My Father Used To Own Racing Ferraris

Fantastic pictures, and great thread! Thank you for sharing!

 

AMAZING thread, wow Jack owned some amazing Ferraris. Jeeez that 500TRC and the GTO have me DROOLING!

 

Wow, amazing collection of cars. I knew I recognized that GTO as I now know where it resides here in Cincy!

 

Mister Yeager owns it...

 

3765 is owned in Cincinnati by Jim Jaeger.
Not to be confused with Harry Yeaggy in Cincinnati who owns 0850 (Napolis can more properly tell you whether it's a 412P or a 330 P3/4).
Jaeger has also been the owner of Corvette Grand Sport (roadster) 002 for the last 17 years- (which, according to Napolis has been sold to RM), and which is being auctioned by RM in January.
Not to be confused with Yeaggy who is the owner of Corvette Grand Sport (roadster) 001.

 

0850 is clearly a 412P since it has a carburated engine. It also has, If I'm not mistaken, the P3's 2412mm wheelbase... It was built as a 412P (and was not a 1966 P3 transformed to 412P) in 1967 for Écurie Francorchamps...

You can see the owner in the following Hemmings article: http://www.hemmings.com/hsx/stories/2007/01/01/hmn_feature1.html.


Best.

 

I used to always see Mr. Yeaggy driving his F40 around town, i know he has quite the collection as well!

 

Correct. 0850 and 0854 were originally built up as 412P's. Their chassis are P3. (2412MM) All of the P 3 chassis were built at the same time in 66 but 0850 and 0854 weren't built up into cars until 1967.

 

Fantastic photos.
-250 TR n°15 is #0720.
-Blue car with white stripe and n°41 is the 315s #0656 of E. D. Martin.
-The photo with the blue/grey and white stripe 500 TRC is inverted (n°47).

 

Anybody aby idea which Maserati 200SDI car #91 in the second picture is?

Regards


Wolfi

 

Fabulous post.Really brings back the good old days thnaks much. just one man's opinion tongascrew

 

An amazing thread, to have grown up in the presence of those great cars must have been very special, thanks for sharing the pictures with us.

 

Obviously at Ken Hutchison's place as also his 0128E 212 Export is at the back,

ciao
Oscar

 

The first time I visited Shelton Ferrari in the middle 80's they had just received 3765 for restoration. During my frequent travels to Ft. Lauderdale I would see how the project was going and hearing how the potential value was climbing. The last time I saw it they had just finished it were getting ready to load it for transport to the FCA meet. A great car that was wonderfully restored.

 

Yes, how nice to see your car there, Oscar. When would this picture have been taken?


Onno

 

Dear Cliff,

Your father really had good taste in cars! Ken Hutchison also as he bought this Monza and quite some other interesting cars at that time. As I understood he was founder of the Ferrari Club in the US. That little car on the back of that pic is a 212 Export that he owned from 1964 to 1998!

Onno, answer is in Cliff's reply, although I estimated it earlier. The car is so easy to detect by its colour scheme, even in B&W.

ciao
Oscar

 

Excellent thread.. I love all the vintage pictures of these cars being used as cars back before the values became inflated to the point of the car now becoming a investiment and most likely never to be treated like they were back in the day..

Thanks for sharing the information and pictures..

 

Mark,

I think you underestimate current owners. Many cars are pushed hard these days irrespective of value and risk.
This opens other discussions as should these cars pushed that hard........

Ciao
Oscar

 

This is like car porn to me!

CW

 

What does the GTO look like today? ... does it still have that unique front?

Pete