Author Topic: SOLVED: WTH # 376 - Simca Surva by Henri Otterbein  (Read 499 times)

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SOLVED: WTH # 376 - Simca Surva by Henri Otterbein
« on: November 23, 2014, 12:31:02 AM »
To earn your point, provide the year, make, model, and builder of this interesting old race car

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Re: WTH # 376
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2014, 09:31:07 AM »
Rookies don't like race cars?

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Re: WTH # 376
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2014, 08:08:08 AM »
Italian?

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Re: WTH # 376
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2014, 11:26:02 AM »
Not Italian

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Re: WTH # 376
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2014, 09:23:06 AM »
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Re: WTH # 376
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2014, 10:14:57 AM »
Is that a Gordini?
Can't find the right one...Simca badge, racing next to a D.B....it should be easy...
« Last Edit: December 04, 2014, 11:13:01 AM by Paul Jaray »

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Re: WTH # 376
« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2014, 11:37:43 AM »
It's Henri Ottobein in his Simca Surva Formula 3 car at the demonstration race held at Montlhery in 1950.
(26 March 1950 - only 3 cars turned up)
« Last Edit: December 04, 2014, 11:39:47 AM by nicanary »
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: WTH # 376
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2014, 02:45:33 PM »
Another point for nicanary.

Paul Jaray: Simca badge?  huh?  I didn't even see that.

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Re: SOLVED: WTH # 376 - Simca Surva by Henri Otterbein
« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2014, 03:40:18 PM »
Another point for nicanary.

Paul Jaray: Simca badge?  huh?  I didn't even see that.

Here's the badge from your pic and the one from Gordini's Typ 1.