1952 Siata 300 BC 750cc at 1952 Watkins Glen, (Alan Isslehardt photo)
1948 Siata Orchidea Berlinetta MM
1950 Siata Amica Cabriolet 500cc
1952 Siata Daina Cabriolet 1400cc
1951-52 Siata Gran Sport Farina 1400cc
1952 Sebring Dick Irish Siata Gran Sport 1400cc
1952 Siata Daina Motto Sport 1400cc
1952 Siata 300 BC 750cc and 1100cc
1952 Siata 208 CS Bertone Berlina
1952 Siata 208 S Bertone Spyder Fiat 8V
1953 Siata 208 8V CS Farina Spyder
1953 Siata 200 CS Bertone Chrysler
1954 Siata 208 Coupe Michelotti
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(photos courtesy of Joel Stein and the Mitiche web site) 1938 Siata Sport 500cc Minato collection
1946 Siata 500 Sport
1948 Siata Tipo TC 500cc #SC006
1948 Orchidea berlinetta MM
1950 Siata Amica Cabriolet 500cc
1950(51) Siata Amica "Mitzi" Coupe 500cc
1950(?) Siata (Corrado Bacchi archives)
(photo courtesy of the Mitiche web site)
1950 Siata Sport 750cc #SC008 Corsa Bensi collection
1952 Sebring (Dick Irish photo)
1950 Siata Daina Coupe 1400cc
(2010 Amelia Island Concours Cliff Reuter photos and video) 1951 Siata Fiat 1400cc Coupe Peter Voorhees collection
(Rae R. Reuss photo)
1951 Watkins Glen (Frank Shaffer/VeloceToday.com photos)
1951 Siata Crosley 750cc
1954 Atterbury AFB (Clair Reuter photos)
1954 Atterbury AFB (Clair Reuter photos)
J.G. Whitlock
1960 Wilmot (?) (Jack Reuter archives) 1951 Siata Topolino 750cc Sport
1951 Siata 750cc Sport at 1952 Mille Miglia
1952 Siata Daina Cabriolet July 11, 1952 on "Vulcano Vesuvius" in Naples Italy, Ex Ciro Pane (Grazie Salvatore!)
1952 Siata Gran Sport 1400cc #SLO212 Harry Hart collection
1952 Siata Gran Sport 1400cc #SLO216
1952 Siata Gran Sport Farina 1400cc #SL0233 Ex Dick Irish
(Sportscardigest.com photo) 1952 Siata Gran Sport Farina 1400cc #SL0245
(as seen at 2009 Laguna Seca Cliff Reuter photos)
(as seen at 2007 Concorso Italiano Jack Reuter photo) 1952 Siata Gran Sport Farina 1400cc #SL0248 Bob Williams Collection
1952 Siata Gran Sport Farina 1400cc #SL0251 Ex Benjamin and Auten
1952 Siata Gran Sport Farina 1400cc #SL0264 1951 Palm Springs Jack McAfee driver
1952 Siata Gran Sport Farina 1400cc #SL0280
1952 Siata Gran Sport Farina 1400cc #SL0281
1952 Siata Gran Sport Farina 1400cc #SL0288 Scalvenzi collection (photo courtesy of the Mitiche web site)
1953 Lockbourn AFB (Doug Chadwick photo)
(Rae R. Reuss photo)
1951-52 Siata Gran Sport Farina 1400cc
(photos courtesy of the Mitiche web site)
1952 Siata Daina Motto Sport 1400cc Malto collection
1952 Siata 350cc Coupe
1952 Siata 300 BC 750cc #ST401
(as seen at 2009 Laguna Seca Cliff Reuter photos)
1952 Siata 300 BC 750cc #ST402 Ex Linton, Leydon; Marty Stein collection
1952 Siata 300 BC 750cc #ST403 Ex Pompeo, Linton, Wessells
(photo courtesy of the Mitiche web site) 1952 Siata 300 BC 750cc #ST404 Uwe Wiessmath Siata.de collection
Richard Yares 1953 Lockbourn AFB (Doug Chadwick photo)
1952 Siata 300 BC 750cc #ST407 Ex Yares, Kimball; Silvia Oberti collection
1954 Wilmot Hills (Clair Reuter Photo) #ST410
(photo courtesy of the Mitiche web site) 1952 Siata 300 BC 1100cc Convertible #ST419 Ugo Piccagli collection
1953 Brynfan Tyddyn 1952 Siata 300 BC 750cc #ST425
(Pete Reuter photos) 1952 Siata 300 BC 750cc #ST430 Howard B. collection
1952 Siata 300 BC 1100cc #ST435
(2009 and 2007 Laguna Seca Cliff Reuter, Jack Reuter photos) 1952 Siata 300 BC 1100cc Convertible #ST441 Ex Hagstrom; Gary Winiger collection
1952 Siata 300 BC 1100cc Convertible #ST444
Click HERE to see a pdf file with more history 1952 Siata 300 BC Motto 1100cc Convertible #ST446 Ex Don Black, Walter Bailey, Fred Trueman, Tony Wang, Jim Collins; restoration completed May 2008
1952 Siata 300 BC 1100cc #ST450 Misc period Siata 300 BC Photos
First in class and winner of the Index Of Performance at the 1952 Vero Beach 12 hour race George Huntoon and F. Geeger drivers, Briggs Cunningham owner.
George Keck 1953 Paine Field (rspubs.com photo)
1953 Lockbourn AFB (Doug Chadwick photos)
Isabel Haskell De Tomaso 1955 Coffeyville Kansas (Lonnie Rix photo)
1956 Cumberland (Ron Gordon Photo)
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1952 Siata 300 BC Coupe 750cc #ST417 Ex Sterner
1952 Siata Daina Sport Coupe #SL0316 1480cc Ex Bottazzi; Tom Stegman collection
1952 Siata Daina Sport Coupe 1480cc #SL0324
1952 Siata Daina Coupe
1952 Siata 208 lungo Bertone Berlina #CS057L Ex Walt Eisenstark
1952 Mille Miglia
1952 Turin Auto Show 1952 Siata 208 8V Coupe Farina #SC052
In Italy
1952 Watkins Glen (Otto Linton Photo)
1952 Siata 208 8V Coupe Farina #CS060 Ex Otto Linton and Knute Kolmann
1952 Siata 208 8V Coupe Balbo #CS061 engine #CS044 Ex Marshall Lewis; Michael Schwartz collection
Jim Pauley 1955 Sebring (Howard Wolery photos)
1957 VIR (Bill King Photo) 1952 Siata 208 8V Coupe Balbo #CS069
1952 Siata 208 8V Coupe Balbo #CS071 Walter Eisenstark collection
1952 Siata 208 8V Coupe Balbo #CS072
1952 Siata 208 8V Coupe Balbo #CS073 Engine #CS072
Period Siata 208 8V Coupe advert
(Walter Eisenstark Photo)
1952 Siata 208 CS Bertone
1952 Siata 208 CS #054 Bertone Fiat 8V
1953 Siata 200 CS Bertone Chrysler
1953 Siata 208 CS Farina Spyder #CS058 Ex Rosso Bianco; David Smith Collection
1953 Siata 208 S #BS501
1953 Siata 208 S #BS502 Ex Barry Silverman
1953 Siata 208 S #BS503 Carrera Panamericana Team McAfee
1953 Siata 208 S #BS504 "Henrietta" Ex Jim Carson; Fred Phillips collection
1954 Siata 208 S #BS508 Ex Tony Krivanek; Michael Schwartz collection
1960 Governor's Cup Doug Diffenderfer
1960 VIR Doug Diffenderfer
1961 Marlboro Doug Diffenderfer
1962 Marlboro Don Erlbeck (Chris Sloan archives) 1953 Siata 208 S #BS513 Ex Doug Diffenderfer and Don Erlbeck 1960 SCCA Class FP champion
1953 Siata 208 S #BS514 Elliott Dolin collection (2008 Pebble Beach Jack Reuter photos)
(2007 Concorso Italiano Jack Reuter photos) 1953 Siata 208 S #BS518 Ex Rick McBride; David DiFrancesco collection
1953 Siata 208 S #BS519 Ex Scott Borman; Larry Solomon collection
1953 Siata 208 S #BS523 Through Ernie McAfee Ex Bruce Sand, Steve McQueen; Everett Anton Singer collection
1953 Siata 208 S #BS524
1953 Siata 208 S #BS525
1953 Siata 208 S #BS528 Robert Davis collection (as seen at 2007 Concorso Italiano Jack Reuter photos)
1953 Siata 208 S #BS529
1954 Siata 208 S #BS531
1954 Siata 208 S #BS532
1954 Siata 208 S #BS535 Ex Walt Eisenstark (currently being repainted)
1953 Siata 208 S (as seen at 2007 Concorso Italiano Jack Reuter photo)
1954 Santa Barbara
Ernie McAfee's shop in 1958 (Bob Enberg photo)
1954 Siata 208 Michelotti Coupe #BS537 Ex Richard Ward is a coupe built on a roadster chassis. Siata built it to order for Ernie McAfee and Bill Doheny to race in the 1954 Panamerican road race. It did not race in Panama but did compete in California. |
Many thanks to Dick Irish for the following photos!
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1952 Siata Gran Sport 1400 GS #SL0233 3rd OA at 1952 Sebring Dick Irish Email from Dick Irish to etceterini.com: The Siata "adventure" was really fun. We ran two 12 hour races in a week and I don't think we ever saw 100 mph. As I mentioned, we had head gasket problems at Vero Beach. Tony Pompeo even brought us yet another head gasket in his suitcase for Sebring, but to say it arrived "rumpled" would be an understatement. We therefore borrowed a page from our midget experience and made a headgasket from annealed aluminum sheet. Tony also brought the shop manual which basically said one should torque the head, let it set over night to let the studs stretch, the re-torque it again, before running. The Siata Gran Sport would out handle most of the competitors though and I was able to run a whole stint with the ex-Bill Spear 2 liter 166 Barchetta driven by Dick Cicurel and Bob O'Brian. I'd pass them going into the first turn, lead them through the hairpin and down warehouse straight, the Ferrari would pass me on the airport runway straights, I'd catch them on the last turns and follow them past the pits, to repeat the pass. After the driver switch, I went down to their pits to tell them that I didn't mind following a Ferrari, but I hated following one with mufflers! It REALLY pissed them off! At our last pit stop, we lost time when the engine wouldn't fire for some reason. When it did fire, we'd dropped to third place behind an XK-120 Jag. We ended up 45 seconds behind it while gaining 19 seconds a lap. The kicker was the next morning the car threw the rod on the way back into town and we had to fit a tow bar and tow the car back to Cleveland. We had driven it down to break it in, as I had also driven it from New York to Cleveland. The dealer I worked for, who owned the car, hadn't a clue and repainted the car a different color before putting it on the showroom floor with the trophies!
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