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22 Mar 2011, 19:19 (Ref:2965642)
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De Sanctis F3 - history request
I have a 1967 or 68 De Sanctis formula 3 car that I would like to determine it's history. The car is stamped 003 at the rear near the upper shock mount, but upside down. The car's roll hoop is also stamped with NER 242 13 201. I have contacted the New England Region SCCA and they say that is not a NER SCCA stamping, because the NER SCCA number should start with the number 20 and not NER. Maybe it was different 70's?
I do know the car was in Indiana in the mid 70's being raced by a Dr. Bert Davis who was/is a ortho surgeon in Anderson, Indiana and may have lived or is living in Pendleton, Indiana. I have not been able to contact him. I have talked with the mechanic who worked on the car in 1974 and in 1975. His name is Bert Young and told me the car was a FF then. The car came with the Collati internals that the F3 cars used in the VW transaxle, but no case or side plates. Does any of this information mean anything to anyone? Does anyone know who drove De Sanctis #003 in F3? Please respond here or email me at: irwin_eng(at)hotmail.com Thanks in Advance. David Irwin |
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4 Oct 2011, 17:03 (Ref:2965644)
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Noticed this dormant in the archive so I thought might be helpful to copy it into here to see if it generates any ideas?
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small point but if it's gearboxes it's Colloti AFAIK
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5 Oct 2011, 08:36 (Ref:2965996)
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The Manufacturers page on the F3 History site contains quite a bit of information about De Sanctis F3 cars.
http://www.f3history.co.uk/ (hope it's ok to post the link) |
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They marketed a Formula Ford car in 1969 or so. Perhaps this is one of those? It would have been based on their F3 chassis. Formula Ford started in the US around then. I certainly cannot see why a F3 car would go to the States. The FF would have used the same gearbox with Colotti internals.
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De Sanctis F3
The thread has sat dormant for awhile.
We now think this car was converted in Europe to FF spec before being bought by a person in the US. The chassis configuration of the F3 car is very different than the chassis of the FF's. My car has the same framework as the pics I have seen of the 1966 F3 cars. I have been told that the same design was used in '67 and possibly '68. |
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