Topic: Ubb129 Gatso 4000 Coupe at Zandvoort June 1950

[mekubb]

For 1 point I would like to know the venue, the year and make/model of the car on the right

[Frisian Rhodesian]

Zandvoort - 1949 FIAT 1100 Gilco Sports

[mekubb]

Zandvoort is correct, year is close but the car isn't a Fiat Gilco

[660851]

date is probably 10th june 1951 the driver in the centre is van dieten

[mekubb]

Well, the one in the middle is indeed van Dieten. But I need to know what car we see on the right. The year is still close, but not 1951....

[Frisian Rhodesian]

1948 Cisitalia 202MM

[mekubb]

Not a Cisitalia

[mekubb]

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[D-type]

Zandvoort 11 June 1950 and Maurice Gatsonides in the Gatso 4000 coupé?

[mekubb]

Zandvoort 11 June 1950 and Maurice Gatsonides in the Gatso 4000 coupé?

That's the one ! A point for you. Here is a side view, strange car...

[Wendax]

It seems to have lost its cyclops headlight over the years. As the other headlights seem to protrude less than in the 1948 picture, perhaps a nose job was done after an accident.

We had the car in its initial guise before: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=12949.0

[mekubb]

It seems to have lost its cyclops headlight over the years. As the other headlights seem to protrude less than in the 1948 picture, perhaps a nose job was done after an accident.

We had the car in its initial guise before: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=12949.0

I also saw that the head lights were a bit different from the original 1948 pic, could well be because of an accident. I could ask some of my friends who know all about Zandvoort history

[SACO]

The car on the left is also a Gatso !

[nicanary]

The car on the left is also a Gatso !

Thank you Saco. I thought I was going mad - which is left and which is right?

[D-type]

In this case, I think SACO meant "Right as you look at it" rather than "Grid [stage] right".

Is that an RM Riley on the third row?  Hardly likely to provide any competition to an XK120.
 is it!

[nicanary]

In this case, I think SACO meant "Right as you look at it" rather than "Grid [stage] right".

Is that an RM Riley on the third row?  Hardly likely to provide any competition to an XK120.
 is it!

I thought it looked like a "waterfall" grille of a late-30s American sedan. I think the Dutch were like the British in this era with regards to production car races - if it was in production, then it raced against anything else "in production". Sports cars and saloons all lumped together.

[SACO]

I wanted to say: there is 2 Gatso! 

[mekubb]

There are indeed 2 Gatso's. The white one on the left is a Gatso 4000 Roadster driven by Klaas Barendregt, in the middle the XK120 Roadster from Johannes van Dieten and on the right the Gatso 4000 Coupé driven by Maus Gatsonides himself