Racing Team Holland

[UHR850]

Picture from the Racing Team Holland with Ben Pon and Gijs van Lennep.
Found in one of my scrab-books

Kees

[UHR850]

Vitesse 1/43 made two very nice models from the Morris Cooper
On the roof from one of them is the signature from Tony Hildebrand printed by Vitesse

Kees

[Jack of all trades]

That's not the signature of Hildebrand but of Freek Dudok van Heel, the driver of the Broadspeed prepared Morris Cooper S used by the RTH. After the delivery of the car in Holland it was then in the capable hands of master mechanic Henk van Zalinge.

http://touringcarracing.net/Pictures/19 ... 966-54.jpg

Freek is the guy with the sun glasses, Henk is the one next to it.

As v Zalinge did all of his tuning "by ear" maybe it isn't strange he made electric Basses later in life!

http://ebass.nl/featured-basses/van-zalinge-bass/

Later on Dudok van Heel "Defected" with this car to SRT Holland and the car changed livery to the for SRT familiar white with red and blue stripe.

Significant detail, Ben Pon (son of the VW importer and "designer" of the T1 Bus)payed for the car in the first place!

[UHR850]

Yes you are right wrong name.
Very nice picture from the car with open bonnet,
are there more of those ?

Kees