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Racing Team Holland
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 11:05 am
by UHR850
Picture from the Racing Team Holland with Ben Pon and Gijs van Lennep.
Found in one of my scrab-books
Kees
Re: Racing Team Holland
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 2:35 pm
by 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
Re: Racing Team Holland
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 4:07 pm
by 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!
Re: Racing Team Holland
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2015 12:34 pm
by UHR850
Yes you are right
wrong name.
Very nice picture from the car with open bonnet,
are there more of those ?
Kees
