Who do you think you are? Stirling Moss

hall54 · Post by **hall54** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:50 pm

Are there any pics out there of Stirling Moss with his Rocco?

hall54 · Post by **hall54** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:40 pm

Quote "This must be a winning formula and in fact it has attracted no less a buyer than Stirling Moss, who is now somewhat surprised to find himself as a VW owner!" Safer Motoring May 1975

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:17 pm

It's news to me!

hall54 · Post by **hall54** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:39 pm

Its not the first time ive seen this written, I think he may have been given the Scirocco by VW and I think the the car may have been a silver TS not 100% sure as the pic was probably black and white

, Ive now spent hours trawing the net but nothing so far. Help required

This would be a great boost to the profile of the Mk1. Did Moss have any connections with VW during 1974-75?

dan95x · Post by **dan95x** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:03 pm

I dont know the dates, but I believe he drove a works Audi in the saloon car championships at around that sort of time - I believe it was actually a bit of a disaster! It could have been something to do with that tie-in perhaps?

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:28 pm

dan95x wrote:I dont know the dates, but I believe he drove a works Audi in the saloon car championships at around that sort of time - I believe it was actually a bit of a disaster! It could have been something to do with that tie-in perhaps?

that was a bit later with the GTI Engineering Audi 80

Post by **81GTi** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:08 pm

Ryan wrote:It's news to me!

yeah me too, would be cool ifa pic could be found, maybe try and get in touch direct?? short of gett out all the old VWM mags and going through them I don't see where you will find anything.

cross threading.....VWM should be able to give you a timeling for the official uk launch of our beloved.

hall54 · Post by **hall54** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:10 pm

I think you maybe right with some kind of touring car connection, ill look into it. Tony Dron was racing touring ( dolomite sprint ) cars in back in '77 I may contact him and see if he can shed any light on the situation. I met him when he wrote an article for Classic Cars on my '73 Passat coupe.

hall54 · Post by **hall54** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:17 pm

81GTi wrote:
Ryan wrote:It's news to me!
yeah me too, would be cool ifa pic could be found, maybe try and get in touch direct?? short of gett out all the old VWM mags and going through them I don't see where you will find anything.

cross threading.....VWM should be able to give you a timeling for the official uk launch of our beloved.

Ive contacted Neil Birkett from VWM today hes gonna have a look for any info, may contact Peter Noad who mentioned it in his article in '75, hes was very much into motorsport

hall54 · Post by **hall54** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:05 pm

VWM came back to me today but alas no info on Stirling Moss

, does anyone know where he lives I think its in Hampsted, North London?

Post by **GTXTRA** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:25 pm

hall54 wrote:VWM came back to me today but alas no info on Stirling Moss , does anyone know where he lives I think its in Hampsted, North London?

he's in shepherd market/mayfair - lives in some personally customised town house.
contact him via the brdc (british racing drivers club) perhaps?

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