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1955 Le Mans race
« on: April 07, 2004, 04:44:01 am »
 ??? O.K., why didn't the Moretti entries compete?  ???
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Re:1955 Le Mans race
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2004, 09:48:42 am »
They gridded too late!!

(At least that's what my Internet search told me!!  ;D)
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Re:1955 Le Mans race
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2004, 01:20:00 am »
Quote from: jpchenet on April 07, 2004, 09:48:42 am
They gridded too late!!

(At least that's what my Internet search told me!!  ;D)
;DAnd it was right! ;D
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1955 Le Mans race, more . . . .
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2004, 01:26:27 am »
 8)What can be said about Brigs Cunningham's enine in the #22?
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Re:1955 Le Mans race
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2004, 08:12:46 am »
The car was the self build C-6R with an Offenhauser engine. It didn't finish, though. Why was 1955 the last year that Briggs Cunningham competed in Europe ?  ;D
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Re:1955 Le Mans race
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2004, 10:51:05 am »
Quote from: hgb on April 08, 2004, 08:12:46 am
The car was the self build C-6R with an Offenhauser engine. It didn't finish, though. Why was 1955 the last year that Briggs Cunningham competed in Europe ?  ;D

1955 was final year for Cunningham cars due to the US Internal Revenue Service only allowing 5 years before classifying such a business as a non-deductible hobby and, therefore, the factory closed its doors at the end of the year.
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Re:1955 Le Mans race
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2004, 02:32:05 pm »
Right you are.  ;D Interesting, quitting racing just to avoid the tax.
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Re:1955 Le Mans race
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2004, 01:49:46 am »
Quote from: hgb on April 08, 2004, 02:32:05 pm
Right you are.  ;D Interesting, quitting racing just to avoid the tax.

 :( Not exactly avoiding the tax but loosing the deduction for the expenses.  :'( B.C. was also the first to show up at a racetrack with his cars in a large enclosed trailer with car ramps and an integral machine shop.  8)

 :) No new `teasers' for a while as I am preparing to go to Long Beach California where I will be a marshal at the OWRS (nee CART) race.  ;D That will be followed the next weekend by a Porsche Reunion at Daytona, and the following weekend also at Daytona for an SCCA National club race.  :o I will be running the radio net at Race Control at Daytona.   :D
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