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SOLVED: FW #260: RBS Simca FJ 1100, Rene Berte, 1960
« on: November 20, 2021, 09:38:50 AM »
Please identify this race car: Make? Engine? Race class? Year?
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Re: FW #260
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2021, 12:06:22 PM »
Experts?

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Re: FW #260
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2021, 11:02:26 AM »
Serval-HRD built by Jean Foury in the early 50s

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Re: FW #260
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2021, 11:16:33 AM »
Serval-HRD: No,  built by Jean Foury: No  in the early 50s: No

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Re: FW #260
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2021, 11:29:39 AM »
French?
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Re: FW #260
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2021, 12:29:16 PM »
Yes

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Re: FW #260
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2021, 03:55:23 PM »
A Formula 2 car?
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Re: FW #260
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2021, 04:53:56 PM »
No

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Re: FW #260
« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2021, 06:10:25 PM »
It can't be a Formula 3 car, can it?
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Re: FW #260
« Reply #9 on: December 03, 2021, 06:20:55 PM »
Not a Formula 3 car

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Re: FW #260
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2021, 10:36:36 AM »
Hillclimb car?
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Re: FW #260
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2021, 10:43:57 AM »
It obviously isn't a Formula 1 car, so is the race class a domestic French one?
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Re: FW #260
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2021, 11:58:50 AM »

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Re: FW #260
« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2021, 12:00:04 PM »
It obviously isn't a Formula 1 car, so is the race class a domestic French one?
Not Formula 1 car, not domestic French race class

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Re: FW #260
« Reply #14 on: December 06, 2021, 04:38:26 PM »
1960s?
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Re: FW #260
« Reply #15 on: December 06, 2021, 04:47:00 PM »
Formula Junior?
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Re: FW #260
« Reply #16 on: December 06, 2021, 05:08:56 PM »
Yes

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Re: FW #260
« Reply #17 on: December 08, 2021, 08:10:19 AM »
Techno related ?
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Re: FW #260
« Reply #18 on: December 08, 2021, 01:02:59 PM »
If you mean 'Tecno' (Pederzani brothers, Italy): No

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Re: FW #260
« Reply #19 on: December 08, 2021, 01:40:54 PM »
I have read in a source that for Formula Junior cars a roll bar was mandatory from the beginning. But I don't see any in the picture.
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Re: FW #260
« Reply #20 on: December 08, 2021, 02:48:10 PM »
I think you are right, but there was no regulation about the height of the roll-bar. So most of them were far too low, so in modern 'Historic Formula Junior-events' you find on all of the cars welded height-extensions on the original roll-bars

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Re: FW #260
« Reply #21 on: December 08, 2021, 03:30:51 PM »
Formula Junior was limited to 1100cc.  Is it powered by a linered down engine?
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Re: FW #260
« Reply #22 on: December 08, 2021, 04:41:41 PM »
Is it powered by a linered down engine? No

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Re: FW #260
« Reply #23 on: December 09, 2021, 08:39:11 AM »
French engine?
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Re: FW #260
« Reply #24 on: December 09, 2021, 09:35:03 AM »
Yes