Willi Felber Ferrari Cars

so whats the story on this guy? seems pretty neat... should i just do a search?

 

All I can say is that those '166 replicas' were once 330 GTCs.

Art S.

 

Two thumbs down.

 

BLECH!!!!! I didn't realize more than one of the 166 style cars had been made.

 

Didn't Sabaro (sp?) also do a "166SC" from a 330 GTC?

Funny (or not...) but I was just thinking about the Sabaro cars a couple days ago.

 

Check out what the "vintage" sub-forum has become!

Let´s see who can post more examples of fugly 80's and 90's kit cars whose only claim to fame (notoriety?) is that they are "based" on a destroyed Ferrari.

250 GTO spyders (pay attention to that "y", it's not just a spider!), bizzare Zagato-like redesigns, pseudo-166's... Do these "creators" have any respect? It is probably no coincidence that ALL these contraptions are uglier than ****.

And no, this is not illegal, so please don't read the bill of rights to me. It's just pathetic. This stuff needs a different section.
Julio

 

indeed,
for instance: from the pictures posted before
originally 330 GTC s/n 9365 GT
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ditto as above: 330 GTC s/n 9107 GT
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Jurgen
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That car looks PERFECT for Paris "Le Skank" Hilton!

 

this Marzotto car:

http://www.mafma.com/images/tronp135.jpg

 

Hear, hear!!!

 

I looked through all the photos of the 330GTC again...that has to be the single most shameful automotive desecration I have ever laid eyes on, made worse because it's a highend, so-called professional project, done by someone who probably ought to know better.

Personally, I like the idea of rebodying vintage cars that for economic reasons are destined only to be broken up...too bad this one fell into the wrong hands.

 

16017 are the Beach Car and the GTC/4 Station Wagon

18255 is the GT/4 2+2 Station Wagon presented at Geneva Auto Show

 

Ugly? Yes, definitively, but that is a matter of taste. Of course these cars were created in a time that this shape was highly fashionable and therefore are a representation of that period. Only fashion has changed in the mean time.... Who knows what we think in 20 years of Jim's "P4/5 by Pininfarina"? Or will we always admire this car because it is created by Pininfarina and sanctioned by the factory?

For me this post is very interesting. In Marcel Massimi's book "Making a difference", information on Felber was sadly missed. Of course I understand that the scope of this book was on Italian coachbuilders with a strong emphasis on cars build in close cooperation with the factory instead of cars build later based on wrecked standard production cars but I was hoping to find well researched info on people like Felber, Sbarro, later work by Zagato etc. This info fills a part of that gap quite nicely

 

Jurassick,

First I want to thank you for posting the pictures. Although I am not a fan of Felber, I like being able to see the cars.

To me, he had very strange style taste, that 1970 Pontiac Trans Am is absolutely horrible! However, at least his work was consistent - it's all ugly.

Someone once told me that good design evokes strong emotion either strongly for or strongly against. His designs must be good, for me, they evoke a very strong emotion against!


Stu,

The Marzotto car is ugly too!

Regards,

Art S.