Le Mans 1955 - Reel 1 Part 1 (1955)
What's little things go unnoticed and the three French teams Deutsch-Bonnet Panhard that worked at the infamous 1955 Le Mans 24 Hours qualify these small displacements 750cc race cars become more and more amazing the more you learn to them the same name tags comes from the French company founders pilot, Charles Deutsch and Rene Bonnet Add the engine, they their race car mounted single from French carmaker Panhard and you get DB-Panhard the French say, Day-Bay.
Based on the concept of smaller, more streamlined aerodynamics and fuel efficient while being light makes for faster speed, DB s enormously successful in their class M-Sport and index performance events Index performance was rewarded with a disability category that not only the speed and endurance, but the fuel consumption and remember that the gas was in short supply in Europe after World War II When you really think about it, it is an excellent model for a modern sports racing car manufacturer with gas prices today in the flow, importing oil issues, Detroit stumbles and a planet in peril we must rethink smaller lighter more Quick Mini Cooper S, Mazda Speed3 and Honda Civic Si are currently ahead of the curve in that thought the race this year, the American Le Mans ALMS series vedet you a Racing Green Challenge event; Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta in October 2008 Porsche Penske Racing won the Prototype class and Corvette Racing won the GT class.
Most car enthusiasts athletes experience the infamous 1955 Le Mans 24 Hours due to the fatal accident the driver of the Mercedes team, Pierre Levegh where 80 spectators were killed A spectacular and horrific accident in front of the stands has was captured and recorded on film it was really the day Darkest supposedly racing this crash, and rightly overshadowed the achievements of the DB-Panhard this year DB won the 750cc class, finishing 16th overall after 24 h is something to remember But some more amazed that DB has traveled the Mulsanne straight at 117 miles per hour, with front wheel drive, a motor brake cylinder 2 and disk in 1955.
Following the 24-hour race DB factory team went TT Tourist Trophy in Ireland and then in the United States for the 12 Hours of Sebring FL in March 1956 Then the cars were sold to privateer property to finance DB racing efforts in 1957 my father and his brother Gordon Wil ran one of these cars the team factory X 1957-1960.
After lengthy and difficult research for 14 years, I find the same car as my father and my uncle was the owner is restored to its 1955 Le Mans color and number 57 Bernard Dervieux races yet and shows the car pictured here in Southern CA 53 years later only this past spring, my uncle Wil to hear his old racing car by phone and noticed as strong survey and nasty as ever.
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Photo source 1955 DB-Panhard in Thompson, CT National SCCA in 1959, Wil Wing credit.
If anyone is interested, please visit our website We are the American club for cars and DB Panhard We have about 60 members who have more than 150 cars in the United States, Mexico and Canada is very exciting to hear talk about a very special car like Greg's We also have some video to drive our cars posted on YouTube.
Does anyone know the story of DB Bill Devin took a body mold was run out of him at Sebring I owned the car, he was shunted and Devin sported a fiberglass before that tilted forward I sold it around 1977, in Oakland, California Ice Dale.
I do not know if it's the same car, but we saw a vintage Panhard Devin ran, I think it's in Houston.
I think Devin Panhard Houston belongs to Dr. Mark Brinker, who also took his Deutsch-Bonnet at Bonneville this year and set a record for the displacement of the engine, he appointed the DB Os-Evil, a game Bonneville John.
Ben Loquasto I remember a coupe that was run in the 60s by Bud Fehnl Nazareth Penna I remember he and I take our cars, I think it was Montgomery md There was also a cut that was run very succesfuly Howard Hanna member region SCCA Phila.
There is an Irishman called Jim O Riordan who worked as a mechanic with Rene Bonnet on his racing team Jim was a member of the Olympic team for Ireland in the 1950s and earned an athletic scholarship in American university, he joined the army and served in Vietnam now is in a nursing home in Dublin.
It would resemble knock stones around a tin two air-cooled engine opposite cyl single frame ben loquasto Easton Penna tube.
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