"The Long Way Home"
A Pictorial Exposé of ADU 180 B's Return to the UK and Le Mans
By Darrell Mountjoy
Sept, 2002
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Whoa! Here it is. This is the real thing. I was doing fine until I walked out to the pit wall, turned around and saw this sight.
Le Mans
I had requested race number "9" as that is the number 180B wore at Le Mans in 1964. The car was assigned number 10 which necessitated a number change. Here Martin Pester works on changing the bonnet number while Gordon England and Alan Curry from New Zealand, work on the doors.
Friends, old and new. Peter and I meet up with Claude DuBois. Claude, with co-driver Keith Ballistat, drove the sister race car, Nº 8 at Le Mans in '64 while Peter and Jimmy Blumer drove Nº 9.
A terribly interesting man, Claude was supposed to drive a GT350R at the Classic that he drove in competition in '67. Although the car wasn't completed in time for this event Claude came anyway, which was a real treat for us.
Until Spring of 2002 the whereabouts of Claude was unknown by the Tiger community. Graham Vickery, in putting together Tigers International '02, was able to find his whereabouts and was directly responsible for the reunion of the three surviving Le Mans Tiger drivers.
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