Pierre Bardinon collection

Beautiful pictures Hubert!

 

Yes, but not mine !

Right Napolis. Pictures shot a few years ago, especially the first one with the 3 GTOs.
Note the GTO with LMLM body is #473GT (not 4725 as mentioned).

 

the picture of 3 Gto is superbe and it s so rare to see that, who makes this shoot? there s no copyright.

 

Marcel Massini

 

is it just me, or does that not look right.

gr8 pics btw

 

Great pix!!! Thanks! In my view, that 312P has about the snakiest body of them all. And good to see the blue 375, which I dredged out of the midwest for Pierre.

 

With these vertical air inlets, probably the prototype of the TR 59, which was ready at the end of 1958. Well, that is my opinion.

Sorry, I forgot about Marcel Massini's name about the first picture.

 

Is this car still at Mas du Clos? - it looks fantastic!!

 

Nice photo of 0728TR at Sebring 1958 on the cover of Sportscar Quarterly.
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Re Post #46: Photo #1 was taken by me on 3rd September 1982 at Mas du Clos, during the 20th Anniversary Meeting of the 250 GTOs. Yes, in the future please respect copyrights!
Marcel Massini

 

don t tell me that you take only one pic? show us more, it s rare to see the three GTO side by side.

 

I noted that, but too late to edit my message ...
Thanks Marcel.

 

Does anybody have a picture of 412P 0848 during its Bardinon years???? Show it!!!

 

I am having a hard time grasping that the gov't is closing down a private track, at a private estate. What am I missing here....aside from the socialist BS?

 

A source of mine who is a personal friend of Mr. Bardinon told me a couple of months ago that Mr Bardinon is "very ill"...

Hopefully when he passes away, his amazing collection will not be dispersed... But nothing is for sure, especially in France where the succession taxes are so incredibly high...

 

It's true that mr Bardinon never wanted (with a few exceptions, I believe) to have his cars photographed for commercial use (except to a few photographers like Mr Rainer Schlegelmilch whose pics you can see on this thread)...

 

Personally, I would love to see the collection dispersed. So that it can move into the hands of a new generation of coollectors who will let others enjoy seeing the cars rather than being locked away in a musty old castle

 

Totally disagree, the man has assembled a fantastic collection of cars. He houses them in a beautiful place, built a track to run them on and has a staff of experienced mechanics to make sure they are well taken care of. Bet he has a lot of spares to keep them running too.

 

About 6 years ago I had the chance to visit The collection with Terry Hoyle. It was a fantastic experience. I believe he had startred to reduce his collection to a toal of 27 cars. We were also fortunate to have a few laps on his private track. I managed to spin my 348 TS in the rain in front of the resturant at the hairpin. I also recall a fantastic collection of model cars.

 

I could not be more in agreement... if/when this collection is dispersed, who knows how many of these very historical and valuable cars will end up in museums or speculators and will not see the track again...

 

The Mas Du Clos track can be seen in the movie 'Michel Vaillant' by Gilles Malencon and Luc Besson (Universal 821 062-4).

 

When I first visited Pierre Bardinon and Mas du Clos in 1977 he owned about 65 Ferraris. I spent 2 hours in his museum and wrote down all the chassis numbers. No pix allowed. Later on he allowed photographers such as Gunther Raupp (Ferrari calendar photographer) and Rainer Schlegelmilch but they had to pay substantial amounts to Bardinon. Recently Mercedes Benz and AMG rented Mas du Clos for a photo shooting of the new MB SL 65 Black Series at Mas du Clos.
Marcel Massini

 

Mr Raupp and Mr Schlegelmilch have made some beautiful photographs of Mr Bardinon's cars...

 

There could be many reasons why Pierre would like to keep a low profile. He once mentioned that one reason had to do with his workers (he is in the fur biz). That having been said, he used to allow an annual event of the Club Ferrari France at Mas du Clos (it would be incorrect to say that he was the "host") as well as other events, so how could he keep it all a secret? As far as photos are concerned, I have taken some on several visits with no objection.