1960 CEGGA FERRARI 250TR CHASSIS 002/60
The journey to race again
THE HISTORY OF 002/60
Brothers Georges and Claude Gachnang established SCUDERIA CEGGA in 1959 in the town of Aigle, Switzerland. At this time Switzerland had prohibited circuit races and racing cars after the horrendous Le Mans crash in 1955. Despite this, they still built 12 racing cars and raced them through 1959 to 1967.
The company name CEGGA resulted from the compilation of the first letter of:
Claude Et Georges Gachnang Aigle
In 1959 Georges and Claude Gachnang bought the remains of a destroyed Ferrari TR250 chassis number 0742 - the Askolin/Monteverdi car. They retained the engine, gearbox and the central tubular chassis section. CEGGA make radical suspension changes to the front and rear of the retained chassis section and rebuilt the car with independent rear suspension and modified front suspension upgrading the car as far as they could to TR60 specifications. They then asked Scaglietti to build a new body shaped to house the high back end and new suspension.
This was the second car the brothers built the first being a CEGGA AC, chassis 001/59, that they raced at Le Mans in 1959.
The brief 5 year racing history of CEGGA Ferrari 250 TR 002/60 had begun.
CEGGA rebuilt the entire rear end by installing Koni shock absorbers and an AC/ENV differential including inboard disc brakes. At the front the suspension was improved as best they could and included a unique way of bringing in negative camber by cutting the bottom suspension arms and inserting a 10mm filling piece. For a car that was capable of 150+mph this was a pretty brave thing to do!
CEGGA raced and hill climbed 002/60 from 1960 to 1965. Georges was the main driver with supporting Swiss drivers Grob and Cailliet. Claude was ever present as the mechanic. Following a bad accident in 1966 racing a CEGGA single seater Georges took 002/60 to a road car specification that was seen driving around Aigle on many occasions.
In 1967 002/60 was bought by well known Ferrari collector Pierre Bardinon who rebuilt the car back to it's original 1958 TR specification of 0742. Everything CEGGA was discarded and Fantuzzi was commissioned to build a new pontoon body onto a new and rebuilt chassis.
Following David's approach in 2016 Georges and Claude agreed to assist in the rebuild of 002/60.
The Brothers agreed to help in providing drawings, technical information, detailed analysis and specifications to enable David to build a tool room copy of 002/60 with some original Ferrari 250 parts including a centre chassis section from a 1958 Ferrari 250 chassis.