Women And Dinos

wow!!! This is some cool paint

Shawn

 

Complete Guess:

But I am going with 01286.



Shawn

 

Marcel Massini has already identified this car in another thread. Here is what he posted

"This is serial number 00552, originally painted Nero 20-B-50 and Verde and fitted with a white interior. The only factory two tone painted Dino.

Marcel Massini"

Post #3337 http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/detailing-showroom/357531-pretty-girls-ferraris-167.html

 

I guess I have different tastes, but I think that two-tone paint interferes with the flowing lines of the car and is hideous. I hope I haven't hurt anyone's feelings.

 

I didn't notice the paint

 

What's more troubling is that white interior with the green paint...oh, and that the woman was driving the Dino barefoot???!!

 

Fiamma Breschi, the girlfriend of Luigi Musso, sadly died in 2015.
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This was similar to mine (00908) but I had the hex shaped knock offs. What a crazy color combo!

 

Very interesting. Thank you.

 

Interesting in the narrative about the young lady, this exists, Enzo charged with manslaughter:

I had no idea.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1658406641109905&id=1505281746422396

 

Somewhat surprisingly, the following appears about the incident on one of the official Ferrari websites:

From:

One of the toughest moments in Enzo Ferrari?s life | Scuderia Ferrari


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27 Jul 1961

On 27 July 1961, Enzo Ferrari was let off charges of manslaughter following the deaths of eleven people – the driver Alfonso De Portago, his navigator, Edmund Nelson and nine spectators, including five children. De Portago was driving a Ferrari 335 S, with the number 531 in the 1957 Mille Miglia when the car flew into the crowd after a tyre burst on a straight between Cerlongo and Guidizzolo, in the province of Mantua.

Immediately after the tragedy, the Italian authorities banned motor sport for several months on home soil and the Mille Miglia was never run again.

According to the prosecution, Ferrari was responsible for choosing a type of tyre that was not suitable for the performance of his cars. It took over four years for the charge to be overturned on the grounds that, according to the Mantua Court, “the accusation is manifestly unfounded.”

“I went with my father to Mantua a few times, when the trial was on and he often recalled that his passport was taken from him after the tragedy as he was under investigation,” recalled his son Piero on a Rai programme, “History is us.” It was one of the most critical and difficult moments: he was absolved and the proceedings ended favourably, but it left its mark.”

What really happened in Guidozzolo? Enzo Ferrari wrote about it in his book, “Piloti, che gente.” “De Portago’s tyre got pinched on the metal cats’ eyes which mark out the middle of the road and that was why the tyre exploded. It was following this incident that the insidious innovation of cats’eyes was banned from all roads and motorways.”

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Fascinating history.