1936 Talbot Lago T150
How unique can it be to drive with your road legal Grand Prix car, on a Sunday morning to your
favourite bakery for some, croissants, baguette or pastry?
Registration : Dutch registered
Year of fabrication: 1936
Chassis number : 82933
The first Talbot Lago T150C made was chassis 82930 in 1936.
This car raced in a number of races
RACES
1936
- Grand Prix de l’ACF
- GP de la Marne
- GP du Comminges
1937
- GP de Pau
- 3 heures de Marseille
- Mille Miglia
- Le Mans 24 hours
1938
- Le Mans 24 hours
- Liège-Rome-Liège
1946
- Grand Prix de Belgique
- ... and many more
2013
- Mille Miglia
2019
- Parnell Trophy
- Hertzberger Trophy
Get to know the car!
Early history
The first Talbot Lago T150C made was chassis 82930 in 1936. This car raced in a number of races as mentioned above.At some point soon after the war, chassis 82933 became 90203 (note: Talbot Lago did not physically number their chassis). To make it more competitive, the owner at that time Charles Pozzi had the prewar Figoni body replaced by the lighter body of the Chappe brothers.
The car with chassis 90203 with the Chappe body ended after a documented chain of ownership with count Dönhoff and later Jim Hull who decided the car would look a lot prettier with the prewar body, deciding to create a replica body. This car (chassis 90203) is now (2018) in the Mullin museum, with a lovely (replacement) early 150C body.
The original Chappe body was sold together with some parts of the original suspension and
brakes as well as an original prewar unnumbered engine and ends with Talbot Lago specialist Tony Bianchi. This engine allegedly is the first engine to be used for the original T150C chassis 82933: this engine was replaced by the factory by a faster hemi-engine soon after the initial build.
But apparently kept with the car when it was sold on. No formal documentation has been found confirming the origins of the engine. It is definitely a racing engine however as it has many special parts and special modifications that none of the road cars have. For example, inlet and outlet have been swapped in order to improve airflow and exhaust.
To fund the restoration of his Grand Prix Talbot Lago 110008, Tony at some point decided to sell the body, engine and corresponding original parts to Barry Gillies, on his turn selling the lot to a gentleman in Belgium, the car was left in storage for many years and then later around 2009 sold and restored for the then owner.
The restoration was finished to perfection around 2010. The restorers chose the chassis number 82933 in order to make the reference to the original history, and the fact that 90203 is an existing car. All parts are original period Talbot Lago.
Never been road registered being a racing car, a lengthy process has been undertaken to get the car registered and the car is fully accepted as a historic car.
The car was previously road registered in the UK, and is now imported into Europe on Dutch papers.
How unique can it be to drive with your road legal Grand Prix car, on a Sunday morning to your
favourite bakery for some, Croissants, baguette or pastry?
In 2013, the car ran the Mille Miglia with the current owner.
In 2019, it participated in the Parnell Trophy at the Goodwood Members Meeting where it raced against period Grand Prix cars, finishing with no problems what so ever. Also, it participated in the 2 day rally Hertzberger Trophy in the Netherlands. Other than lots of petrol, the car needed nothing.