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Group 3A: Charles
Nearburg -- 1954 Lancia D24 / Others
Charles Nearburg from Dallas, TX, on
his way to victory in the rare and beautiful Lancia D24. In Turn
5 he leads Rick Hall's 1950 equally rare Talbot Lago T26, and Noel Park's
1955 4400 cc. (265cid) V8 powered Corvette.
Another Lancia D24, #76, sat in the pits
and didn't compete.
Since I know almost nothing about Lancia
sports/racers I asked historian David Seielstad if he could give us a little
background on the cars.
Here's what he had to say:
| "The Lancia sports D24 and D25 and D20
(GT) cars were all V6s. The D50 GP car was a V8.
When the racing team folded Ferrari got
all the GP cars (nine) except one (0004) that was kept by Lancia and is
now in the Biscarti (sp?) Museum. Ferrari modified them out of recoginition
then scrapped them. Some of these engines survived and have been
built into replicas.
Lancia kept the sports cars (D24 and
D25) and scrapped all of them. The engines survived and recently a bunch
of fake D24s have been built. #80 is one of the fakes. However,
McCaw's #76 is the real deal. It is the sole surviving D24
(0005) that I know of. I don't know why it wasn't raced on
Saturday." |
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