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| 1956 Avia Streamliner Race Car | |
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Auction set for June
5-7, 2015 - Russo & Steele - Newport Beach, California This is an extremely rare Czechoslovakian built race car. Miroslav Jurca, a very talented driver with good connections to the Avia airplane and car facility was given permission to build himself a highly developed race car. He built a streamliner with steel frames and an aluminum and magnesium skin, powered by a BMW 750 cc 4 stroke, The design of the body is clearly inspired by the aircraft experience gained by Avia from the 1920’s up to the time of this cars construction. The car is quite sophisticated for its time featuring fully independent front and rear suspension and a trans-axial gearbox. The Avia is low to the ground and aerodynamically clean weighing under 900lbs.It was raced in the Eastern bloc and Austria. During the late 50’s the Avia was seized by the communist authorities. It surfaced in a German museum where it was misidentified as 1948 BMW race car with unknown history. It passed through the hands of various collectors and in 1987 was shipped to the USA and purchased by Bruce McCaw who then sold it to the Pat Hart Collection. It was shown at Pebble Beach in 1996.The restoration was done in New Zealand by Barry Leitch. In 2010 Mark Sange bought the car, showed it at The Quail and raced it at Infineon Raceway in the CSRG Charity Challenge. This is the first time it has raced in 40 years. Raced at Sears Point, Laguna Seca Monterey Historic shown at Pebble Beach 1996 Shown at Quail Lodge and Hillsborough Concours winning many awards. |
