Rescuing, restoring and sharing a legendary race car

Here are two extremely rare opportunities to see two of the most successful cars of the mid-seventies Formula One seasons.

 

(See also about the movie “RUSH” , a film review, and back­ground about Niki Lau­da HERE)

 

If you have not vis­it­ed the event cen­ter show­room at Gri­ots Garage in Taco­ma before, you’ll want to put it on your “to do” list soon. At least you’ll want to vis­it the upcom­ing Seat­tle Auto Show. Richard Gri­ot, the prin­ci­pal dri­ver behind the suc­cess­ful Gri­ots Garage auto care prod­ucts, has accu­mu­lat­ed an out­stand­ing col­lec­tion of vin­tage race cars and col­lec­tor cars. Many are rotat­ed on dis­play at their beau­ti­ful head­quar­ters and retail out­let in Tacoma.

 

Now, with all the atten­tion of the movie “Rush” and the Lau­da Fer­rari, Gri­ots offers two oppor­tu­ni­ties to view the Lau­da Fer­rari raced in F1 and fea­tured in the movie. First, com­ing up at the Seat­tle Auto Show, Niki Lauda’s 1975 Fer­rari 312T-022 will be dis­played along with the 1977 McLaren M23-12 dri­ven by Jochen Mass in the same his­toric era of F1 racing,

 

We are assured that fol­low­ing the Seat­tle Auto Show, and once the restora­tion is com­plet­ed the Fer­rari will then be dis­played at their event cen­ter show­room along with many sig­nif­i­cant vin­tage racers.

 

The Seat­tle Auto Show is Octo­ber 16–20 at Cen­tu­ryLink Events Cen­ter (think Sea­hawks sta­di­um). The rac­ers are dis­play in booth N3. More info about the Seat­tle Auto Show is HERE, and their web­site is HERE.

History of the vehicles:

 

1975 Ferrari 312T, Chassis 022

This is THE car that Niki Lau­da, one of the two high­light­ed dri­vers for the new­ly release movie “Rush”, won the 1975 World Cham­pi­onship for Ferrari.

By 1975, the 312T Fer­rari was the car to beat. It fea­tured a trans­verse-mount­ed gear­box that was posi­tioned ahead of the rear axle for vast­ly improved han­dling. In all, Fer­rari 312T cars went on to win 27 races, four Con­struc­tors’ Cham­pi­onships, and three Dri­vers’ Cham­pi­onships over their history.

Chas­sis 022 is cur­rent­ly under­go­ing a full con­cours restora­tion at Griot’s Garage facil­i­ty in Taco­ma, Wash­ing­ton, not far from the Taco­ma Mall.

 

1977 McLaren M23, Chassis 012

 

Debut­ing in 1973, the M23 dis­played incred­i­ble longevi­ty, rac­ing com­pet­i­tive­ly for 5 ½ years. This is the same mod­el raced by James Hunt in his epic bat­tle with Niki Lau­da for the 1976 Dri­vers’ Cham­pi­onship (back­drop for the movie “Rush”).

Chas­sis 012 was pilot­ed exclu­sive­ly by Jochen Mass in 1977. It is cur­rent­ly on dis­play at Griot’s Garage in Taco­ma except while exhib­it­ed dur­ing the Seat­tle Auto Show.

 

About Griot’s Garage

Griot’s Garage research­es, devel­ops, man­u­fac­tures and mar­kets the finest and most com­plete line of car care prod­ucts found. Griot’s Garage “Made in the U.S.A.” liq­uid car care is man­u­fac­tured in their com­pa­ny-owned facil­i­ty in Plain­field, Indi­ana. Gri­ot’s Garage also spe­cial­izes in sourc­ing unique and high qual­i­ty detail­ing acces­sories, and backs them all with a life­time guarantee.

 

The 23nd anniver­sary of Griot’s Garage in Octo­ber 2013 will be a mile- stone rec­og­niz­ing the strength of the brand and qual­i­ty of the prod­ucts, known and pre­ferred by dis­crim­i­nat­ing auto- mobile enthu­si­asts nation­wide. The company’s mis­sion is to pro­vide the high­est qual­i­ty car care prod­ucts, detail­ing tools, and acces­sories that help enthu­si­asts have fun in the garage.

 

The com­plete line of Griot’s Garage car care and detail­ing acces­sories is avail­able at their flag­ship retail store in Taco­ma, Wash­ing­ton, through their direct mail cat­a­log and online at www.griotsgarage.com.

 

About the movie “RUSH” and a film review by a friend, with back­ground of Niki Lau­da, click HERE.

For Seat­tle Auto Show, READ MORE HERE.