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Solved -PJ635- Ficai 750 Sport Boxer, 1956
« on: December 28, 2014, 09:29:39 AM »
What is this?
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Re: PJ - 635
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2015, 07:27:43 AM »
Experts?
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Re: PJ - 635
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2015, 07:31:04 AM »
This one won't take too much once you know where to look...
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Re: PJ - 635
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2015, 10:45:15 AM »
Porsche based?
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Re: PJ - 635
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2015, 11:16:04 AM »
Not Porsche.
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Re: PJ - 635
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2015, 03:55:35 AM »
Pros?
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Re: PJ - 635
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2015, 04:15:54 AM »
Ficaļ 750 ?
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Re: PJ - 635
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2015, 04:24:22 AM »
Almost there!  ;)
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Re: PJ - 635
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2015, 04:40:20 AM »
Ficai sport 750 ?
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Re: PJ - 635
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2015, 04:44:17 AM »
Wrong engine ;)
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Re: PJ - 635
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2015, 04:48:18 AM »
Ficai 1100 ?  :P
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Re: PJ - 635
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2015, 05:05:39 AM »
Yes! I hoped you could add a little more about this particular car.
It's not the usual etceterini.
It's your point anyway.
If you want I can fill in the details or leave them to you to find ;)
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Re: PJ - 635
« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2015, 05:23:57 AM »
Just a photo !  :)
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Re: PJ - 635
« Reply #13 on: February 03, 2015, 05:40:32 AM »
Alright, here you are:
Brothers Paolo and Pietro Ficai, who previously built a nice Allemano-bodied berlinetta in 1949, received by Franco Bertani the Jap 1100 engine of his Cooper. Ficai designed a tubular chassis and these designs were converted in technical designs by Nardi and materialized by Gilco. It was 1953 and this was a powerful but unsuccessful front engined barchetta. Ficai then realized a new barchetta, the puzzle car, rear-engined this time, using his old tubular chassis with some modifications but with a totally original engine: he tried first with the carters of the Jap engine with 2 cylinders and DHC heads of the Norton Manx 350 then finally realized his original engine, with Norton-derived cylinders but carters cast by Riva Calzoni in Bologna.

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Re: Solved -PJ635- Ficai 750 Sport Boxer, 1956
« Reply #14 on: February 03, 2015, 05:59:03 AM »
I'm sorry SACO, I made a mistake.
The car in the puzzle is called in many different ways, and I do not know if it was restored with the specifics of a previous stage of its life (a Jap engine?). The configuration is closer to the last one and that was a 750, not 1100. Somewhere it is called Ficai-Jap, and here's the origin of my error...the original 1100 Jap was used in the 1st front-engined version. The 2nd, read engined had a Norton derived engine and 2 different bodyworks: the puzzle car is closest to the 3rd version, the one that had the custom built boxer engine.
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