The official replica/re-creation thread

Marcel,

I enjoy all the pictures and posts you contributed to this thread. I just have to go on record to say, that by now you have officially outnumbered me in pictures of replicas compared to what I had in mind posting about the Barchetta the thread was started for. So if you're having an allergic reaction, you got only yourself to blame.

 

The factory does have excellent specialists like Umberto Masoni, Francesco Scaletti, and, of course, Roberto Vaglietti, who is head of that program and who has been with the factory for almost three decades now. And there is Piero Ferrari himself who supervises the departement. I understand that Angelo Amadesi's consulting contract with the factory has expired 31st March 2006. Plus they have thousands and thousands of build sheets, drawings, letters, correspondence, mail, delivery notes, orders, telefaxes, telexes, telegrams, of the good old days. Each document has now been organised properly by chassis number. Thousands of documents have been scanned in. And 250 GT expert Jess Pourret acts as an adviser and consultant.
The only thing which the factory doesn't have is the history of a car once it has left the gates in Maranello. That's where the historians come into play.
Marcel Massini

 

Trust me, sometimes I do like allergic reactions.
Marcel Massini

 

If that plate was added to the car by a private individual there isn't anything anyone can do about it. Best wishes, Kare

 

THAT is a stunning replica. THAT is the sort of car I would really enjoy owning. IF I owned a replica, I would want it clearly stated exactly what it was and was not. Otherwise, you are simply a liar and a fraud.

I bet that car is a DREAM to drive! Wonder what it would bring?

The Ex-Brocket SWB is also a stunning car. I think that one once sold at auction for $145K or so. I would pay that for it in a heartbeat. But I dont think it or the 275P replica could be bought for anywhere near that price. If I am wrong.... have the owners contact me!



Terry

 

OK, Terry, here are a few more pix of that 275 P Replica, especially for you:
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Here are photos showing a replica of a 206 S Dino Spider. Note wrong shape of front and rear fenders, curves too sharp. Also the windshield is too flat, and the side windows wrong. This replica was built in Italy, it does not use a Ferrari chassis but a Ferrari Dino engine.
May be Terry Springer likes it too?
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I like it. There is a similar one in Chicago for sale (or used to, not sure). Basically the same story. Owner had it built for racing.

 

Now here's a slightly different 330 P Spider Replica I photographed on 1st February 1990 at the customs station in Berne, Switzerland. It is based on 330 GT 2+2 chassis #6873. Further details can also be found on Kerry Chesbro's excellent 330 GT 2+2 website/registry.
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Also my car, it was more than 10 years ago and I sold it to USA ( Symbolic Motors ) ( I trade it exactly )
The car was very tired

 

I recognise the trailer, it was mine ( specially built )
Then, it look like that I bought it in Switzerland !

 

Fantastic Barchetta built with a V6 Dini 2400 cc
Alloy, very well balanced car, I sold to USA in auction in LA

 

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Okay, I have to step in here before this gets farther out of hand. I know the gentleman who built the spider about which this thread was originally posted. I fear he may be headed for undeserved vilification by all the Ferrari experts and self-appointed "arbiters of taste" who have been ranting here thus far. I have watched with great interest while this man spent the last TEN YEARS of his life building that barchetta from scratch. Yes, the radiator is way bigger than a Vignale Spider, and yes, it's left hand drive, and yes the wheels are wrong, and yes, when you open the bonnet it's all 330, and yes, the headlamps are "incorrect", and.............for cripes sake...that's the POINT. It's a home-built Ferrari hot rod. But it IS FERRRARI. It's not a corvette or datsun with a look-alike fiberglass body. This man can walk you through his multiple photo binders of images showing how he and his coachwork guys studied Vignale construction methods and built that car with the same panel beating and english wheel techiques used to construct the original cars. He'll tell you how much he learned about what goes into building these cars. He'll tell how much respect he has for the coachwork designers who make them look so "right". He will NEVER, however, tell you his car is an original Vigale Spider. He takes pride in being able to say "I built that". I hope he has a ball with that car, because he deserves it. My hat is off to him. I could never do what he did. I have more respect for a guy like Brady than for those who would pull a book off the shelf and sniff smugly about the shortcomings of other people's cars.

 

Glad you stepped in Daryl. I was waiting for you since you know the story.

 

Built by Fantuzzi 15 years ago ?
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#8733, built by Fantuzzi in 1964, 42 years ago.
Marcel Massini

 

And the Ferrari serial number is? Chassis and engine numbers matching?
Another Ferrari 330 GT ruined for the use as donor car.
Marcel Massini

 

How about this "330 P4"? Built by Norwood.
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Marcel, what's the car on the trailer in front of the 330 P4 replica?

All these are great stories. Seems like some of the replicas/reproductions with shady pasts, being passed off as the real thing, have almost more interesting histories than many real cars (race history excepted).

 

Don't think that was intended to be a P4 replica. How about a 330 P2 Replica? Does anybody really care? I hope not.
Anyway, to answer your question, the car on the trailer in front was, I think, either a Lancia or an Alfa, but not a Ferrari. I was just waiting for that question.
Marcel Massini

 

Part of why I find the subject so fascinating. You can buy a book about real Ferraris, read it and be done with it. But when it comes to the replicas, rebodies, reconstructions, modifications, the stories are endless.

And I'm very happy to see Marcel post some of his vast collection of pics and stories here.

 

Thanks, I suspected it was a B20 or something but wasn't quite sure.

The photos and stories are great, like Andreas says, please keep them up.
Cheers
Simon

 

Aurelia Coupé - a very sweet car!