1952 Siata 300BC Coupe 750cc   Siata Daina Coupe 1400cc (as seen at 2007 Concorso Italiano Jack Reuter photo) 1952 Siata Daina Farina 1400cc #SL0248   1952 Siata Daina Motto Sport 1400cc Malto collection (photo courtesy of the Mitichi web site)  1952 Siata Daina Grand Sport 1400cc Scalvenzi collection (photo courtesy of the Mitichi web site)   1952 Siata 208CS Bertone Berlina Ex Walt Eisenstark    1953 Siata 208CS 8V Coupe at 1957 VIR (Bill King Photo) 1953 Siata 208CS 8V Coupe at Watkins Glen (Otto Linton Photo)   1953 Siata Daina Coupe    1953 Siata 208S at VIR 1953 Siata 208S 8V BS0518; David DiFrancesco collection (as seen at 2007 Concorso Italiano Jack Reuter photos) 1953 Siata 208S 8V; Robert Davis collection (as seen at 2007 Concorso Italiano Jack Reuter photos) 1953 Siata 208S 8V BS-523 was originally purchased by Steve McQueen from Ernie McAfee; Everett Anton Singer collection 1953 Siata 208S 8V (as seen at 2007 Concorso Italiano Jack Reuter photo) Elliott Dolin collection (2008 Pebble Beach Jack Reuter photo)   1954 Siata 208 #BS537 is a coupe built on a roadster chassis. Siata built it to order for Ernie McAfee and Bill Doheny to race in the 1954 Panamerican road race.  It did not race.

Many thanks to Dick Irish for the following photos!

1952 Siata Gran Sport 1400 GS 3rd OA at 1952 Sebring Dick Irish driver; James Peacock collection Email from Dick Irish to etceterini.com:  The Siata "adventure" was really fun.  We ran two 12 hour races in a week and I don't think we ever saw 100 mph.  As I mentioned, we had head gasket problems at Vero Beach.  Tony Pompeo even brought us yet another head gasket in his suitcase for Sebring, but to say it arrived "rumpled" would be an understatement.  We therefore borrowed a page from our midget experience and made a headgasket from annealed aluminum sheet.  Tony also brought the shop manual which basically said one should torque the head, let it set over night to let the studs stretch, the re-torque it again, before running.  The Siata Gran Sport would out handle most of the competitors though and I was able to run a whole stint with the ex-Bill Spear 2 liter 166 Barchetta driven by Dick Cicurel and Bob O'Brian.  I'd pass them going into the first turn, lead them through the hairpin and down warehouse straight, the Ferrari would pass me on the airport runway straights, I'd catch them on the last turns and follow them past the pits, to repeat the pass.  After the driver switch, I went down to their pits to tell them that I didn't mind following a Ferrari, but I hated following one with mufflers!  It REALLY pissed them off!  At our last pit stop, we lost time when the engine wouldn't fire for some reason.  When it did fire, we'd dropped to third place behind an XK-120 Jag.  We ended up 45 seconds behind it while gaining 19 seconds a lap.  The kicker was the next morning the car threw the rod on the way back into town and we had to fit a tow bar and tow the car back to Cleveland.  We had driven it down to break it in, as I had also driven it from New York to Cleveland.  The dealer I worked for, who owned the car, hadn't a clue and repainted the car a different color before putting it on the showroom floor with the trophies! age

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