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Fun #134 - Alfonso de Portago in his Kiddie Car
« on: January 04, 2012, 04:53:40 AM »
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Identify the young driver of this diminutive car, and his significance in the world of car nuttiness.

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Re: Fun #134
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2012, 04:04:26 AM »
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Re: Fun #134
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2012, 04:40:18 AM »
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Re: Fun #134
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2012, 11:59:16 AM »
A later racing driver?

Sir Stirling Moss?
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Re: Fun #134
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2012, 12:47:21 PM »
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A later racing driver?

Yes!

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Sir Stirling Moss?

Not him...
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Re: Fun #134
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2012, 12:50:41 PM »
Ralph Nader? :-\
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Re: Fun #134
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2012, 02:30:11 PM »
I wasn't aware of his auto racing exploits.  :)
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Re: Fun #134
« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2012, 02:50:05 PM »
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on January 18, 2012, 02:30:11 PM
I wasn't aware of his auto racing exploits.  :)
That was tongue in cheek but when you posted 'nuttiness'.......well I just had to..... ;D
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Re: Fun #134
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2012, 05:28:29 PM »
 ;D
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Re: Fun #134
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2012, 03:59:29 AM »
Some clues are in order.  ;)

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Re: Fun #134
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2012, 04:37:50 AM »
Ah I see!
He's a Londoner born in France of Spanish and Italian parents.
Or some similar combination. 8)
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Re: Fun #134
« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2012, 05:26:16 AM »
Quote from: Allan L on February 12, 2012, 04:37:50 AM
Ah I see!
He's a Londoner born in France of Spanish and Italian parents.
Or some similar combination. 8)

You've got the general idea, though the nationality of his parents do not play directly into the solution.
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Re: Fun #134
« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2012, 06:33:15 AM »
Well let's try Harry Schell who had some of those connections (plus USofA)
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Re: Fun #134
« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2012, 09:12:20 AM »
Not him. This fellow had a much longer name.
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Re: Fun #134
« Reply #14 on: February 12, 2012, 02:03:51 PM »
Alfonso Cabeza de Vaca de Portago, the 17th. Marquis de Portago and Count of Mejorada?
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Re: Fun #134
« Reply #15 on: February 13, 2012, 04:21:07 AM »
That's him: Alfonso Antonio Vicente Eduardo Angel Blas Francisco de Borja Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton -the Spanish racing driver - who was born in London, educated in France, and who met any early end at the age of 28 (along with his co-driver Edmund Nelson and 10 spectators) when his Ferrari blew a tire during the 1957 Mille Miglia
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Re: Fun #134 - Alfonso de Portago in his Kiddie Car
« Reply #16 on: February 13, 2012, 04:30:43 AM »
Aaargh I'd forgotten that Fon Portago was born in London, if I ever really knew it.
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Re: Fun #134 - Alfonso de Portago in his Kiddie Car
« Reply #17 on: June 26, 2014, 10:39:44 AM »
I've just found another photo of owner and car, this time with a companion faithful.
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