F1 Transporter ca. 1980

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 06/06/2019 at 13:55 • Filed to: None

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How all  F1 cars deserve to be shuttled about.

benjrblant > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 06/06/2019 at 14:09

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Didn’t Porsche/VW make a few of these vans with Porsche engines for track service use?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 06/06/2019 at 14:10

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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > benjrblant 06/06/2019 at 14:15

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There was the Porsche B32, a Vanagon with the engine from a 911 amongst other changes , for shuttling executives around Germany - is that what you were referring to?

AuthiCooper1300 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 06/06/2019 at 15:30

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I was v e r y intrigued by that picture ! Pretty certain Williams would not use anything as pedestrian as Type 2 to ferry their cars around, so this could be a meeting of VW cars of some sort – a while after that FW07 was declared surplus to requirements. Notice the nice 60s Lotus in the back on a similar vehicle, by the way.

I found the following here while doing a reverse Google search of the Williams atop the VW:

Pete Lovely not only used to race that Lotus; he had a VW dealership and later in his life he restored racing cars.

Researching the subject further, I found the following in an Autosport forum:

J B Miltonian

Posted 04 September 2004 - 06:35

Here are Pete Lovely’s Lotus 49 and Williams FW07 on his transporters. Picture taken by myself (no copyright) circa 1986.

AuthiCooper1300 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 06/06/2019 at 15:44

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Pity Porsche got cold feet and did not dare to build more.

The B32 came about while doing hot-weather testing in Algeria. They would install lots of sensors in their prototypes... with a VW van following them - crammed to the gunnels with, if I remember correctly, telemetry/recording equipment. Of course the van would lag behind, so they decided to soup it up with a 911 engine (a standard 2,7 or a 3.0, can’t remember ).

Unfortunately there are lots of people who still believe it originated as a support vehicle/service barge for the Paris-Dakar. Yeah , s u r e .