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10/09/2026 12:01 am
@hobbydragon Didn't this car race at Le Mans in 1949 and 1950? Owner, co-driver and crew took it to the track and raced away.
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14/09/2026 5:06 am
@l-m-delage your story is right except that wasn't the same car. That was a very similar Bentley Corniche that was driven to the race, raced and took the crew back home 
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14/09/2026 5:16 am
@l-m-delage I was wrong and you were right. That what the artificial compilator told:
The confusion stems from the fact that both cars were designed by the same person, Georges Paulin, and they share a deeply intertwined history.
However, the car that officially competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1949, 1950, and 1951 was indeed the Pourtout-bodied Bentley Embiricos (chassis B27LE). It was owned and raced there by owner H.S.F. Hay.
The 1939 Bentley Corniche prototype built by Carrosserie Vanvooren never had the chance to race. While Bentley engineers had planned to build high-performance straight-8 versions of the Corniche to compete at the 1940 Le Mans race, the outbreak of World War II canceled the event. Tragically, the original Vanvooren-bodied Corniche prototype itself was completely destroyed by a bomb in Dieppe, France in 1939 while waiting to be shipped back to England
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14/09/2026 5:22 am
It's time to start with
«1/43 BIZZARRINI»
Spark - 1964 Iso Grifo A3C / Bizzarrini GT
14/09/2026 7:06 am
Whenever I see one of these I always think of Etceterini, coined by Stu Shaller years ago to represent any small Italian sports or racing cars not from the big guys. Was Bizzarrini too big to be considered Etceterini? 😆 I hope you will show more!
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15/09/2026 5:11 am
@karl Etceterini is a generic term used to describe the small, handcrafted, low-displacement Italian sports and racing cars built by obscure or independent manufacturers, mostly from the late 1940s through the early 1960s
Bizzarrini cars with their giant big-block american engines and Giotto Bizzarrini himself (as the man behind most iconic Ferrari cars, 250GTO for example, and ISO cars also) definitely couldn't be described as "Etceterini".
And yes: I do have more of them
This post was modified 3 weeks ago by HOBBYDRAGON
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16/09/2026 3:23 am
SPARK 1965 ISO GRIFO A3C/BIZZARRINI STRADA GT COUPE
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17/09/2026 4:42 am
1/43 SPARK 1966 BIZZARRINI 5300GT AMERICA
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20/09/2026 12:51 am
1/43 Spark - 1966 Bizzarrini Strada 5300 Spyder by "Style Italia"
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22/09/2026 2:53 am
Spark - 1967 Bizzarrini 5300 Spyder S.I
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23/09/2026 10:39 am
1/43 Autocult - 1966-69 Bizzarrini 1900 GT Europa
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23/09/2026 11:08 am
SPARK 1967 BIZZARRINI P538 DUCA D'AOSTA COUPE
23/09/2026 5:43 pm
thats nice, anyone else see a resemblence?
