Clutchslip has once again muscled his way back on Biglorryblog (and not before time too says BLB). Anyroadup he says: "A recent project for Truck & Driver saw me spending a weekend at the Ferrari Weekend at the Nurburgring race circuit. You can find out why in the next issue of T&D, which goes on sale on the first Thursday of February, but here's a selection of some other trucks encountered. Sadly, only Volvo's absence ruined this coincidental all-makes line-up!
The F1 Clienti series is for the rather well-heeled to race ex-Scuderia Ferrari F1 cars, so they wouldn't have tatty transporters, would they?
Not strictly a commercial, even if it was called the breadvan! So what is it (for a fast-food pie)
Low-riding Volvo, high-rising trailer---presumably they have something to remind them the body is raised...before they go under a low bridge...
No lack of LEDs on Italian Scania. Avanti!
Also from Italy, immaculate Stralis
Even the Easterns keep it clean - Hungarian MAN TGS
And finally, a bit of self-indulgence - the 246 Dino, my candidate for best looking car ever
What about Atkinson's absence ??
The "Breadvan" was a one-off Ferrari 250 GT SWB Drogo, specially built for Le Mans. It is thought that possibly 2 other similar cars were built.
1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB 'Breadvan' is a one-off funded by Count Giovanni Volpi, a Ferrari racing privateer.
It is the Ferrari 250 GT SWB 3.0-litre V12 that had finished second in the 1961 Tour de France. In 1962 the truncated vertical Kamm tail was created by Giotto Bizzarrini in two weeks for Le Mans. On seeing it the car's owner thought it resembled a small bakery van that rumbled through his village each day...
I am a regular visitor of the Nordschelife, the nicest truck I ever spotted there was a Ford Transconti (see http://buzzybeeforum.nl/viewtopic.php?p=238998#p238998 )... Nobody of the race car owners understood I did not cared that much about the Ariel Atom everybody fancied, but went mad about "that old truck" that stood behind...
Nice Schnitzels overthere by the way! Like them! And the best place to make pictures of british sportscars for someone who never has been to England...
Best regards,
Alex Miedema
http://www.buzzybeeforum.nl