Briggs Cunningham Antique Car
As the 1 car run by Briggs Cunningham at the 1960 24 Hours of Le Mans developed with clandestine assistance by a General Motors team under Corvette lead Zora Arkus-Duntov it represents a crucial part of Cunninghams final and successful effort to win the worlds most challenging race in an American car with American drivers. I was a member of the Briggs Cunningham Automotive Museum during those years.
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Fully restored Challenger Lightweight E Type Jaguar of Briggs Cunninghams 1963 Le Mans race car.
Briggs cunningham antique car. More pics to follow soon of part of the transformation and customizing of the 56 single light fenders and custom nose and rear treatment in progress. In another Mercedes and Phil Hill in an Indianapolis Peugeot were having an impromptu drag race on the pit straight at Sebring. It was taken in March of 1959 at Sebring Florida in the morning before the 12-Hour Sebring Race began.
This is the ex Briggs Cunningham Le Mans 1960 Corvette that was customized after they purchased the Vette through Willie Fricke and was built in their South Florida garage. BSC SmugMug Click here to visit our BSC SmugMug gallery. For the 1952 Le Mans race Cunningham developed the C4-R a capable race car that scored a fourth-place overall finish at Le Mans with Briggs Cunningham and.
Some retired to quieter lives. 1933 MG K3 Magnette was one of the best pre-war cars in the Cunningham Museum collection. Only one C-1 was built with serial number 5101.
The first product of the new company was the Cunningham C-1 roadster. The C-1 and C-2 rode identical 105-inch wheelbases and shared a 58-inch track. Briggs Weaver and Blake.
These Continuation cars would be legitimate Cunningham C4Rs endorsed by the Cunningham family and built by The Cunningham Company but obviously lacking the historic context of the original 1952 cars. Briggs disbanded Team Cunningham after the 1963 Le Mans 24 Hours. Cunningham allowed me to take dimensions from a.
Some team members went on to continued racing success. Cs son Briggs III built four highly faithful recreations of the C-4R roadster in the 1990s using a chassis and a 1952 Chrysler Fire Power Hemi V-8 engine identical to the original race cars. In 1950 he decided compete in the race using Cadillac cars.
In the early 1970s I developed an aluminum bodied T51 Bugatti recreation in Pasadena California known as the Molsheim II Bugatti. Described as both the last gentleman sportsman and a formidable competitor Briggs Swift Cunningham 1907-2003 was equally at home behind the wheel or at sea. As Cunningham devotees know Mr.
In 1952 the Cunningham C-4R driven by Briggs Cunningham and Bill Spear finished fourth overall at Le Mans. Briggs Cunningham was a wealthy sportsman and racer who wanted to compete in the Le Mans race. A decade before Carroll Shelby took his Cobras to Europe Briggs Cunningham brought American horsepower and know-how to the 24 Hours of LeMans Le Mans 1950.
On the design team were Cunningham Walters G. Additionally at the outset Briggs III shared Larrys vision of using the C4RC program as a stepping-stone to the larger goal of launching a. Built its own de Dion tube suspension in the rear reducing unsprung weight and allowing finer tuning.
Cadillac was one of the fastest American made cars at that time. Both cars featured a frame built from 3-inch steel tubing with a central X-member. The car was completed in late 1950 and is generally listed as from the 1951 model year.
The GRP body is 6mm 8mm thick attached to a galvanised space frame chassis all running gear is Jaguar. Phil Walters rounds Indianapolis corner in Briggs Cunningham Cadillac Le Monstre It finished the race. The car is a 1914 Mercedes Grand Prix Car driven by Briggs Cunningham.
This 1989 creation was produced by Triple C Challenger of Northampton using a 1975 Jaguar XJ6 4. Stars of the 2018 Greenwich Concours dElegance. The French were mortified.
The Cunningham C-2 was based around the Chrysler V-8. Briggs in the Merc Henry Austin Clark Jr. 2 as a doner car.
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