This thread contains accepted Concours d'Cancelation entries in the American Antique (1949-1969) Presented by Sunoco
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Car: Hall-Scott
OWNERS: Dick and Marilde DeLuna
Location: Woodside, California
Proposed Class : Race Cars, Prewar
Representing the Ironstone Concours d' Elegance
Details: more than 100 years ago Colonel Albert J.Hall was designing a car for the 1917 Vanderbilt Cup Race .The car based on the Model A-7-A ,an aircraft engine of 9.9 Liters, 125 HP, redline @1200rpm and 420 ft- lbs of torque.
The all aluminum engine was to be married with an all aluminum body and set on a 1917 Rio chassis. With the cancellation of the 1917 race, due to world war one, and the need for the hall scott company to produce aircraft engines the project was shelved. We resurrected the construction in the middle 90s with the help of his nephew Jay Eitel and master builder Tom Batchelor.
The Hall-Scott has raced for many years at the Monterey Historics, Goodwood, The Wine Classics and many other venues also shown at Concorso’s such as Hillsborough Concourse, Pebble Beach concourse and featured at Ironstone Concours.
1937 Bugatti Type 57G “Tank”
Simeone Foundation Museum
Philadelphia, PA
For the Radnor Hunt Concours
Race cars Pre-War
This is the only surviving of three 57G’s and the only existing Bugatti sports car to win a major race, the 1937 Le Mans. In June 1936 the Automobile Club of France allowed the participation of “Grand Touring Cars” which was their definition of a sports cars. Bugatti designed a special racing type 57S engine with a lighter crankshaft and with an unusual streamlined all enveloping body which was called the 57G and dubbed the “Tank”. During WWII because of concerns the Germans might confiscate it, Bugatti removed it from the Molsheim Museum and hid it in Bordeaux. It was later restored at the factory and eventually imported to the USA in 1961 by Gene Cesari. It was owned by Philadelphia area collectors Jerry Sherman and Stephen Pitcairn and eventually acquired by the Museum through an international three way swap, and now holds a place of honor in the Museum’s Winner’s Circle. It has raced up the hill at the Goodwood Festival of Speed and won an award on the lawn at Pebble Beach.
1935 Austin 7 Special
Owned by: Mark Sange
Bolinas, Ca
Class Race Cars Pre-War
This was built from a damaged Austin van, all the way back in 1935. This Special was then originally built in 1937.
The car is beautifully constructed. In particular, the front suspension is very cleverly fabricated. The car possesses huge drum brakes, reminiscent of a GP car of its era.
The car was raced in Britain in 193839 and at the outbreak of hostilities, the owner entered the RAF and was killed in the war.
In 1991 the car was found in a barn and then restored. In 1995 it began racing first on the east coast and then out west, where is was accepted five times for the Monterey races.
The current owner has owned the car since2008 and has raced it five times.
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