ATS 1000 Sport #1
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ATS 1000 Sport #1
The only links I found to this car, show exactly the shot you just posted. (and one reference to a race in 1968 in Mugello)
So what is it? related to the original ATS outfit? A predecessor of the German F1 team from the eighties? (unlikely that). A renamed Abarth Spider?
[quote=henk4;921774]The only links I found to this car, show exactly the shot you just posted. (and one reference to a race in 1968 in Mugello)
So what is it? related to the original ATS outfit? A predecessor of the German F1 team from the eighties? (unlikely that). A renamed Abarth Spider?[/quote]
I'm afraid I don't know at all. I found it amongst a bunch of other Targa Florio pics without any further information.
EDIT Found something
[quote=www.carsfromitaly.net]Unfortunately little better awaited ATS, and production of the 2500GT ceased the following year (1964). That year also saw an entry in the Targa Florio. [B]1968 saw an open, mid-engined race-car emerge, using a tuned Ford 1000 engine and an aluminium body constructed by Fantuzzi.[/B] The formula one program continued until 1969.[/quote]
I think nobody knows much about it b/c the driver crashed shortly after from lookin at the camera and not watchin the road lol. Joking aside, pretty cool lookin car, i thought ATS only raced in F1. Shows how much i know
There were two different ATS-brands in the history, as Henk already mentioned.
1) the italian ATS, built by former Ferrari-engineers which were fired by Enzo after a disagreement between him and his chief-engineer. They built the 2500GT roadcar, this racecar and a Formula 1 car, which wasn't very good. Brand was closed really soon after.
2) the Formula 1 team of german alloy-wheel-manufacturer ATS in the 1980s.
[url]http://www.targapedia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=85:iscritti-e-classifica-1970&catid=37:classifica-ragionata&Itemid=73&lang=en&limitstart=4[/url]
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"sangry la" (Romano Martini)
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sport prototipi-classe fino a 1000 cc
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Nice link, but hardly more information about the "mysterious" ATS company;)
[quote=henk4;922034]Nice link, but hardly more information about the "mysterious" ATS company;)[/quote]
Bearing the info in my post, it's from the orginal ATS company, a prototype with a 1 litre Ford engine and a Fantuzzi body.
[quote=Ferrer;922036]Bearing the info in my post, it's from the orginal ATS company, a prototype with a 1 litre Ford engine and a Fantuzzi body.[/quote]
I am now seeing that added in part. I have doubts about its consistency, as the F1 programme ceased in 1964 and not in 1969. There could be a link with the Serenissima efforts (Bizzarrini involvement) from Count Volpi, but by that time the cars were never called ATS.
I somewhere have a magazine with the story of italian ATS, will have a look if I can find it. If so I will translate the main parts for everyone.