But a guest celebrity should have been driving a Ferrari...
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Re: MJW #713
« Reply #14 on: December 21, 2011, 02:27:50 PM »
Yes, you've hit the target again.
Both people in the puzzle were well-known names in that period...

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Re: MJW #713
« Reply #15 on: December 22, 2011, 02:29:20 AM »
Any chance they're King Umberto II of Italy and his wife Marie Jose???

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Re: MJW #713
« Reply #16 on: December 22, 2011, 02:38:44 AM »
Any chance they're King Umberto II of Italy and his wife Marie Jose???
Good guess but they are not from a royal family

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Re: MJW #713
« Reply #17 on: December 22, 2011, 05:27:48 AM »
Roberto Rosselini and Ingrid Bergman at the 1953 Mille Miglia where he drove a Ferrari 250 MM Vignale together with Aldo Tonti. Starting number was 544, he didn't finish though.
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Re: MJW #713
« Reply #18 on: December 22, 2011, 05:42:27 AM »
Roberto Rosselini and Ingrid Bergman at the 1953 Mille Miglia where he drove a Ferrari 250 MM.
Bingo!
That's it - I believe Ingrid Bergman was very relieved that her husband emerged unscathed from this adventure.
I'll post another photo in a few minutes explaining his participation....

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Re: MJW #713
« Reply #19 on: December 22, 2011, 05:54:15 AM »
Mille Miglia 1953 -