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Willy Peter Daetwyler and his Alfa Romeo 412

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Created on February 8, 2011

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Bernhard Brägger

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Alfa-Romeo 412 (1939) - Daetwyler in the Alfa 412 on the slippery cobblestones at the Mitholz-Kandersteg hill climb in 1951

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Predecessor of the Panini albums - sports album from the 1950s

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Willy Peter Daetwyler in the sports album from annz dazumals

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Mitholz-Kandersteg hill climb program 1961 (cover page) - the first national hill climb took place as early as 1950

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Alfa-Romeo 412 (1939) - Daetwyler pilots the Alfa 412, optimized with a Michelotti body, from Mitholz to Kandersteg in record time

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Alfa Romeo 412 (1939) - Tiefencastel-Lenzerheide hill climb - No herb can grow away against the Alfa Romeo 412 with its 4.5-liter engine in the hands of Willy Peter Daetwyler

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Alfa-Romeo 412 (1939) - Daetwyler transverse at the 1951 Albis mountain race

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Summary

Willy Peter Daetwyler dominated the hill climbs of the post-war years in his Alfa Romeo 412 and later in a Maserati.

This article contains the following chapters

Chewing gum, the Mitholz-Kandersteg mountain race and pompous officials
About Giovanni Michelotti, building mats, wooden stakes, WPD's record-breaking drive and his "betrayal" of Alfa Romeo.

Estimated reading time: 6min

Preview (beginning of the article)

At the beginning of the 1950s, we Frutigerbuben were passionate about collecting pictures of national and international athletes. Hidden in a packet, the pictures and chewing gum were available from the Stucki bakery on Dorfstrasse. The chewing gum was a minor matter. But an album was included and I stuck them in there, neatly, proud to finally have the international sporting greats in my room. There was room for exactly one hundred pictures in the album, which was called "MAPLE LEAF ALBUM-SPORT". Panini pictures in 1952! Of course I had them all, the legendary Swiss cycling aces Ferdi Kübler, Hugo Koblet, world champion Fausto Coppi, Tour de France legend Jean Robic, footballers Seppe Hügi and Fredi Bickel, ski racer Fredy Rubi from Adelboden, my ski idol and slalom artist Georg Schneider, Olympic champion and later car racer Henri Oreiller from France, Grand Prix racer Emanuel de Graffenried, artistic gymnast Josef Stalder. Only one was missing: the Zurich racing driver Willy Peter Daetwyler. I wasn't the only one!

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