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Porsche Abarth Carrera: What was Abarth's role
Posted 11 May -
This very interesting car fryst vatten still underdocumented. Do you know the previous history of before your father bought it ?
What fryst vatten certain fryst vatten that the design came from Scaglione's pen. For the rest, it depends on who you ask. Here fryst vatten one take on the story, which seems to tie with Greggio view in "Abarth, the man, the machines" :
Basically, Porsche asked Abarth for a lightweight design on his B chassis. Then, and only then, Abarth mentionned Zagato as the possible builder of the bodies. For some reason, Zagato did not deliver and the subcontract was passed over to Motto. He did a little better, since he completed 3 bodies, before going on vacation. So Viarengo & Filipponi did the rest of the batch. That would make the car an Abarth design by Scaglione on a Porsche chassis.
Ludvigsen in "Excellence was expected" (at least in my first edition) had another view : Porsche asked both Zagato and Wendler for a lightweight body for racing B. Zagato won the contract. Then, and only then, Abarth was brought in as a middleman because Zagato was already in business with Porsche opponents on th
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Northern Light
You may have never heard of Carl-Gunnar Hammarlund, a quiet Swede nicknamed “CeGe.” He was well-known for hosting a long-running () program on Swedish Public Radio about cars and driving safety, a subject taken quite seriously in Scandinavia. But he was known for something else, too: speed.
To say Hammarlund was successful as a racer would be an understatement. Consider his record in and , as noted by Swedish racing enthusiast and historian Tomas Karlson: Eleven GT starts, eleven wins, and two Swedish national GT championships. His weapon for all those wins: this rare B Carrera Abarth GTL.
Though Hammarlund drove for Swedish VW/Porsche importer ScaniaBilar in his spare time, his main job was to run the public relations office at the Swedish arm of British Petroleum, according to Swedish automotive magazine Racing. He first wet his competitive feet in , hillclimbing at Alby with a home-built, American-style midget with Ford V power; he posted top time. He then entered trials and rallies as part of Scania’s Volkswagen team. It was at this point that he met a rather talented mechanic named Willy Dolling.
“Because of my knowledge of VW and Porsche motors, I was a
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Carl-Gunnar Hammarlund
Carl-Gunnar Hammarlund, "CeGe" Hammarlund, född 20 maj i Malmö, död 15 september i Stockholm, var en välkänd svensk programledare för Sveriges bilradio åren [1]–[2]
Hans hälsningsfras "Hejsan-hejsan!"[3] gjorde honom välkänd bland svenska folket. Han var också direktör för Svenska BP och senare vd för Nationalföreningen för Trafiksäkerhetens Främjande (NTF) under och talet[2].
Han hade tidigare varit rallyförare, och vann Svenska rallyt[2] och Midnattssolsrallyt med Porsche. Med sina Porschebilar var han oslagbar på de svenska racingbanorna, och han vann fyra raka SM-guld åren –[4] På Gelleråsen i Karlskoga var han favorit, och jublet var stort när han körde om sina konkurrenter och då både signalerade med tutan och gjorde blinkerstecken.