Ben Mazur
01-17-2007, 05:04 PM
info from Top Banana
I am sorry to report that we have found the final resting place of the 32 foot Cary that Don Aronow raced as "The Cigarette".
He sold it to two brothers from Australia, the Carr brothers, and they were killed while racing it. Arnold Glass then bought it and raced it in Australia. He sold it and it sat around until the mid 80's, it was in pretty bad disrepair by that time.
Someone patched it up enough to make a 36 foot plug out of it and pulled a mold off it.
Once the mold was finished..THE CIGARETTE WAS DESTROYED.
A very big thank you to two HORBA members in Australia who have been tracking this down for the last several months for us. We passed along every bit of info we had and they worked like detectives following every lead, until they spoke to the man that made the mold from it.
We hoped we could find it and bring it back and restore it.
We still have hope for the other 32 foot Cary that Vincenzo Balestrieri bought and raced as Black Tornado. Is that still around somewhere in Europe?
I am sorry to report that we have found the final resting place of the 32 foot Cary that Don Aronow raced as "The Cigarette".
He sold it to two brothers from Australia, the Carr brothers, and they were killed while racing it. Arnold Glass then bought it and raced it in Australia. He sold it and it sat around until the mid 80's, it was in pretty bad disrepair by that time.
Someone patched it up enough to make a 36 foot plug out of it and pulled a mold off it.
Once the mold was finished..THE CIGARETTE WAS DESTROYED.
A very big thank you to two HORBA members in Australia who have been tracking this down for the last several months for us. We passed along every bit of info we had and they worked like detectives following every lead, until they spoke to the man that made the mold from it.
We hoped we could find it and bring it back and restore it.
We still have hope for the other 32 foot Cary that Vincenzo Balestrieri bought and raced as Black Tornado. Is that still around somewhere in Europe?