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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2023 => Topic started by: fromwien on November 11, 2022, 03:52:08 AM

Title: SOLVED: FW #132: Brabham GT40, Michel Paulus, 1975
Post by: fromwien on November 11, 2022, 03:52:08 AM
Please identify this racer in ALL its details
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on December 11, 2022, 03:20:25 PM
Experts?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: D-type on December 13, 2022, 04:39:59 PM
Please clarify what exact information you mean by ALL?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on December 23, 2022, 07:52:38 AM
See FW #414
Dear 'D-type',
pardon, but I should be allowed to ask the same way, as 'Wendax', 'SACO', 'Bertrand' etc. does. So in the future I will avoid the small word 'ALL', which is easy to omit and still ask the required details.
If that way of asking is unfair, please take care of all puzzles with the same way of asking.
Trust me, if you once can follow a way to solve a puzzle, hints will get you the solution. Please remember, it's a guessing game.

I prefer to follow necessary discussions at work, and certainly not in my leisure time. If you continue to have problems with my questions, I kindly ask you to contact the administrators of this site. If you would rather follow a puzzle game and not deal with what I consider to be distracting unnecessary things, I would be happy if you like to guess for one of my puzzles.
Merry Christmas
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: D-type on December 23, 2022, 05:42:20 PM
Is it South American?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on December 24, 2022, 07:18:38 AM
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on January 28, 2023, 05:37:15 AM
Professionals?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: nicanary on January 29, 2023, 11:54:27 AM
KMW ?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on January 29, 2023, 12:32:06 PM
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: nicanary on February 01, 2023, 06:35:07 AM
Is it actually a car built for racing, or is it a replica of a Porsche 917/10 ?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on February 01, 2023, 08:06:05 AM
 it is actually a car built for racing
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 16, 2023, 06:47:46 PM
From North America?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 17, 2023, 02:27:58 AM
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 17, 2023, 08:23:59 AM
From Europe?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 17, 2023, 10:33:30 AM
Yes
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 17, 2023, 08:45:18 PM
From France?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 18, 2023, 03:49:36 AM
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 18, 2023, 10:52:00 AM
From one of these countries?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 18, 2023, 11:25:43 AM
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 18, 2023, 11:49:39 AM
From the UK?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 18, 2023, 12:09:25 PM
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 18, 2023, 12:25:30 PM
From one of these?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 18, 2023, 01:25:07 PM
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 18, 2023, 01:56:14 PM
Italian?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 18, 2023, 04:00:22 PM
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 18, 2023, 04:15:58 PM
Scandinavian?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 18, 2023, 04:59:37 PM
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 18, 2023, 11:28:41 PM
From a Benelux country?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 19, 2023, 05:03:37 AM
Yes, but the base is from another country
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 20, 2023, 01:58:46 AM
Built in the Netherlands?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 20, 2023, 04:15:04 AM
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 22, 2023, 01:10:34 PM
Connection to Rudy Van der Straten/VDS?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 22, 2023, 02:56:38 PM
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 22, 2023, 04:04:41 PM
Built for Interserie, 1972-73?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 22, 2023, 04:11:58 PM
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 22, 2023, 04:18:14 PM
For Can-Am?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 22, 2023, 04:21:55 PM
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 22, 2023, 04:57:44 PM
Built in Belgium?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 23, 2023, 02:45:52 AM
Yes
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 23, 2023, 11:28:55 AM
Quote from: fromwien on May 19, 2023, 05:03:37 AM
Yes, but the base is from another country
Is the base from one of the other countries mentioned and/or shown in this thread so far?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 23, 2023, 11:57:38 AM
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 23, 2023, 02:48:59 PM
SEAT-based?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 24, 2023, 08:55:00 AM
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 25, 2023, 05:56:12 PM
Is the base from a European country?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 26, 2023, 05:11:27 AM
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 26, 2023, 11:04:23 AM
Quote from: fromwien on May 19, 2023, 05:03:37 AM
Yes, but the base is from another country
USA?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 26, 2023, 01:01:49 PM
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 26, 2023, 05:16:23 PM
Japanese base?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 27, 2023, 04:05:32 AM
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on May 27, 2023, 12:30:38 PM
Base from an Asian country?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on May 27, 2023, 05:24:06 PM
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on June 03, 2023, 05:36:05 PM
.
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on June 09, 2023, 12:18:46 AM
Before 1975?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on June 09, 2023, 04:31:19 PM
No, it is from 1975
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on June 09, 2023, 04:53:42 PM
U.S. mechanicals?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on June 09, 2023, 05:27:17 PM
Yes
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on June 09, 2023, 05:31:40 PM
Ford?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on June 09, 2023, 05:49:04 PM
Yes
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on June 09, 2023, 06:18:13 PM
Was it raced outside of Belgium?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on June 10, 2023, 02:48:07 AM
Try to check
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on June 13, 2023, 03:28:35 PM
GRAC connection?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on June 13, 2023, 03:56:16 PM
Quote from: gte4289 on June 09, 2023, 06:18:13 PM
Was it raced outside of Belgium?
I think not, but I am not sure. Only scarce information found
Quote from: gte4289 on June 13, 2023, 03:28:35 PM
GRAC connection?
No
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: fromwien on June 30, 2023, 03:56:45 AM
Masters?
Title: Re: FW #132
Post by: gte4289 on July 14, 2023, 01:46:26 AM
This one's a bit complicated, with several of the involved parties relaying different stories. To summarize, this car was originally the 1969 MEAN-Alfa (https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/new-board-53/fw-44/msg542693), built by Jacques d'Heur for Ron Tauranac (to be driven by Bernard Carlier) and based on a Brabham BT17 chassis. It was later sold to Auto Ricambi and passed through the hands of Michel Paulus and then Daniel Lebacq. Along the way, the Alfa engine was replaced with a Ford GT40 engine, the body was replaced with what you see in this photo, and the car was renamed the "Brabham GT40."