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Alfa Romeo GTAm
This car was the first to ever win the Alfa Romeo club championships,
driven by Richard Gamble.
It was run as a full fibreglass open class racer before
it was left for dead. Vandalised in 1985 it lay dormant,
waiting for a miracle.
In the summer of 2005 the OUMF team decided that this ‘once
all-conquering beast’ should be re-built to be better
than ever! We chose the GTAm Autodelta works specification racer
as our pattern.
Many people advised us that this was just too much to expect
from a little old cow-shed north of Oxford where we are based.
They hadn’t taken into account the incredible enthusiasm
and ability that until then had been untapped from the
students of both the Oxford and Oxford Brookes Universities.
OUMF got to work!
The car being raced before it was left to rot
OUMF with the GTAm at Race Retro 2006
The International Historic Motorsport Show
The OUMF Alfa steals the show at Stoneleigh and receives support from a
couple of amateur club racers who rudely sign the side of the car!
At Bruntingthorpe proving ground - Clive Hodgkin gives the car his thumbs up!
Chris Conoley at MASS Race Engines - the rolling road tests the car and suprises us all.. it’s a belter!
A valuable lesson in carburettor building and set-up from John Salt
The OUMF Alfa Romeo GTAm Guilia complete in June 2006
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those who have fuelled the Foundation with parts, funding, advice and
experience...thank you everyone, none of this could have been achieved without you.
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