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Title: TMY 76M

Color: Turkis

MOdification: Group 1

History:

The Late Tony Llanfranchi in his CSi. He raced this car in 73 and 74. It was backed by Nic Van Der Steen BMW main agents for the City of London. .

From mid-way through the season of the British Touring Car Championship, the big Opel lost ground to Tom Walkinshaw’s works Capri 3-litre, which at last had the power it had lacked early in the season because of a mix-up in the homologation papers. They contrived to feature the revised inlet manifold of the latest uprated Essex engine (now of several years standing), but not the later type cylinder head with revised porting. Once the recipe had been corrected, the Scot was able to score six class wins, including an outright win on the tight little Ingliston circuit. The evergreen Tony Lanfranchi had a fraught season in this class with his BMW 3.0 CSi, the only one in the Championship: a long run of engine failures rocked the boat, which finally sank when Van der Steen, the BMW dealers whose car it was, were put into the hands of a Receiver, who snatched the car from under his nose.

Tony ran in the 1974 Avon Tour of Britain.

 

Also raced in the Rothmans 5000 Snetterton. Initially lead and finished third.

 

24" 6' 21" 12' 00" 12' 45" 16' 16" 16' 19" ;

 

Unknown vin

Production: 1973

Thank You / Reference / Credit:

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/december-1974/56/touring-round

http://touringcarracing.net/Races/1974%20Snetterton.html