Automodelli Studio - made in Italy 1:43 - Model race car - Brabham BT8 Coventry Climax ch. #SC-7-64 Brands Hatch Guards Trophy 1964 # 91 Jack Brabham - factory built - very good quality - very rare today

Offering to you a very rare and high quality 1/43rd scale artisanal model by:

Automodelli Studio

made in Italy

Brabham BT8 Coventry Climax ch. #SC-7-64 Brands Hatch Guards Trophy 1964 # 91 Jack Brabham

factory built - very good quality - offered inside its kit box - without plastic case

very hard to find today - a very rare model

Note
the last photo of the real car as it is today ... not with this Lot

Historic Note
Built for the 1964 season, and fitted with a 2.75-litre Climax engine. A Brabham Racing Organisation entry for Jack Brabham at the Brands Hatch Guards Trophy in August 1964, then at Riverside in early October. After the Riverside race, David Morris purchased the car from Brabham for Cliff Hayworth to drive, but an arrangement was made for Brabham to drive it once more at Laguna Seca. There Brabham blew the engine, so the 2-litre engine from Robs Lamplough's SC-1-64 was fitted. Lamplough then drove the car at Candlestick Park and at Nassau, where he crashed it heavily into a palm tree. The car was rebuilt on a new chassis at the Brabham factory. Morris entered it for Porsche driver Alan Johnson at Laguna Seca in 1965, but he rolled it in practice.

It was then sold to Dr Tom Tobin. He and Patrick Ryan rebuilt the car and fitted a Traco Oldsmobile V8 engine. Later to Chuck McConnell - David Koehn (Milwaukee, WI) - Jim Herlinger by 1972, who fitted a Porsche engine - Hank Fallek - David Larson - Roland Davies - Robin DuPree by 1979, when it gained a LeGrand body. Then to Kerry Morse, and then Phillippe de Lespinay (Newport Beach, CA) by 1987. De Lespinay had the car completely restored by Joe Cavaglieri and Jack Smith, and drove it for the first time in 1991. The car was now red and wore #91, the number used by Jack Brabham at Laguna Seca in 1964. De Lespinay had sold it to Paul Shea (Newport Beach, CA) by 1996, and Shea entered it at Monterey Historics in 1996 and 1999. In 2017, Shea donated the car to the Petersen Automotive Museum (Los Angeles, CA). Still in the museum's collection in March 2019.