GT500-07 Posted August 6, 2012 Report Share Posted August 6, 2012 Photos by Neil Fraser, courtesy RM Auctions. For the sake of brevity, we've actually left quite a bit of significant history out of the headline for this story on the 1956 Fiat Series 306/2 Grand Prix transporter that RM Auctions has consigned to its Monterey sale later this month. While Carroll Shelby did indeed use it to ferry around his Cobras 50 years ago, the transporter has over its lifespan done the same duties for the Maserati factory team, Lance Reventlow's Scarabs, Alan Mann's GT40s, and the Lotus factory http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2012/08/06/carroll-shelbys-cobra-transporter-heads-to-auction/?refer=news Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank S Posted August 6, 2012 Report Share Posted August 6, 2012 There is some question as to whether it was ever a Maserati-commissioned vehicle. The "Transporter Expert" who has written a book about them puts it in a separate-from-Maserati lineage in what he says is his definitive post on the subject. Probably a simple error on the part of the author of the auction catalog. I hope. -- Frank Sheffield San Diego CA USA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMcGuirk Posted October 18, 2012 Report Share Posted October 18, 2012 Here is a picture of the transporter at Rheims France July 4th, 1965 the weekend Shelby won the FIA World Sports Car Championship Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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