[R.I.P.] Gilles Villeneuve - Page 3

**bernardo66** · #41 04-01-2012, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Dazzling

Can you buy online? Is there a link from where to buy?

You can order online. However, I'm not sure that they ship overseas.

Best you check with them:

http://www.museegillesvilleneuve.com/english/_._.html

**Dazzling** · #42 04-01-2012, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by bernardo66

You can order online. However, I'm not sure that they ship overseas.

Best you check with them:

http://www.museegillesvilleneuve.com/english/_._.html

Thanks I will check....love the new avatar

**treedee3d** · #43 04-01-2012, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by bernardo66

I just picked up a case of Gilles Villeneuve commemorative wine (in honor of the 30th anniversary of his passing), with proceeds going to the Gilles Villeneuve museum. Not a bad wine it is.

Love the name of the wine, when I was a kid building wooden go karts and push-racing down the street, my father always wrote the number 27 on the front.

**tifosi12** · #44 04-01-2012, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by treedee3d

Love the name of the wine, when I was a kid building wooden go karts and push-racing down the street, my father always wrote the number 27 on the front.

Your father was an Alan Jones fan?

**bernardo66** · #45 04-09-2012, 05:17 PM

Hanging over my home-office desk. The decal on the right is an original one from the 1978 Canadian GP.

**bernardo66** · #46 04-09-2012, 05:44 PM

A few years back, I was privy to some of Joanne Villeneuve's personal effects, among which was the trophy won by Gilles in South Africa 1979.

**bernardo66** · #47 04-10-2012, 05:46 PM

Gilles with hockey legend Guy Lafleur.

**tifosi12** · #48 04-10-2012, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by bernardo66

A few years back, I was privy to some of Joanne Villeneuve's personal effects, among which was the trophy won by Gilles in South Africa 1979.

Awesome.

My fav Gilles memory is seeing him at the 81 German GP in Hockenheim. He sat in his Ferrari in the garage. I took a picture of him and the car and on the shot he just intensely stares right into the camera.

**bernardo66** · #49 04-10-2012, 06:48 PM

One more with Guy Lafleur. Supposedly this is a personally autographed pick given to The Flower.

**treedee3d** · #50 04-10-2012, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by tifosi12

Your father was an Alan Jones fan?

Actually, no.27 was Gilles Villeneuve's number in 81 and 82 and that number is the one most closely associated to him by his fans.

Don't remember any of my childhood friends idolizing Alan Jones

**tifosi12** · #51 04-10-2012, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by treedee3d

Actually, no.27 was Gilles Villeneuve's number in 81 and 82 and that number is the one most closely associated to him by his fans.

Don't remember any of my childhood friends idolizing Alan Jones

Villeneuve got 27 from Jones when Alan won the title in 1980 and Ferrari had to give up their 1 and 2.

I idolized Jones long before I became a Villeneuve fan.

**bernardo66** · #52 04-11-2012, 08:31 PM

A pic of Gilles when he borrowed a Mondial from the local Montreal dealer. After using it to get around during the the GP week, he returns it to the dealership and declares to Luigi Della Grotta (Montreal dealership owner): "the car is a lemon!!!".

**treedee3d** · #53 04-26-2012, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by tifosi12

Villeneuve got 27 from Jones when Alan won the title in 1980 and Ferrari had to give up their 1 and 2.

I idolized Jones long before I became a Villeneuve fan.

As an italian growing up in Montreal, I can assure you that no one here really cared for Alan Jones nor how Gilles came to obtain number 27.

Pretty much all the italians in our area are Ferrari fans and with a local Quebecer boy behind the wheel, we had the best of both worlds to cheer.

All we knew is that there was this amazing driver doing impossible things with a less than stellar car. It was red with a big white number 27 on it. It's all I knew and all I cared about as a 9 year old boy.

**bernardo66** · #54 05-05-2012, 08:48 PM

The Gilles Villeneuve museum, along with the Luigi Ferrari Club, held a commemorative service remembering Gilles' passing 30 year ago. Along with a few speeches from a few of Gilles collaborators, the invited guests were treated to a personalized tour of the museum by the curator Alain Bellehumeur, as well as a benediction of the cars (and drivers) from the local Berthierville pastor.

**bernardo66** · #55 05-05-2012, 08:50 PM

A few more photos from this event.

**bernardo66** · #56 05-05-2012, 08:58 PM

A photo of Gilles Villeneuve's 126C from 1981 was presented museum. This car was brought to Montreal back in 1991 and is seen here while it was kept at the local dealership, when it was run by Luigi Della Grotta.

http://www.ferrari101.com/forum/showthread.php?t=355035

I managed to capture (part of) a moment, when Luigi's daughter first saw the pic of her father. It was quite moving.

AceMaster · #57 05-05-2012, 09:05 PM

Bernie, great pics, thanks for sharing.

**bernardo66** · #58 06-09-2012, 11:23 AM

You'll never see duels like this. If this duel were to have happened today, I'm sure that both drivers would have been sanctioned.

Sadly, F1 has been suffocated by regulations.

**bernardo66** · #59 06-12-2012, 11:32 AM

In honor of the 30th anniversary of GV's passing.

pascalt · #60 06-15-2012, 06:23 AM

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Originally Posted by bernardo66

You'll never see duels like this. If this duel were to have happened today, I'm sure that both drivers would have been sanctioned.

Sadly, F1 has been suffocated by regulations.

Beautiful battle between Gilles and Arnoux, here is the video:

You Tube