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Re: SAC#935
« Reply #25 on: April 13, 2015, 05:27:10 AM »
Our questions appear to be very haphazard, so we need a precis - it's Oldsmobile-engined and the chassis is European, but not Italian. The question whether it was French was not answered, but I'm going to assume it's not from that country. My knowledge of British cars of that period suggests it's not from there, although I could be wrong  ;D.

The racing number on the car is a high one, so the entry for the event would have been large. This suggests a European hillclimb. Was the car constructed in Switzerland?
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Re: SAC#935
« Reply #26 on: April 13, 2015, 05:50:37 AM »
Quote from: nicanary on April 13, 2015, 05:27:10 AM
the chassis is European, but not Italian.

SACO said he found new information after having answered no to my question about an Italian base, so I think it can't be dismissed.

All we need is an update from SACO to clarify what's right and what's wrong.
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Re: SAC#935
« Reply #27 on: April 13, 2015, 10:17:46 AM »
Well !
Not Maserati birdcage chassis !
Not Italian chassis  !
Not Swiss chassis !
And not a French chassis ! ;)
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Re: SAC#935
« Reply #28 on: April 13, 2015, 10:31:24 AM »
British chassis ?
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Re: SAC#935
« Reply #29 on: April 13, 2015, 10:35:17 AM »
It's LHD. German?
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Re: SAC#935
« Reply #30 on: April 13, 2015, 10:48:11 AM »
Not British and not German !
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Re: SAC#935
« Reply #31 on: April 13, 2015, 11:03:49 AM »
Belgium?
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Re: SAC#935
« Reply #32 on: April 13, 2015, 11:19:34 AM »
Chassis from Sweden ?
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Re: SAC#935
« Reply #33 on: April 13, 2015, 11:31:44 AM »
Yes ! Belgian chassis !
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Re: SAC#935 : Locked
« Reply #34 on: April 13, 2015, 07:13:02 PM »
I have found several references to a sports-racing car built by Mean with an Oldsmobile engine and auto box, but that was in 1966 and I would have thought it would have been rear-engined.

Is this that car? (By all accounts it was a pig to drive, and usually finished up in the scenery.)
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Re: SAC#935 : Locked
« Reply #35 on: April 14, 2015, 01:59:01 AM »
Yes ! it's that car !
Mean prototype with Oldsmobile engine ( Course de cote de Fleuron 1966 )
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